TikTok Trending API
Returns a page of popular TikTok videos with caption, view and like counts, author and thumbnail. Every row carries post.ext.region, the country the video is registered to.
GET /v1/tiktok/trendingLast updated November 2026Maintained by the SocialCrawl team
When to use the TikTok Trending API
Use it with feed=local for videos mostly from one country (57% measured). The default feed is largely worldwide whatever region you pass, so filter on post.ext.region.
From the API reference
Returns a page of popular TikTok videos for a country, with view, like, comment, share and save counts, caption, author and thumbnail. Two feeds, chosen with feed. The default (feed=global) is TikTok's web trending feed fetched through a connection in region: region sets where the request comes from, not where the videos come from, and for most countries the feed is one worldwide pool. Measured 13/09/2026 over 12 calls in six countries, 22% of its videos were registered in the requested country (US 65%, BR 43%, GB 9%, FR 8%, JP 6%, DE 0%). It returns about 13 videos in 3 to 12 seconds. feed=local is the For You feed TikTok's app serves to a phone set to region, so most, not all, of its videos are from that country: 57% of videos on 10 served pages the same day (DE 52%, US 66%, GB 41%, JP 81%), and 51% were captioned in the country's main language. It returns a median of 24 videos (13 to 33 on 9 pages in 10), and 9 calls in 10 answer within 22 seconds (364 served pages, 18-19/10/2026). On about 1 local call in 11 (26 of 281 measured 14-17/10/2026) the supplier is throttled or times out and no video comes back: that returns 503 with credits refunded, and a retry a minute later usually succeeds. A local request never falls back to the global feed. Both feeds cost the same, carry no cursor, and return each video once. Every row carries ext.region, the country the video is registered to, so filter on it when you need only that country; local rows also carry ext.content_language, TikTok's own caption-language tag. post.ext.matched_song_id is the catalogue song TikTok matched the row's sound to, present when it made a match: an official clip and the original sounds creators upload with it have different post.ext.music_id values and one matched_song_id, so group on it to count a song's uses (it is not a clipId for /v1/tiktok/song/videos).
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What can you do with the Trending API?
The Trending endpoint gives you structured TikTok data with computed fields in a single request. No scraping infrastructure to build or maintain.
Example Request
# GET /v1/tiktok/trending: 5 credits per call. Cache hits are free and failed calls are refunded.
# Check the price first for 0 credits: add dry_run=1 to the query. Nothing is fetched or charged.
# --max-time 58: this endpoint's measured p99 latency x 1.5.
# --retry 3: retries timeouts, 429 and 5xx, honoring Retry-After.
# -o response.json keeps only the final attempt's body.
# One Idempotency-Key per request, reused on every retry, so a retried call is never charged twice.
IDEMPOTENCY_KEY=$(od -An -N16 -tx1 /dev/urandom | tr -d ' \n')
curl -sS --max-time 58 --retry 3 -o response.json \
-H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
-H "Idempotency-Key: $IDEMPOTENCY_KEY" \
"https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/tiktok/trending?region=US&trim=true" && cat response.json# GET /v1/tiktok/trending: 5 credits per call. Cache hits are free and failed calls are refunded.
# Check the price first for 0 credits: add dry_run=1 to the query. Nothing is fetched or charged.
import os
import random
import time
import uuid
import requests
API_KEY = os.environ.get("SOCIALCRAWL_API_KEY", "YOUR_API_KEY")
TIMEOUT_S = 58 # this endpoint's measured p99 latency x 1.5.
MAX_RETRIES = 3
URL = "https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/tiktok/trending"
def backoff(attempt):
# Exponential backoff with jitter: about 1 s, 2 s, then 4 s.
return 2 ** attempt * (0.5 + random.random() / 2)
def socialcrawl(params):
# One Idempotency-Key per request, reused on every retry, so a retried call is never charged twice.
idempotency_key = str(uuid.uuid4())
for attempt in range(MAX_RETRIES + 1):
try:
res = requests.get(
URL,
params=params,
headers={"x-api-key": API_KEY, "Idempotency-Key": idempotency_key},
timeout=TIMEOUT_S,
)
body = res.json()
except (requests.RequestException, ValueError):
# A timeout, a dropped connection or a non-JSON gateway page: retry with the same key.
if attempt == MAX_RETRIES:
raise
time.sleep(backoff(attempt))
continue
if body["success"]:
return body
error = body["error"]
# Branch on error["type"], never on the message text.
if error["type"] == "RESOURCE_NOT_FOUND":
return None # refunded: nothing to read
retry_after = res.headers.get("Retry-After")
# SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE without Retry-After is a withdrawn endpoint: permanent.
permanent = error["type"] == "SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE" and retry_after is None
if not error.get("retryable") or permanent or attempt == MAX_RETRIES:
raise RuntimeError(f"{error['type']}: {error['message']} (request_id {body['request_id']})")
# Retry-After (seconds) wins; otherwise back off.
time.sleep(float(retry_after) if retry_after else backoff(attempt))
params = {
"region": "US",
"trim": "true",
}
body = socialcrawl(params)
if body is not None:
print(body["data"])// GET /v1/tiktok/trending: 5 credits per call. Cache hits are free and failed calls are refunded.
// Check the price first for 0 credits: add dry_run=1 to the query. Nothing is fetched or charged.
const API_KEY = process.env.SOCIALCRAWL_API_KEY ?? "YOUR_API_KEY";
const TIMEOUT_MS = 58_000; // this endpoint's measured p99 latency x 1.5.
const MAX_RETRIES = 3;
type Page = { next_cursor: string | null; has_more: boolean };
type SocialCrawlResponse =
| { success: true; data: any; pagination?: Page; credits_used: number; request_id: string }
| { success: false; error: { type: string; message: string; retryable: boolean }; request_id: string };
const sleep = (ms: number) => new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, ms));
// Exponential backoff with jitter: about 1 s, 2 s, then 4 s.
const backoffMs = (attempt: number) => 2 ** attempt * 1000 * (0.5 + Math.random() / 2);
async function socialcrawl(url: URL) {
// One Idempotency-Key per request, reused on every retry, so a retried call is never charged twice.
const idempotencyKey = crypto.randomUUID();
for (let attempt = 0; ; attempt++) {
let res: Response;
let body: SocialCrawlResponse;
try {
res = await fetch(url, {
headers: {
"x-api-key": API_KEY,
"Idempotency-Key": idempotencyKey,
},
signal: AbortSignal.timeout(TIMEOUT_MS),
});
body = (await res.json()) as SocialCrawlResponse;
} catch (error) {
// A timeout, a dropped connection or a non-JSON gateway page: retry with the same key.
if (attempt >= MAX_RETRIES) throw error;
await sleep(backoffMs(attempt));
continue;
}
if (body.success) return body;
// Branch on error.type, never on the message text.
if (body.error.type === "RESOURCE_NOT_FOUND") return null; // refunded: nothing to read
const retryAfter = res.headers.get("Retry-After");
// SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE without Retry-After is a withdrawn endpoint: permanent.
const permanent = body.error.type === "SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE" && retryAfter === null;
if (!body.error.retryable || permanent || attempt >= MAX_RETRIES) {
throw new Error(`${body.error.type}: ${body.error.message} (request_id ${body.request_id})`);
}
// Retry-After (seconds) wins; otherwise back off.
await sleep(retryAfter ? Number(retryAfter) * 1000 : backoffMs(attempt));
}
}
const url = new URL("https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/tiktok/trending");
url.searchParams.set("region", "US");
url.searchParams.set("trim", "true");
const body = await socialcrawl(url);
if (body) console.log(body.data);Parameters worth sending
region=USResults for one market.trim=trueSame price, lighter payload: drops the bulky raw fields.
Parameters
| Parameter | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
| region | Yes | ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code (e.g., US, GB, DE). On the default feed it sets the country the request is routed through and does not filter videos; with `feed=local` it sets the country the For You feed is built for. Either way, check `ext.region` on each row for the country a video is actually from. |
| trim | No | Accepted for compatibility; it has no effect with `feed=local`. |
| feed | No | `global` (default): the web trending feed routed through `region`, mostly worldwide content, about 13 videos in 3 to 12 seconds. `local`: the For You feed for a phone in `region`, most videos from that country, a median of 24 videos with 9 calls in 10 answering within 22 seconds, and a refunded 503 when none come back. (global | local) |
| since | No | Only rows published on or after this date: YYYY-MM-DD (midnight UTC) or an ISO 8601 timestamp. Rows older than it are left off each page. This list is not in date order, so the walk does not stop at the date: keep following `next_cursor`, and each page costs what a page costs even when every row on it is filtered out. A row with no date is kept. `published_after`, `start_date`, `from_date`, `publish_time` (`yesterday`, `this-week`, `this-month`, `last-3-months`, `last-6-months`) and `max_age_days` are accepted and applied as `since`. |
| until | No | Only rows published on or before this date: YYYY-MM-DD (that whole UTC day is included) or an ISO 8601 timestamp. Newer rows are left off each page and the walk does not stop, so older pages follow. A row with no date is kept. `published_before`, `end_date` and `to_date` are accepted and applied as `until`. |
What does the TikTok Trending API return?
Every response follows one unified schema. Here is a real, unmodified response body, so you can see the exact fields you get back before spending a credit.
Example response
{
"success": true,
"platform": "tiktok",
"endpoint": "/v1/tiktok/trending",
"data": {
"items": [
{
"post": {
"id": "7682049568975932702",
"url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@user_ef4bc4/video/7682049568975932702",
"content": {
"text": "Sample comment text (redacted). Sample comment text (redacted). Sample comment text (redacted). Sample comment text (redacted). Sample comment text (redacted). Sample comment text (redacted). Sample comment text (redacted). Sample comment text (redacted). Sample comment text (redacted). Sample comment text (redacted). Sample comment text (redacted). Sample comment text (redacted). Sample comment text (redacted). Sample comment text (redacted).",
"media_urls": [
"https://p16-common-sign.tiktokcdn-us.com/tos-useast8-i-photomode-tx2/b5d243cd1e17487e8aa85aedec348a33~tplv-photomode-sr-vqe2-new:1440:0:1080:0:q75.jpeg?dr=10952&refresh_token=2a8eb8de&x-expires=1792242000&x-signature=tn8wMg1ATV4g%2ByST%2BpI4o4L%2BzQw%3D&t=5897f7ec&ps=28cf8ac7&shp=d05b14bd&shcp=1a816805&idc=useast5&s=FEED&biz_tag=tt_photomode&sc=image"
],
"thumbnail_url": "https://p16-common-sign.tiktokcdn-us.com/tos-useast8-i-photomode-tx2/b5d243cd1e17487e8aa85aedec348a33~tplv-photomode-image-cover:640:0:q70.webp?dr=12229&refresh_token=a2b32c0d&x-expires=1792242000&x-signature=0bt9TVezhwQ2A3yzOq2dRxKPRMY%3D&t=5897f7ec&ps=d5b8ac02&shp=d05b14bd&shcp=1a816805&idc=useast5&s=FEED&biz_tag=tt_photomode&sc=cover",
"duration_seconds": 0
},
"author": {
"username": "user_ef4bc4",
"display_name": "user_4cf053",
"avatar_url": "https://example.com/avatars/user_783baf.png",
"verified": false
},
"engagement": {
"views": 3253405,
"likes": 70388,
"comments": 1892,
"shares": 23013,
"saves": 36428
},
"flags": {
"nsfw": null,
"spoiler": null,
"pinned": null,
"deleted": false
},
"published_at": "2026-09-05T13:56:12.000Z",
"ext": {
"music_id": "6814378834477975553",
"author_id": "user_29dfab",
"region": "US",
"published_at_epoch": 1788616572
}
},
"computed": {
"engagement_rate": 0.02929,
"language": "en",
"content_category": "other",
"estimated_reach": 3904086
}
},
{
"post": {
"id": "7677659988789103902",
"url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@user_8a8702/video/7677659988789103902",
"content": {
"text": "Sample comment text (redacted). Sample comment text (redacted). Sample comment text (redacted). Sample comment text (redacted).",
"media_urls": "https://v16m.tiktokcdn-us.com/7200fde1f54a7b3ac3b3dcf15359dec3/6ac0015d/video/tos/useast8/tos-useast8-ve-0068c002-tx2/okqBUMjDiq5QE2iA1WXA7hkPuNyIAfCRMIijd8/?a=1233&bti=OHYpOTY0Zik3OjlmOm01MzE6ZDQ0MDo%3D&&bt=1216&ft=arR-Iqx4m3XPD12Pa4MI3wU3B4zKaeF~O5&mime_type=video_mp4&rc=aWU7NTs0M2U4NzczZjpoaUBpM3FpOmw5cnk7ZDMzaTczNEBfNTZgLy9gXzExNWJjMS4tYSNebGNrMmQ0YTNhLS1kMTJzcw%3D%3D&vvpl=1&l=20261002130753BA797C81DDCD61F02618&btag=e00090000",
"thumbnail_url": "https://p19-common-sign.tiktokcdn-us.com/tos-useast8-p-0068-tx2/oMKB7A1AiCuAIviA1yaAEhkP4N0IBfCRMEiLpn~tplv-tiktokx-shrink_ep:640:640:q78.jpeg?dr=8592&refresh_token=aa8c83c9&x-expires=1791032400&x-signature=Brow6cNgUtLAHFGTBIaBI63oBb0%3D&t=bacd0480&ps=933b5bde&shp=d05b14bd&shcp=1a816805&idc=useast5&biz_tag=tt_video&s=FEED&sc=cover",
"duration_seconds": 81
},
"author": {
"username": "user_8a8702",
"display_name": "user_4c407b",
"avatar_url": "https://example.com/avatars/user_f9f9c2.png",
"verified": false
},
"engagement": {
"views": 20024442,
"likes": 234869,
"comments": 8723,
"shares": 23981,
"saves": 68392
},
"flags": {
"nsfw": null,
"spoiler": null,
"pinned": null,
"deleted": false
},
"published_at": "2026-08-24T18:02:23.000Z",
"ext": {
"music_id": "7677659961165499167",
"author_id": "user_491ac5",
"region": "US",
"published_at_epoch": 1787594543
}
},
"computed": {
"engagement_rate": 0.013362,
"language": "en",
"content_category": "entertainment",
"estimated_reach": 24029330
}
}
],
"total": null,
"dropped": 0
},
"credits_used": 5,
"request_id": "req_example000000",
"cached": false,
"pagination": {
"next_cursor": null,
"has_more": false,
"page_size": 11
},
"credits_remaining": 9999,
"source": "captured",
"captured_at": "2026-10-02T13:07:58.191Z",
"redacted": true
}Live sample illustrating the unified response shape. Field values reflect the record you query.
How does the TikTok Trending API work?
Send a GET request with your API key and get back clean, structured JSON in our unified schema. Supported computed fields are populated when the source provides the required inputs.
Method
GET
Response
JSON
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import requests
response = requests.get(
'https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/tiktok/profile',
params={'handle': 'charlidamelio'},
headers={'x-api-key': 'sc_YOUR_API_KEY'}
)
data = response.json(){
"success": true,
"platform": "tiktok",
"data": {
"author": {
"username": "charlidamelio",
"followers": 152400000
},
"engagement": {
"likes": 12400000000,
"engagement_rate": 0.087
},
"metadata": {
"language": "en",
"content_category": "lifestyle"
}
}
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