---
title: "TikTok Comments API"
method: GET
path: "/v1/tiktok/comments"
tags: ["TikTok"]
---

# TikTok Comments API

`GET /v1/tiktok/comments`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.captapi.com`
- URL: `https://api.captapi.com/v1/tiktok/comments`
- Auth: one of:
  - HTTP bearer
  - API key in header `X-API-Key`

TikTok comments — clean schema plus authorName, stable authorId/authorSecUid and commentLanguage for listening loops.

Paste a public TikTok video URL and get comments as clean JSON (not TikTok's 40+ junk user fields). Each comment keeps username (author) + display name (authorName) + avatar, and adds stable authorId (uid) and authorSecUid for repeat-commenter detection, plus commentLanguage for market listening without a separate language detector. replyCount when TikTok exposes it. totalComments + cursor pagination (nextCursor/hasMore — hasMore is always a boolean; a null nextCursor means the end of the comments). An unresolvable URL is 404 at 0 credits — never a 200 with a synthesised row. Same rule as Post Analytics and as /tiktok/video-details on the same URL. When TikTok blocks the comment fetch the call is 503 UPSTREAM_UNAVAILABLE at 0 credits — retry shortly. Flat 2 credits per successful call. Need replies? Use TikTok Comment Replies with the parent comment id.

Docs: https://captapi.com/apis/tiktok-comments

## Query parameters

- `url` string, required
- `limit` integer
- `cursor` string
- `cache` boolean

## Response `200`

Success. The data object for this endpoint.

- object
  - `success` unknown, required
  - `data` object, required
    - `platform` string: Platform identifier for this response (matches the endpoint's platform).
    - `url` string: Canonical URL of the item.
    - `totalComments` integer: Video-level comment count when TikTok exposes one. Omitted only when TikTok sent no total.
    - `totalReturned` integer: Number of items returned in this response.
    - `comments` object[]
      - `id` string: Id of this comments item.
      - `text` string: Text content.
      - `author` string: Author name or handle.
      - `authorAvatarUrl` string: Profile picture URL of the person who wrote the comment.
      - `likeCount` integer: Like count as an integer. Compact UI labels ("727K") are expanded here; see likeCountText for the original string.
      - `publishedAt` string: Publish date (ISO 8601) when the platform exposes an absolute timestamp.
      - `authorId` string: Author id. Example: "6958917445306926086".
      - `commentLanguage` string: Comment language. Example: "en".
      - `replyCount` integer: How many replies this comment has. Use Comment Replies with this comment's id to fetch them.
      - `authorSecUid` unknown
      - `authorName` string: Name of the author.
    - `nextCursor` string: Numeric offset to pass back as cursor. Null means the end of the comments.
    - `hasMore` boolean: Always a boolean. true when nextCursor is a resume offset; false when nextCursor is null (end of the thread). Never null.

## Other responses

- `400`: Bad request: wrong platform URL, unknown endpoint, or an invalid parameter value. Not billed.
- `401`: Missing, invalid or revoked API key. Not billed.
- `402`: Not enough credits for this request. Not billed.
- `404`: The resource does not exist or is not public. Not billed.
- `422`: A required parameter is missing or has the wrong type. Not billed.
- `429`: Rate limit reached. Wait for Retry-After seconds. Not billed.
- `502`: The platform could not be reached or returned nothing usable. Retryable, not billed. 503 and 504 use the same envelope.

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