TikTok

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

Try it

Example

cURL
curl -G 'https://socialtap.dev/v1/tiktok/hashtag' \
  --data-urlencode 'url=https://www.tiktok.com/tag/cooking' \
  -H "x-api-key: $SOCIALTAP_API_KEY"
TypeScript SDK
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);
Node.js (fetch)
const 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);
Python (requests)
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"])
Go (net/http)
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"])
}
PHP
<?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;
Ruby
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"]
Java
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);
    }
}
.NET
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"));
Rust
// 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
{
  "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": []
  }
}
x-api-keystringheaderrequired

Your API key. Authentication

urlstringrequiredmax 2,048 chars

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). Hashtags are case-insensitive and may be in any script (#美食); an all-digit hashtag (#2024) is read as a name, not an ID. A short link (vm.tiktok.com/…, tiktok.com/t/…) is not read: open it and send the link it lands on.

Examplehttps://www.tiktok.com/tag/cooking

url takes TikTok hashtag links; another kind of link, or another platform's, fails free with invalid_input. Unknown parameters are rejected with a suggestion, never ignored (Requests).

Parameters every endpoint accepts
max_ageintegermin 0

Accept a cached response up to this many seconds old. Cache hits cost 0 credits. Omit to always fetch fresh. The Cache-Control: max-age=N request header is equivalent; max_age wins when both are sent.

fieldsstring

Return only these fields of each item: comma-separated paths in the schema's notation (id,text,metrics.view_count,segments[].text; a parent path keeps the whole object). Unknown paths are rejected. Applied after the cache, so it changes neither the price nor cache hits; page and meta are always returned whole.

Response

application/json

200

{data, meta}. data is a hashtag object; meta describes the request (meta). Fields only TikTok has are under platform_specific.tiktok.

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 uri

Canonical hashtag page URL (for a multi-word Threads tag, its tag search page).

descriptionstringnullable

The hashtag's description as its page shows it; null when it has none.

thumbnail_urlstring urinullable

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.

ShowHide 1 child field
post_countintegernullable

Posts carrying the tag, as the platform counts them; rounded on YouTube and Threads (see approximate_fields).

platform_specificobject

Fields only this platform has, under its ID (platform_specific.<platform>); each null when unknown.

ShowHide 1 child field
tiktokobjectnullable

A TikTok hashtag's own fields.

ShowHide 10 child fields
view_countintegernullable

Views across every post carrying the tag, all time, exact; null where TikTok does not show it.

banner_urlstring urinullable

The hashtag page's cover image URL; null when it has none. TikTok CDN URLs can expire.

is_promotedbooleannullable

An advertiser's hashtag: a Branded Hashtag Challenge, or one Creative Center marks promoted.

rankintegernullable

Position on the requested trending board (1 = most popular; the request's country, period and industry); null off a board.

rank_changeintegernullable

Places climbed since the previous period (negative: fell, 0: unchanged); null when new to the board or off a board.

is_new_to_boardbooleannullable

First time on the board this period; null off a board.

period_post_countintegernullable

Posts with the tag published in the board's period (the request's window); null off a board.

period_view_countintegernullable

Views in the board's period of posts with the tag; null off a board.

industrystringnullable

The industry Creative Center files the hashtag under (Apparel & Accessories, Games, …), as shown; not normalized.

trendobject[]

The hashtag's popularity over the board's period, oldest first; [] off a board (in unknown_fields).

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start_atstring date-time

Start of the interval (a day on TikTok's boards), RFC 3339 UTC.

popularitynumber

Popularity in the interval relative to the period's peak, 0 to 1, as Creative Center scales it.

approximate_fieldsstring[]

JSON paths of values rounded by the platform or parsed from display text ("36M videos": metrics.post_count). [] when all exact.

unknown_fieldsstring[]

JSON paths of lists whose [] means unknown rather than none (a source that cannot see them); null already means unknown for every other field. [] when every list is known.

not_found is item-level: the request was fine, the item can't be returned.

400

400 Bad Request: 1 error code. Free: errors cost nothing.

A parameter is missing or malformed, or the link is not one this endpoint takes.

Fix the parameter named in param as the message says. For a link of the wrong kind, call an endpoint listed in details.endpoints, when there is one.

401

401 Unauthorized: 1 error code. Free: errors cost nothing.

unauthorizedNo retry

The x-api-key header is missing, or its key is unknown or revoked. On the dashboard's routes: the session cookie is missing or expired.

Send a valid API key in the x-api-key header. No key yet? A person gets one at details.signup_url; an AI agent follows details.agent_auth_url.

402

402 Payment Required: 2 error codes. Free: errors cost nothing.

The account does not have enough credits for this request.

Have a person buy credits at details.purchase_url (or make them a checkout link with details.checkout), then repeat the request. Do not retry automatically.

The API key reached its spend limit for this period. The account may still have credits.

Wait until details.resets_at, or raise the key's spend limit (PATCH /v1/api_keys/{id}). Do not retry automatically.

403

403 Forbidden: 1 error code. Free: errors cost nothing.

forbiddenNo retry

The API key is valid but may not make this request, and details.reason says why: the account is suspended, the key lacks the route's scope, waits for its owner to confirm it by email, has expired, or was used from an IP outside its allowlist, or a rotated key's previous secret was used for a call that needs the admin scope. A running job stops with it too when its account is suspended or the key that created it is revoked or expires. It is about the key, never the item: a private item is private_or_unavailable, also 403, so branch on the code.

Act on details.reason. suspended: contact support. scope: use a key with details.required_scope. previous_secret: use the new secret. key_pending: have the owner open the emailed link. key_expired or key_revoked: create a new key. ip_not_allowed: call from an allowed IP.

404

404 Not Found: 1 error code. Free: errors cost nothing.

not_foundNo retry

The item does not exist or was deleted. On GET /v1/requests/{id}/response: the response was not kept (details.reason says why).

Check the link or ID. Do not retry.

429

429 Too Many Requests: 1 error code. Free: errors cost nothing.

rate_limitedYes, later

The account passed its runaway-protection ceiling: a high per-account limit that stops a broken client loop (plans have no rate limit). Requests without an API key (signup, the MCP server's tool listing and find_endpoint) are limited per IP address instead. It also stops an account whose failed requests in the last hour cost far more than its successful ones paid for: failures are free within a limit (the message says so), and successes raise it.

Wait the seconds in the retry-after header, then retry. If your steady traffic needs more, ask support to raise the ceiling; without an API key, send one.

500

500 Internal Error: 1 error code. Free: errors cost nothing.

internalYes, later

An unexpected error on SocialTap's side.

Retry with backoff. If it keeps happening, contact support with the request_id.

502

502 Bad Gateway: 1 error code. Free: errors cost nothing.

upstream_errorYes, later

The platform failed, or answered with something we could not read.

Retry with backoff. Failed requests are free.

503

503 Unavailable: 2 error codes. Free: errors cost nothing.

The platform refused every attempt, our own retries included.

Retry later with backoff. Failed requests are free.

overloadedYes, later

SocialTap was at capacity, or paused by its operators, and did not start the request. Nothing was fetched or charged.

Retry after the seconds in the retry-after header. Failed requests are free.

From 1 credit per request. Charged only for successful requests. Errors are free. The price depends on the source that produced the result, reported as meta.source; sources are tried cheapest first: Platform API → Public page.

SourcePrice per successful requestPer 1,000 requests
Any source1 credit$0.75–$1.97
Balance, sources and what you were charged

Your balance must be at least 1 credit to start a request; with less, it is refused with insufficient_credits (HTTP 402) and costs nothing. Only that minimum is set aside when the request starts.

meta.sourceSourceWhat it means
apiPlatform APIThe platform's public, logged-out API.
pagePublic pageData embedded in the platform's public web page.

meta.credits_charged and the x-credits-charged header show what you paid. How credits work · Packs

Endpoint ID tiktok.hashtag · operationId tiktok.hashtag.get · Product overview

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