For TikTok Shop data inside an app, a product-research tool or an AI agent, start with Scavio's TikTok Shop API. It is the one option here that combines marketplace search with units sold, a product's full review history with the 1-5 star distribution, any seller's whole catalogue, the category tree and a share-link resolver behind one key. Every call is 1 credit, and Scavio starts from $2 per 1,000 requests on the Growth plan billed yearly.
You need a third-party API because TikTok does not sell marketplace data. Its Partner API's Search Products endpoint requires the seller's access token and the shop's shop_cipher, so it searches the shop that authorized your app, never a competitor's. The Research API's TikTok Shop data is for academic researchers and EU products only, and the Affiliate APIs see only products open to affiliate collaborations.
We build Scavio, so read this with that bias in mind. Every Scavio number below comes from live calls we made on October 26, 2026. Every competitor detail was read off the vendor's own page or documentation that day, and where a price was not published we say so. The screenshots are each vendor's own TikTok Shop page, captured the same day.
Which TikTok Shop API fits your job?
| Tool | Choose it for | Units sold | Reviews | Price (checked Oct 26, 2026) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scavio | Product research, competitor tracking and agents that need sales, reviews and catalogues together | On every search result | Full history, star distribution, filters | From $2 per 1,000 requests (Growth, yearly); 50 free credits |
| Bright Data | Large files of product records | Listed field | Rating and review count | $1.50 per 1,000 records; 5,000 free records a month |
| SocialCrawl | Repeat lookups of the same US products, where cache hits are free | On shop product lists | First page only | From £15 for 2,500 credits; 100 free |
| Apify actors | Scheduled no-code exports to a dataset | Sales count | Yes (most-used actor) | $4.50 to $15 per 1,000 results |
| FastMoss, EchoTik | Sales trends, rankings and GMV estimates | Estimates and trends | Yes | FastMoss $0.01 a request; EchoTik $139/mo for 100,000 requests |
Review counts do not rank TikTok Shop products. Units sold do.
Many tools sort TikTok Shop products by review count, because that is the number every listing shows. It is the wrong number. We searched "led strip lights" with Scavio and compared each product's units sold with its review count.
Across the 26 results with both numbers, units sold ran from 5.3 to 18.2 times the review count, with a median of 9.9. The ratio is not stable enough to estimate one from the other. The best seller, a $20.49 USB strip from Shihui lighting technology with 154,905 units sold, has fewer reviews (8,799) than the next two listings, so a review-count ranking puts it third. 9 of the top 10 move when you rank by reviews. If your product finds winners, tracks a category or estimates revenue, use an API that returns units sold.
1. Scavio: units sold, full reviews, catalogues and categories
Scavio's TikTok Shop API is 8 POST endpoints, each 1 credit. Measured on October 26:
- Search: "led strip lights" returned 30 products in 3.9 s, each with price (current, original, discount, and the min and max across variants), rating, review count,
sold_count, variant count, the seller's id and name, and labels such as "Flash sale". A cursor pages to the next 30. - Reviews: the best seller above returned its whole rating picture in 3.0 s: 8,799 reviews, a 4.5 score and the distribution from 6,541 five-star down to 587 one-star, then 20 reviews with text, date and photos. Filters narrow to one star rating, photo or video reviews, verified purchases or newest first.
- Shop products: that seller's catalogue with exact prices, 30 a page.
- Categories, category products, suggestions, product detail and resolve: the category tree (28 top-level categories, 240 nodes, the same ids in every region), products under a category, keyword suggestions across all 8 marketplace regions, product detail with variants and live stock, and a resolver that turns a TikTok Shop share link into ids.
What it does not do: product search returns the US storefront by default, and only about 40% of search results have product detail behind them. The benefit is one key and one JSON format for TikTok Shop alongside Amazon, Walmart and Google Shopping, so a TikTok winner can be priced against Amazon in the next call, plus an MCP server for agents. How to get TikTok Shop product data programmatically walks through the three calls with captured responses.
2. Bright Data: bulk product records
Bright Data's TikTok Shop Scraper API collects product URL, product ID, title, price, currency, category, seller name, rating, review count, units sold and images. It costs $1.50 per 1,000 records pay-as-you-go, with 5,000 free records a month and no card. Because it bills per record, a search that returns 30 products costs 30 records rather than one call. Choose it when the deliverable is a large file of product records rather than an answer inside a request.
3. SocialCrawl: cached US lookups
SocialCrawl lists five TikTok Shop endpoints on its platform page: product, product reviews, shop products with sold counts, keyword search and a creator's showcase. A live call costs 1 credit and a cache hit costs 0, though product detail is metered at 1 to 4 credits. Credits come in one-time packs that never expire: 100 free, then £15 for 2,500, £49 for 20,000 and £299 for 150,000 (prices shown in pounds when we checked). The same page says product and showcase lookups are US-only and that there is no full multi-page review pagination. Choose it when you re-check the same US products often enough for free cache hits to matter.
4. Apify actors: scheduled no-code runs
The most-used TikTok Shop actor on Apify, pratikdani/tiktok-shop-scraper, had 3,018 users and 441 monthly users on October 26. It scrapes product, price, sales volume, rating, review and seller fields from $15 per 1,000 results ($0.015 to $0.025 per result by Apify plan) plus $0.002 per run. The cookie-free unseenuser actor charges $4.50 per 1,000 results. Actors run as jobs that write to a dataset, which suits scheduled exports and spreadsheets. For an app or agent that needs one product or one shop on demand, a per-call API is simpler. Each actor is maintained by its author, so pin the one you test.
5. FastMoss and EchoTik: sales analytics APIs
FastMoss and EchoTik are TikTok Shop analytics platforms that also sell their data by API. FastMoss offers REST endpoints, an MCP server and a CLI covering product and shop search, shop product lists, sales rankings, creators, videos and lives, priced per request: product search and shop product lists are $0.01 a request, and creator endpoints $0.02. EchoTik's Data API covers product, shop, creator, video and live data, with 100 free test requests, then $139 a month for 100,000 requests or $659 for 500,000.
Both are the right pick when you want their sales estimates, rankings and trend history rather than the live storefront. For raw listings, prices, units sold and reviews, they cost more per call: FastMoss's $0.01 is five times Scavio's Growth rate.
Kalodata also offers an open API for its TikTok Shop analytics, but its pricing is shown only after login. SocQ and SociaVault sell TikTok Shop endpoints inside broader social-data APIs, and general scraper APIs such as Oxylabs list TikTok Shop targets that hand you a page to parse rather than a TikTok Shop-shaped response.
Pick by the number you need
If your users act on what sells on TikTok Shop, at what price and why buyers complain, keeping units sold, prices and reviews current is the ongoing work, and it is what Scavio's TikTok Shop API handles. Tracking 50 keywords every day (the top 30 products each, with units sold) and 20 competitor shops every day is 70 calls a day, about 2,100 credits a month. That is $4.20 at the Growth-yearly rate of $2 per 1,000 credits, and it fits inside the $30 Project plan's 7,000 monthly credits. The same job billed per record would cover about 45,000 product records a month from the keyword searches alone. Try the TikTok Shop API free, 50 credits, no card, or try the endpoints in the playground.
Reference: all 8 TikTok Shop endpoints · search docs · TikTok Shop API alternatives
Frequently asked questions
Does TikTok Shop have a public API?
Not for marketplace data. TikTok Shop's Partner API is a seller API: its Search Products endpoint needs the seller's access token and the shop's shop_cipher, so it only reads shops that authorize your app. The Research API's TikTok Shop data is limited to academic researchers and EU products, and the Affiliate APIs only search products open to affiliate collaborations. Third-party APIs such as Scavio's TikTok Shop API read the public storefront with no seller account.
Which TikTok Shop API returns units sold?
Scavio returns sold_count on every search result, SocialCrawl shows sold counts on shop product lists, Bright Data lists units sold among its fields, and the most-used Apify actor returns a sales count. FastMoss and EchoTik sell sales estimates and trends rather than the storefront number.
What is the cheapest TikTok Shop scraper API?
Per product, Scavio: it is $2 per 1,000 calls on the Growth plan billed yearly, and one search call returns up to 30 products, about $0.07 per 1,000 product rows. Bright Data charges $1.50 per 1,000 records, Apify actors $4.50 to $15 per 1,000 results, and FastMoss $0.01 a request.
Can I get TikTok Shop reviews through an API?
Yes. Scavio's reviews endpoint returns 20 reviews a page with text, date and photos, plus the product's full 1-5 star distribution, and pages through the whole history with filters for star rating, photo or video, verified purchase and newest first. SocialCrawl's platform page says it has no full multi-page review pagination.
Do TikTok Shop APIs cover regions outside the US?
Mostly not reliably. Scavio's product search returns the US storefront by default, while its keyword suggestions cover all eight TikTok Shop marketplace regions. SocialCrawl's product lookups are US-only. FastMoss says it covers 20 markets with its analytics data.