Python guide
Text, likes, reply counts and dates for every comment on a public TikTok video, saved to CSV. One API key. No TikTok login, cookies or browser.
import csv
import os
import requests
API_URL = "https://www.monocrawl.com/v1/tiktok/post-comments"
HEADERS = {"x-api-key": os.environ["MONOCRAWL_API_KEY"]}
VIDEO = "https://www.tiktok.com/@mkbhd/video/7655355767746284814"
def get_comments(video_url, max_pages=100):
params = {"url": video_url}
for _ in range(max_pages):
body = requests.get(API_URL, params=params, headers=HEADERS, timeout=60).json()
if not body.get("success"):
raise RuntimeError(body["error"]["message"])
yield from body["data"]["items"]
if not body["data"].get("has_more"):
break
params = {"url": video_url, "cursor": body["data"]["cursor"]}
with open("comments.csv", "w", newline="", encoding="utf-8") as file:
writer = csv.writer(file)
writer.writerow(["id", "created_at", "likes", "replies", "author", "text"])
for comment in get_comments(VIDEO):
writer.writerow([comment["id"], comment["created_at"], comment["likes"],
comment["reply_count"], comment["author"]["handle"], comment["text"]])$ python comments.py
GET /v1/tiktok/post-comments page 1
✓ 49 comments · 1 credit · has_more: true
↻ following the cursor until has_more is false
✓ comments.csv · this video: 1,355 comments ≈ 28 pages ≈ 28 credits (estimate)
Four steps
export MONOCRAWL_API_KEY="mn_your_key_here"
pip install requestsWhat you get
MONOCRAWL_API_KEY=mn_••••••••Free plan · 1,000 credits a month · No card
What comes back
A real page from a Marques Brownlee TikTok about Apple’s price rises: 49 of its 1,355 comments, for 1 credit. The first 6 are below, commenters left out.
idThe comment’s TikTok idtextWhat the commenter wrotecreated_atWhen, as an ISO timestamplikesLikes on the commentreply_countReplies in its threadauthorThe commenter’s id, handle and nameSuddenly the Neo not so appealing
5,4492325 Jun 2026“Temporary price increases” I’ve never seen a company raise the price and go back down. Once they see enough people are willing to pay these prices they won’t go down.
10,2243325 Jun 2026Reminder... Apple has almost $150 billion in cash reserves. They don't NEED to do this. They don't care about customers.
1,1162025 Jun 2026All this for AI slop
1,228325 Jun 2026you don't hate AI enough
2,150525 Jun 2026there’s no such thing as temporary price increase
1,043326 Jun 2026{
"success": true,
"data": {
"items": [
{
"id": "7655398064869901070",
"text": "Suddenly the Neo not so appealing",
"created_at": "2026-06-25T18:15:01.000Z",
"likes": 5449,
"reply_count": 23
},
{
"id": "7655361959764116237",
"text": "“Temporary price increases” I’ve never seen a company raise the price and go back down. Once they see enough people are willing to pay these prices they won’t go down.",
"created_at": "2026-06-25T15:54:51.000Z",
"likes": 10224,
"reply_count": 33
},
{
"id": "7655396770322744094",
"text": "Reminder... Apple has almost $150 billion in cash reserves. They don't NEED to do this. They don't care about customers.",
"created_at": "2026-06-25T18:09:37.000Z",
"likes": 1116,
"reply_count": 20
},
{
"id": "7655360792607474445",
"text": "All this for AI slop",
"created_at": "2026-06-25T15:50:30.000Z",
"likes": 1228,
"reply_count": 3
},
{
"id": "7655383483145863958",
"text": "you don't hate AI enough",
"created_at": "2026-06-25T17:18:02.000Z",
"likes": 2150,
"reply_count": 5
},
{
"id": "7655498775855940360",
"text": "there’s no such thing as temporary price increase",
"created_at": "2026-06-26T00:45:29.000Z",
"likes": 1043,
"reply_count": 3
}
],
"count": 49,
"cursor": "mlc1.…",
"has_more": true,
"total": 1355
}
}Cost
Every page of about 50 comments costs 1 credit, and replies cost the same. Slide to see what a video costs.
About 50 comments a page; the recorded page returned 49. Failed calls are free.
Two more things
A comment with replies has its own thread. Fetch it from tiktok/comment-replies with the video URL and the comment’s id: same fields, same cursor, 1 credit a page.
REPLIES_URL = "https://www.monocrawl.com/v1/tiktok/comment-replies"
params = {"url": VIDEO, "comment_id": "7655361959764116237"}
body = requests.get(REPLIES_URL, params=params, headers=HEADERS, timeout=60).json()
for reply in body["data"]["items"]:
print(reply["likes"], reply["text"])A failed call returns success: false with an error type and message, and costs nothing. On HTTP 429, wait and try again.
Rate limits by planimport time
def get_page(params, attempts=5):
for attempt in range(attempts):
response = requests.get(API_URL, params=params, headers=HEADERS, timeout=60)
if response.status_code != 429:
return response.json()
time.sleep(2 ** attempt)
raise RuntimeError("Still rate limited; try again later")Other platforms
The same key collects comments from other platforms. Each endpoint’s reference lists its fields and paging.
Questions
No. You call Monocrawl with your API key and get the comments back as JSON. It works for public videos.
About 50. The recorded page returned 49, with has_more set to true and a cursor for the next page.
1 credit for each page that comes back, and replies cost the same. The free plan’s 1,000 credits a month cover about 1,000 pages, and failed calls are free.
Yes. Use tiktok/comment-replies with the video URL and the comment’s id. It returns replies with the same fields and pages them the same way.
Yes. Run the same loop for each video URL. Each video is paged on its own, with its own cursor.
TikTok’s own APIs have their own access rules. Our TikTok data API comparison sets out the official routes and the main providers side by side.
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