# TikTok Profile API Each successful request will cost you **`5`** API credits. You have to send a GET request to **`https://api.scrapingdog.com/tiktok/profile`** with the below-given parameters. ### Parameters #### **Scrapingdog Parameters** | Parameter | Description | | --------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |

api\_key

required

|

Your personal API key. Available on your dashboard

Type: String

| #### Search Query | Parameter | Description | | --------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |

username

required

|

This is the username of the TikTok profile.

Type: String

| ### API Example {% tabs %} {% tab title="cURL" %} ```bash curl "https://api.scrapingdog.com/tiktok/profile?api_key=APIKEY&username=nike" ``` {% endtab %} {% tab title="Python" %} ```python import requests api_key = 'APIKEY' username = 'nike' params = { 'api_key': api_key, 'username': username } response = requests.get('https://api.scrapingdog.com/tiktok/profile', params=params) if response.status_code == 200: # Parse the JSON response using response.json() response_data = response.json() # Now you can work with the response_data as a Python dictionary print(response_data) else: print(f'Request failed with status code: {response.status_code}') ``` {% endtab %} {% tab title="Node JS" %} ```javascript const axios = require('axios'); const api_key = 'APIKEY'; const username = 'nike'; const params = { api_key, username }; axios .get('https://api.scrapingdog.com/tiktok/profile', { params }) .then((response) => { if (response.status === 200) { // Parse the JSON response const responseData = response.data; console.log(responseData); } else { console.error(`Request failed with status code: ${response.status}`); } }) .catch((error) => { console.error('An error occurred:', error); }); ``` {% endtab %} {% tab title="Ruby" %} ```ruby require 'httparty' require 'json' api_key = 'APIKEY' username = 'nike' # Define the API endpoint endpoint = 'https://api.scrapingdog.com/tiktok/profile' # Create a hash with the query parameters params = { api_key: api_key, username : username } # Make the GET request response = HTTParty.get(endpoint, query: params) # Check the HTTP response code if response.code == 200 # Parse the JSON response parsed_response = JSON.parse(response.body) puts parsed_response else puts "Request failed with status code: #{response.code}" end ``` {% endtab %} {% tab title="PHP" %} ```php $api_key, 'username' => $username ); // Initialize cURL session $ch = curl_init('https://api.scrapingdog.com/tiktok/profile?' . http_build_query($params)); // Set cURL options curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); // Execute the cURL request $response = curl_exec($ch); // Check for cURL errors if (curl_errno($ch)) { echo 'cURL error: ' . curl_error($ch); } else { $httpCode = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE); if ($httpCode === 200) { // Parse the JSON response $responseData = json_decode($response, true); print_r($responseData); } else { echo 'Request failed with status code: ' . $httpCode; } } // Close cURL session curl_close($ch); ?> ``` {% endtab %} {% tab title="Java" %} ```java import okhttp3.OkHttpClient; import okhttp3.Request; import okhttp3.Response; import okhttp3.ResponseBody; import org.json.JSONObject; public class TwitterApiExample { public static void main(String[] args) { String api_key = "APIKEY"; String username = "nike"; String endpoint = "https://api.scrapingdog.com/tiktok/profile"; OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient(); Request request = new Request.Builder() .url(endpoint + "?api_key=" + api_key + "&username=" + username) .get() .build(); try { Response response = client.newCall(request).execute(); ResponseBody responseBody = response.body(); if (response.isSuccessful() && responseBody != null) { String jsonString = responseBody.string(); JSONObject jsonResponse = new JSONObject(jsonString); System.out.println(jsonResponse.toString(4)); // Pretty print the JSON response } else { System.err.println("Request failed with status code: " + response.code()); } } catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); } } } ``` {% endtab %} {% endtabs %} ### API Response ```json { "id": "208464585232822272", "short_id": null, "username": "nike", "nickname": "Nike", "profile_url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@nike", "bio": "Just Do It.", "sec_uid": "MS4wLjABAAAA_3ndMt8d_tECTdpKgCxcx238tOnQZX-20wqN01aMui5zQ7hsqSdff-jC5qYC-Cl_", "avatar_thumb": "https://p16-common-sign.tiktokcdn-us.com/tos-useast5-avt-0068-tx/e0b0ac7b6ad6447a8e923fd1eb162f2c~tplv-tiktokx-cropcenter:100:100.jpeg?dr=9640&refresh_token=a101ac6e&x-expires=1777032000&x-signature=CqdRMOnpUvUXQOcgfeAxIRLFsvs%3D&t=4d5b0474&ps=13740610&shp=a5d48078&shcp=81f88b70&idc=useast8", "avatar_medium": "https://p16-common-sign.tiktokcdn-us.com/tos-useast5-avt-0068-tx/e0b0ac7b6ad6447a8e923fd1eb162f2c~tplv-tiktokx-cropcenter:720:720.jpeg?dr=9640&refresh_token=ad86b399&x-expires=1777032000&x-signature=JlVz9Li7bTlZo1h6XiYMOpGNcLg%3D&t=4d5b0474&ps=13740610&shp=a5d48078&shcp=81f88b70&idc=useast8", "avatar_large": "https://p16-common-sign.tiktokcdn-us.com/tos-useast5-avt-0068-tx/e0b0ac7b6ad6447a8e923fd1eb162f2c~tplv-tiktokx-cropcenter:1080:1080.jpeg?dr=9640&refresh_token=1926aed6&x-expires=1777032000&x-signature=fpf7JnumAS2MoVfvN4oUK5ydZw8%3D&t=4d5b0474&ps=13740610&shp=a5d48078&shcp=81f88b70&idc=useast8", "verified": true, "private_account": false, "is_secret": false, "is_commerce_account": true, "commerce_category": "Sports, Fitness & Outdoors", "is_seller": false, "is_organization": true, "is_ad_virtual": false, "is_embed_banned": false, "ftc": false, "bio_link": "http://empli.fi/niketiktok", "region": null, "language": "en", "created_at": 1490044565, "created_at_iso": "2017-03-20T21:16:05.000Z", "username_last_changed_at": null, "nickname_last_changed_at": null, "followers": 8423473, "following": 75, "likes": 42509003, "video_count": 1072, "digg_count": 0, "friend_count": 38, "duet_setting": 0, "stitch_setting": 0, "comment_setting": 0, "download_setting": 0, "following_visibility": 2, "open_favorite": false, "relation": 0, "profile_tabs": { "music": false, "questions": true, "playlists": true, "can_expand_playlist": true }, "is_live": false, "room_id": null, "recommend_reason": null, "canonical_url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@nike", "share_title": "Nike on TikTok", "share_desc": "@nike 8.4m Followers, 75 Following, 42.5m Likes - Watch awesome short videos created by Nike" } ``` --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. 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