TikTok Effect API. Send an effect link or ID.
Effect or filter with exact post and view counts. We handle the proxies, blocks and platform changes.
TikTok Effect API at a glance
Returns a TikTok camera effect or filter, TikTok's own or an Effect House creator's, from its link or ID. You get its name, icon and publish time, the creator's account (ID, handle, profile link, picture and secUid), and exact counts of the posts made with it and the views those posts drew.
GET /v1/tiktok/effect
- 1 credit per request, $0.75–$1.97 per 1,000 requests
- 13 typed fields null when unknown
urlis all it needs, e.g.https://www.tiktok.com/effect/Bold-Glamour-14519845- 100 credits free when you sign up, no card, so you can build before you spend
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$ npm install socialtapurl = https://www.tiktok.com/effect/Bold-Glamour-14519845const params = new URLSearchParams({
url: "https://www.tiktok.com/effect/Bold-Glamour-14519845",
});
const res = await fetch(`https://socialtap.dev/v1/tiktok/effect?${params}`, {
headers: { "x-api-key": process.env.SOCIALTAP_API_KEY ?? "" },
});
const body = await res.json();
if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`${body.error.code}: ${body.error.message}`);
const { data, meta } = body;
console.log(data, meta.credits_charged);import os
import requests
res = requests.get(
"https://socialtap.dev/v1/tiktok/effect",
params={"url": "https://www.tiktok.com/effect/Bold-Glamour-14519845"},
headers={"x-api-key": os.environ["SOCIALTAP_API_KEY"]},
)
body = res.json()
if not res.ok:
raise RuntimeError(f"{body['error']['code']}: {body['error']['message']}")
data, meta = body["data"], body["meta"]
print(data, meta["credits_charged"])require "json"
require "net/http"
uri = URI("https://socialtap.dev/v1/tiktok/effect")
uri.query = URI.encode_www_form('url' => 'https://www.tiktok.com/effect/Bold-Glamour-14519845')
req = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri)
req["x-api-key"] = ENV.fetch("SOCIALTAP_API_KEY")
res = Net::HTTP.start(uri.host, uri.port, use_ssl: uri.scheme == "https") { |http| http.request(req) }
body = JSON.parse(res.body)
raise "#{body["error"]["code"]}: #{body["error"]["message"]}" unless res.is_a?(Net::HTTPSuccess)
pp body["data"]
puts body["meta"]["credits_charged"]<?php
$query = http_build_query([
'url' => 'https://www.tiktok.com/effect/Bold-Glamour-14519845',
]);
$ch = curl_init('https://socialtap.dev/v1/tiktok/effect?' . $query);
curl_setopt_array($ch, [
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => ['x-api-key: ' . getenv('SOCIALTAP_API_KEY')],
]);
$body = json_decode(curl_exec($ch), true);
if (curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_RESPONSE_CODE) >= 400) {
throw new RuntimeException($body['error']['code'] . ': ' . $body['error']['message']);
}
print_r($body['data']);
echo $body['meta']['credits_charged'], PHP_EOL;package main
import (
"encoding/json"
"fmt"
"log"
"net/http"
"net/url"
"os"
)
func main() {
q := url.Values{}
q.Set("url", "https://www.tiktok.com/effect/Bold-Glamour-14519845")
req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://socialtap.dev/v1/tiktok/effect?"+q.Encode(), nil)
if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
req.Header.Set("x-api-key", os.Getenv("SOCIALTAP_API_KEY"))
res, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
defer res.Body.Close()
var body struct {
Data json.RawMessage `json:"data"`
Meta map[string]any `json:"meta"`
Error *struct {
Code string `json:"code"`
Message string `json:"message"`
} `json:"error"`
}
if err := json.NewDecoder(res.Body).Decode(&body); err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
if body.Error != nil {
log.Fatalf("%s: %s", body.Error.Code, body.Error.Message)
}
fmt.Println(string(body.Data), body.Meta["credits_charged"])
}curl -G 'https://socialtap.dev/v1/tiktok/effect' \
--data-urlencode 'url=https://www.tiktok.com/effect/Bold-Glamour-14519845' \
-H "x-api-key: $SOCIALTAP_API_KEY"{
"data": {
"approximate_fields": [],
"creator": {
"avatar_url": null,
"display_name": "Effect Assistant",
"id": null,
"is_verified": null,
"url": null,
"username": null
},
"description": null,
"icon_url": "https://lf16-effectcdn-us.tiktokcdn-us.com/obj/tiktok-loki-effect-oracle-tx/4712bb553f7a528d9e6ffeef6d943e82",
"id": "14519845",
"is_official": true,
"media": [],
"metrics": {
"post_count": 304524339,
"total_view_count": 72079393008
},
"name": "Bold Glamour",
"platform": "tiktok",
"platform_specific": {
"tiktok": {
"creator_sec_uid": null
}
},
"published_at": "2023-02-24T10:32:30Z",
"unknown_fields": [
"media"
],
"url": "https://www.tiktok.com/effect/-14519845"
},
"meta": {
"request_id": "req_3f9c2a7d1e8b4c6a9f0e2d4b6a8c0e1f",
"platform": "tiktok",
"source": "api",
"is_cached": false,
"credits_charged": 1,
"latency_ms": 271,
"fetched_at": "2026-10-25T12:00:00Z",
"input": {
"kind": "effect",
"id": "14519845",
"url": "https://www.tiktok.com/effect/-14519845"
},
"credits_remaining": 9999,
"client_request_id": null,
"warnings": []
}
}import { SocialTap } from "socialtap";
const client = new SocialTap(); // apiKey defaults to process.env.SOCIALTAP_API_KEY
const res = await client.tiktok.effect.get({ url: "https://www.tiktok.com/effect/Bold-Glamour-14519845" });
console.log(res.data);
console.log(res.credits.charged, res.meta.request_id);import java.net.URI;
import java.net.URLEncoder;
import java.net.http.HttpClient;
import java.net.http.HttpRequest;
import java.net.http.HttpResponse;
import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
String query = "url=" + encode("https://www.tiktok.com/effect/Bold-Glamour-14519845");
HttpRequest request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
.uri(URI.create("https://socialtap.dev/v1/tiktok/effect?" + query))
.header("x-api-key", System.getenv("SOCIALTAP_API_KEY"))
.GET()
.build();
HttpResponse<String> response = HttpClient.newHttpClient()
.send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());
// An error is {"error": {"code", "message", ...}}; success is {data, meta}, meta.credits_charged its price.
if (response.statusCode() >= 400) throw new RuntimeException(response.body());
System.out.println(response.body());
}
static String encode(String value) {
return URLEncoder.encode(value, StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
}
}using System.Text.Json;
using var http = new HttpClient();
http.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("x-api-key", Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("SOCIALTAP_API_KEY"));
var query = string.Join("&",
"url=" + Uri.EscapeDataString("https://www.tiktok.com/effect/Bold-Glamour-14519845"));
var res = await http.GetAsync("https://socialtap.dev/v1/tiktok/effect?" + query);
using var body = JsonDocument.Parse(await res.Content.ReadAsStringAsync());
if (!res.IsSuccessStatusCode)
{
var error = body.RootElement.GetProperty("error");
throw new Exception($"{error.GetProperty("code")}: {error.GetProperty("message")}");
}
Console.WriteLine(body.RootElement.GetProperty("data"));
Console.WriteLine(body.RootElement.GetProperty("meta").GetProperty("credits_charged"));// Cargo.toml: reqwest = { version = "0.12", features = ["blocking", "json"] }, serde_json = "1"
use std::env;
fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
let res = reqwest::blocking::Client::new()
.get("https://socialtap.dev/v1/tiktok/effect")
.query(&[("url", "https://www.tiktok.com/effect/Bold-Glamour-14519845")])
.header("x-api-key", env::var("SOCIALTAP_API_KEY")?)
.send()?;
let ok = res.status().is_success();
let body: serde_json::Value = res.json()?;
if !ok {
return Err(format!("{}: {}", body["error"]["code"], body["error"]["message"]).into());
}
println!("{} {}", body["data"], body["meta"]["credits_charged"]);
Ok(())
}200 OK · GET https://socialtap.dev/v1/tiktok/effectDocs What you send and what comes back.
The response reference lists every field, its type and when it is null. See the full schema.
Null means unknown
A field TikTok doesn't show is null, never zero or an empty string, so a real zero always means zero.
What it accepts
A TikTok effect link (the effect page's tiktok.com/effect/Bold-Glamour-14519845, or the older tiktok.com/sticker/Bold-Glamour-14519845) or the effect's numeric ID (the number at the end of that link).
What comes back
Camera effects, filters and lenses creators use in their videos, with their creator and how many posts use them.
platformstring- Platform ID (tiktok, …).
idstring- Platform-native effect ID (string; TikTok's effect ID, the number ending its /effect/ link).
urlstring- Canonical public page of the effect.
namestring- The effect's name as the platform shows it.
descriptionstring- The creator's description of the effect; null when empty or not exposed.
creatorobject- The account that made the effect. Fields are null where the platform names no account (TikTok's own effects show only a display name).
is_officialboolean- True when the platform itself made the effect, false for an effect made by a community creator; null when not exposed.
icon_urlstring- The effect's icon image URL. Platform CDN URLs can expire within hours.
Live data from 33 platforms.
What teams build with the TikTok Effect API.
Track how fast a branded effect spreads
Find who made a trending filter
Compare the reach of competing effects
Good to know before you build.
- Counts are exact, as TikTok reports them: post_count is the effect page's videos figure, total_view_count the views of those posts.
- TikTok's own effects name no account: creator has only the display name TikTok shows (Effect Assistant), and is_official is true.
- A community creator comes with ID, handle and picture, but creator.display_name is null because the effect detail doesn't carry it (the TikTok Profile API has it).
- Some effects have alias IDs, the same effect under a neighboring ID with the same name and post count: each answers under the ID you sent, with its own view count.
- media is [] and listed in unknown_fields, because TikTok serves no preview of an effect logged out. The TikTok Effect Posts API returns the posts made with it.
- An ID TikTok knows no effect by, or a retired effect, returns not_found.
1 credit per request. Failed requests are free.
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| Source | Price per successful request | Per 1,000 requests |
|---|---|---|
| Any source | 1 credit | $0.75–$1.97 |
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Questions about the TikTok Effect API.
More in the API reference.
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