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TikTok scraper API in Python

Public TikTok profile stats — followers, likes, videos, bio. One POST from Python with usernames, rows back as JSON with 16 fields, $0.004 per delivered profile. No proxies or parsers to maintain.

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A Python requests snippet that posts { — A Python requests call to the tiktok_profile collector returns one dict per profile, at $0.004 each.

First call

Install, call, read the rows.

pip install requests

The only dependency.

import os, requests

r = requests.post(
    "https://api.quanticdata.io/v1/scraper/collectors/tiktok_profile/run",
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['QD_API_KEY']}"},
    json={
        "usernames": ["nasa","@natgeo"],
        "max_results": 10,
    },
    timeout=120,
)
r.raise_for_status()
run = r.json()["payload"]
print(run["count"], "rows,", run["cost"]["usd"], "USD")
for row in run["results"]:
    print(row.get("platform"), row.get("username"), row.get("user_id"), row.get("full_name"))

Python: one TikTok profile run (Due creator), printing platform, username, user_id, full_name

The key comes from an environment variable, never from the code. The run answers in the same request when it finishes in time; payload.results holds the rows and payload.cost what they cost.

Request parameters

What the collector takes.

Input of the TikTok profile collector
Parameter	Type	Required	Meaning
`usernames`	array	yes	Handles (with or without @) or profile URLs.
`country`	string	no	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code — proxy exit geo and Google locale (gl). Omit for the default pool.
`max_results`	integer	no (default 10)	How many profiles to deliver at most (1–50). You pay only for delivered profiles.

Response fields

16 fields per profile.

Fields of each row (profile)
Field	Type	What it holds
`platform`	string	instagram or tiktok.
`username`	string	Handle.
`user_id`	string, nullable	Platform-side account id.
`full_name`	string, nullable	Display name.
`biography`	string, nullable	Bio text.
`verified`	boolean	Verified badge.
`is_private`	boolean	Private account.
`is_business`	boolean	Business/creator account.
`category`	string, nullable	Account category when set.
`external_url`	string, nullable	Link in bio.
`followers`	integer, nullable	Follower count.
`following`	integer, nullable	Following count.
`posts`	integer, nullable	Posts (Instagram) or videos (TikTok).
`likes`	integer, nullable	Total likes — TikTok only, null on Instagram.
`profile_pic`	string, nullable	Profile picture URL.
`url`	string	Profile URL.

Add ?format=csv to the runs endpoint to get the same rows as CSV.

Long runs

Run in the background, then poll.

A run that needs more time can go to the background: send "async": true, get 202 with the run id, and poll the runs endpoint until the status is done. Reading a run is free.

import os, time, requests

H = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['QD_API_KEY']}"}
r = requests.post("https://api.quanticdata.io/v1/scraper/collectors/tiktok_profile/run", headers=H,
                  json={**{"usernames":["nasa","@natgeo"],"max_results":10}, "async": True}, timeout=30)
run_id = r.json()["payload"]["run_id"]
while True:
    run = requests.get(f"https://api.quanticdata.io/v1/scraper/collectors/runs/{run_id}", headers=H, timeout=30).json()["payload"]
    if run["status"] in ("done", "failed"):
        break
    time.sleep(5)
print(run["status"], run["count"])

Python: background run and polling

Errors

What can come back, and what is billed.

Collector run errors
Status	Meaning	Billed
`400`	The input does not match the collector (`payload.errors`)	No
`401`	Missing or wrong API key	No
`402`	Balance and free credit do not cover the run: top up	No
`422`	The input can never resolve; retrying the same input cannot help	No
`424`	The run failed at the source (blocked, timed out, layout changed); safe to retry	No
`429`	Rate limit or a per-account brake; wait for `Retry-After`	No

Only delivered rows are billed: a run that delivers nothing costs nothing.

Price

$0.004 per delivered profile.

What TikTok profile rows cost at list price
Rows	Cost
1	$0.004
1,000	$4.00
10,000	$40.00

Up to 50 profiles per run; split larger jobs into several runs. The $2 free credit every month covers about 500 profiles. No subscription; paid tiers lower the unit price. All collector prices: collector pricing.

Before you run it

Questions developers ask

Is there a free TikTok profile API?

Every account gets $2 of free usage each month, about 500 profiles of this collector at $0.004 each, with no card.

Do I have to handle proxies, retries or blocks?

No. The collector runs on our network and handles them; a run blocked at the source returns 424 and is not billed.

How many rows can one run return?

Up to 50 profiles per run (the max_results input, where the collector has one).

Can an AI agent run it?

Yes: the MCP server exposes it as the run_collector tool, with the same input and price. See the MCP server.

Run it on the free credit.

Create an API key, export it as QD_API_KEY and run the example. $0.004 per delivered profile, no subscription.

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