TikTok video metrics without an API — views, likes, comments from a URL

How-to

TikTok video metrics from a URL — views, likes, comments, no invite required.

TikTok's official API is invite-only for most developers, and the application process is selective. Pulse reads TikTok's own public pages from a residential IP — the same numbers a visitor sees — and returns them as clean JSON with one GET request.

One call, live numbers

curl "https://pulse.walls.sh/metrics?url=https://www.tiktok.com/@khaby.lame/video/6967348974688816390"

{
  "platform": "tiktok",
  "views": 39600000,
  "likes": 5500000,
  "comments": 39500,
  "shares": 22300,
  "publishedAt": "2021-05-28T14:32:30.000Z",
  "title": "Boss.. one shot - 3 points",
  "author": "@khaby.lame"
}

Those are live numbers — fetched at time of writing. Pulse returns views, likes, comments, shares, publishedAt, title, and author for any public TikTok post.

Short links work too

curl "https://pulse.walls.sh/metrics?url=https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMhQXu7RL/"

vm.tiktok.com short links resolve automatically — paste them directly without expanding first.

Creator follower count

curl "https://pulse.walls.sh/profile?url=https://www.tiktok.com/@charlidamelio"

{
  "platform": "tiktok",
  "handle": "charlidamelio",
  "followers": 158300000,
  "posts": 3150
}

Profile URLs return follower count, following count, and total video count for any public TikTok creator.

In code

JavaScript / Node

const videoUrl = "https://www.tiktok.com/@khaby.lame/video/6967348974688816390";

const res = await fetch(
  "https://pulse.walls.sh/metrics?url=" + encodeURIComponent(videoUrl)
);
const { views, likes, comments, shares, publishedAt } = await res.json();
console.log({ views, likes, comments, shares, publishedAt });

Python

import requests

video_url = "https://www.tiktok.com/@khaby.lame/video/6967348974688816390"
data = requests.get(
    "https://pulse.walls.sh/metrics",
    params={"url": video_url}
).json()
print(data["views"], data["likes"], data["comments"])

Multiple videos in one request

GET /metrics/batch?url=TIKTOK_URL_A&url=TIKTOK_URL_B&url=TIKTOK_URL_C

Up to 50 TikTok URLs per batch request, order preserved. You can also mix TikTok with YouTube, X, and Bluesky URLs in the same batch — same endpoint, same response shape. A private or deleted video comes back as { url, error: "content_unavailable" } without failing the rest.

curl "https://pulse.walls.sh/metrics/batch?url=TIKTOK_URL_1&url=TIKTOK_URL_2"
# → { "count": 2, "results": [ { "views": …, "likes": … }, { "views": …, "likes": … } ] }

Track how a video's views grow

Every /metrics call saves a timestamped snapshot. After the second fetch, /history returns the full series:

curl "https://pulse.walls.sh/history?url=https://www.tiktok.com/@khaby.lame/video/6967348974688816390"
# → { "points": [ { "t": "…", "views": 39500000, "likes": 5490000 }, … ] }

Add &since=<ISO-timestamp> to get only new points since your last poll. Pulse stores the time series; you don't need a separate database.

Limits and pricing

Free: 120 calls/minute, no account or signup needed. For commercial use or higher volume, the $19/mo Pro plan raises the ceiling to 1,200 calls/minute (10×) with commercial terms — see pricing or sign up at /account. All endpoints set RateLimit-* response headers so your code can self-throttle before hitting a 429.

More: full API docs · OpenAPI spec · all supported platforms · how I built Pulse · YouTube metrics without an API key.