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TikTok live room info

Beta GET /v1/tiktok/live

GET /v1/tiktok/live

Room-level info for a live. Find the room id with /v1/tiktok/profile/live.

  • Cost: 1 credit
  • Status: Beta. Built and tested against recorded responses; the shape may still gain fields.
  • Cache: Not cached.
  • Timeout: A request still running after about 25 seconds answers 202 with a job to poll (Batch and jobs).

Parameters#

NameTypeRequiredDescription
urlURLone ofLive URL (tiktok.com/@user/live). Accepted hosts: tiktok.com.
idstringone ofLive room id. Also accepted as room_id.
user_idstringnoNumeric TikTok user id of the live's owner (id from the profile); speeds the lookup.

Send at least one of url, id. If you send several, the first listed is used and the rest are ignored.

Every request also accepts:

  • trim: true for a smaller response without null fields and extra.
  • raw: true to also get the platform's original object as raw.
  • max_age_days: accept a cached result up to this many days old, for 0 credits (Caching).

Example request#

Set your key in the environment first (see Authentication).

curl
curl -G "https://api.socialscrape.io/v1/tiktok/live" \
  -H "x-api-key: $SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY" \
  --data-urlencode "id=7702259688670235405"
Python
import os
import requests

params = {
    "id": "7702259688670235405",
}
res = requests.get(
    "https://api.socialscrape.io/v1/tiktok/live",
    headers={"x-api-key": os.environ["SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY"]},
    params=params,
)
body = res.json()

if body["ok"]:
    print(body["data"])
else:
    print(body["error"]["code"], body["error"]["message"])
TypeScript
const url = new URL("https://api.socialscrape.io/v1/tiktok/live");
url.search = new URLSearchParams({
  "id": "7702259688670235405"
}).toString();
const res = await fetch(url, {
  headers: { "x-api-key": process.env.SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY! },
});
const body = await res.json();

if (body.ok) {
  console.log(body.data);
} else {
  console.error(body.error.code, body.error.message);
}
n8n
{
  "nodes": [
    {
      "name": "SocialScrape TikTok live room info",
      "type": "n8n-nodes-base.httpRequest",
      "typeVersion": 4.2,
      "position": [
        0,
        0
      ],
      "parameters": {
        "method": "GET",
        "url": "https://api.socialscrape.io/v1/tiktok/live",
        "sendQuery": true,
        "queryParameters": {
          "parameters": [
            {
              "name": "id",
              "value": "7702259688670235405"
            }
          ]
        },
        "sendHeaders": true,
        "headerParameters": {
          "parameters": [
            {
              "name": "x-api-key",
              "value": "={{ $env.SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY }}"
            }
          ]
        }
      }
    }
  ],
  "connections": {}
}

Example response#

This is a sample from a recorded response, lists and long text are shortened. Status 200.

{
  "ok": true,
  "credits_charged": 1,
  "credits_remaining": 4999,
  "cached": false,
  "cached_at": null,
  "request_id": "req_6a2d4be9aab5f499e74c7fe6",
  "data": {
    "object": "live_stream",
    "platform": "tiktok",
    "is_live": true,
    "id": "7702259688670235405",
    "url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@thecowboydj/live",
    "author": {
      "id": "7147825434242991146",
      "handle": "thecowboydj",
      "name": "The Cowboy DJ",
      "url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@thecowboydj",
      "avatar_url": "https://p19-common-sign.tiktokcdn.com/tos-maliva-avt-0068/639da3cf39da51ac90e960a57768d100~tplv-tiktokx-cropcenter:100:100.webp?dr=14579&refresh_token=88a92380&x-expires=1793498400&x-signature=oGFGk4UUWmY6WOr6mncOq4eb2js%3D&t=4d5b0474&ps=13...",
      "verified": null
    },
    "title": "Country Music Radio",
    "viewer_count": 128,
    "like_count": 0,
    "started_at": "2026-10-30T01:02:09Z",
    "cover_url": "https://p16-common-sign.tiktokcdn.com/tos-maliva-avt-0068/639da3cf39da51ac90e960a57768d100~tplv-tiktokx-cropcenter:720:720.webp?dr=14579&refresh_token=22d9500f&x-expires=1793498400&x-signature=LTFAMFyLfoJgNoU4IBW6MT0ZcXc%3D&t=4d5b0474&ps=13...",
    "extra": {
      "age_restricted": false,
      "comment_count": 0,
      "flv_urls": {
        "HD1": "https://pull-f5-tt01.tiktokcdn.com/stage/stream-3579112324485088176_hd.flv?expire=1794536279&sign=bcbe7133df35cd89d48856c7ece5d49b"
      },
      "follow_count": 27,
      "hls_url": "https://pull-hls-f16-tt01.tiktokcdn.com/stage/stream-3579112324485088176_hd/index.m3u8?expire=1794536279&sign=e50d630c94c226995cede9e0f5f81799",
      "share_count": 0,
      "total_viewers": 6714
    }
  },
  "cursor": null,
  "has_more": null
}

Response#

A LiveStream object in data.

See Data models for every field. The envelope around data is described in Responses.

Errors#

Failures are free: credits_charged is 0. Branch on error.code, never on the message.

CodeHTTPRetryMeaning
invalid_params400noA parameter is missing, unknown or has the wrong type.
unsupported_url400noThe URL is not one this endpoint accepts (wrong platform or form).
not_found404noThe platform says this profile, post or item does not exist.

Every request can also fail with the account and platform errors listed on the Errors page.