Export TikTok comments to CSV without the official API
TikTok has no "download comments" button, and its Research API is limited to approved academic researchers. Yet comments are what marketers, agencies and analysts want most: picking a giveaway winner, reading the reaction to a campaign, collecting text for sentiment analysis. Here is the shortest route I know from a video link to a spreadsheet. One command curl -X POST…
This brief explains how to export TikTok comments to CSV or Excel format without using the official API. The process involves using Apify, a web scraping platform, with a single command to generate a CSV file containing comments, likes, and text from a specified TikTok video link. The command includes parameters such as the maximum number of comments per video, the desired output format, and the specific columns to include in the output.
The brief also provides information on how to access the data using Python through the Apify client, as well as details about the data format and pricing.
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