What gets exported from TikTok
Every comment on the target video, including all replies. Each row in your file:
- username — the @-handle of the commenter
- display_name — the commenter's TikTok display name
- comment — the comment text, with @mentions and hashtags preserved
- likes — current like count on the comment
- created_at_utc — ISO 8601 UTC timestamp
- reply_to — the parent comment's @-handle for replies
- permalink — direct URL to the comment on TikTok
Three formats
Excel (.xlsx)
Pre-formatted with auto-filter and frozen header row. Best for human review. Available on every plan including the free tier.
CSV (.csv)
UTF-8 with BOM (Excel-on-Windows compatible), RFC 4180-compliant. Best for ETL / database import. Available from the Personal plan up.
JSON (.json)
Nested reply structure preserved. Best for programmatic consumers. Available on the Business plan.
Common workflows
- Viral video analysis — pull comments under your highest-engagement upload to identify what the audience reacted to most.
- Brand mention monitoring — bulk-export comments under viral videos that tagged your brand.
- Influencer reporting — count engaged commenters per sponsored video for the brand's monthly report.
- Giveaway entry list — export then run our random comment picker against the export.
- Sentiment analysis — pipe the CSV into ChatGPT or Anthropic Claude for a "how did viewers react?" summary.
- Trend research — bulk-export comments under videos using a trending sound or hashtag to spot emerging language patterns.
Saving GIFs, stickers, and photos from TikTok comments
TikTok lets users reply with a GIF, a sticker pack, or a custom photo instead of plain text. None of those are saveable through TikTok's native UI — long-press just gives you "Copy" or "Report", not "Save image". The exporter captures them all:
- How to save a GIF from a TikTok comment — paste the video URL above, run the export, then open the resulting Excel/CSV. Comments with a GIF reply have the GIF URL in the
media_urlcolumn. Click through to download the original GIF asset. - How to download photo comments — Indonesian creators in particular get tons of photo-reply comments (search volume for "download foto komentar tiktok" / "download komen foto tiktok" is sizable). The exporter pulls the original photo URLs into the
media_urlcolumn — open them in a new tab to save full resolution. - How to save a TikTok sticker — sticker replies are exported the same way; the column points at TikTok's CDN URL for the sticker. Useful for screenshotting a viral sticker reaction or compiling them into a creator's response montage.
- Bulk-save — the Excel export gives you every GIF/sticker/photo URL in a single column; pipe through a download-helper script (or paste into
wget -i) to grab them all at once.
This works for any public TikTok video. Private videos and login-walled comments aren't accessible.
TikTok Live and other content types
This page handles regular TikTok videos. For chat from a Live broadcast use our TikTok Live chat exporter — it pulls the live-chat replay rather than the video's comment thread. For Story / Now Playing / Slides comments, the same exporter works.
About TikTok rate limits
TikTok throttles anonymous reads aggressively. Small videos (a few thousand comments) usually finish in minutes; viral videos with hundreds of thousands take longer. You can close the tab — we email you when the file is ready.
Plan limits
Per-video size scales with your plan. Free (no signup): up to 100 results per video. Personal: 5,000. Premium: 50,000. Business: 250,000 — see pricing for the full feature comparison and API tiers for the API-specific limits.