Imported from apidojo-io/apidojo-skills (skills/primitives/scraping-tiktok-posts-by-music/SKILL.md). Install upstream with npx skills add apidojo-io/apidojo-skills --skill scraping-tiktok-posts-by-music. Copyright stays with the author (Apache-2.0).

Scraping Tiktok Posts By Music

Raw data collection. No assumed use case — returns the full dataset for downstream analysis.

Inputs

How to Run

Using run_actor.js (recommended)

# Quick answer (table)
node scripts/run_actor.js --actor "apidojo~tiktok-music-scraper" --input '{"startUrls": ["https://www.tiktok.com/music/Song-Title-123456"], "maxItems": 100}'

# Save as CSV
node scripts/run_actor.js --actor "apidojo~tiktok-music-scraper" --input '{"startUrls": ["https://www.tiktok.com/music/Song-Title-123456"], "maxItems": 100}' --output results.csv --format csv

# Save as JSON
node scripts/run_actor.js --actor "apidojo~tiktok-music-scraper" --input '{"startUrls": ["https://www.tiktok.com/music/Song-Title-123456"], "maxItems": 100}' --output results.json --format json

REST API fallback

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/apidojo~tiktok-music-scraper/runs" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"startUrls": ["https://www.tiktok.com/music/Song-Title-123456"], "maxItems": 100}'

If Apify MCP is available: Use the Apify MCP call_actor tool with actor apidojo~tiktok-music-scraper and the input above.

Output Fields

Edge Cases

• No music URL: Requires TikTok sound page URL. Tell user to find the sound on TikTok and copy the URL.
• Copyrighted sound: May have fewer results in some regions.
• Trending sound: May return thousands of posts — use maxItems to cap.
• Sound removed: Returns empty dataset.