How to Scrape TikTok Comments and Replies

export API_KEY="your-api-key"
export API_URL="https://api.socialparse.dev"

{
  "id": "7596851467001119502",
  "text": "I did my worst i'm sorry for what I have done.",
  "created_at": "2026-01-18T23:44:02Z",
  "likes": 48602,
  "reply_count": 155,
  "language": "en",
  "liked_by_author": false,
  "author_handle": "example.handle",
  "author_name": "Example Name"
}

import os

import requests

API_URL = os.environ["API_URL"]
HEADERS = {"x-api-key": os.environ["API_KEY"]}

def all_comments(video_id, max_pages=20):
    comments = []
    params = {"video_id": video_id}
    for _ in range(max_pages):
        body = requests.get(
            f"{API_URL}/v1/tiktok/videos/comments", params=params, headers=HEADERS, timeout=120
        ).json()
        comments.extend(body["data"])  # error handling: see the full script below
        if not body["page"]["has_more"]:
            break
        params["cursor"] = body["page"]["next_cursor"]
    return comments

def all_replies(video_id, comment_id, max_pages=5):
    replies = []
    params = {"video_id": video_id, "comment_id": comment_id}
    for _ in range(max_pages):
        body = requests.get(
            f"{API_URL}/v1/tiktok/videos/comments/replies", params=params, headers=HEADERS, timeout=120
        ).json()
        replies.extend(body["data"])
        if not body["page"]["has_more"]:
            break
        params["cursor"] = body["page"]["next_cursor"]
    return replies

import csv
import os
import sys

import requests

API_URL = os.environ["API_URL"]
HEADERS = {"x-api-key": os.environ["API_KEY"]}
FIELDS = ["id", "parent_id", "created_at", "likes", "reply_count", "language", "author_handle", "text"]


def pages(path, params, max_pages):
    """Every item of a paged endpoint, up to max_pages pages."""
    items = []
    params = dict(params)
    for _ in range(max_pages):
        response = requests.get(f"{API_URL}{path}", params=params, headers=HEADERS, timeout=120)
        body = response.json()
        if not response.ok:
            print("stopped:", body["error"]["code"], body["error"]["message"], file=sys.stderr)
            break
        items.extend(body["data"])
        if not body["page"]["has_more"]:
            break
        params["cursor"] = body["page"]["next_cursor"]
    return items


def main(video_id):
    rows = []
    seen = set()  # TikTok can serve a comment on two pages
    comments = pages("/v1/tiktok/videos/comments", {"video_id": video_id}, max_pages=20)
    for comment in comments:
        if comment["id"] in seen:
            continue
        seen.add(comment["id"])
        comment["parent_id"] = ""
        rows.append(comment)
        if comment["reply_count"]:
            params = {"video_id": video_id, "comment_id": comment["id"]}
            for reply in pages("/v1/tiktok/videos/comments/replies", params, max_pages=5):
                reply["parent_id"] = comment["id"]
                rows.append(reply)

    with open(f"comments-{video_id}.csv", "w", newline="", encoding="utf-8") as file:
        writer = csv.DictWriter(file, fieldnames=FIELDS, extrasaction="ignore")
        writer.writeheader()
        writer.writerows(rows)
    print(f"saved {len(rows)} comments and replies")


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main(sys.argv[1])

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