Video comments

When to use this

Use it to read what viewers say: objections, questions, praise and the words your audience uses. Each comment has its likes, reply count and author; pass a comment's cid as comment_id to comment replies for its thread.

Pagination. 50 comments per page. Pass the response's cursor back as cursor (with the same url) for more; it's null at the end.

Deleted or private videos return 404 not_found; videos with comments turned off return an empty list.

Parameters

All parameters go in the query string.

Example request

Replace YOUR_API_KEY with your key, or set LURKAPI_KEY for the code. Get a free key.

curl "https://api.lurkapi.com/v1/tiktok/video/comments?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tiktok.com%2F%40scout2015%2Fvideo%2F6718335390845095173" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

const params = new URLSearchParams({
  url: "https://www.tiktok.com/@scout2015/video/6718335390845095173",
});
const res = await fetch(`https://api.lurkapi.com/v1/tiktok/video/comments?${params}`, {
  headers: { "x-api-key": process.env.LURKAPI_KEY },
});
const data = await res.json();
if (!data.success) throw new Error(`${data.code}: ${data.error}`);
console.log(data.comments);

import os
import requests

res = requests.get(
    "https://api.lurkapi.com/v1/tiktok/video/comments",
    params={
        "url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@scout2015/video/6718335390845095173",
    },
    headers={"x-api-key": os.environ["LURKAPI_KEY"]},
    timeout=60,
)
data = res.json()
if not data["success"]:
    raise RuntimeError(f"{data['code']}: {data['error']}")
print(data["comments"])

Example response

A real response from this endpoint, captured from the live API and trimmed to a couple of items. Strings over 96 characters (mostly signed media URLs) are cut short and end in ….

{
  "success": true,
  "credits_remaining": 99981,
  "credits_charged": 1,
  "comments": [
    {
      "cid": "6718335906996502534",
      "text": "ok ;)\nodoreta\nhave fun~\n(it's a Serbian name)",
      "create_time": 1564234475,
      "digg_count": 166,
      "reply_comment_total": 49,
      "comment_language": "un",
      "author_pin": false,
      "is_author_digged": false,
      "reply_id": "0",
      "reply_to_reply_id": "0",
      "aweme_id": "6718335390845095173",
      "user": {
        "uid": "6650133637952618502",
        "unique_id": "flamigo_kisses",
        "nickname": "flamigoo",
        "sec_uid": "MS4wLjABAAAA2MsvjMy0b24-FHIEBfHzeBhZelr6GpESRqTxE-LAA5ByJY5rSolRWE3rXB4Mfqt6",
        "avatar_thumb": "https://p16-common-sign.tiktokcdn-us.com/tos-maliva-avt-0068/73363709566…"
      }
    },
    {
      "cid": "6722043930156417030",
      "text": "srii good luck",
      "create_time": 1565097817,
      "digg_count": 53,
      "reply_comment_total": 44,
      "comment_language": "un",
      "author_pin": false,
      "is_author_digged": false,
      "reply_id": "0",
      "reply_to_reply_id": "0",
      "aweme_id": "6718335390845095173",
      "user": {
        "uid": "6718326650415203333",
        "unique_id": "vsco_room_xx",
        "nickname": "vsco_room_xx",
        "sec_uid": "MS4wLjABAAAArG6B4beBhFRzOVGzxvDgAKuz2yK0AHG9jfU6PiSjFoIPrtYEASAPir_quhWWPs-4",
        "avatar_thumb": "https://p16-common-sign.tiktokcdn-us.com/tos-maliva-avt-0068/73314074326…"
      }
    }
  ],
  "total": 5844,
  "has_more": true,
  "cursor": "50"
}

Response fields

Every field of a successful response. [] marks a list: a[].b is the b of each item in a. nullable fields can be null; optional fields can be missing.

Pagination

Pass the response's cursor back as cursor, with the other parameters unchanged, for the next page. It's null on the last page. Each page costs 1 credit.

let cursor = null;
for (let page = 1; page <= 5; page++) {
  const params = new URLSearchParams({ url: "https://www.tiktok.com/@scout2015/video/6718335390845095173" });
  if (cursor) params.set("cursor", cursor);
  const res = await fetch(`https://api.lurkapi.com/v1/tiktok/video/comments?${params}`, {
    headers: { "x-api-key": process.env.LURKAPI_KEY },
  });
  const data = await res.json();
  if (!data.success) throw new Error(`${data.code}: ${data.error}`);
  console.log(data.comments);
  cursor = data.cursor;
  if (!cursor) break; // last page
}

Caching and freshness

Responses are cached for up to 5 minutes, so a repeat call within that window can return the same data. It still costs 1 credit.

Errors

Errors return { success: false, error, code, docs } with the HTTP status below. Validation errors, 401/402/429 rejections and 5xx failures are free; not_found is charged (how charging works). All error codes.

Use it in Claude

Once LurkAPI is connected to Claude, this endpoint is the tiktok_comments tool. Ask in plain English, for example:

Use LurkAPI's tiktok_comments with url "https://www.tiktok.com/@scout2015/video/6718335390845095173" and summarize what you find.

Claude calls tiktok_comments with arguments like these, and each call costs 1 credit:

{
  "url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@scout2015/video/6718335390845095173"
}

Tool results skip nulls and empty lists to save tokens.