---
title: "Search TikTok users"
method: GET
path: "/v1/tiktok/search/users"
tags: ["TikTok"]
---

# Search TikTok users

`GET /v1/tiktok/search/users`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.scrapeatlas.com`
- URL: `https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/tiktok/search/users`
- Auth: API key in header `x-api-key`

Search accounts through TikTok's web user search (cursor paged): user_list records with user_info (uid, unique_id, nickname, signature, sec_uid, follower_count, total_favorited, custom_verify, avatar_thumb) plus TikTok's search envelope. Each successful request costs 1 account credit, including partial results. Failed requests cost 0 credits.

## Query parameters

- `query` string, required
- `cursor` string

## Response `200`

Inspect the response status and failure or coverage fields.

- union
  - object
    - `requestId` string, uuid, required
    - `accounting` object, required
      - `upstreamRequests` integer, required
      - `responseBytes` integer, required
      - `durationMs` number, required
    - `success` true, required
    - `status` 'success' | 'partial', required
    - `sourceUrl` string, uri, required
    - `fetchedAt` string, date-time, required
    - `coverage` object, required
      - `source` 'document' | 'public_api', required
      - `complete` boolean, required
      - `warnings` string[], required
      - `order` 'newest_first' | 'oldest_first' | 'ranked' | 'relevance' | 'source_order', required
      - `window` object
        - `since` string, date-time
        - `until` string, date-time
    - `user_list` object[], required
      - `user_info` object, required
        - `uid` string, required
        - `unique_id` string, required
    - `cursor` integer, required
    - `has_more` integer, required
  - object
    - `requestId` string, uuid, required
    - `accounting` object, required
      - `upstreamRequests` integer, required
      - `responseBytes` integer, required
      - `durationMs` number, required
    - `success` false, required
    - `status` 'failed' | 'challenged', required
    - `failure` object, required
      - `code` 'invalid_request' | 'unauthorized' | 'not_found' | 'restricted_page' | 'upstream_challenged' | 'upstream_rate_limited' | 'upstream_error' | 'unsupported_page' | 'response_too_large' | 'unsafe_redirect' | 'request_limit' | 'payload_too_complex' | 'timeout' | 'busy', required
      - `message` string, required

## Other responses

- `400`: Request could not complete; inspect error or failure.code.
- `401`: Request could not complete; inspect error or failure.code.
- `402`: Request could not complete; inspect error or failure.code.
- `403`: Request could not complete; inspect error or failure.code.
- `404`: Request could not complete; inspect error or failure.code.
- `408`: Request could not complete; inspect error or failure.code.
- `413`: Request could not complete; inspect error or failure.code.
- `429`: Request could not complete; inspect error or failure.code.
- `500`: Request could not complete; inspect error or failure.code.
- `502`: Request could not complete; inspect error or failure.code.
- `503`: Request could not complete; inspect error or failure.code.
- `504`: Request could not complete; inspect error or failure.code.

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