TikTok Keyword Video Search

What does TikTok Keyword Video Search do?

TikTok Keyword Video Search searches TikTok for your keywords and returns the matching videos as clean rows. Find public TikTok videos matching keywords and export their creators, captions, and engagement metrics. Give it your inputs, press Start, and the Output tab fills with one clean row per record, ready to download as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

It works entirely with public TikTok data and never asks for TikTok login credentials. Because it runs on Apify you also get a REST API, scheduled runs, webhooks, integrations with tools such as Google Sheets, Slack, Make, and Zapier, proxy rotation, and a full log of every execution.

This Actor is deliberately narrow. Its input form asks only for the values this one job needs and its Output view shows only the columns this job produces, so nobody has to pick a technical mode to get a useful result.

Why use TikTok Keyword Video Search?

See what is actually being posted about a topic

One run turns a search phrase into a spreadsheet of real posts with real engagement numbers, instead of an endless scroll you cannot sort or filter.

Find creators you did not know about

Every row carries the creator handle and follower count, so a keyword search doubles as creator discovery in your niche.

Size up a trend before you commit

Sort by views or engagement to see whether a hashtag or format is genuinely getting traction or just being talked about.

Monitor brand and category mentions

Schedule the run on your brand name, product names, and competitor names to build a rolling social listening dataset.

How to use TikTok Keyword Video Search

1. Click Try for free or open the Actor in Apify Console.
2. On the Input tab, fill in Search keywords.
3. Set a result limit. A small number is the right choice for a first run.
4. Press Start and watch the log.
5. Open the Output tab to browse the results, or use Export for JSON, CSV, or Excel.
6. Happy with the setup? Press Save as task so you can repeat or schedule it in one click.

Ready-made tasks

These input presets ship with the Actor and are ready to run or schedule as they are.

Task	Saved as
Discover trending content for a topic	trend-discovery
Track brand and competitor mentions	brand-mention-listening

Input

Field	Label	Type	Required	Default	Notes
keywords	Search keywords	array	Yes		Keywords or phrases to search on TikTok.
maxResults	Maximum results	integer	No	100	Stop after this many output records. Start small on your first run.
maxProviderSpendUsd	Maximum provider spend	number	No	5	Hard USD ceiling for third-party data collection. Apify reserves at least $2 of headroom to start a provider run, so $2 is the minimum. Real charges are normally a fraction of a cent.

Example input:

{
    "keywords": [
        "small business tips",
        "productivity hacks"
    ],
    "maxResults": 200,
    "maxProviderSpendUsd": 5
}

Limits apply to the complete run, not separately to each input, so a limit of 100 spread over four inputs returns roughly 25 records each.

Output

The Actor returns matching video records with the originating keyword in sourceInput. Every record below came from a real verification run.

{
    "resultType": "video",
    "sourceInput": "small business tips",
    "videoId": "7649586085969825055",
    "videoUrl": "https://www.tiktok.com/@mikaelainspires/video/7649586085969825055",
    "authorUsername": "mikaelainspires",
    "authorName": "Mikaela | Business Coach 💻",
    "caption": "Apply these tips in your business & see what shifts for you🤍\n\n#womeninbusiness #smallbusiness #femaleentrepreneur #7figurebusiness #growth ",
    "hashtags": [
        "womeninbusiness",
        "smallbusiness",
        "femaleentrepreneur",
        "7figurebusiness",
        "growth"
    ],
    "likes": 516,
    "views": 3686,
    "shares": 33,
    "comments": 42,
    "saves": 188,
    "duration": 155,
    "coverUrl": "https://p19-common-sign.tiktokcdn-us.com/tos-useast8-p-0068-tx2/o0jVJRgyoAV1LSli9EABI6BPiaGSAi4hIdI3J~tplv-tiktokx-origin.image",
    "musicTitle": "Crystalline Clarity",
    "authorFollowers": 2005,
    "uploadedAt": "2026-06-10T02:21:07.000Z",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-08-02T12:46:19.647Z"
}

You can download the dataset in various formats such as JSON, HTML, CSV, or Excel, pull it from the Apify API, or push it onward through an integration. Each run also stores a COST_ESTIMATE record and an INTELLIGENCE_RUN_SUMMARY record in its key-value store.

Output fields

Field	Type	Meaning
videoId	string	TikTok video ID
videoUrl	string	Canonical link to the video
authorUsername	string	Creator handle without the @
authorName	string	Creator display name
authorFollowers	number	Creator follower count when the source exposes it
caption	string	Full post caption
hashtags	array	Hashtags parsed out of the post
views	number	Play count
likes	number	Like count
comments	number	Comment count
shares	number	Share count
saves	number	Save or favourite count
duration	number	Video length in seconds
musicTitle	string	Sound or track attached to the post
coverUrl	string	Thumbnail image URL
uploadedAt	date	Publication time in UTC
sourceInput	string	Keyword, handle, or URL that produced the row
scrapedAt	date	Collection time in UTC

Missing values are returned as null or as an empty string rather than being dropped, so exported columns stay aligned across every row.

How much does it cost to scrape TikTok?

This Actor is priced pay per event, so you are charged for results rather than for runtime.

Event	Price	When it is charged
Actor start	$0.005	Charged once when a run begins.
Video result	$0.0005	One public video matching a keyword. A third-party data provider is billed separately for this mode.

Apify Store plan discounts apply automatically to the result event, so larger plans pay less per record:

Your Apify plan	Free	Starter	Scale	Business
Price per 1,000 results	$0.50	$0.45	$0.42	$0.40

You also pay your own Apify platform usage for the run, the same as any Actor you run yourself. The Apify free plan includes monthly credit that covers small runs.

This job uses a maintained provider Actor for signed TikTok data access. The Maximum provider spend input is a hard ceiling that is passed to every provider call, and the run stops collecting rather than exceeding it.

Before collection starts the Actor writes a COST_ESTIMATE record with the maximum price of that specific run, so the ceiling is visible in the run storage before any significant work happens. The Apify free plan includes monthly platform credit that covers small runs, and the cheapest way to control spend is a modest result limit rather than a large run you abort.

Tips and advanced options

• The result limit is shared across all keywords in one run. Ten keywords with a limit of 100 gives roughly ten videos each.
• Use quoted natural phrases the way a user would type them. TikTok search behaves differently from hashtag lookup.
• Filter the dataset by sourceInput to split a multi-keyword run back into one sheet per keyword.
• Schedule the same keyword weekly and append to a named dataset to build a trend line over time.
• Start with one input and a small limit to confirm the shape of the output before scaling up.
• Filter on sourceInput when a single run covers several handles, keywords, or URLs.
• Treat private, removed, or region-blocked content as unavailable rather than as a zero metric.

Related TikTok Actors

Actor	What it does
TikTok Creator Comparison	Compare TikTok creators with rankings, engagement rates, median views, viral outliers, content patterns, and change tracking.
TikTok Profile Videos Scraper	Collect public videos from one or more TikTok profiles with normalized post and engagement data.
TikTok Comments Scraper	Extract public TikTok comments, authors, likes, replies, pinned status, and creator-like signals.
TikTok Profile Scraper	Look up public TikTok profiles and export follower counts, bios, verification, and account statistics.
TikTok Video Metrics Scraper	Fetch metrics and metadata for specific public TikTok video URLs.
TikTok Followers Scraper	Collect normalized public follower profiles for one or more TikTok accounts.

All of them share the same collection engine and the same field names, so their datasets join together cleanly.

FAQ

How many videos can one keyword return?

Up to the result limit, which tops out at 1000 per run. TikTok search itself does not expose an unlimited archive, so very narrow phrases naturally return fewer rows.

Are the results sorted by relevance or by date?

They follow TikTok search order, which is relevance weighted. Sort the exported dataset by views or uploadedAt if you need a different order.

Can I search hashtags?

Yes. Enter the hashtag text as a keyword. Matching posts also return a parsed hashtags array you can filter on.

Is scraping TikTok legal?

Collecting public data is generally legal in most jurisdictions, and this Actor only reads pages any logged-out visitor can see. You remain responsible for how you use what you collect: follow TikTok's terms, honour applicable privacy law such as GDPR and CCPA when records describe identifiable people, and do not republish personal data you have no basis to process.

Something looks wrong. What now?

Public pages and upstream schemas change. If a field stops populating or a run fails, open the Issues tab on this Actor with the run ID and the input you used. Feature requests and custom export formats are welcome through the same channel.