TikTok Ad Library API - Search Ads, Top Ads, Ad Detail

TikTok Ad Library via Scavio

Search the ads running on TikTok by keyword and/or industry, pull the top-performing ads with a written performance highlight, and open one ad in full with its objective, engagement, the countries it ran in, its landing page and a playable video. All endpoints return structured JSON.

When to trigger

Use this skill when the user asks to:

• Find TikTok ads for a brand, keyword, product or industry
• See what ads a competitor is running on TikTok and how they perform
• Pull the top-performing TikTok ads in a niche for creative research or swipe files
• Get one ad in full: objective, click-through rate, likes, the countries it ran in, its landing page and the video
• Do paid-social / creative research or ad-intelligence work on TikTok

Setup

Get a free API key at scavio.dev (50 free credits to get started, no card required):

export SCAVIO_API_KEY=sk_live_your_key

Every request is a POST with a JSON body and:

Authorization: Bearer $SCAVIO_API_KEY

Endpoints

Base URL: https://api.scavio.dev. Every TikTok Ads endpoint costs 1 credit.

Parameters

ads/search

Provide a keyword or an industry (or both).

ads/top

ads/detail

Scope notes

• ads/search requires a keyword or an industry - a bare call with neither is rejected.
• search and top rows carry a video.cover image but not a playable file. To get a downloadable MP4, call ads/detail with the ad_id, which returns video.url.
• video.url and video.cover links are directly usable but signed with a short expiry - fetch them promptly rather than storing the URL.
• top returns TikTok's curated top performers, so it does not deep-paginate the way search does.
• Results are scoped to a country (search defaults to US) and, for search, a lookback period.

Examples

import requests

BASE = "https://api.scavio.dev"
# Your key from https://scavio.dev. Load it from your environment or secret
# store in real code - keep it out of source control.
API_KEY = "sk_your_key_here"
HEADERS = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {API_KEY}"}

# 1. Search ads for a brand in the last 180 days
search = requests.post(f"{BASE}/api/v1/tiktok/ads/search", headers=HEADERS,
    json={"keyword": "nike", "country": "US", "period": 180, "limit": 20}).json()
for ad in search["data"]["ads"]:
    print(ad["ad_id"], ad["ctr"], ad["title"])

# 2. Top-performing ads in an industry
top = requests.post(f"{BASE}/api/v1/tiktok/ads/top", headers=HEADERS,
    json={"industry": "label_22108000000", "country": "US"}).json()

# 3. One ad in full, including a playable video URL, by an id from search
ad_id = search["data"]["ads"][0]["ad_id"]
detail = requests.post(f"{BASE}/api/v1/tiktok/ads/detail", headers=HEADERS,
    json={"ad_id": ad_id}).json()
d = detail["data"]
print(d["brand"], d["objective"], d["countries"], d["video"]["url"])

curl:

curl -s https://api.scavio.dev/api/v1/tiktok/ads/search \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SCAVIO_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"keyword":"nike","country":"US","period":180}'

Response shape

Every response uses the envelope { data, response_time, credits_used, credits_remaining }. On search and top, data carries ads[] plus a pagination block; on detail, data is the ad object with a nested video (id, duration, cover, and a playable url).

Guardrails

• Every TikTok Ads call is 1 credit.
• Never fabricate ad copy, brands, click-through rates, likes or landing pages. Only return what the API returned.
• search and top do not include a playable video - only detail returns video.url. Do not claim a downloadable video from a search row.
• Video and cover URLs expire quickly - fetch promptly rather than storing the link.

Failure handling

• 400 means an invalid request - most often search called with neither keyword nor industry. Fix and retry.
• 401 means the API key is invalid or missing. Check SCAVIO_API_KEY.
• 404 means the ad id was not found.
• 429 means rate or usage limit exceeded. Wait before retrying. See rate limits.
• 502 / 503 mean the source is temporarily unavailable - wait a few seconds and retry.
• If SCAVIO_API_KEY is not set, prompt the user to export it before continuing.