# szdc/tiktok-api

Unofficial API wrapper for TikTok

Repository: https://github.com/szdc/tiktok-api
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/szdc-tiktok-api
Language: TypeScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: tiktok, musically, lively
Archived: true
Last push: 2021-09-01T06:36:16+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3015, "days_push": 1827, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1292, forks 282 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:16.023242+00:00)

## What it is
An unofficial, reverse-engineered TypeScript API wrapper for TikTok (formerly Musical.ly), published as the npm package tiktok-api. It lets Node.js applications log in and interact with TikTok's private mobile API, but the project is explicitly no longer maintained.

## Use cases
- fetch TikTok user profiles and posts programmatically
- search TikTok users and hashtags
- list followers and following accounts
- like posts and post comments via script
- retrieve the For You and Following feeds
- automate follow/unfollow and follow request management

## When to choose
- you need to script against an old TikTok app version (9.1.0) for research or archival purposes
- you can supply your own URL signing implementation and device parameters via a MITM proxy

## When to avoid
- you need a working integration with the current TikTok API, since the project is unmaintained and endpoints have changed
- you cannot provide anti-spam URL signing or capture device parameters yourself
- you need a supported, ToS-compliant solution

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: http-client, web-scraping, reverse-engineering
- domain: social-media, apis, developer-tools
- platform: -
- tags: tiktok, musically, api-wrapper, unofficial-api, typescript, nodejs, javascript

## Member repositories
- szdc/tiktok-api (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:16.023242+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:54:45.329149+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/szdc/tiktok-api (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:16.023242+00:00, sha 83c18e632bb0)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/tiktok-api (fetched 2026-08-29T12:11:30.065158+00:00, sha 7912804230a6)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.