Tiktok Followings API
See who any TikTok user follows to map niche interests, understand creator networks, and sharpen your competitor research.
Python | 1 | import requests |
| 2 | |
| 3 | root = "https://ensembledata.com/apis" |
| 4 | endpoint = "/tt/user/followings" |
| 5 | params = { |
| 6 | "id": "6784819479778378757", |
| 7 | "secUid": "MS4wLjABAAAAQ45IcDZIqrknyl0FDjs7xDlcxlaRE7CcBx1ENxYkWK00UpeKTTlCQWKxq6t9QM6b", |
| 8 | "cursor": 0, |
| 9 | "page_token": "", |
| 10 | "token": "YOUR-TOKEN-HERE" |
| 11 | } |
| 12 | |
| 13 | res = requests.get(root+endpoint, params=params) |
| 14 | print(res.json()) |
| 15 |
Why Developer Teams Use Our API
Map Creator Networks
See exactly who an account follows to understand the connections behind its content.
Reveal Niche Interests
Following lists expose the brands and creators an audience already pays attention to.
Competitor Intelligence
Study who a rival account follows to find partnership ideas they've already validated.
Full Public Following Data
Paginate through the complete following list, even for accounts following thousands of others.
Brand Partnership Leads
Spot brands a creator already follows as a natural opening for outreach.
Always Current State
Data is fetched live, so the following list reflects the account's present connections.
Scrape Tiktok Data Effortlessly
Crawl account lists and niche affinities for any TikTok user with our followings API, useful for competitor analysis and building smarter audience targeting strategies.
Warm Lead Discovery
See which brands a TikTok creator already follows to prioritize warm pitches.
Niche Affinity Mapping
Map the topics and accounts a TikTok user follows to understand real interests.
Cross-Account Comparison
Compare following lists across TikTok creators to spot shared connections.
Tiktok Scraping Features
Dig into following data to find out which creators and brands your target audience is interested in, great for brand positioning and strategic content planning.
- See the complete public list of accounts any TikTok user follows, not just a sample.
- Map niche affinities by seeing which brands and creators an account already follows.
- Study a competitor's followings to surface partnership ideas they've already validated.
- Spot warm outreach leads by checking which brands a creator already follows.
- Compare followings across multiple TikTok accounts to find shared connections.
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Contact usFrequently Asked Questions
Followers returns who follows a given account, while Followings returns who that account itself follows, which is useful for network and interest mapping.
Following lists reveal the creators, brands, and topics an account is interested in, which is useful for competitor mapping and understanding niche affinities.
Yes, comparing the followings of multiple accounts can reveal shared interests or connections between creators and brands.
The endpoint paginates through the full public following list, so you can retrieve the complete list for accounts with large followings.
Each entry represents an account the target user follows; whether that account follows back isn't indicated directly, you'd need to cross-check that account's own follower list separately.
Page size is fixed per request regardless of account size; larger following counts simply require more paginated calls using the returned cursor.
Yes, there's no hard cap, though accounts with very large following counts take proportionally more paginated requests to retrieve fully.
No, TikTok doesn't expose follow timestamps publicly, so the response includes the followed account's profile data but not the date the follow occurred.
Yes, seeing which brands and creators an account already follows can surface warm leads for influencer or brand partnership outreach.