Extract data from a TikTok video

What this workflow does

TikTok shows you a video. It does not show you the data behind it in any form you can sort, compare or keep. Reading the counts off the screen means squinting at rounded figures and screenshotting, and the caption, the hashtags and the sound all have to be copied by hand.

This workflow takes the video link instead. It opens the video the way a viewer would and returns one row with the caption, the hashtags parsed into a list, the duration, the posting date, and the play, like, comment, share and save counts. It then opens the creator profile and the sound page behind that video, so the row also carries who posted it, how big their account is, and how many other videos are using the same track.

Give it one link and you get one row. Give it a list and it works through them one at a time at a human pace. Because every row records when it was collected, reading the same videos again a week later shows how the counts moved after posting, which the app itself never surfaces.

How it works, step by step

Every run follows the same five steps in the same order. You supply the video links and whether you want the comments:

1. 1Open the video. Opens each TikTok video link you supplied and confirms the video is public before reading anything.
2. 2Read the video data. Reads the caption, the hashtags, the duration, the posting date and the play, like, comment, share and save counts.
3. 3Read the creator and the sound. Opens the creator profile and the sound page behind the video so the row carries who posted it and what it was set to.
4. 4Read the comments. When comments are switched on, opens the comment list and reads the text, author, timestamp and like count.
5. 5Save and check the CSV. Writes videos, creators, sounds and comments into linked CSVs in Downloads and opens them to confirm the columns and row counts.

Every run follows these steps in order. If a step cannot be completed, the run stops and tells you what happened instead of guessing.

What you need to run it

A computer with Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge and the Incredible extension installed, plus a normal browser you already use for TikTok. There is no developer account to register, no Research API application and no approval to wait for, because the workflow reads the same public video pages any viewer sees. A Google account is needed only if you want the finished files checked in Google Sheets. There is nothing to code and no APIs to connect.

Why teams run this with Incredible

Incredible opens the video the way a person would, so the data that only exists on the public page comes back as a row without an application or an approval queue. Every run repeats the steps it was taught in the same order, which is what makes reading the same video again next week directly comparable, and each row records when it was collected and where the run was served from, because TikTok can show different results in different places. If a step cannot be completed the run stops and reports what happened instead of guessing. Incredible is GDPR compliant and none of your data is stored or used for training.