InsightSocial API
TikTok

TikTok Search Music API reference

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Example request
curl "https://api.insightsocial.app/v1/tiktok/search/music?query=espresso" \
  -H "x-api-key: $INSIGHTSOCIAL_API_KEY"

Step-by-step: Music trend detection

GET
/v1/tiktok/search/music

Returns TikTok sounds matching a keyword, each with title, artist, duration, cover art, a preview audio URL, and how many videos use it.

Use it to size a sound trend, or to join a TikTok sound to Apple Music, Spotify and Amazon through the store ids on ext.dsp_ids.

10 credits per call.

Paginates by cursor: see Pagination.

Authorization

apiKey
x-api-key<token>

Your key from the dashboard. It starts with isk_.

In: header

Query Parameters

query*string

Search keyword, matched against sound titles and creators.

cursor?string

Cursor from the previous response to fetch the next page of sounds.

sort_by?string

Result ordering: relevance (default), most-used, most-recent, shortest or longest.

Value in

  • "relevance"
  • "most-used"
  • "most-recent"
  • "shortest"
  • "longest"
filter_by?string

Which field the keyword is matched against: all (default), title or creators.

Value in

  • "all"
  • "title"
  • "creators"
region?string

Two-letter country code that localises the results. Defaults to US.

since?string

Only rows published on or after this date: YYYY-MM-DD (midnight UTC) or an ISO 8601 timestamp. Rows older than it are left off each page. This list is not in date order, so the walk does not stop at the date: keep following next_cursor, and each page costs what a page costs even when every row on it is filtered out. A row with no date is kept.

until?string

Only rows published on or before this date: YYYY-MM-DD (that whole UTC day is included) or an ISO 8601 timestamp. Newer rows are left off each page and the walk does not stop, so older pages follow. A row with no date is kept.

dry_run?"1"

Set to 1 to get the price of this call without making it: data.dry_run carries credits_min and credits_max. Nothing is charged.

Value in

  • "1"

Response Body

application/json

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curl -X GET "https://api.insightsocial.app/v1/tiktok/search/music?query=string"
{  "success": true,  "platform": "string",  "endpoint": "string",  "schema_version": "2",  "pagination": {    "next_cursor": "string",    "has_more": true,    "page_size": 0,    "stopped_at": "since"  },  "unavailable": [    "string"  ],  "credits_used": 0,  "credits_remaining": 0,  "request_id": "string",  "cached": true,  "idempotent_replay": true,  "charge_reason": "string",  "free_call": true,  "data": {    "items": [      {        "post": {          "id": "string",          "url": "http://example.com",          "kind": "string",          "content": {            "text": "string",            "media_urls": [              "http://example.com"            ],            "thumbnail_url": "http://example.com",            "duration_seconds": 0          },          "author": {            "id": "string",            "username": "string",            "display_name": "string",            "avatar_url": "http://example.com",            "verified": true          },          "engagement": {            "views": 0,            "likes": 0,            "comments": 0,            "shares": 0,            "saves": 0          },          "flags": {            "nsfw": true,            "spoiler": true,            "pinned": true,            "deleted": true,            "likes_hidden": true,            "comments_hidden": true,            "shares_hidden": true,            "views_hidden": true,            "saves_hidden": true          },          "published_at": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z",          "language": "string",          "ext": {            "property1": null,            "property2": null          }        }      }    ],    "total": 0,    "truncated": true,    "ext": {      "property1": null,      "property2": null    }  }}

Search › Hashtag GET

Returns TikTok videos posted under a given hashtag, each with caption, view, like, comment and share counts, author details, and a thumbnail.

Search › Suggestions GET

Returns the autocomplete suggestions TikTok's own search box shows for a partial query, as a list of suggestion rows.