How to Scrape TikTok Followers and Following Lists

To scrape a TikTok account’s followers or following list, give apidojo’s TikTok User Scraper on Apify the profile URL, set getFollowers or getFollowing to true, and set maxItems as a cap. It returns each account in the list with its username, nickname, bio, follower and following counts, likes, video count, verification, region and language. It charges $0.005 per query, with about the first 10 users of each list included, then $0.0005 per user. Lists the owner has hidden can’t be collected.

Follower lists show who an account’s audience is and who it follows, which is useful for influencer vetting and competitor research. This guide covers the method, the actor’s limits and costs, and what the data is good for. The full overview is in how to scrape TikTok data in 2026. Each follower is a profile you can expand with how to scrape TikTok profiles and their videos, and very long lists are paced by TikTok scraping limits.

How Do You Scrape TikTok Followers?

You scrape followers by pointing TikTok User Scraper at a profile and setting getFollowers, getFollowing or both to true. Both are off by default, and with both off the actor returns only the base profile. Each run must fetch at least 10 users, and single-profile runs with both switches off aren’t allowed (Apify). Listed below are the 4 steps.

1. Open TikTok User Scraper.
2. Add the profile URL, such as https://www.tiktok.com/@nasa.
3. Set getFollowers to true for followers, getFollowing to true for following, or both.
4. Set maxItems, run it, and export the list as JSON, CSV or Excel.

{
  "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@nasa" }],
  "getFollowers": true,
  "maxItems": 5000
}

This is the actor’s own follower example, with maxItems limiting the list to the first 5,000 followers. Leave maxItems empty for no cap (Apify).

What Data Do You Get for Each Follower?

Each follower or followed account comes back as a profile record: username, nickname, bio, followers, following, likes, videos, verified, region, language, and hasEmail and hasPhone flags that show whether contact details appear in the bio. That’s enough to sort an audience by size, filter out empty or suspicious accounts, and spot creators worth contacting (Apify).

How Many Followers Can You Scrape?

There’s no fixed cap: TikTok User Scraper paginates through follower lists, so maxItems is what limits the output. The actor’s documentation warns that a creator with 1 million followers generates 1 million user records if getFollowers is on with no maxItems limit, so set a cap while testing. Profiles need at least 10 followers or following for stable extraction (Apify).

Why Can’t You See Someone’s Followers or Following List?

TikTok lets users set their following list to Only me, and private accounts hide both their followers and following lists from anyone they haven’t approved. A public account’s followers list can’t be hidden on its own. When a list is hidden in the app, scrapers can’t collect it either. How the settings work is covered in how to hide your followers and following list on TikTok.

What Can You Do With TikTok Follower Data?

Follower data is most useful for vetting creators and mapping audiences. Listed below are the 4 common uses.

Use	What to look at
Spot fake followers	Many followers with no videos, no bio and default names
Map an audience	Which creators an account’s followers also follow
Find creators	Who a respected account follows in a niche
Track growth	The same account’s follower count over time

Vetting creators with data is covered in how to find TikTok influencers by niche with data.

What Does Scraping TikTok Followers Cost?

TikTok User Scraper uses event-based pricing: $0.005 per profile URL, $0.005 per follower or following query with about the first 10 users included, and $0.0005 for each user after that. One profile with 1,000 followers costs about $0.51, and one profile with 10,000 followers about $5.01. The free Apify plan runs it in demo mode, 5 runs a month with 10 items each (Apify).

Is It OK to Scrape TikTok Followers?

Follower lists are personal data about real people, so collect only what your project needs and check TikTok’s terms and the data protection law that applies to you, such as the GDPR. Don’t use follower lists to contact people at scale without a lawful basis.