# TikTok Hashtag API

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`

## Example

cURL:

```shell
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:

```typescript
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):

```javascript
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):

```python
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):

```go
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"])
}
```

200 OK:

```json
{
  "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": []
  }
}
```

> [!NOTE]
>
> **Good to know**
>
> - 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.

## Authorizations

`x-api-key`stringheaderrequired

Your API key. [Authentication](https://socialtap.dev/docs/authentication/index.md)

## Query parameters

| Name | Type | Description | Example |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `url` required | `string`<br>max 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. | `https://www.tiktok.com/tag/cooking` |

`url` takes TikTok hashtag links; another kind of link, or another platform's, fails free with [`invalid_input`](https://socialtap.dev/docs/errors/index.md#invalid_input). Unknown parameters are rejected with a suggestion, never ignored ([Requests](https://socialtap.dev/docs/requests/index.md)).

**Parameters every endpoint accepts**

| Name | Type | Description | Example |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `max_age` optional | `integer`<br>min 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. | — |
| `fields` optional | `string` | 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

### 200

`{data, meta}`. `data` is a [hashtag](https://socialtap.dev/resources/hashtag/index.md) object; `meta` describes the request ([meta](https://socialtap.dev/docs/reference/index.md#meta)). Fields only TikTok has are under `platform_specific.tiktok`.

| Field | Type | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `data.platform` | `string` | Platform ID (tiktok, instagram, …). |
| `data.id` | `string` | 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. |
| `data.name` | `string` | The tag without #, as the platform shows it (case kept). Threads tags may contain spaces ("book club"). |
| `data.url` | `string` (uri) | Canonical hashtag page URL (for a multi-word Threads tag, its tag search page). |
| `data.description` | `string` or `null` | The hashtag's description as its page shows it; null when it has none. |
| `data.thumbnail_url` | `string` (uri) or `null` | The hashtag's own picture (not one of its posts' images); null when it has none. Platform CDN URLs can expire. |
| `data.metrics` | `object` | Counts at fetch time; null = hidden or not exposed, 0 = zero. |
| `data.metrics.post_count` | `integer` or `null` | Posts carrying the tag, as the platform counts them; rounded on YouTube and Threads (see approximate_fields). |
| `data.platform_specific` | `object` | Fields only this platform has, under its ID (platform_specific.\<platform>); each null when unknown. |
| `data.platform_specific.tiktok` | `object` or `null` | A TikTok hashtag's own fields. |
| `data.platform_specific.tiktok.view_count` | `integer` or `null` | Views across every post carrying the tag, all time, exact; null where TikTok does not show it. |
| `data.platform_specific.tiktok.banner_url` | `string` (uri) or `null` | The hashtag page's cover image URL; null when it has none. TikTok CDN URLs can expire. |
| `data.platform_specific.tiktok.is_promoted` | `boolean` or `null` | An advertiser's hashtag: a Branded Hashtag Challenge, or one Creative Center marks promoted. |
| `data.platform_specific.tiktok.rank` | `integer` or `null` | Position on the requested trending board (1 = most popular; the request's country, period and industry); null off a board. |
| `data.platform_specific.tiktok.rank_change` | `integer` or `null` | Places climbed since the previous period (negative: fell, 0: unchanged); null when new to the board or off a board. |
| `data.platform_specific.tiktok.is_new_to_board` | `boolean` or `null` | First time on the board this period; null off a board. |
| `data.platform_specific.tiktok.period_post_count` | `integer` or `null` | Posts with the tag published in the board's period (the request's window); null off a board. |
| `data.platform_specific.tiktok.period_view_count` | `integer` or `null` | Views in the board's period of posts with the tag; null off a board. |
| `data.platform_specific.tiktok.industry` | `string` or `null` | The industry Creative Center files the hashtag under (Apparel & Accessories, Games, …), as shown; not normalized. |
| `data.platform_specific.tiktok.trend` | `object[]` | The hashtag's popularity over the board's period, oldest first; \[\] off a board (in unknown_fields). |
| `data.platform_specific.tiktok.trend[].start_at` | `string` (date-time) | Start of the interval (a day on TikTok's boards), RFC 3339 UTC. |
| `data.platform_specific.tiktok.trend[].popularity` | `number` | Popularity in the interval relative to the period's peak, 0 to 1, as Creative Center scales it. |
| `data.approximate_fields` | `string[]` | JSON paths of values rounded by the platform or parsed from display text ("36M videos": metrics.post_count). \[\] when all exact. |
| `data.unknown_fields` | `string[]` | 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.

| Code | HTTP | Retry | Meaning | What to do |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `invalid_input` | 400 | No | 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.

| Code | HTTP | Retry | Meaning | What to do |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `unauthorized` | 401 | No | 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.

| Code | HTTP | Retry | Meaning | What to do |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `insufficient_credits` | 402 | No | 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. |
| `spend_limit_reached` | 402 | No | 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.

| Code | HTTP | Retry | Meaning | What to do |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `forbidden` | 403 | No | 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](mailto:support@socialtap.dev). 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.

| Code | HTTP | Retry | Meaning | What to do |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `not_found` | 404 | No | 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.

| Code | HTTP | Retry | Meaning | What to do |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `rate_limited` | 429 | Yes, 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](mailto:support@socialtap.dev) to raise the ceiling; without an API key, send one. |

### 500

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

| Code | HTTP | Retry | Meaning | What to do |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `internal` | 500 | Yes, later | An unexpected error on SocialTap's side. | Retry with backoff. If it keeps happening, contact [support](mailto:support@socialtap.dev) with the request_id. |

### 502

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

| Code | HTTP | Retry | Meaning | What to do |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `upstream_error` | 502 | Yes, 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.

| Code | HTTP | Retry | Meaning | What to do |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `upstream_blocked` | 503 | Yes, later | The platform refused every attempt, our own retries included. | Retry later with backoff. Failed requests are free. |
| `overloaded` | 503 | Yes, 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. |

## Pricing

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.

| Source | Price per successful request | Per 1,000 requests |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Any source | 1 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`](https://socialtap.dev/docs/errors/index.md#insufficient_credits) (HTTP 402) and costs nothing. Only that minimum is set aside when the request starts.

| meta.source | Source | What it means |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `api` | Platform API | The platform's public, logged-out API. |
| `page` | Public page | Data embedded in the platform's public web page. |

`meta.credits_charged` and the `x-credits-charged` header show what you paid. [How credits work](https://socialtap.dev/docs/credits/index.md) · [Packs](https://socialtap.dev/pricing/index.md)

Endpoint ID `tiktok.hashtag` · operationId `tiktok.hashtag.get` · [Product overview](https://socialtap.dev/apis/tiktok/hashtag/index.md)

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