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# TikTok scraping API vs the official TikTok API — what is the difference?

Official TikTok APIs serve partner and user-authorized app use cases. Social Fetch is a public-data lookup API: handle or URL in, structured JSON out, no creator OAuth. Choose official when you need write access or private user data; choose Social Fetch for public enrichment and monitoring.

Source: [TikTok data API](https://www.socialfetch.dev/platforms/tiktok)

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