TikTok Hashtag API — Videos and View Counts by Tag
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List videos under a hashtag

Videos posted under a hashtag, plus the hashtag itself — its id, name, url, description, cover image, view count and video count. The view count is the hashtag’s own total across TikTok, which is how you size a trend before deciding how much of it to read. Page with pages and cursor. A hashtag with no public videos returns an explained empty result in notes. Billing: 1 credit per page read.

POST /hashtag-videos Search & hashtags
https://api.fetchlayer.dev/tiktok/hashtag-videos
OpenAPI JSON

Headers

Authorization string required

Bearer token — your FetchLayer API key.

Parameters

hashtag string required

A hashtag name with or without the leading #, or a hashtag URL.

limit integer optional

Maximum videos returned, up to 500. Use -1 for the maximum. (default: 30)

pages integer optional

Pages of results to read in one request, up to 20. Use -1 for the maximum. Each page read is one billable page, and the response reports how many were read as pagesFetched. (default: 1)

cursor string optional

Continue from a previous response’s nextCursor. Cursors belong to the route and the query that produced them — do not carry one between routes.

format string optional

json or markdown. Markdown returns a rendered summary instead of the structured record. (default: json)

timeoutMs integer optional

Time limit for each individual page read, in milliseconds (max 60000). It bounds one page, not the whole request.

Response Fields

hashtag-videos

List videos under a hashtag

transport string

The upstream source. Always "tiktok".

notes string[]

Caveats you can act on — a private account, comments turned off, a list that ran out early, paging that has gone as deep as it goes. Empty when there are none. An empty result always comes with a note explaining it, never as an unexplained empty array.

pagesFetched number

Pages of results read, which is what the request costs: one credit per page. resolve-url reports 0 and is not billed.

hashtag.id string

TikTok’s numeric hashtag id.

hashtag.name string

The tag, without the #.

hashtag.url string

Canonical hashtag URL.

hashtag.description string

The tag’s description, or null.

hashtag.coverUrl string

Cover image, or null.

hashtag.viewCount number

Total views across TikTok for the tag, or null when it publishes none.

hashtag.videoCount number

Videos TikTok reports under the tag, or null.

videos object[]

The videos posted under it.

videos[].id string

Numeric video id, which video-detail and comments both accept.

videos[].url string

Canonical link to the video. This is what you use to open or embed it.

videos[].description string

The caption, or null when there is none.

videos[].createdAt string

ISO 8601 timestamp of when it was posted, or null.

videos[].durationSeconds number

Length in seconds, or null.

videos[].isPhotoPost boolean

True for a photo carousel rather than a clip.

videos[].coverUrl string

The cover frame. An image, so it re-fetches through GET /media normally.

videos[].assets object[]

An ordered list, so a clip and a carousel are handled the same way: a clip yields one asset of kind "video", a carousel one of kind "image" per frame. Each carries url, width, height and downloadUrl.

videos[].assets[].downloadUrl string

Pass it to GET /media to stream the bytes. It serves images — carousel frames and cover images. A clip's bytes cannot be fetched by anyone, so asking for one returns 404 (see the media endpoint).

videos[].stats object

playCount, diggCount, commentCount, shareCount, collectCount and repostCount. A null counter means TikTok did not publish that figure; a real zero comes back as 0.

videos[].author object

id, uniqueId, nickname, avatarUrl, signature, verified, privateAccount, profileUrl and secUid.

videos[].music object

id, title, authorName, durationSeconds, original, coverUrl, playUrl and url, or null.

videos[].hashtags string[]

Without the #, read from TikTok’s own annotations rather than parsed out of the caption.

videos[].mentions string[]

Usernames without the @.

videos[].isAd boolean

True when TikTok marks the post as promotional, or null when it says nothing.

videos[].language string

The language TikTok assigned to the caption, or null.

videoCount number

How many videos are in this response.

hasMore boolean

Whether more results exist beyond what was returned.

nextCursor string

Opaque value to pass back as cursor to continue. null when there is nothing further.

Request

curl -X POST "https://api.fetchlayer.dev/tiktok/hashtag-videos" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ss-your-key" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"hashtag":"nasa","limit":30}'

Response

{
  "transport": "tiktok",
  "notes": [],
  "pagesFetched": 1,
  "hashtag": {
    "id": "3301",
    "name": "nasa",
    "url": "https://www.tiktok.com/tag/nasa",
    "description": null,
    "coverUrl": null,
    "viewCount": 56600000000,
    "videoCount": 0
  },
  "videos": [
    {
      "id": "7686148096895569165",
      "url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@nasa/video/7686148096895569165",
      "description": "Turns out you can dance in space! 🪩🕺💫🛰️ Microgravity just unlocked some new moves.",
      "createdAt": "2026-09-16T15:00:41.000Z",
      "durationSeconds": 58,
      "isPhotoPost": false,
      "coverUrl": "https://p19-common-sign.tiktokcdn-us.com/tos-useast5-p-0068-tx/...",
      "assets": [
        {
          "kind": "video",
          "url": "https://v16-webapp-prime.us.tiktok.com/video/tos/useast5/...",
          "width": 720,
          "height": 1280,
          "downloadUrl": "https://api.fetchlayer.dev/tiktok/media?url=..."
        }
      ],
      "stats": {
        "playCount": 27600,
        "diggCount": 4367,
        "commentCount": 173,
        "shareCount": 104,
        "collectCount": 273,
        "repostCount": 0
      },
      "author": {
        "id": "7664638705177150477",
        "uniqueId": "nasa",
        "nickname": "NASA",
        "verified": true,
        "privateAccount": false,
        "profileUrl": "https://www.tiktok.com/@nasa"
      },
      "music": {
        "id": "7686148224364694286",
        "title": "original sound - NASA",
        "authorName": "NASA",
        "durationSeconds": 58,
        "original": false,
        "url": "https://www.tiktok.com/music/x-7686148224364694286"
      },
      "hashtags": [],
      "mentions": [],
      "isAd": false,
      "language": "en"
    }
  ],
  "videoCount": 30,
  "hasMore": true,
  "nextCursor": "30"
}