Search TikTok photo posts by keyword

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Search photo carousel posts through TikTok’s Photos search tab (cursor paged with a search id) as web item records with their images, sound and engagement.

GET/v1/tiktok/search/photox-api-key

Headers

Get your API key

x-api-keystringrequiredheader

Your ScrapeAtlas customer key. Create one on /account/ and set SCRAPEATLAS_API_KEY.

Query parameters

querystringrequiredquery

Search text, 1–100 characters.

min 1 chars · max 100 chars

Exampleexample

cursorstringquery

Cursor (offset) from the previous response. Send it with that response’s search_id.

search_idstringquery

The search_id from the first page of this search; required with a non-zero cursor.

regionstringquery

Two-letter region preference forwarded to TikTok.

sincenumber | stringquery

Earliest publication time to include, ISO 8601 or Unix seconds.

untilnumber | stringquery

Publication time to stop before, ISO 8601 or Unix seconds; later than since.

Response fields

requestIdstring

Request correlation UUID.

Upstream calls made (the document, redirect hops, feed calls, the caption file, and every retried session), decoded bytes delivered to the parser and elapsed milliseconds.

accounting.upstreamRequestsinteger

Always included.

≥ 0

accounting.responseBytesinteger

Always included.

≥ 0

accounting.durationMsnumber

Always included.

≥ 0

successboolean

True when usable data is returned; inspect status and coverage for omissions.

statusenum

success, partial, failed, or challenged. HTTP 200 can be partial.

one of: success, partial

sourceUrlstring

The www.tiktok.com document the operation was issued from (profile, video, live, search, tag, music or explore page), after accepted redirects.

absolute HTTPS URL

fetchedAtstring

UTC retrieval timestamp.

source is public_api (a feed call); complete means nothing was capped; warnings name each cap; order is relevance; window echoes since/until.

coverage.sourceenum

Always included.

one of: document, public_api

coverage.completeboolean

Always included.

coverage.warningsenum[]

Always included.

coverage.orderenum

Always included.

one of: newest_first, oldest_first, ranked, relevance, source_order

Optional.

coverage.window.sincestringoptional

Optional.

coverage.window.untilstringoptional

Optional.

Always included.

up to 100 items

item_list.idstring

Always included.

item_list.descstring

Always included.

item_list.createTimeinteger | string

Always included.

item_list.author.idstring

Always included.

item_list.author.uniqueIdstring

Always included.

item_list.statsobject

Always included.

item_list.videoobject

Always included.

cursorinteger

Cursor (offset) from the previous response. Send it with that response’s search_id.

≥ 0

has_moreinteger

Always included.

search_idstring

The search_id from the first page of this search; required with a non-zero cursor.

HTTP 200 returns the success variant. Check status: partial means usable data with warnings, and failed or challenged requests carry a failure object described in Errors & responses.

Error codes

HTTP	failure.code	Meaning
400	`invalid_request`	Missing, duplicate, ambiguous or unsupported parameters, unsupported URL forms, handles, cursors, regions, sorts or languages.
401	`unauthorized`	Invalid API key.
403	`restricted_page`	TikTok restricts the account or post (private video, private account, region block, or a redirect to its login page).
404	`not_found`	Unknown or removed account, post, hashtag or sound, a post without captions, or a TikTok status code naming a missing resource.
422	`unsupported_media`	A video file was requested for a photo post, which has no video file.
429	`upstream_rate_limited`	TikTok rate limited the request.
502	`upstream_challenged`	TikTok answered its verification page, an HTTP 401/403, a document without the app state, or refused a feed call with an empty body (status challenged).
502	`unsafe_redirect`	TikTok redirected outside the requested resource.
502	`unsupported_page`	Layout, identity or feed-envelope checks failed, or a non-JSON feed answer was served.
502	`response_too_large`	The upstream response exceeded 4 MiB (512 KiB for caption files).
502	`payload_too_complex`	The embedded JSON exceeded parsing limits.
502	`request_limit`	The upstream call budget was exhausted.
502	`upstream_error`	Network failure, a stalled exit, an unexpected upstream status after one retry, or an unexpected TikTok status code.
503	`busy`	All retrieval slots are occupied.
504	`timeout`	The 90-second deadline elapsed.

Code example

curl "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/tiktok/search/photo?query=example" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/tiktok/search/photo?query=example",
  {
    headers: {
      "x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"
    }
  }
);

const data = await response.json();
console.log(data.status, data);

type Result = {
  status: "success" | "partial" | "failed" | "challenged";
  requestId: string;
  [field: string]: unknown;
};

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/tiktok/search/photo?query=example",
  {
    headers: {
      "x-api-key": process.env.SCRAPEATLAS_API_KEY!
    }
  }
);

const data = (await response.json()) as Result;
if (data.status === "failed" || data.status === "challenged") {
  throw new Error(`TikTok request failed: ${data.requestId}`);
}
console.log(data);

import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/tiktok/search/photo",
    headers={"x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"},
    params={
        "query": "example"
    },
    timeout=60,
)
data = response.json()
print(data["status"], data)

package main

import (
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/tiktok/search/photo?query=example", nil)
	req.Header.Set("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
	resp, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	defer resp.Body.Close()

	var data map[string]interface{}
	json.NewDecoder(resp.Body).Decode(&data)
	fmt.Println(data["status"], data)
}

import java.net.URI;
import java.net.http.HttpClient;
import java.net.http.HttpRequest;
import java.net.http.HttpResponse;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        var client = HttpClient.newHttpClient();
        var request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
            .uri(URI.create("https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/tiktok/search/photo?query=example"))
            .GET()
            .header("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
            .build();
        var response = client.send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());
        System.out.println(response.body());
    }
}

Use your sa_live_… customer key at https://api.scrapeatlas.com.

Responses

Successful result. Synthetic example validated against the runtime contract.

{
  "success": true,
  "status_code": 0,
  "item_list": [
    {
      "id": "7400000000000000041",
      "desc": "Example photo desc 1 #exampletag",
      "createTime": 1700090000,
      "video": {
        "id": "7400000000000000041",
        "height": 0,
        "width": 0,
        "duration": 0,
        "ratio": "",
        "cover": "https://media.example.test/cover-1.jpeg",
        "originCover": "https://media.example.test/origin-1.jpeg",
        "volumeInfo": {}
      },
      "author": {
        "id": "7000000000000000610",
        "uniqueId": "example_photo_1",
        "nickname": "Example photo creator 1",
        "avatarThumb": "https://media.example.test/avatar-1.jpeg",
        "signature": "",
        "verified": false,
        "secUid": "MS4wLjABAAAAexamplephoto1",
        "secret": false,
        "ftc": false,
        "relation": 0,
        "openFavorite": false,
        "commentSetting": 0,
        "duetSetting": 0,
        "stitchSetting": 0,
        "privateAccount": false,
        "isADVirtual": false,
        "downloadSetting": 0,
        "isEmbedBanned": false
      },
      "music": {
        "id": "7300000000000000210",
        "title": "Example sound 1",
        "playUrl": "https://media.example.test/sound-1.mp3",
        "coverThumb": "https://media.example.test/sound-cover-1.jpeg",
        "authorName": "Example artist 1",
        "original": false,
        "private": false,
        "duration": 30,
        "album": "",
        "isCopyrighted": false,
        "tt2dsp": {}
      },
      "challenges": [
        {
          "id": "86000001",
          "title": "exampletag",
          "desc": "",
          "profileThumb": "",
          "profileMedium": "",
          "profileLarger": "",
          "coverThumb": "",
          "coverMedium": "",
          "coverLarger": ""
        }
      ],
      "stats": {
        "diggCount": 1200,
        "shareCount": 30,
        "commentCount": 40,
        "playCount": 250000,
        "collectCount": 500
      },
      "originalItem": false,
      "officalItem": false,
      "textExtra": [
        {
          "awemeId": "",
          "start": 20,
          "end": 31,
          "hashtagName": "exampletag",
          "hashtagId": "86000001",
          "type": 1,
          "isCommerce": false,
          "subType": 0
        }
      ],
      "secret": false,
      "forFriend": false,
      "digged": false,
      "itemCommentStatus": 0,
      "authorStats": {
        "followingCount": 10,
        "followerCount": 5000,
        "heartCount": 90000,
        "videoCount": 120,
        "diggCount": 30,
        "heart": 90000,
        "friendCount": 0
      },
      "privateItem": false,
      "shareEnabled": true,
      "isAd": false,
      "duetDisplay": 0,
      "stitchDisplay": 0,
      "imagePost": {
        "images": [
          {
            "imageURL": {
              "urlList": [
                "https://media.example.test/photo-11-a.jpeg",
                "https://media.example.test/photo-11-b.jpeg"
              ]
            },
            "imageHeight": 1920,
            "imageWidth": 1080
          },
          {
            "imageURL": {
              "urlList": [
                "https://media.example.test/photo-12-a.jpeg",
                "https://media.example.test/photo-12-b.jpeg"
              ]
            },
            "imageHeight": 1920,
            "imageWidth": 1080
          },
          {
            "imageURL": {
              "urlList": [
                "https://media.example.test/photo-13-a.jpeg",
                "https://media.example.test/photo-13-b.jpeg"
              ]
            },
            "imageHeight": 1920,
            "imageWidth": 1080
          }
        ],
        "cover": {
          "imageURL": {
            "urlList": [
              "https://media.example.test/photo-10-a.jpeg",
              "https://media.example.test/photo-10-b.jpeg"
            ]
          },
          "imageHeight": 1920,
          "imageWidth": 1080
        },
        "shareCover": {
          "imageURL": {
            "urlList": [
              "https://media.example.test/photo-10-a.jpeg",
              "https://media.example.test/photo-10-b.jpeg"
            ]
          },
          "imageHeight": 1920,
          "imageWidth": 1080
        },
        "title": "Example slideshow title 1"
      },
      "contents": [
        {
          "desc": "Example photo desc 1"
        }
      ],
      "collected": false,
      "item_control": {
        "can_repost": true
      },
      "statsV2": {
        "diggCount": "1200",
        "shareCount": "30",
        "commentCount": "40",
        "playCount": "250000",
        "collectCount": "500",
        "repostCount": "0"
      },
      "AIGCDescription": "",
      "CategoryType": 110,
      "textLanguage": "en",
      "textTranslatable": true,
      "titleLanguage": "en",
      "titleTranslatable": true,
      "authorStatsV2": {
        "followingCount": "10",
        "followerCount": "5000",
        "heartCount": "90000",
        "videoCount": "120",
        "diggCount": "30",
        "heart": "90000",
        "friendCount": "0"
      },
      "isReviewing": false,
      "IsHDBitrate": false
    }
  ],
  "has_more": 1,
  "cursor": 30,
  "extra": {
    "now": 1700100000000,
    "logid": "20231116000000A1B2C3D4E5F6A7B8C9D0",
    "fatal_item_ids": [],
    "search_request_id": "",
    "api_debug_info": null
  },
  "log_pb": {
    "impr_id": "20231116000000A1B2C3D4E5F6A7B8C9D0"
  },
  "backtrace": "",
  "search_id": "20231116000000A1B2C3D4E5F6A7B8C9D0",
  "status": "success",
  "requestId": "00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000000",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.tiktok.com/search/photo?q=example",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-10-09T12:00:00.000Z",
  "coverage": {
    "source": "public_api",
    "complete": true,
    "warnings": [],
    "order": "relevance"
  },
  "accounting": {
    "upstreamRequests": 2,
    "responseBytes": 362144,
    "durationMs": 3800
  }
}

Missing, duplicate, ambiguous or unsupported parameters, unsupported URL forms, handles, cursors, regions, sorts or languages.

{
  "requestId": "9d2f1c0a-6b1e-4c7d-9a8e-2f3b4c5d6e7f",
  "accounting": {
    "upstreamRequests": 0,
    "responseBytes": 0,
    "durationMs": 0
  },
  "success": false,
  "status": "failed",
  "failure": {
    "code": "invalid_request",
    "message": "Invalid request: missing, duplicate, unsupported or malformed parameters."
  }
}