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Fetching comments

Collect video comments

When a scraping job is executed with the get_comments parameter set to true, all publicly available (non-deleted) comments for the specified post will be collected. You can retrieve these comments, along with any replies, using the following endpoint.
- No callback URL is required for this endpoint.
- No credits are used when calling this endpoint.

You will have to use video_id that corresponds to the video you want to get comments for - this value is returned in the video scraping results.

Base URL

POST https://tiktok-scraper-api.datashake.com/v1/scrape/{request_id}/comments

Path parameters

request_id

Field type: string
Required: true
Description: The unique identifier for the scraping request.

Request parameters

video_id

Field type: string
Required: true
Description: The unique identifier for the TikTok video.

per_page

Field type: integer
Required: false
Description: The number of results to retrieve per page.

page

Field type: integer
Required: false
Description: The page number of the results to retrieve.

Code example 
curl --location 'https://tiktok-scraper-api.datashake.com/v1/scrape/1742517759478683074-2b1a61cf-89d0-4d/comments?video_id=7473271005096463671&page=1&per_page=5' --header 'x-api-key: your-api-key'

import requests

url = "https://tiktok-scraper-api.datashake.com/v1/scrape/1742517759478683074-2b1a61cf-89d0-4d/comments"

params = {
    "video_id": "7473271005096463671",
    "page": 1,
    "per_page": 5
}

headers = {
    "x-api-key": "your-api-key"
}

response = requests.get(url=url, headers=headers, params=params)

Response

API response example 
{
    "request_id": "1742519035298729851-0e87219b-a751-4d",
    "status": "completed",
    "credits_used": null,
    "request_metadata": {
        "url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@surthycooks/video/7473271005096463671",
        "callback_url": "http://example.com/callback",
        "external_identifier": "my-custom-id",
        "get_comments": true
    },
    "results": [
        {
            "video_id": "7473271005096463671",
            "comment_id": "7482190290661524267",
            "language": "en",
            "likes_count": 0,
            "liked_by_author": false,
            "replies_count": 0,
            "text": "Peruvian Ceviche is the best in the world. This is from a Latino that’s not Peruvian.",
            "author_id": "6997455142510167046",
            "author_unique_id": "travelingismydream1",
            "author_nickname": "Beach_Life10",
            "author_avatar_url": null,
            "pinned_by_author": false,
            "posted_at": "2025-03-15T23:59:57Z"
        },
        {
            "video_id": "7473271005096463671",
            "comment_id": "7481322080203408136",
            "language": "ru",
            "likes_count": 0,
            "liked_by_author": false,
            "replies_count": 0,
            "text": "ма ша Аллах 1",
            "author_id": "6656326013839097861",
            "author_unique_id": "the_same_wolf95",
            "author_nickname": "Борз ю",
            "author_avatar_url": null,
            "pinned_by_author": false,
            "posted_at": "2025-03-13T15:50:53Z",
        },
        ...
    ],
    "summary": null,
    "pagination": {
        "total": 98,
        "page": 1,
        "per_page": 5,
        "total_pages": 20
    }
}