TikTok Research API and Research Tools
Access for qualified non-commercial researchers to public TikTok data on accounts, videos and engagement, usable for public-interest research on youth online experience, help-seeking, health information, harassment or community formation; requires a defined proposal and evidence of ethical review.
- Indicative award
- Not a cash award (not a cash award)No cash; data access only. The page gives no pricing information.
- Timing
- Rolling / openNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Applications are accepted on a rolling basis; applicants typically hear back within four weeks.
- Who can apply
- Doctoral candidate, Postdoctoral, Any faculty rank
- Eligibility
- Researchers at academic institutions in the US, EEA, UK, Canada or Switzerland, EU not-for-profit research organisations (beta), or Brazilian academic or non-profit bodies studying youth online safety; non-commercial only, with ethics review evidence and an advisor letter for PhD candidates.
- SSWR clusters
- Special Interest Groups
- Topics
- social media data · youth online safety · public content · computational social science · platform research access
- Apply at
- https://developers.tiktok.com/products/research-api/
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-09-23. Funder link last confirmed to resolve on 2026-09-25.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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