# ShortsIntel, free: TikTok Ad Library API

> Search the TikTok Ad Library, then read one Ad with its targeting or one Advertiser.

ShortsIntel's Starter Grant plan for the TikTok Ad Library API costs $0.00 per 1,000 ads. ShortsIntel's docs list 3 of the 7 fields on our checklist: Run dates, Media, Advertiser.
We 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](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-ad-apis/scrapebadger/299-monthly/llms.txt) 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.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-ad-apis/shortsintel/free
- Get it: https://www.shortsintel.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=tiktok-ad-library-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://www.shortsintel.com/v1/ads/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.shortsintel.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=tiktok-ad-library-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://www.shortsintel.com/docs/reference/ads/search-ads?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=tiktok-ad-library-api-pricing
- Sold by: ShortsIntel (https://www.shortsintel.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=tiktok-ad-library-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-07

## In the answer

- Completeness: 43%
- Run dates: ✓
- Media: ✓
- Advertiser: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 ads: $0.00
- Per: page, size not stated
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: from 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 cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search the TikTok Ad Library, then read one Ad with its targeting or one Advertiser.

## Data

- Freshness: stored
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Derived 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 get: 1,000 credits
- Enough for: about 333 pages, once
- Expires: 90 days

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1
- Concurrent: 10
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call or by polling

## The call

- You send: library "tiktok", advertiser. Optional: cursor, wait, max_credits, estimate
- Method: POST
- Path: /ads/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Starter Grant
- Who can get it: anyone 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

## ShortsIntel's plans (5)

- [ShortsIntel, free](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-ad-apis/shortsintel/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 43% complete, stored
- [ShortsIntel, $10 pack](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-ad-apis/shortsintel/10-pack/llms.txt): 43% complete, stored
- [ShortsIntel, $20 pack](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-ad-apis/shortsintel/20-pack/llms.txt): 43% complete, stored
- [ShortsIntel, $50 pack](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-ad-apis/shortsintel/50-pack/llms.txt): 43% complete, stored
- [ShortsIntel, $100 pack](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-ad-apis/shortsintel/100-pack/llms.txt): 43% complete, stored

## ShortsIntel's calls for this API (1)

- `POST /ads/search`: [ShortsIntel, free](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-ad-apis/shortsintel/free/llms.txt)

## ShortsIntel's APIs (11)

- [ShortsIntel: Facebook Ad Library API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/shortsintel/free/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: Facebook page API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-page-apis/shortsintel/free/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: Instagram profile API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/shortsintel/free/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: TikTok Ad Library API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-ad-apis/shortsintel/free/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: TikTok profile API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/shortsintel/free/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: video search API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/shortsintel/free/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: YouTube channel API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/shortsintel/free/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: Facebook post API pricing, 5 plans, GET /creators/{platform}/{handle}](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-post-apis/shortsintel/free-starter-grant-get-creators-platform-handle/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: Facebook post API pricing, 5 plans, GET /creators/{platform}/{handle}/videos](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-post-apis/shortsintel/free-starter-grant-get-creators-platform-handle-videos/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: Instagram post API pricing, 5 plans, GET /creators/{platform}/{handle}](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/shortsintel/free-starter-grant-get-creators-platform-handle/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: Instagram post API pricing, 5 plans, GET /creators/{platform}/{handle}/videos](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/shortsintel/free-starter-grant-get-creators-platform-handle-videos/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: TikTok video API pricing, 5 plans, GET /creators/{platform}/{handle}](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-video-apis/shortsintel/free-starter-grant-get-creators-platform-handle/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: TikTok video API pricing, 5 plans, GET /creators/{platform}/{handle}/videos](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-video-apis/shortsintel/free-starter-grant-get-creators-platform-handle-videos/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: YouTube channel video API pricing, 5 plans, GET /creators/{platform}/{handle}](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/shortsintel/free-starter-grant-get-creators-platform-handle/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: YouTube channel video API pricing, 5 plans, GET /creators/{platform}/{handle}/videos](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/shortsintel/free-starter-grant-get-creators-platform-handle-videos/llms.txt)

## ShortsIntel: TikTok Ad Library API alternatives

- [Social Fetch, free](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-ad-apis/social-fetch/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Upscrape, free](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-ad-apis/upscrape/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 86% complete, live
- [Stophy, free](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-ad-apis/stophy/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 71% complete
- [AdLibAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-ad-apis/adlibapi/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 71% complete, live

## 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.

- https://www.shortsintel.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=tiktok-ad-library-api-pricing
- https://www.shortsintel.com/docs/concepts/authentication-and-limits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=tiktok-ad-library-api-pricing
- https://www.shortsintel.com/docs/concepts/pricing-and-estimates?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=tiktok-ad-library-api-pricing
- https://www.shortsintel.com/openapi.v1.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=tiktok-ad-library-api-pricing
- https://www.shortsintel.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=tiktok-ad-library-api-pricing
- https://www.shortsintel.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=tiktok-ad-library-api-pricing
- https://www.shortsintel.com/tiktok-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=tiktok-ad-library-api-pricing