TikTok Search API Endpoints
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Perform powerful searches across TikTok. Find specific users, discover trending videos, and explore popular hashtags/challenges.
New here? See the TikTok Search API overview for use cases, code samples, and FAQs.
User Search
Search for TikTok users by keyword. Filter results by specific criteria to find profiles, influencers, or market competitors efficiently. Every result pairs the profile with its stats block inline - follower, following, heart and video counts arrive with the handle - so ranking a niche by audience size takes one paged call rather than one lookup per candidate.
Post Search
Search TikTok videos by keyword and filter by publish time or sort order - relevance, like count, or date posted - to surface exactly the posts you need. Combine publish_time windows (24 hours to 6 months), sort_by and a region code to build precise monitoring queries - for example, this-week videos mentioning your brand in one country, sorted by likes. Full video objects with cursor paging make it the backbone of alerting pipelines.
Challenge Search
Search for challenges and hashtags by keyword to find trending topics. Essential for discovering viral content and popular tags. Results include per-tag usage metrics - user_count and view_count in challenge_list - so the difference between a dormant hashtag and a live trend is visible in the response itself, before you open a single video.