TikTok video API

Get a video's caption, stats and music

curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.stophy.dev/v1/tiktok/video \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '
{
  "videoId": "7652012587009215774"
}
'

const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
  body: JSON.stringify({videoId: '7652012587009215774'})
};

fetch('https://api.stophy.dev/v1/tiktok/video', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

import requests

url = "https://api.stophy.dev/v1/tiktok/video"

payload = { "videoId": "7652012587009215774" }
headers = {
    "Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

{
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "videoUrl": "<string>",
    "type": "video",
    "hashtags": [
      "<string>"
    ],
    "mentions": [
      "<string>"
    ],
    "imageUrls": [
      "<string>"
    ],
    "authorUrl": "<string>",
    "authorIsVerified": true,
    "isAd": true,
    "isAiGenerated": true,
    "videoId": "<string>",
    "text": "<string>",
    "publishedAt": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
    "durationSeconds": 123,
    "thumbnailUrl": "<string>",
    "views": 0,
    "likes": 0,
    "comments": 0,
    "shares": 0,
    "saves": 0,
    "authorId": "<string>",
    "authorUsername": "<string>",
    "authorName": "<string>",
    "authorAvatarUrl": "<string>",
    "audioId": "<string>",
    "audioTitle": "<string>",
    "audioArtist": "<string>",
    "audioIsOriginal": true,
    "country": "<string>"
  },
  "creditsUsed": 123,
  "requestId": "<string>"
}

{
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "cliSessionCompleted",
    "message": "<string>",
    "retryable": true,
    "requestId": "<string>",
    "retryAfterSeconds": 123,
    "requiredCredits": 123,
    "availableCredits": 123,
    "billingUrl": "https://stophy.dev/billing"
  }
}

{
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "cliSessionCompleted",
    "message": "<string>",
    "retryable": true,
    "requestId": "<string>",
    "retryAfterSeconds": 123,
    "requiredCredits": 123,
    "availableCredits": 123,
    "billingUrl": "https://stophy.dev/billing"
  }
}

POST

tiktok

video

Get a video's caption, stats and music

curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.stophy.dev/v1/tiktok/video \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '
{
  "videoId": "7652012587009215774"
}
'

const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
  body: JSON.stringify({videoId: '7652012587009215774'})
};

fetch('https://api.stophy.dev/v1/tiktok/video', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

import requests

url = "https://api.stophy.dev/v1/tiktok/video"

payload = { "videoId": "7652012587009215774" }
headers = {
    "Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

{
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "videoUrl": "<string>",
    "type": "video",
    "hashtags": [
      "<string>"
    ],
    "mentions": [
      "<string>"
    ],
    "imageUrls": [
      "<string>"
    ],
    "authorUrl": "<string>",
    "authorIsVerified": true,
    "isAd": true,
    "isAiGenerated": true,
    "videoId": "<string>",
    "text": "<string>",
    "publishedAt": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
    "durationSeconds": 123,
    "thumbnailUrl": "<string>",
    "views": 0,
    "likes": 0,
    "comments": 0,
    "shares": 0,
    "saves": 0,
    "authorId": "<string>",
    "authorUsername": "<string>",
    "authorName": "<string>",
    "authorAvatarUrl": "<string>",
    "audioId": "<string>",
    "audioTitle": "<string>",
    "audioArtist": "<string>",
    "audioIsOriginal": true,
    "country": "<string>"
  },
  "creditsUsed": 123,
  "requestId": "<string>"
}

{
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "cliSessionCompleted",
    "message": "<string>",
    "retryable": true,
    "requestId": "<string>",
    "retryAfterSeconds": 123,
    "requiredCredits": 123,
    "availableCredits": 123,
    "billingUrl": "https://stophy.dev/billing"
  }
}

{
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "cliSessionCompleted",
    "message": "<string>",
    "retryable": true,
    "requestId": "<string>",
    "retryAfterSeconds": 123,
    "requiredCredits": 123,
    "availableCredits": 123,
    "billingUrl": "https://stophy.dev/billing"
  }
}

Returns a video’s caption, stats and music. The video is identified by its URL or ID.

Request

Exactly one of videoUrl or videoId is required. A request that sets both, or none, fails with invalidRequest.

import { Stophy } from "stophy";

const stophy = new Stophy({ apiKey: process.env.STOPHY_API_KEY });
const result = await stophy.tiktok.video({ videoId: "7652012587009215774" });
console.log(result.data);

from stophy import Stophy

stophy = Stophy()  # reads STOPHY_API_KEY
result = stophy.tiktok.video(video_id="7652012587009215774")
print(result["data"])

curl -X POST https://api.stophy.dev/v1/tiktok/video \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $STOPHY_API_KEY" \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"videoId":"7652012587009215774"}'

stophy tiktok video --videoId 7652012587009215774

Response

If successful, the response body contains the standard envelope. data contains the video’s caption, stats, author and music. The following example is a real response, truncated: each list shows one item and long strings are cut.

{
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "videoId": "7652012587009215774",
    "videoUrl": "https://www.tiktok.com/@khaby.lame/video/7652012587009215774",
    "type": "video",
    "text": "Bro…. Where is the rest of my rice? 🍚🤨#learnfromkhaby #comedy ",
    "hashtags": ["learnfromkhaby"],
    "publishedAt": "2026-06-16T15:17:17.000Z",
    "durationSeconds": 30,
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://p19-common-sign.tiktokcdn-us.com/tos-useast8-p-0068-tx2/oMCUBOFruAxeDj4qAILfYaqGVewvlQtIIIC0xI~tplv-tiktokx-ori…",
    "views": 77300000,
    "likes": 3500000,
    "comments": 52800,
    "shares": 305300,
    "saves": 154244,
    "authorId": "127905465618821121",
    "authorUsername": "khaby.lame",
    "authorName": "Khabane lame",
    "authorUrl": "https://www.tiktok.com/@khaby.lame",
    "authorAvatarUrl": "https://p16-common-sign.tiktokcdn-us.com/tos-useast8-avt-0068-tx2/08987e23b94057953fd4f1738694bf5f~tplv-tiktokx-cropcen…",
    "authorIsVerified": true,
    "audioId": "7652012548169976607",
    "audioTitle": "original sound",
    "audioArtist": "Khabane lame",
    "audioIsOriginal": true,
    "country": "US",
    "isAd": false,
    "isAiGenerated": true
  },
  "creditsUsed": 1,
  "requestId": "2fe9dbad-fc48-4890-9751-0b24b596035b"
}

Field	Type	Description
`type`	string	The kind of item: `video` or `photo`.
`publishedAt`	string (ISO 8601)	The publication time, in UTC.
`durationSeconds`	number	The duration, in seconds.
`likes`	integer	The number of likes.

For every field, see the response schema on this page.

Billing

Each successful request consumes 1 credit, regardless of the number of items returned. Requests that fail, or that return no items, are not billed.

Pagination

This method is not paginated. A single request returns the complete result.

TikTok sound: Accepts audioId. Returns a sound and a page of videos that use it.
TikTok comments: Accepts videoUrl. Returns a video’s comments, or the replies to one comment.
TikTok transcript: Accepts videoUrl. Returns what a TikTok video says, from captions or its own audio.
TikTok profile: Accepts userUrl. Returns a profile’s bio, stats and a page of its videos.

Authorizations

Authorization

string

header

required

Bearer authentication header of the form Bearer <token>, where <token> is your auth token.

Body

application/json

videoUrl

string

Link to the TikTok video, like https://www.tiktok.com/@khaby.lame/video/7137423965982592302. Send this or videoId.

videoId

string

TikTok video id, like 7137423965982592302. Send this or videoUrl.

Response

The data, and the credits this call used.

success

any

required

data

object

required

Show child attributes

creditsUsed

integer

required

requestId

string

required

Using the API

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TikTok video API

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