TikTok Search Users
Searching public creator accounts by keyword enables discovery across niche influencers, brand profiles, and trending topic creators. Normalized account records return profile handles, display names, biographies, and collection-time follower counts for talent sourcing.
Features
- Keyword account discoverySubmit any query string to find public TikTok accounts, creator handles, and relevant community profiles.
- Normalized creator profilesReceive structured records containing username, display name, avatar, bio text, and verified account badges.
- Audience metricsExtract visible follower counts, following counts, and total published video counters anchored to the collection time.
- Configurable result limitControl result batch size up to 2,000 creators with automatic internal cursor pagination.
Parameters
| Parameters | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
query | Required | Search keyword or name to find matching public TikTok creator accounts. |
results_limit | Optional | Maximum number of creator profiles to return; defaults to 100 with a range from 1 to 2,000. |
How to Use
Submit a search query as an asynchronous task, then retrieve normalized creator records with task polling.
- Choose a search query keyword and an optional results_limit up to 2,000.
- Send a POST request to /v1/tiktok/search-users with your SocQ API key.
- Poll /v1/tasks/{task_id} until the status is succeeded.
- Fetch normalized profile items from data.results.items.
curl -X POST "https://api.socq.ai/v1/tiktok/search-users" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $SOCQ_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"query":"taylor swift","results_limit":20}'
# Poll GET /v1/tasks/{task_id}, then inspect data.results.items.Best Use Cases
- Influencer and creator vetting: Identify relevant creators within specific niches and evaluate their current audience metrics.
- Brand monitoring and counterfeit detection: Search brand names to find unofficial accounts, impersonators, or fan communities.
- Talent database indexing: Feed fresh creator identity and follower metadata into CRM or analytics platforms.
Pro Tips
- Use specific niche keywords or handle fragments to narrow search results effectively.
- Higher results_limit values will paginate automatically through multiple upstream pages.
- Check the is_verified boolean to distinguish confirmed celebrity accounts from fan pages.
- Follow up with TikTok User Videos to analyze recent content performance for top matches.
Related APIs
Use these APIs when you need a different type of public TikTok data.
- TikTok Profiles API — Retrieve public profile identity, biographies, account flags, and audience counts by username.
- TikTok Hashtags API — Collect public videos, creators, media, sound, and engagement for specified hashtags.
- TikTok Comments API — Collect public top-level comments, authors, engagement, mentions, and creator interaction flags.
- TikTok Videos API — Retrieve creator, caption, media, music, tags, mentions, and engagement from video URLs.
- TikTok Search API — Search public videos by keyword with supported sorting and publication filters.
- TikTok Comment Replies API — Collect public replies for a known comment using its TikTok video URL and comment ID, with authors, engagement, timestamps, and parent context.
- TikTok Followers List API — Collect normalized profiles visible in public follower lists, with retained source context and supported metrics.
- TikTok Following List API — Collect public profiles followed by TikTok accounts with normalized identity, biographies, visible metrics, and source-account context.
- TikTok User Videos API — Collect public profile-feed videos by username with captions, creators, media, timestamps, engagement, and source-account context.
- TikTok Live Room Info API — Look up one known live room by paired room and owner IDs, returning status, owner context, cover media, and audience counts.
- TikTok Trending Feed API — Collect the current public video feed for a region with creator, caption, cover, timestamp, and visible engagement fields.
- TikTok Video Transcript API — Extract available transcript text, language, format, and source context from public video URLs.
- TikTok Song API
- TikTok Song Videos API