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This tutorial walks you through sending a synchronous request to each Bright Data TikTok Scraper API endpoint. By the end, you’ll have working examples for profiles, posts, TikTok Shop, comments, and posts by profile.

Prerequisites

Request structure

Every synchronous request follows the same pattern:
POST https://api.brightdata.com/datasets/v3/scrape?dataset_id={DATASET_ID}&format=json
Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN
Content-Type: application/json

[{"url": "https://www.tiktok.com/..."}]
The only thing that changes between endpoints is the dataset_id and the input URL format.
Synchronous requests support up to 20 URLs and have a 1-minute timeout. If the request takes longer, the API automatically returns a snapshot_id instead. See async requests.

Profiles

Dataset ID: gd_l1villgoiiidt09ci
curl -X POST \
  "https://api.brightdata.com/datasets/v3/scrape?dataset_id=gd_l1villgoiiidt09ci&format=json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '[{"url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@tiktok"}]'
You should see a 200 response. This takes 10-30 seconds.
[
  {
    "nickname": "TikTok",
    "account_id": "tiktok",
    "biography": "Make your day.",
    "followers": 85600000,
    "following": 580,
    "likes": 520000000,
    "videos_count": 1250,
    "is_verified": true,
    "url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@tiktok",
    "profile_pic_url": "https://..."
  }
]
Full Profiles response schema

Posts

Dataset ID: gd_lu702nij2f790tmv9h
curl -X POST \
  "https://api.brightdata.com/datasets/v3/scrape?dataset_id=gd_lu702nij2f790tmv9h&format=json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '[{"url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@tiktok/video/7345678901234567890"}]'
[
  {
    "url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@tiktok/video/7345678901234567890",
    "author": "tiktok",
    "description": "Making every moment count #fyp #trending",
    "likes": 245000,
    "comments": 3200,
    "shares": 18500,
    "views": 5200000,
    "date_posted": "2024-04-10T15:30:00.000Z",
    "hashtags": ["fyp", "trending"],
    "video_url": "https://..."
  }
]
Full Posts response schema

TikTok Shop

Dataset ID: gd_m45m1u911dsa4274pi
curl -X POST \
  "https://api.brightdata.com/datasets/v3/scrape?dataset_id=gd_m45m1u911dsa4274pi&format=json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '[{"url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@shop/product/1234567890"}]'
[
  {
    "url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@shop/product/1234567890",
    "product_name": "Wireless Bluetooth Earbuds",
    "price": 29.99,
    "currency": "USD",
    "rating": 4.7,
    "reviews_count": 1850,
    "seller_name": "TechStore Official",
    "category": "Electronics"
  }
]
Full TikTok Shop response schema

Comments

Dataset ID: gd_lkf2st302ap89utw5k
curl -X POST \
  "https://api.brightdata.com/datasets/v3/scrape?dataset_id=gd_lkf2st302ap89utw5k&format=json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '[{"url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@tiktok/video/7345678901234567890"}]'
[
  {
    "url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@tiktok/video/7345678901234567890",
    "comment_user": "creator_fan",
    "comment_user_url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@creator_fan",
    "comment_date": "2024-04-11T08:15:00.000Z",
    "comment": "This is amazing content!",
    "likes": 42,
    "replies": 3
  }
]
Full Comments response schema

Posts by Profile Fast API

Dataset ID: gd_m7n5v2gq296pex2f5m
curl -X POST \
  "https://api.brightdata.com/datasets/v3/scrape?dataset_id=gd_m7n5v2gq296pex2f5m&format=json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '[{"url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@tiktok"}]'
[
  {
    "url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@tiktok/video/7345678901234567890",
    "author": "tiktok",
    "description": "Making every moment count #fyp",
    "likes": 245000,
    "comments": 3200,
    "shares": 18500,
    "views": 5200000,
    "date_posted": "2024-04-10T15:30:00.000Z"
  },
  {
    "url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@tiktok/video/7345678901234567891",
    "author": "tiktok",
    "description": "New feature alert! #tiktok #newfeature",
    "likes": 180000,
    "comments": 2100,
    "shares": 9500,
    "views": 3800000,
    "date_posted": "2024-04-08T12:00:00.000Z"
  }
]
Full Posts by Profile Fast API response schema

Quick reference: dataset IDs

EndpointDataset IDURL pattern
Profilesgd_l1villgoiiidt09citiktok.com/@{username}
Postsgd_lu702nij2f790tmv9htiktok.com/@{username}/video/{id}
TikTok Shopgd_m45m1u911dsa4274pitiktok.com/@shop/product/{id}
Commentsgd_lkf2st302ap89utw5ktiktok.com/@{username}/video/{id}
Posts by Profile Fast APIgd_m7n5v2gq296pex2f5mtiktok.com/@{username}

Output formats

Control the response format with the format query parameter:
ValueDescription
jsonJSON array (default)
ndjsonNewline-delimited JSON, one record per line
csvComma-separated values

Next steps

Async batch requests

Scrape hundreds of URLs in a single batch job.

API reference

Full parameter and response field reference.