TikTok User API

One TikTok User API for profiles, audiences, and content

If you are building anything that depends on TikTok creator data - an influencer marketing platform, a competitor monitoring dashboard, a fraud-detection model, or an internal reporting tool - you need a single, reliable way to read public profile data without scraping the site yourself. The TikLiveAPI user endpoints give you exactly that: resolve a username to its numeric ID, pull a full profile with live follower and like counts, page through a creator's videos, and walk their follower and following graphs. Every response is real-time public data returned as clean JSON, so you never touch headless browsers, login sessions, or watermark stripping. Profiles are one part of the hosted TikTok scraper, which also covers videos, comments, hashtags and sounds.

This is a pay-as-you-go service. New accounts get 100 free credits on signup, credits never expire, and you authenticate every request with a single X-Api-Key header sent to https://api.tikliveapi.com. No TikTok account or password is ever required - the API reads only public data.

What you can pull from a TikTok profile

Quick start

Authenticate with your API key in the X-Api-Key header and call any endpoint over plain HTTPS. Here is a complete request that fetches the TikTok profile by username:

curl "https://api.tikliveapi.com/userinfo-by-username/?username=tiktok" \
  -H "X-Api-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

The response includes the profile object and a stats block. Trimmed to the key fields:

{
  "user": {
    "id": "107955",
    "uniqueId": "tiktok",
    "nickname": "TikTok",
    "signature": "Your next discovery is waiting on TikTok.",
    "verified": true,
    "secUid": "MS4wLjABAAAAv7iSuuXDJGDvJkmH_vz1qkDZYo1apxgzaxdBSeIuPiM",
    "privateAccount": false
  },
  "stats": {
    "followingCount": 1,
    "followerCount": 95951715,
    "heartCount": 464729186,
    "videoCount": 1593
  }
}

That single call gives you the live follower count, total likes (heartCount), video count, verification status, and the secUid you can reuse elsewhere - no parsing of HTML, no rate-limited mobile endpoints, no maintenance. Collecting profiles in bulk rather than one at a time? The guide to bulk profile scraping workflows covers follower-list audits, creator discovery and daily snapshots.

What is secUid and how do you get it?

secUid is TikTok's secure user identifier: a long opaque string (it typically begins with MS4wLjABAAAA) that stays the same when the owner changes their username. The handle - uniqueId, the part after the @ - belongs to the owner and can be changed at any time, which makes it a poor key for anything you store. The secUid and the numeric id are the stable references, and many TikTok tools ask for a secUid rather than a handle.

Getting it takes one call: send the username to /userinfo-by-username/, as in the quick start above, and read user.secUid from the response. Trimmed to the identifiers:

{
  "user": {
    "id": "107955",
    "uniqueId": "tiktok",
    "secUid": "MS4wLjABAAAAv7iSuuXDJGDvJkmH_vz1qkDZYo1apxgzaxdBSeIuPiM"
  }
}

The same value comes back as user.secUid from /userinfo-by-id/ and in every /search-user/ result, and as sec_uid on each account in follower and following lists and on every comment author. You never need a secUid to call TikLiveAPI itself: every documented endpoint is keyed by the username or the numeric user ID. Store the secUid next to the id as a stable reference, or hand it to other tools that expect one.

Common use cases

Key facts

• Base URL and authentication: send requests to https://api.tikliveapi.com with your API key in the X-Api-Key header.
• Credits: 1 successful request = 1 credit; failed requests don't use credits.
• No expiry: credits never expire, and there are no monthly plans.
• Free credits: 100 free credits on signup.
• Rate limit: the standard rate limit is 200 requests per minute per API key.
• Errors: a missing or invalid API key returns a JSON object with a message field and HTTP status 200, so check the response body rather than relying on the status code.
• Data handling: data is fetched live from TikTok and passed straight to you; TikLiveAPI does not store or cache it.
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