TikTok MCP for Claude Code: connect in one command

Give Claude Code all of TikTok. One command connects TokConnect, and Claude Code can see what people search, watch, say and buy: search demand, videos, comments, transcripts, creators, hashtags, sounds and TikTok Shop sales, 34 tools in all.

1. Add the server. Copy your key from app.tokconnect.com/api-key and run the command below in a terminal. No key? Leave out the --header line and sign in in step 2.
2. Check or sign in. Start Claude Code, type /mcp and look for tokconnect with 34 tools. If it asks you to authenticate, pick it and follow the browser sign-in.
3. Ask. For example, "What do people search on TikTok about my product that no video answers?"

claude mcp add --transport http tokconnect https://mcp.tokconnect.com/mcp \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKCONNECT_KEY"

With TokConnect connected, Claude Code answers TikTok questions with real numbers while you work: search demand, videos, comments, creators and TikTok Shop sales. Prefer no key? Add the server without the header, then run /mcp inside Claude Code to sign in. Both routes are below.

Every plan, Free included, gets all 34 tools. Free gives 50 credits once, one credit pays for one lookup and failed lookups cost nothing. Paid plans start at $34.99 a month billed yearly ($49 billed monthly), with 500 credits a month on Starter.

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What you can ask once connected

Ask in plain words. No tool names needed.

Add the server

Run this in a terminal, anywhere:

claude mcp add --transport http tokconnect https://mcp.tokconnect.com/mcp \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKCONNECT_KEY"

That writes a local entry to ~/.claude.json, private to you and loaded only in the current project. Add --scope user if you want the server in every project on your machine. Use --scope project only when the whole team should get it, because that writes a committed .mcp.json.

The file form looks like this. Claude Code expands ${VAR} in URLs and header values, so a shared file never has to hold the key itself:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tokconnect": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.tokconnect.com/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer ${TOKCONNECT_TOKEN}"
      }
    }
  }
}

Or sign in without a key

Claude Code signs in to remote servers that answer 401 with an OAuth challenge. Add the server without a header:

claude mcp add --transport http tokconnect https://mcp.tokconnect.com/mcp

Then type /mcp in a session, pick tokconnect and follow the browser sign-in. Claude Code stores and refreshes the token itself. This route follows Anthropic's docs.

Where the key goes

With the key route, the key only travels in the Authorization header, as Bearer, a space, then the key. For a personal setup the --header flag is fine: the value lands in ~/.claude.json, which is yours. For anything shared, export the key in the shell that launches Claude Code and keep the placeholder in the file:

export TOKCONNECT_TOKEN="YOUR_TOKCONNECT_KEY"
claude

Never commit a real key to .mcp.json. Anyone who clones the repo can use your account.

Your first TikTok MCP prompt in Claude Code

Start a session and type /mcp. You should see tokconnect listed as connected, with 34 tools behind it (the full list is in the tool list snapshot). From the shell, claude mcp list gives the same answer in one line.

Then ask for something small. Autocomplete is the cheapest way to prove the whole path works:

Here is what came back:

{
  "count": 3,
  "suggestions": [
    { "text": "protein" },
    { "text": "protein for gym" },
    { "text": "protein recipes" }
  ]
}

Data: TikTok autocomplete via TokConnect, pulled 19 September 2026. Open the snapshot. Suggestions are live, so your third line may differ.

The results on this page were pulled from the TokConnect server over MCP rather than through a Claude Code prompt.

For developers: the 34 tools

The full list is in the tool list snapshot. The server also ships six MCP prompts (winning products, find affiliates, competitor shop, product deep-dive, niche research and content ideas). Claude Code lists them as slash commands, for example /mcp__tokconnect__winning_products, so one line runs a whole Shop research chain.

A real search: what TikTok searches about Claude Code

Three strings of autocomplete prove the connection. The tools behind Creator Search Insights are the reason to connect. We asked for the typed searches around "claude code", in the 7 days to 5 October 2026:

Five of the seven have no videos matched. People want project ideas, a beginner walkthrough, an Obsidian setup and a trading bot, and TikTok has nothing filed against those searches. One follow-up question shows whether that demand is steady:

It moves a lot day to day but never drops to zero across the 30 days, which reads as standing interest rather than a one-day spike. Run the same check on your own product:

If you sell physical products, the TikTok Shop side works the same way. Claude Code can read the live store (price, stock, the lifetime units-sold count TikTok shows on a listing, rating and reviews), rank products by estimated revenue and units over a date range, and show which affiliates drove each product's sales.

Three errors, and what they mean

A tool that runs and returns an empty list is not a connection problem. That is TikTok answering. The troubleshooting guide separates the stages.

Remove it, or rotate the key

claude mcp remove tokconnect

If you added it with --scope user or --scope project, pass the same scope with -s, then run claude mcp list to check no second entry is shadowing the one you deleted. To sign out of an OAuth sign-in, remove the server as above.

To rotate a key, generate a new one on the API key page, remove the server, add it again, and restart Claude Code. If you used the environment variable, change the export and restart instead.

Working elsewhere? Cursor and Codex connect to the same server in their own config shapes. Choosing a server first? See nine TikTok MCP servers compared.

How we got these numbers

The setup steps follow Anthropic's Claude Code MCP documentation as it read on 5 October 2026, and the header command was run in Claude Code 2.1.138 on 19 September 2026; that terminal log was not kept, so the 5 October client check records the version and flags. TokConnect tested its OAuth sign-in end to end on 28 September 2026 with a script acting as the client (test notes). The tool list in the evidence file is a snapshot of version 3.1.0 read on 21 October 2026 (snapshot); the current server lists 34 tools.

TikTok figures were pulled on 5 October 2026 through TokConnect's MCP server: one search_topics call for "claude code" (20 records) and one search_popularity call with a 30-day window for "claude code projects", the tools now named demand_find_topics and demand_topic method popularity. Search counts are TikTok's global 7-day "search popularity"; the 30-day chart shows TikTok's daily readings. We kept the 7 typed searches and left out 13 topic groups TikTok generates (such as "Claude Code setup and usage"), whose figures pool many related searches; most of those were about unrelated "codes". Data: search snapshot, autocomplete snapshot.