TikTok Creator Search Insights

Name: TikTok Creator Search Insights
Price: 0.0015 USD
Availability: InStock
Author: TikTok

https://api.sandbase.ai/v1/api/tiktok/app-v3/creator-search-insights

Get TikTok Creator Search Insights: trending search queries with popularity scores, trend history and video counts, including content-gap topics, by category and language.

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Price: $0.0015USD / callFirst 100 calls per day free (shared per organization)
Method: POST
Response: JSON
Parameters: 0 required · 7 optional

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Input

Category Filters(string)

Creator Source(string)

Creator source, default "general_search"

Force Refresh(boolean)

Force refresh, default False

Language Filters(string)

Language filters, separated by comma, options: id, de, en, es, fr, pt, vi, tr, ar, th, ja, ko

Limit(integer)

Number per page, default 20

Offset(integer)

Pagination offset, default 0

Tab(string)

Tab type (all/content_gap/follower_searched/life_style/topics/challenges/sounds/hashtags)

OutputExample

Responseoutputs · 42.3 KB · 1,250 lines

[
  {
    "data": {
      "banners": {
        "conversion_bar_list": [
          {
            "item_link": "https://activity.tiktokw.us/magic/eco/runtime/release/66581e19df4daf02866b5cc9?appType=muse&magic_page_no=1&lang=en&region=Default&use_spark=1",
            "item_text": "Learn more"
          }
        ],
        "event_banners": {
          "ecommerce_education": {
            "eligible": {
              "image_url": "https://sf16-muse-va.ibytedtos.com/obj/search-static-maliva/maliva/6cjd5rh91716193010532",
              "link": "https://activity.tiktokw.us/magic/eco/runtime/release/664c4298f65e08d77319049b?appType=muse&magic_page_no=1&lang=en-US&region=US&use_spark=1 ",
              "text": "Promote products people want to buy. Start earning now!"
            },
            "enrolled": {
              "image_url": "https://sf16-muse-va.ibytedtos.com/obj/search-static-maliva/maliva/b0fmjabl1716192964040",
              "link": "https://activity.tiktokw.us/magic/eco/runtime/release/6645db2e6f3a610291d0b0ac?appType=muse&magic_page_no=1&lang=en-US&region=US&use_spark=1",
              "text": "Create shoppable videos with products people want to buy!"
            },
            "non_eligible": {
              "image_url": "https://sf16-muse-va.ibytedtos.com/obj/search-static-maliva/maliva/hdskk6yq1716193026366",
              "link": "https://activity.tiktokw.us/magic/eco/runtime/release/664c4c03f33586028244e7fb?appType=muse&magic_page_no=1&lang=en-US&region=US&use_spark=1",
              "text": "Explore opportunities to earn with shopping insights"
            }
          }
        },
        "home_page_banner": "https://sf16-muse-va.ibytedtos.com/obj/search-static-maliva/maliva/q8hl7ump1713411026852",
        "image_url": "https://sf16-muse-va.ibytedtos.com/obj/search-static-maliva/maliva/r8z2ni6s1708410808360",
        "image_url_dark": "https://sf16-muse-va.ibytedtos.com/obj/search-static-maliva/maliva/a1av24511708410895413",
        "loading_page_banner": "https://p16-search-fe-static.tiktokcdn-us.com/tos-alisg-i-baf7wf9fmw-sg/e06d4221d05a4859be4def9f58c37540~tplv-baf7wf9fmw-image.image"
      },
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        "post_process_cost": 24,
        "recall_cost": 96,
        "recommend_reason_cost": 3,
        "rough_sort_cost": 1,
        "total_cost": 308
      },
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      "extra": {
        "cold_start": true,
        "latency": 308,
        "logid": "20260815021659BB17A4C704827E39312B",
        "now": 1786760220340,
        "vgeo": "VGeo-US"
      },
      "has_follower_searched": false,
      "has_more": true,
      "inspiration_list": [
        {
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            "basic",
            "experience",
            "content_gap",
            "llm_query_multi_lang",
            "demand_points",
            "video_agg_score_post",
            "generic_dmp",
            "generic_query"
          ],
          "cover_image": "",
          "debug_info": {
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              {
                "reason": "byFollowerCnt",
                "type": "new_creator"
              },
              {
                "type": "csi_new_user"
              }
            ],
            "creator_lang": {
              "infer_languages": [
                "en"
              ],
              "use_mul_lang": false
            },
            "experiment": {
              "csi_analytics_filtered_query_token_ids": "exp_group_strict",
              "csi_csi_dynamic_tab": "csi_dynamic_tab_v4",
              "csi_csi_exp_base_trending": "csi_exp_base_trending",
              "csi_csi_info_exp_recall_v2": "csi_info_exp_recall_v2",
              "csi_csi_useful_exp_gen": "csi_useful_eu_ttp_exp_gen_v1"
            },
            "language": "en",
            "recall_scores": [
              0,
              0
            ],
            "recall_source": [
              "FromRegionHotQueryMulLang",
              "FromLangHotQuery"
            ],
            "recall_source_position": {
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              "FromRegionHotQueryMulLang": 76
            },
            "rough_score": 0,
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              "multitasks_click_score": 0.41241759061813354,
              "multitasks_collection_score": 0.01129099726676941,
              "multitasks_info_collection_score": 0.0038296282291412354,
              "multitasks_info_shoot_score": 0.30161842703819275,
              "multitasks_shoot_score": 0.20201215147972107,
              "multitasks_strict_publish_score": 0.2062912285327911,
              "rank_relevance_score": 0.5170366168022156,
              "recall_relevance_score": 0.5120057463645935,
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          },
          "dislike_option_enabled": true,
          "entity_id": 0,
          "favorited_updated_at": 0,
          "inspiration_types": [
            "search"
          ],
          "is_favorited": false,
          "order_popularity_seq": [],
          "popularity": 87,
          "popularity_updated_at": 1786756428,
          "popularity_v2": 4741221,
          "query_id": 7449584484497752000,
          "query_id_str": "7449584484497752069",
          "query_labels": [],
          "query_text": "new account on tiktok",
          "rewrite_version": "",
          "show_ai_canvas_entry": false,
          "sug_id_str": "3689601110723670296",
          "textnet": {
            "layer1": "Science and Technology",
            "layer2": "Software",
            "layer3": "Apps/Computer Software",
            "layer4": "Apps/Computer Software Function Tutorials"
          },
          "trending_seq": [
            45,
            70,
            74,
            78,
            85,
            85,
            87
          ],
          "trending_seq_v2": [
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            295888,
            449234,
            1106431,
            1632089,
            4741221
          ],
          "use_csi_api_for_related_videos": false,
          "user_avatars": [],
          "video_num": 78782
        },
        {
          "business_types": [
            "basic",
            "local service old",
            "experience",
            "hot_event_v2",
            "content_gap",
            "template",
            "llm_query_multi_lang",
            "video_agg_score_post",
            "informative_exp",
            "generic_query"
          ],
          "cover_image": "",
          "debug_info": {
            "creator_category": [
              {
                "reason": "byFollowerCnt",
                "type": "new_creator"
              },
              {
                "type": "csi_new_user"
              }
            ],
            "creator_lang": {
              "infer_languages": [
                "en"
              ],
              "use_mul_lang": false
            },
            "experiment": {
              "csi_analytics_filtered_query_token_ids": "exp_group_strict",
              "csi_csi_dynamic_tab": "csi_dynamic_tab_v4",
              "csi_csi_exp_base_trending": "csi_exp_base_trending",
              "csi_csi_info_exp_recall_v2": "csi_info_exp_recall_v2",
              "csi_csi_useful_exp_gen": "csi_useful_eu_ttp_exp_gen_v1"
            },
            "language": "en",
            "recall_scores": [
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              0.17337918281555176,
              0.17337918281555176,
              0,
              0
            ],
            "recall_source": [
              "FromMidLongTailDssmViking",
              "FromDssmVikingL1",
              "FromDssmViking",
              "FromLangHotQuery",
              "FromRegionHotQueryMulLang"
            ],
            "recall_source_position": {
              "FromDssmViking": 0,
              "FromDssmVikingL1": 0,
              "FromLangHotQuery": 8,
              "FromMidLongTailDssmViking": 0,
              "FromRegionHotQueryMulLang": 96
            },
            "rough_score": 0,
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            "target_score": {
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              "before_boost": 0.15478931367397308,
              "csi_relevance_roughsort__base": 0.1,
              "dssm_roughsort__base": 0.1,
              "keyword_reward_model__total": 0,
              "laplace_csi_qwen3_emb_6b_vllm__base": 0.1,
              "multitasks_click_score": 0.38035041093826294,
              "multitasks_collection_score": 0.01493045687675476,
              "multitasks_info_collection_score": 0.0023025572299957275,
              "multitasks_info_shoot_score": 0.2720780372619629,
              "multitasks_shoot_score": 0.22638365626335144,
              "multitasks_strict_publish_score": 0.21026527881622312,
              "rank_relevance_score": 0.24868610501289368,
              "recall_relevance_score": 0.4820883572101593,
              "video_quality_publish_score": 0.042238205671310425,
              "video_quality_strict_search_vv_score": 0.1759287416934967
            }
          },
          "dislike_option_enabled": true,
          "entity_id": 0,
          "favorited_updated_at": 0,
          "inspiration_types": [
            "search"
          ],
          "is_favorited": false,
          "order_popularity_seq": [],
          "popularity": 87,
          "popularity_updated_at": 1786756143,
          "popularity_v2": 5771167,
          "query_id": 7509091202382168000,
          "query_id_str": "7509091202382168120",
          "query_labels": [],
          "query_text": "creators sight insights",
          "rec_reason": {
            "rec_reason_code": "BeginnerFriendly",
            "rec_reason_detail_show_text": "A perfect topic for your first post. Try it out now!",
            "rec_reason_short_show_text": "Great for a first post"
          },
          "rewrite_version": "",
          "show_ai_canvas_entry": false,
          "sug_id_str": "3990856894084740922",
          "textnet": {
            "layer1": "TikTok's Featured Content",
            "layer2": "Others TikTok and Video Contents",
            "layer3": "",
            "layer4": ""
          },
          "trending_seq": [
            90,
            89,
            89,
            88,
            88,
            87,
            87
          ],
          "trending_seq_v2": [
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            8924921,
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            7903627,
            6814654,
            6193441,
            5771167
          ],
          "use_csi_api_for_related_videos": false,
          "user_avatars": [],
          "video_num": 30685912
        },

Examples

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Specifications

Pricing

Base price: $0.0015 / run
Daily free calls: First 100 calls per day free (shared per organization)

Request & response

Method: POST
Request body: application/json
Response: application/json
Execution: sync

Parameters

category_filters: string · optional
creator_source: string · optional
force_refresh: boolean · optional
language_filters: string · optional
limit: integer · optional
offset: integer · optional
tab: string · optional

Access

Provider: TikTok
API: Platform API
Base URL: https://api.sandbase.ai
Endpoint: /v1/api/tiktok/app-v3/creator-search-insights
Authentication: Bearer API key

API README

TikTok Creator Search Insights API

Fetch the search topics TikTok shows creators in Creator Search Insights. Each query includes a popularity score, a recent trend series and how many videos already cover it.

Use cases

Find trending search topics to create content for.
Spot content gaps with high demand and few videos (tab=content_gap).
Track topic popularity by category and language.

Request

curl -X POST "https://api.sandbase.ai/v1/api/tiktok/app-v3/creator-search-insights" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SANDBASE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{}'

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
`tab`	string	No	Tab type (all/content_gap/follower_searched/life_style/topics/challenges/sounds/hashtags)
`limit`	integer	No	Number per page, default 20
`offset`	integer	No	Pagination offset, default 0
`force_refresh`	boolean	No	Force refresh, default False
`creator_source`	string	No	Creator source, default "general_search"
`category_filters`	string	No	Category filters, separated by comma, options: Gaming, Fashion, Tourism, Science, Food, Sports
`language_filters`	string	No	Language filters, separated by comma, options: id, de, en, es, fr, pt, vi, tr, ar, th, ja, ko

Example response

Real response for the request above, trimmed to the main fields. User names and long IDs are masked.

{
  "has_more": true,
  "cursor": 20,
  "inspiration_list": [
    {
      "query_text": "new account on tiktok",
      "query_id_str": "7449584484497752069",
      "popularity": 72,
      "popularity_v2": 202860,
      "video_num": 123206,
      "trending_seq": [
        80,
        80,
        79,
        75,
        74,
        80,
        72
      ],
      "inspiration_types": [
        "search"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Notes

tab: all, content_gap, follower_searched, life_style, topics, challenges, sounds or hashtags.
Filter with category_filters (e.g. Gaming, Fashion) and language_filters (e.g. en, es).

Related APIs

TikTok LIVE Status: Check if live room is online The Room ID of the live room can be obtained from the /api/v1/tiktok/web/get_live_room_id interface through the live room link.
Batch check if live rooms are online: Batch check TikTok live rooms' online status, supports up to 50 room IDs Room IDs can be retrieved from /api/v1/tiktok/web/get_live_room_id.
Get content translation data: Get content translation data.

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Platform API endpoint with unified authentication and usage tracking.

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Platform API endpoint

https://api.sandbase.ai/v1/api/tiktok/app-v3/creator-search-insights

Authorization header

Authorization: Bearer $SANDBASE_API_KEY

# The quoted heredoc keeps Unicode and shell metacharacters unchanged.
result=$(curl --fail-with-body --silent \
  -X POST "https://api.sandbase.ai/v1/api/tiktok/app-v3/creator-search-insights" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SANDBASE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --data-binary @- <<'SANDBASE_JSON'
{
  "tab": "all",
  "limit": 10,
  "offset": 0,
  "force_refresh": false,
  "creator_source": "general_search",
  "category_filters": "",
  "language_filters": "en"
}
SANDBASE_JSON
)
printf '%s\n' "$result"

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Questions

FAQ

How do I use the TikTok Creator Search Insights API?

Send a POST request to https://api.sandbase.ai/v1/api/tiktok/app-v3/creator-search-insights with your SandBase API key in the Authorization header (Bearer) and the parameters as a JSON body. You can also try it in the Playground on this page without writing code.

How much does the TikTok Creator Search Insights API cost?

$0.0015 per call. Every organization gets 100 free calls per UTC day, shared across eligible SandBase APIs including this one; after that each call is billed at this price from your SandBase balance. There is no subscription.

What parameters does the TikTok Creator Search Insights API accept?

No parameters are required. Optional: category_filters (string), creator_source (string), force_refresh (boolean), language_filters (string), limit (integer) and offset (integer) and 1 more. The Parameters table and the Playground on this page list every field.

What does the TikTok Creator Search Insights API return?

A JSON response returned in the same HTTP request (synchronous). The README on this page includes a sample response.

Do I need a TikTok developer account or API key?

No. TikTok Creator Search Insights runs through SandBase, so one SandBase API key covers this endpoint and every other API and model in the catalog. You do not need to apply for TikTok API access separately.