Profile

When to use this

Use it to size up a creator or brand account: followers, total likes and video count as exact numbers, plus bio, link and category. user.secUid is TikTok's stable id; user.roomId is set while they're live.

Unknown, banned and deleted accounts return 404 not_found. Private accounts return their profile with privateAccount: true.

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/profile?handle=nike" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

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

import os
import requests

res = requests.get(
    "https://api.lurkapi.com/v1/tiktok/profile",
    params={
        "handle": "nike",
    },
    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": 99985,
  "credits_charged": 1,
  "user": {
    "id": "208464585232822272",
    "uniqueId": "nike",
    "nickname": "Nike",
    "signature": "Just Do It.",
    "secUid": "MS4wLjABAAAA_3ndMt8d_tECTdpKgCxcx238tOnQZX-20wqN01aMui5zQ7hsqSdff-jC5qYC-Cl_",
    "verified": true,
    "privateAccount": false,
    "createTime": 1490044565,
    "avatarLarger": "https://p16-common-sign.tiktokcdn-us.com/tos-useast5-avt-0068-tx/e0b0ac7…",
    "avatarMedium": "https://p19-common-sign.tiktokcdn-us.com/tos-useast5-avt-0068-tx/e0b0ac7…",
    "avatarThumb": "https://p19-common-sign.tiktokcdn-us.com/tos-useast5-avt-0068-tx/e0b0ac7…",
    "bioLink": "http://empli.fi/niketiktok",
    "language": "en",
    "category": "Sports, Fitness & Outdoors",
    "commerceUser": true,
    "ttSeller": false,
    "isOrganization": true,
    "roomId": null
  },
  "stats": {
    "followerCount": 9253124,
    "followingCount": 91,
    "heartCount": 49280939,
    "videoCount": 1089,
    "diggCount": 0,
    "friendCount": 46
  }
}

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 15 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_profile tool. Ask in plain English, for example:

Use LurkAPI's tiktok_profile with handle "nike" and summarize what you find.

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

{
  "handle": "nike"
}

Tool results skip nulls and empty lists to save tokens.