Connect TikTok to OpenClaw (MCP): one command and a live probe

Give your OpenClaw agent all of TikTok. One command connects TokConnect, and OpenClaw can then read live TikTok searches, videos, comments, creators and TikTok Shop sales.

1. Get your key. Sign in with Google at app.tokconnect.com/api-key and copy your API key.
2. Add TokConnect. In a terminal, run openclaw mcp add tokconnect --url https://mcp.tokconnect.com/mcp --transport streamable-http --header "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKCONNECT_KEY", with your key in place of YOUR_TOKCONNECT_KEY.
3. Probe, then ask. Run openclaw mcp doctor tokconnect --probe. When it lists TokConnect's tools, ask your agent, for example, "What are people searching on TikTok about AI agents that no video answers yet?"

The probe opens a live connection and prints what it found, so you know where you stand before an agent ever runs. The saved config, the key handling and the first call are in the setup details 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.

What you can ask once connected

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Steps follow OpenClaw's MCP documentation and registry reference, checked 5 October 2026. TokConnect tested its OAuth sign-in end to end on 28 September 2026 with a script acting as the client (test notes); the example results below come from the TokConnect server over MCP rather than from an OpenClaw session.

Setup details: the config

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

The saved entry lands under mcp.servers in your OpenClaw configuration, which is JSON5:

{
  mcp: {
    servers: {
      tokconnect: {
        url: "https://mcp.tokconnect.com/mcp",
        transport: "streamable-http",
        enabled: true,
        connectionTimeoutMs: 5000,
        requestTimeoutMs: 20000,
        headers: {
          "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_TOKCONNECT_KEY",
        },
      },
    },
  },
}

The two timeouts mirror the example in OpenClaw's MCP docs. Raise requestTimeoutMs if you plan to run wide video searches. Twenty seconds is comfortable for topic and autocomplete calls and tight for anything that pages through results.

Where the key goes

In the headers map, as Bearer, a space, then the key. OpenClaw's docs push back on literal tokens: the registry reference recommends OAuth where a server supports it and says to avoid committing literal bearer tokens, and the MCP page says to store sensitive headers through OpenClaw's supported secret mechanisms. This page uses the key route. Use OpenClaw's secret storage if you have it set up, and keep the configuration file out of version control either way.

openclaw mcp status --verbose tells you whether a credential is present for the server without printing it.

Your first TikTok MCP call in OpenClaw

Probe before you prompt:

openclaw mcp doctor tokconnect --probe

That validates the definition, opens a real connection and reports what it gets back. It should list TokConnect's 34 tools. openclaw mcp tools lists them, and openclaw mcp show tokconnect prints the saved definition if you want to check what OpenClaw actually read.

Then make the smallest call:

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. Autocomplete is live, so your third line may differ.

After that, demand_find_topics gives you TikTok's own search counts, its feed method gives you content gaps, and product_top_selling gives you TikTok Shop sales estimates. The TikTok MCP guide maps all 34 tools, and our TikTok MCP server comparison covers the alternatives.

The 34 tools cover TikTok's search demand (demand_find_topics, demand_topic, demand_keywords), videos, comments and captions (video_search, video), creators, sounds, hashtags, places and LIVE, the live TikTok Shop catalogue (shop_browse, product, shop) and Shop Analytics: TikTok Shop sales estimates from product_top_selling, shop_top_selling, creator_top_selling, video_top_selling, live_top_selling and category_trends. The server also ships six MCP prompts: winning products, find affiliates, competitor shop, product deep-dive, niche research and content ideas. Clients that support MCP prompts list them next to the tools.

What TikTok users search about OpenClaw

A quick test of what the connection is for: we asked TikTok's search data about OpenClaw itself. People search the name a lot and ask almost nothing about setup.

"open claw ai examples" had 19,993 searches and no matched videos. If you make videos about agents, that is a gap with a clear brief: show OpenClaw doing something real.

Three errors, and what they mean

A tool that returns an empty list is TikTok answering, not a broken setup. The troubleshooting guide takes the stages in order.

Remove it, or rotate the key

OpenClaw does not use remove. The command is openclaw mcp unset, and openclaw mcp reload picks up the change. Confirm with openclaw mcp status before you assume the key is out of use.

To rotate, make a new key on the API key page, run openclaw mcp set on the header (or edit the headers map), then reload and probe again. If a long-running gateway holds the old configuration, restart it: a changed file does not reach a process that already started.

Same endpoint elsewhere: Claude Code, Hermes, Gemini CLI.

Get your API key

How we got these numbers

Commands and config fields come from OpenClaw's MCP documentation and registry reference, read on 5 October 2026. The autocomplete result is a search_suggestions call made on 19 September 2026. On 5 October 2026 we ran one search_topics call for "openclaw" (20 records) through TokConnect's MCP server. Search figures are TikTok's 7-day global search popularity, and the line chart plots the daily readings of that 7-day count. We left out TikTok's topic groups, records that pool many related searches: a 7-day figure of 5,000,000 or more, a figure of 1,000,000 or more whose first daily reading is under 5% of its last, or TikTok's Featured Content category. Five of the 20 records were topic groups, and several typed searches ("Open class", "OpenInvite") were unrelated words TikTok matched loosely, which we also left out. The tool list in the evidence file is a snapshot of version 3.1.0 read on 21 October 2026; the current server lists 34 tools.

Data: "openclaw" topics, tool catalog (21 October snapshot), autocomplete call.