TikTok Search photos API

Search TikTok for photo-mode (slideshow) posts by keyword, with every image in each post plus view, like and comment counts. tiktok.search_keyword returns videos and drops these.

POST/v1/run/tiktok.search_photos

Requests

30d

Pricing

One price, in dollars

Providers

Tiger- served- uptime- p50---$1.20/1k reqflat

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query*stringSearch keyword.cursorstringPagination cursor from a previous response's nextCursor.limitinteger 1-30Maximum items to return in one page.

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{
  "data": {
    "nextCursor": "example",
    "posts": [
      {
        "author": "Alex Rivera",
        "authorFollowers": 12500,
        "authorName": "Alex Rivera",
        "authorSecUid": "Alex Rivera",
        "authorVerified": true,
        "caption": "A short example description of this item.",
        "comments": 12500,
        "createdUtc": 12.5,
        "hashtags": [
          "a1b2c3d4"
        ],
        "id": "a1b2c3d4",
        "images": [
          {
            "height": 42,
            "image": "https://example.com/image.jpg",
            "width": 1024
          }
        ],
        "likes": 12500,
        "saves": 42,
        "shares": 13,
        "soundAuthor": "Alex Rivera",
        "soundClipId": "a1b2c3d4",
        "soundTitle": "Example title",
        "title": "Example title",
        "views": 12500
      }
    ]
  },
  "found": true
}

Response interface

interface TiktokSearchPhotosResponse {
  data: {
    nextCursor: string | null;
    posts: {
      author: string;
      authorFollowers?: number;
      authorName?: string;
      authorSecUid?: string;
      authorVerified?: boolean;
      caption: string;
      comments: number;
      createdUtc: number;
      hashtags?: string[];
      id: string;
      images?: {
        height?: number;
        image: string;
        width?: number;
      }[];
      likes: number;
      saves?: number;
      shares: number;
      soundAuthor?: string;
      soundClipId?: string;
      soundTitle?: string;
      title?: string;
      views: number;
    }[];
  } | null;
  found: boolean;
}

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Request, response, and price

Last verified 2026-09-16 · uptime and latency measured over 30d

POST /v1/run/tiktok.search_photos

curl -X POST https://api.getanyapi.com/v1/run/tiktok.search_photos \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ANYAPI_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"query":"latte art"}'

Field	Type	Example value
Request body
query	string	"latte art"Search keyword.
cursor	string	Pagination cursor from a previous response's nextCursor.
limit	integer	Maximum items to return in one page.
Response
data	object
data.nextCursor	string	Opaque cursor for the next page, or null when there are no more. Pass it back as cursor to continue.
data.posts	object[]	Photo-mode posts matching the keyword.
data.posts[].author	string	Handle of the account that posted the video, without the leading @. Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity.
data.posts[].authorFollowers	integer	The author's follower count at the time of the request. TikTok rounds this for large accounts.
data.posts[].authorName	string	The author's display name, which is not the handle and can contain any characters.
data.posts[].authorSecUid	string	The author's TikTok sec_uid. Pass it straight to tiktok.profile_reposts or tiktok.profile_playlists to pivot to that creator without a tiktok.profile lookup.
data.posts[].authorVerified	boolean
data.posts[].caption	string	Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity.
data.posts[].comments	integer
data.posts[].createdUtc	number	UTC epoch timestamp in seconds (Unix time). Multiply by 1000 for a JS Date in milliseconds. Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity.
data.posts[].hashtags	string[]	Hashtags carried in the caption, without the leading #. Empty when the post uses none; @-mentions are excluded.
data.posts[].id	string	TikTok video id. Pass it to tiktok.video as id for the full record. Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity.
data.posts[].images	object[]	The slideshow's images in order.
data.posts[].images[].height	integer
data.posts[].images[].image	string	Image URL. A signed, short-lived TikTok CDN URL - the query params are load-bearing, so keep the URL intact. Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity.
data.posts[].images[].width	integer
data.posts[].likes	integer
data.posts[].saves	integer
data.posts[].shares	integer
data.posts[].soundAuthor	string	Credited author of the sound.
data.posts[].soundClipId	string	Id of the sound the post uses. Pass it to tiktok.song or tiktok.song_videos as clipId.
data.posts[].soundTitle	string	Name of the sound. "original sound" means the creator's own audio rather than a licensed track.
data.posts[].title	string	The slideshow's own title, which TikTok stores separately from the caption. Absent when the creator set none.
data.posts[].views	integer
found	boolean
Price
Price per request	USD	$0.0012
Price /1k req	USD	$1.20

FAQ

About the TikTok Search photos API

The AnyAPI TikTok Search photos API returns TikTok search photos data as normalized JSON from one POST call to /v1/run/tiktok.search_photos. Search TikTok for photo-mode (slideshow) posts by keyword, with every image in each post plus view, like and comment counts. tiktok.search_keyword returns videos and drops these. AnyAPI returns one normalized schema whichever source serves it. It costs from $1.20 per 1,000 requests, in US dollars with no subscription and no monthly minimum.

It costs from $1.20 per 1,000 requests, in US dollars with no subscription and no monthly minimum. You fund one USD wallet, each call draws it down, and a failed request costs $0.

Search TikTok for photo-mode (slideshow) posts by keyword, with every image in each post plus view, like and comment counts. tiktok.search_keyword returns videos and drops these. The response is normalized JSON with the same envelope every AnyAPI endpoint returns, so parsing a second endpoint is a change of URL and nothing else.

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