Live status

When to use this

Check a creator before a campaign or live collaboration. A room id on the profile can belong to a finished stream, so this endpoint verifies the room's status. Only an active stream returns room details; offline accounts return is_live: false and null room fields. Refreshes every 30 seconds. Unknown accounts return 404 not_found.

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/user/live?handle=tiktok" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

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

import os
import requests

res = requests.get(
    "https://api.lurkapi.com/v1/tiktok/user/live",
    params={
        "handle": "tiktok",
    },
    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)

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": 999957,
  "credits_charged": 1,
  "user": {
    "id": "107955",
    "uniqueId": "tiktok",
    "nickname": "TikTok",
    "avatarThumb": "https://p16-common-sign.tiktokcdn-us.com/tos-useast5-avt-0068-tx/ba67b11…",
    "verified": true
  },
  "is_live": false,
  "room_id": null,
  "title": null,
  "started_at": null,
  "viewer_count": null,
  "total_joins": null
}

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.

Caching and freshness

Responses are cached for up to 30 seconds, 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_live tool. Ask in plain English, for example:

Use LurkAPI's tiktok_live with handle "tiktok" and summarize what you find.

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

{
  "handle": "tiktok"
}

Tool results skip nulls and empty lists to save tokens.