TikTok Hashtag API. Send a hashtag or its link.
Exact post and view counts. We handle the proxies, blocks and platform changes.
TikTok Hashtag API at a glance
Returns a TikTok hashtag with its exact post and view counts, from its link, its name (with or without the #) or its ID. You also get TikTok's challenge ID, page link, description, picture and banner, and whether it is an advertiser's Branded Hashtag Challenge.
GET /v1/tiktok/hashtag
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- 9 typed fields null when unknown
urlis all it needs, e.g.https://www.tiktok.com/tag/cooking- 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/tag/cookingconst params = new URLSearchParams({
url: "https://www.tiktok.com/tag/cooking",
});
const res = await fetch(`https://socialtap.dev/v1/tiktok/hashtag?${params}`, {
headers: { "x-api-key": process.env.SOCIALTAP_API_KEY ?? "" },
});
const body = await res.json();
if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`${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/hashtag",
params={"url": "https://www.tiktok.com/tag/cooking"},
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/hashtag")
uri.query = URI.encode_www_form('url' => 'https://www.tiktok.com/tag/cooking')
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/tag/cooking',
]);
$ch = curl_init('https://socialtap.dev/v1/tiktok/hashtag?' . $query);
curl_setopt_array($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/tag/cooking")
req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://socialtap.dev/v1/tiktok/hashtag?"+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/hashtag' \
--data-urlencode 'url=https://www.tiktok.com/tag/cooking' \
-H "x-api-key: $SOCIALTAP_API_KEY"{
"data": {
"approximate_fields": [],
"description": null,
"id": "18973",
"metrics": {
"post_count": 19505055
},
"name": "cooking",
"platform": "tiktok",
"platform_specific": {
"tiktok": {
"banner_url": null,
"industry": null,
"is_new_to_board": null,
"is_promoted": false,
"period_post_count": null,
"period_view_count": null,
"rank": null,
"rank_change": null,
"trend": [],
"view_count": 560541308708
}
},
"thumbnail_url": "https://p16-common-sign.tiktokcdn.com/musically-maliva-obj/bbbcb935f04337b7e6bdb05ee1b9f5e5.jpeg~tplv-tiktokx-origin.image?dr=14566&x-expires=4070908800&x-signature=SCRUBBED&t=4d5b0474&ps=13740610&shp=81f88b70&shcp=9b759fb9&idc=my3",
"unknown_fields": [
"platform_specific.tiktok.trend"
],
"url": "https://www.tiktok.com/tag/cooking"
},
"meta": {
"request_id": "req_3f9c2a7d1e8b4c6a9f0e2d4b6a8c0e1f",
"platform": "tiktok",
"source": "api",
"is_cached": false,
"credits_charged": 1,
"latency_ms": 741,
"fetched_at": "2026-10-25T12:00:00Z",
"input": {
"kind": "hashtag",
"id": "18973",
"url": "https://www.tiktok.com/tag/cooking"
},
"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.hashtag.get({ url: "https://www.tiktok.com/tag/cooking" });
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/tag/cooking");
HttpRequest request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
.uri(URI.create("https://socialtap.dev/v1/tiktok/hashtag?" + 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/tag/cooking"));
var res = await http.GetAsync("https://socialtap.dev/v1/tiktok/hashtag?" + 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/hashtag")
.query(&[("url", "https://www.tiktok.com/tag/cooking")])
.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/hashtagDocs One schema on 2 platforms.
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 hashtag page link (tiktok.com/tag/cooking), the hashtag itself with or without the # (cooking, #cooking), or the app's share link of a hashtag by its ID (m.tiktok.com/h5/share/tag/18973.html).
Write one parser
TikTok and Instagram answer in these fields, so the code that reads one reads them all.
platformstring- Platform ID (tiktok, instagram, …).
idstring- Platform-native hashtag ID (TikTok's challenge ID, Threads' tag ID); on platforms whose public pages key a hashtag by its name (Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, X), the name lowercased.
namestring- The tag without #, as the platform shows it (case kept). Threads tags may contain spaces ("book club").
urlstring- Canonical hashtag page URL (for a multi-word Threads tag, its tag search page).
descriptionstring- The hashtag's description as its page shows it; null when it has none.
thumbnail_urlstring- The hashtag's own picture (not one of its posts' images); null when it has none. Platform CDN URLs can expire.
metricsobject- Counts at fetch time; null = hidden or not exposed, 0 = zero.
approximate_fieldsstring[]- JSON paths of values rounded by the platform or parsed from display text ("36M videos": metrics.post_count). [] when all exact.
Live data from 33 platforms.
What teams build with the TikTok Hashtag API.
Size a hashtag before a campaign
Track a hashtag's views over time
Get a hashtag's challenge ID from its name
Spot brands' sponsored hashtag challenges
Good to know before you build.
- Post and view counts are TikTok's exact all-time counts for the hashtag, not a recent window. The TikTok Trending Hashtags API has trending tags with their counts for a period.
- An all-digit value (2024) is read as a hashtag's name. To look a hashtag up by its numeric ID, send its share link (m.tiktok.com/h5/share/tag/<id>.html).
- A hashtag TikTok doesn't have, or one it hides (banned tags), returns not_found.
- thumbnail_url and banner_url are TikTok CDN links that expire.
- If TikTok's hashtag detail is down, the answer comes from the hashtag's embed page: its counts can lag by a few hours, and is_promoted is null.
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 Hashtag API.
More in the API reference.
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