Song

When to use this

Use it to size up a sound before you build content on it: videoCount is how many posts use it. original: true means a creator's original sound rather than a released track, and is_commerce_music is TikTok's flag for sounds cleared for commercial use (the ones business accounts can pick). Get the id from any video's music.id, or pass the sound's tiktok.com/music/… URL.

Unknown and removed sounds 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/song?clipId=7433619007506761744" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

const params = new URLSearchParams({
  clipId: "7433619007506761744",
});
const res = await fetch(`https://api.lurkapi.com/v1/tiktok/song?${params}`, {
  headers: { "x-api-key": process.env.LURKAPI_KEY },
});
const data = await res.json();
if (!data.success) throw new Error(`${data.code}: ${data.error}`);
console.log(data);

import os
import requests

res = requests.get(
    "https://api.lurkapi.com/v1/tiktok/song",
    params={
        "clipId": "7433619007506761744",
    },
    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": 99955,
  "credits_charged": 1,
  "id": "7433619007506761744",
  "url": "https://www.tiktok.com/music/Morning-Brew-Jazz-7433619007506761744",
  "title": "Morning Brew Jazz",
  "authorName": "NonLeo",
  "album": "Morning Brew Jazz",
  "original": false,
  "duration": 265,
  "cover": "https://p16-common.tiktokcdn-us.com/tos-alisg-v-2774/oAJSAyArAD0EpAPixgA…",
  "playUrl": "https://sf16.tiktokcdn-us.com/obj/tos-alisg-ve-2774/ocKlBfzUWiBoMThA1QzwiAapIOsMBFDSsAAEcS",
  "videoCount": 31300,
  "isCopyrighted": false,
  "is_commerce_music": true,
  "author": 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 1 hour, 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_song tool. Ask in plain English, for example:

Use LurkAPI's tiktok_song with clipId "7433619007506761744" and summarize what you find.

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

{
  "clipId": "7433619007506761744"
}

Tool results skip nulls and empty lists to save tokens.