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ShortsIntel pricing: TikTok Ad Library API

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43% complete: 3 of the 7 fields on our checklistSee the 7 fields
$0.00per 1,000 adsWe haven't run a TikTok Ad Library API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 27 plans for TikTok Ad Library APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.156 per 1,000 ads or less.ScrapeBadger's $299 monthly plan costs the least per 1,000 ads: $0.0096. ScrapeBadger charges for each page of results. We count 50 ads on each page to get the $0.0096 price.
Type a number to see the cheapest ShortsIntel plan for that many ads. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Starter Grant one of ShortsIntel's 5 plans
Call: POST /ads/search ShortsIntel's only call for this API
API: TikTok Ad Library API one of ShortsIntel's 11 APIs

About this item

  • Stored. You get ads from ShortsIntel's copy of TikTok. ShortsIntel doesn't say how old the copy is.
  • 3 of the 7 fields on our checklist. Run dates, Media, Advertiser.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 1,000 credits once, enough for about 333 pages. Calls stop once your credits run out. Unused credits expire after 90 days.
  • One call. You send advertiser to POST /ads/search. You set library to "tiktok". You can also send cursor, wait, max_credits and estimate. The call returns the answer when the provider is quick. When the provider is slow, the call returns a job. You fetch the answer once the job is done.
  • Who can get it: anyone who signs up. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

ShortsIntel: TikTok Ad Library API alternatives

ShortsIntel alternatives: other TikTok Ad Library API providers by price

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 ads.

This planShortsIntel, freeSocial Fetch, freeUpscrape, freeStophy, freeAdLibAPI, free
$ per 1,000 ads$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness43%100%86%71%71%
Billingfreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0$0
Enough forabout 333 pages, once100 pages4 pages5,000 pages, once1,000 pages a month
Freshnessstoredliveliveunknownlive
Who can get itanyone who signs upanyone, for an organisation, someone with the authority to bind itanyone at least 18 years old and legally capable of entering the termsanyone who signs up, no cardanyone with an account and a valid email address, one free account per person or company

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-07.

  1. shortsintel.com
  2. shortsintel.com/docs/concepts/authentication-and-limits
  3. shortsintel.com/docs/concepts/pricing-and-estimates
  4. shortsintel.com/openapi.v1.json
  5. shortsintel.com/pricing
  6. shortsintel.com/terms
  7. shortsintel.com/tiktok-api

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Ad status, not in the answer
  • Run dates
  • Text, not in the answer
  • Media
  • Audience, not in the answer
  • Engagement, not in the answer
  • Advertiser
Price
$ per 1,000 ads$0.00
Perpage, size not stated
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Research a niche · Refresh a research's videos · Run a Creator Breakdown · Search videos by keyword · Look up a video by URL · Look up a video by id · Analyse a video · Score a video against its creator · Read a video's comments · Read a comment's replies · Look up a creator and baseline · Page a creator's stored videos · Look up a hashtag's trend · Page a hashtag's videos · Look up a sound's trend · Page a sound's videos · Sample a keyword search · Look up a Meta Ad by id · Get a TikTok Ad · Look up an advertiser profile · Start tracking a target · Run a tracker cycle now · Set or clear a tracker's focus · Preview a focus on a tracker
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchSearch the TikTok Ad Library, then read one Ad with its targeting or one Advertiser.
Data
Freshnessstored
Keep datano limit
Use dataDerived works are permitted. You may analyse, transform, combine and build on the API output, and you may distribute and commercialise the results [...] Reselling the raw data is not permitted. You may not: resell, sublicense, redistribute or otherwise make available the raw records or bulk API output as a data product, feed, export or dataset, whether for a fee or free of charge, republish raw records in bulk, or mirror, replicate or reconstruct the ShortsIntel corpus or any substantial part of it, including by systematic enumeration of the API, use the API or its output to build, train or operate a substitute for the Service, or a competing short-form video data service, use the output to identify, target, profile, score or make decisions about individual people, including creators and commenters, or to enable anyone else to do so, remove, obscure or misrepresent the provenance of data obtained through the Service where you are permitted to display it. Upstream restrictions pass through. [...] Where those providers or platforms impose restrictions on the use, retention or redistribution of that data, those restrictions apply to you as well
Plan
Pay$0
You get1,000 credits
Enough forabout 333 pages, once
Expires90 days
Rate limit
Per second1
Concurrent10
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call or by polling
The call
You sendlibrary "tiktok", advertiser. Optional: cursor, wait, max_credits, estimate
MethodPOST
Path/ads/search
About the plan
PlanStarter Grant
Who can get itanyone who signs up
The 14 fields the plan's answer can hold

ad ID, ad library URL, advertiser ID, advertiser name, active, first shown, last shown, display format, media type, images, videos, cover image, target countries, next cursor

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