tiktok

List similar TikTok accounts

Returns TikTok accounts similar to a given creator: the related accounts TikTok itself suggests for that profile, usually about 30. Some creators get only a few, and for some TikTok suggests none. Each account includes the username, display name, avatar, profile URL, bio, verification status, whether it is private, and its follower, following, video and like counts, so no second lookup is needed to size or qualify a lookalike. Pass handle. The list is specific to the seed: a chef returns other chefs and food creators, a dancer returns other dancers. To go wider, call it again with any returned username as the next handle. When TikTok has no list for the creator, the list is built from TikTok's lists that include the creator: the accounts whose list names the creator, then the other accounts on those lists, ranked by how many of those lists they appear on. Those rows carry author.ext.similar_source set to tiktok_graph and author.ext.similar_via, the account whose list named the creator. Any remaining places are filled from the accounts Instagram suggests for the same creator, matched to their TikTok accounts and kept only when the TikTok account is verified, has at least 10,000 followers, or has at least 1,000 followers and a display name that shares a word with the Instagram account; the creator's Instagram account is the one linked or named in the TikTok bio when there is one. Those rows carry author.ext.similar_source set to instagram and author.ext.instagram_username. TikTok's own rows carry neither. Cost: 5 credits a call. A creator with no suggestions returns an empty list and is refunded, and a handle TikTok does not know is a 404 at no cost. A repeat within the cache window is 0 credits. The list is a single fixed window: it is not paginated and returns no cursor. author.location is not published on this surface and is null on every row; GET /v1/tiktok/profile returns the region for any single account.

get/tiktok/similar

Request

  • Base URL: https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1
  • URL: https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/tiktok/similar
  • Auth: API key in header x-api-key

Query parameters

handlestring required

TikTok username of the seed creator, without the @ symbol.

Headers

Cache-Controlstring

Send no-cache to bypass the response cache and force a live fetch. Billed at the normal endpoint cost; the fresh result is written back to cache for the next caller. Only the no-cache directive triggers this. See the Response Schema guide for details.

Idempotency-Keystring

Optional UUID that makes the request safely retriable. The key is reserved atomically per account before billing. A concurrent retry receives 409 IDEMPOTENCY_IN_PROGRESS with a Retry-After of 1 second while the original is young, growing to a quarter of the time it has been running (at most 30); a crashed reservation expires after 5 minutes. A replay keeps the cached payload immutable except for billing metadata: credits_used becomes 0, idempotent_replay becomes true, and credits_remaining is refreshed to the current balance. A known current balance appears in both the body and X-Credits-Remaining header; no balance row resolves to 0. On a transient lookup failure, body credits_remaining is null and X-Credits-Remaining is omitted. Completed outcomes expire after 24 hours. If the claim store is unavailable, the request fails closed before billing. GET endpoints do not combine idempotent replay with Server-Sent Events: use Accept: application/json when sending this header. The unsupported key-plus-SSE combination is rejected before billing.

Response

Successful response

successboolean required

Whether the request succeeded

platformstring required

Platform name

endpointstring required

API endpoint path

credits_usedinteger required

Number of credits consumed

credits_remaininginteger nullable required

Current account balance, or null when this response could not establish one. Free cache hits always return null because they do not establish an authoritative post-request balance. An idempotency replay also returns null when its current-balance lookup fails. It is never a fabricated zero, so a zero here means the account really is empty. The authoritative reading is the one on a billed response, which comes straight from the deduction.

request_idstring required

Unique request identifier for support

cachedboolean required

Whether the response was served from cache

idempotent_replayboolean

True only when this response is an idempotency replay

Example response

{
  "success": true,
  "platform": "tiktok",
  "endpoint": "/v1/tiktok/similar",
  "credits_used": 1,
  "credits_remaining": 4999,
  "request_id": "req-abc123",
  "idempotent_replay": true,
  "meta": {
    "hint": {
      "code": "search_multi",
      "message": "You searched \"matcha\" on 3 platforms one call at a time; /v1/search/multi returns each platform's own search rows in one call at the same price per platform, and a platform with no rows is not charged.",
      "method": "GET",
      "path": "/v1/search/multi?query=matcha&platforms=instagram,tiktok,youtube"
    }
  },
  "pagination": {
    "next_cursor": "sc.eyJ2IjoyLCJjIjoiMiIsInAiOiJwYWdlIn0",
    "has_more": true,
    "page_size": 30,
    "stopped_at": "known_id"
  }
}

Changes

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