TikTok 2 min read

How to Get Someone’s TikTok Followers (and What You Can Do With Them)

Learn how to scrape someone’s TikTok followers with Scrape Creators. Get usernames, regions, avatars, then enrich the data to reveal demographics.

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Picture of a Tiktok users followers on the left and the json representation on the right

If you’ve ever wanted to see who follows a certain TikTok creator, TikTok doesn’t exactly make that easy… unless you know where to look.

With Scrape Creators, you can pull *thousands* of a creator’s followers, quickly, reliably, and at scale.

What You Can Get

Using our TikTok Followers endpoint, you can grab:

  • Username (unique_id)
  • Region (country)
  • Avatar (profile picture URL)
  • Biography (signature)

Example JSON snippet: *you can’t view the avatars because the url’s expire after a while

{
  "followers": [
    {
      "avatar_larger": {
        "url_list": [
          "https://p16-amd-va.tiktokcdn.com/tos-maliva-avt-0068/a99ae12f4a7d4d3684ca661043441961~tplv-tiktokx-cropcenter-q:1080:1080:q70.heic?dr=13360&idc=no1a&ps=87d6e48a&s=COMMON_RELATION_LIST&sc=avatar&shcp=65db1d19&shp=30310797&t=223449c4",
          "https://p16-amd-va.tiktokcdn.com/tos-maliva-avt-0068/a99ae12f4a7d4d3684ca661043441961~tplv-tiktokx-cropcenter-q:1080:1080:q70.webp?dr=13360&idc=no1a&ps=87d6e48a&s=COMMON_RELATION_LIST&sc=avatar&shcp=65db1d19&shp=30310797&t=223449c4"
        ]
      },
      "follower_count": 224,
      "following_count": 1686,
      "language": "en",
      "nickname": "chance_bradley",
      "region": "US",
      "signature": "✞ Proverbs 3:6 ✞\nsc:chancetb10\nig:chancebradley10",
      "uid": "7287081570401567786",
      "unique_id": "chance_bradley"
    },
    {
      "avatar_larger": {
        "url_list": [
          "https://p16-amd-va.tiktokcdn.com/tos-maliva-avt-0068/ed6dc8b1952f462908036cf50ee48918~tplv-tiktokx-cropcenter-q:1080:1080:q70.heic?dr=13360&idc=no1a&ps=87d6e48a&s=COMMON_RELATION_LIST&sc=avatar&shcp=65db1d19&shp=30310797&t=223449c4",
          "https://p16-amd-va.tiktokcdn.com/tos-maliva-avt-0068/ed6dc8b1952f462908036cf50ee48918~tplv-tiktokx-cropcenter-q:1080:1080:q70.webp?dr=13360&idc=no1a&ps=87d6e48a&s=COMMON_RELATION_LIST&sc=avatar&shcp=65db1d19&shp=30310797&t=223449c4"
        ]
      },
      "follower_count": 173,
      "following_count": 353,
      "language": "en",
      "nickname": "Corey",
      "region": "US",
      "uid": "6763704013219316741",
      "unique_id": "slowaf5oh"
    },
    {
      "avatar_larger": {
        "url_list": [
          "https://p16-amd-va.tiktokcdn.com/tos-maliva-avt-0068/f9383631e777f149c78eefff138a4fa5~tplv-tiktokx-cropcenter-q:1080:1080:q70.heic?dr=13360&idc=no1a&ps=87d6e48a&s=COMMON_RELATION_LIST&sc=avatar&shcp=65db1d19&shp=30310797&t=223449c4",
          "https://p16-amd-va.tiktokcdn.com/tos-maliva-avt-0068/f9383631e777f149c78eefff138a4fa5~tplv-tiktokx-cropcenter-q:1080:1080:q70.webp?dr=13360&idc=no1a&ps=87d6e48a&s=COMMON_RELATION_LIST&sc=avatar&shcp=65db1d19&shp=30310797&t=223449c4"
        ]
      },
      "follower_count": 68,
      "following_count": 621,
      "language": "en",
      "nickname": "Jose Hernandez",
      "region": "US",
      "uid": "6820529861485331462",
      "unique_id": "hoehernandez"
    }
  ],
  "has_more": true,
  "max_time": 1754342057,
  "min_time": 1754339219,
  "next_page_token": "eyJtYXhfY3Vyc29yIjoxNzU0MzQyMDUyLCJtaW5fY3Vyc29yIjoxNzU0MzM5MjE5fQ==",
  "offset": 0,
  "total": 4462674
}

How to Get the Data

Check out the docs: https://docs.scrapecreators.com/v1/tiktok/user/followers

  1. Sign Up** For an API Key**
  2. Make a GET request to ****https://api.scrapecreators.com/v1/tiktok/user/followers *Make sure you put the API key in a x-api-key header
  3. **Paginate with min_time ** Use min_time from the response and pass that as a query parameter to get more followers!

The Cool Stuff You Can Do With That Data

Once you’ve got a creator’s followers, that’s just the start. Here’s where it gets interesting:

  • Enrich with profile info – Use our TikTok Profile endpoint to get bios, follower counts,
  • See their content – Use our TikTok Profile Videos endpoint to pull their videos to understand what they post and how well they perform.
  • Audience demographics – Use our Detect Age & Gender endpoint to figure out the gender and approximate age of each follower. Combine that with the region field and you’ve got a full breakdown of where a creator’s audience is from and who they are.
  • Competitor analysis – See who follows your competitors, then reach out or target similar audiences.
  • Lead generation – Build marketing lists of highly engaged users in your niche.

Why Use Scrape Creators?

We make it dead simple to get clean, structured TikTok data without dealing with browser automation or getting blocked:

  • High request limits
  • Multiple social media platforms (TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, X/Twitter, and more)
  • Fast, clean JSON output you can plug straight into your tools or database

Try It

If you’re ready to get a list of someone’s TikTok followers (and unlock all the insights that come with it), sign up here and start pulling data in minutes.

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Adrian Horning

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Adrian Horning

Founder of ScrapeCreators. I write about social data APIs, scraper reliability, and turning public creator data into useful products.

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