# Tiktok Follower Scraper (`sociavault/tiktok-follower-scraper`) Actor

Extract TikTok follower data including usernames, follower counts, bio, and engagement metrics. Perfect for influencer research, audience analysis, and competitor tracking. Fast, reliable, and affordable.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/sociavault/tiktok-follower-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [SociaVault](https://apify.com/sociavault) (community)
- **Categories:** Social media, Lead generation, Other
- **Stats:** 53 total users, 2 monthly users, 94.7% runs succeeded, 1 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$1.50 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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Actors are written with capital "A".

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- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## TikTok Follower Scraper

Scrape followers for TikTok user profiles using the SociaVault API. This actor retrieves detailed follower information including usernames, nicknames, bio, follower/following counts, and profile pictures with automatic pagination support.

### Features

- **Multiple Profiles**: Scrape followers from multiple TikTok handles in one run
- **Automatic Pagination**: Automatically fetches multiple pages to get the exact number of followers you specify
- **Detailed Follower Data**: Returns comprehensive profile information for each follower
- **Rate Limiting**: Built-in delays to prevent API rate limiting
- **Error Handling**: Graceful error handling with detailed logging

### Input Parameters

| Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Description |
|-----------|------|----------|---------|-------------|
| `handles` | Array | Yes | - | List of TikTok usernames (with or without @) |
| `maxFollowersPerProfile` | Integer | No | 20 | Number of followers to retrieve per handle |

#### Example Input

```json
{
  "handles": ["charlidamelio", "khaby.lame", "bellapoarch"],
  "maxFollowersPerProfile": 50
}
```

**Note**: If you specify `maxFollowersPerProfile: 50` with 3 handles, the scraper will fetch 50 followers for EACH handle (150 total followers).

### Output

For each handle, the actor returns:

| Field | Type | Description |
|-------|------|-------------|
| `success` | Boolean | Whether the request was successful |
| `handle` | String | The TikTok username that was scraped |
| `totalFollowers` | Number | Total number of followers the user has |
| `followerCount` | Number | Number of followers retrieved (up to maxFollowersPerProfile) |
| `followerList` | Array | Array of follower profile objects |

#### Follower Profile Object

Each follower in the `followerList` contains:

- `unique_id`: TikTok username
- `nickname`: Display name
- `signature`: Bio/description
- `follower_count`: Number of followers
- `following_count`: Number of accounts they follow
- `uid`: Unique user ID
- `sec_uid`: Secondary unique ID
- `avatar_medium`: Profile picture URLs
- `region`: Country/region
- `language`: Account language
- `create_time`: Account creation timestamp

#### Example Output

```json
{
  "success": true,
  "handle": "charlidamelio",
  "totalFollowers": 155000000,
  "followerCount": 50,
  "followerList": [
    {
      "unique_id": "user123",
      "nickname": "Cool User",
      "signature": "Just having fun!",
      "follower_count": 1500,
      "following_count": 300,
      "uid": "7234567890123456789",
      "sec_uid": "MS4wLjABAAAA...",
      "avatar_medium": { ... },
      "region": "US",
      "language": "en"
    }
  ]
}
```

Failed handles return an error object in the dataset:

```json
{
  "success": false,
  "handle": "invalidhandle",
  "error": "Error message"
}
```

***

**Built with ❤️ by [SociaVault](https://sociavault.com)**

# Actor input Schema

## `handles` (type: `array`):

List of TikTok usernames (handles) to scrape followers from

## `maxFollowersPerProfile` (type: `integer`):

Number of followers to retrieve per handle (automatically paginates to get exact count)

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "handles": [
    "charlidamelio",
    "khaby.lame",
    "bellapoarch"
  ],
  "maxFollowersPerProfile": 50
}
```

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "handles": [
        "charlidamelio"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("sociavault/tiktok-follower-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "handles": ["charlidamelio"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("sociavault/tiktok-follower-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "handles": [
    "charlidamelio"
  ]
}' |
apify call sociavault/tiktok-follower-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=sociavault/tiktok-follower-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/6yigNBEXrmqY7bTAl/builds/qhTDfPUkzRZ7BDcrT/openapi.json