tiktok

Get TikTok trending feed

Returns a page of popular TikTok videos for a country, with view, like, comment, share and save counts, caption, author and thumbnail. Two feeds, chosen with feed. The default (feed=global) is TikTok's web trending feed fetched through a connection in region: region sets where the request comes from, not where the videos come from, and for most countries the feed is one worldwide pool. Measured 13/09/2026 over 12 calls in six countries, 22% of its videos were registered in the requested country (US 65%, BR 43%, GB 9%, FR 8%, JP 6%, DE 0%). It returns about 13 videos in 3 to 12 seconds. feed=local is the For You feed TikTok's app serves to a phone set to region, so most, not all, of its videos are from that country: 57% of videos on 10 served pages the same day (DE 52%, US 66%, GB 41%, JP 81%), and 51% were captioned in the country's main language. It returns a median of 24 videos (8 to 27) and takes 12 to 35 seconds. On about 1 local call in 11 (26 of 281 measured 14-17/10/2026) the supplier is throttled or times out and no video comes back: that returns 503 with credits refunded, and a retry a minute later usually succeeds. A local request never falls back to the global feed. Both feeds cost the same, carry no cursor, and return each video once. Every row carries ext.region, the country the video is registered to, so filter on it when you need only that country; local rows also carry ext.content_language, TikTok's own caption-language tag.

get/tiktok/trending

Request

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

Query parameters

regionstring required

ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code (e.g., US, GB, DE). On the default feed it sets the country the request is routed through and does not filter videos; with feed=local it sets the country the For You feed is built for. Either way, check ext.region on each row for the country a video is actually from.

trimboolean

Accepted for compatibility; it has no effect with feed=local.

feed'global' | 'local'

global (default): the web trending feed routed through region, mostly worldwide content, about 13 videos in 3 to 12 seconds. local: the For You feed for a phone in region, most videos from that country, a median of 24 videos in 12 to 35 seconds, and a refunded 503 when none come back.

sincestring

Only rows published on or after this date: YYYY-MM-DD (midnight UTC) or an ISO 8601 timestamp. Rows older than it are left off each page. This list is not in date order, so the walk does not stop at the date: keep following next_cursor, and each page costs what a page costs even when every row on it is filtered out. A row with no date is kept. published_after, start_date, from_date, publish_time (yesterday, this-week, this-month, last-3-months, last-6-months) and max_age_days are accepted and applied as since.

untilstring

Only rows published on or before this date: YYYY-MM-DD (that whole UTC day is included) or an ISO 8601 timestamp. Newer rows are left off each page and the walk does not stop, so older pages follow. A row with no date is kept. published_before, end_date and to_date are accepted and applied as until.

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/trending",
  "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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