TikTok Shop API
Search public products and collect store catalogs, product details, customer reviews, and creator showcases through one normalized asynchronous workflow.
Available TikTok Shop APIs
Choose the API that matches your task, from product discovery and store collection to product enrichment, review analysis, and creator assortment research.
What TikTok Shop data can you retrieve?
SocQ turns public TikTok Shop product and review results into consistent records for research, monitoring, and data pipelines.
Product discovery and store catalogs
Search products by keyword and region, or collect the public catalog from a known TikTok Shop store URL.
Product and seller context
Retrieve product identity, seller, prices, discounts, media, categories, SKU data, ratings, review counts, and sold counts when available.
Public review data
Collect review text, ratings, images, timestamps, SKU context, country, and explicit purchase-status flags when exposed.
User and creator showcases
Collect products displayed in a public user's Shop showcase to study assortment, pricing, brands, and visible engagement.
SocQ and TikTok Shop developer products
SocQ focuses on supported public-data collection and normalized records. Use TikTok Shop's official developer products when your application requires merchant authorization or official store and commerce operations.
| Capability | SocQ | TikTok Shop developer products |
|---|---|---|
| Primary use | Supported public TikTok Shop data collection and normalization | Official merchant integrations under the applicable TikTok Shop product and approval |
| Authentication | SocQ API key | TikTok Shop developer credentials and applicable merchant authorization |
| Store and commerce actions | Does not create, edit, publish, delist, price, stock, fulfill, or manage TikTok Shop products and orders | Depends on the approved official product and permissions |
| Private or restricted data | Not supported | Limited to the official product, merchant authorization, and platform policy |
| Response format | Normalized SocQ records | Product-specific native responses |
How the TikTok Shop APIs work
All five endpoints share an asynchronous submit, poll, and result-reading lifecycle.
1. Choose the task and input
Start with a keyword, public store URL, product detail URL, or TikTok username, depending on the endpoint.
2. Submit and save the task ID
Send the input to the matching endpoint with optional region and result controls, then retain the returned task_id.
3. Poll and read results
Poll /v1/tasks/{task_id} until completion, read data.results.items, and follow next_cursor while has_more is true.
Authenticate with your SocQ API key and submit a product keyword. Use another endpoint when you already have a store URL, product URL, or TikTok username.
curl -X POST "https://api.socq.ai/v1/tiktok-shop/search" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $SOCQ_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"query":"running shoes","results_limit":100,"region":"US"}'
# Poll GET /v1/tasks/{task_id}
# Read data.results.items and follow next_cursor while has_more is trueCommon TikTok Shop use cases
Product and trend research
Discover public products by keyword and market to compare assortments, price ranges, and visible demand signals.
Store and competitor monitoring
Capture public store catalog snapshots to track listed products, pricing, discounts, and assortment changes over time.
Product and review analysis
Combine product details with public ratings, review text, images, SKU context, and purchase-status flags for analysis.
Creator assortment research
Collect a public creator showcase to study featured products, sellers, brands, prices, and visible engagement.
Limits and public-data policy
TikTok Shop results are point-in-time public records and depend on region, visibility, availability, and source coverage.
- The APIs collect public data only. Private, removed, unavailable, or region-restricted products and reviews may not produce records.
- Region defaults to US where supported. Product availability, prices, rankings, and review visibility can vary by market and change after collection.
- results_limit is a cap, not a guarantee. Seller, price, media, SKU, review, and purchase-status fields can be empty when the source does not expose them.
- SocQ is a read-only public-data service, not an official TikTok API. It does not change listings, reviews, showcases, inventory, pricing, shipping, or fulfillment settings.
TikTok Shop API frequently asked questions
What is the TikTok Shop API?
The TikTok Shop API is a set of SocQ APIs for searching and collecting public products, store catalogs, product details, reviews, and creator showcases. SocQ converts supported results into consistent records for analysis and data workflows.
Which TikTok Shop API should I use?
Use Search for keyword-led discovery, Products for a public store catalog, Product for one known product, Product Reviews for customer feedback, and User Showcase for products displayed by a public TikTok user or creator.
Do I need to connect a TikTok account?
No customer TikTok OAuth is required. Requests authenticate with a SocQ API key. SocQ is not an official TikTok API and accesses supported public data only.
How is TikTok Shop API usage priced?
Each returned Search, Products, Product, or User Showcase record costs 0.7 SocQ credits. Each saved Product Reviews record costs 0.3 credits. Empty results have no result charge.