# TokConnect > TikTok search data for AI agents. An MCP server that exposes TikTok's Creator Search Insights (search volumes, trends, content gaps, topic demographics) plus TikTok search (videos, creators, hashtags, sounds, autocomplete), video comments and public profiles. TokConnect is an independent service, not affiliated with TikTok. ## Connection - Endpoint: `https://mcp.tokconnect.com/mcp` (MCP, Streamable HTTP) - Auth: `Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKCONNECT_KEY` (sign in with Google at https://app.tokconnect.com/ to get a key) - Credits: 100 free; one tool call = one credit. Plans at https://tokconnect.com/#pricing - Setup per client: https://tokconnect.com/connect/ (Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenClaw, Hermes) - Agent skill: https://tokconnect.com/SKILL.md ## Where TikTok shows this data Creator Search Insights lives in the TikTok app and, since mid-2025, on desktop at tiktok.com/csi (a TikTok login is required). Neither surface offers an export, a history view or an API. ## What the data means - `searchVolume`: the figure TikTok shows as "Search popularity" on a topic page in Creator Search Insights. Searches in the last 7 days, global unless a country is selected. - `trend7d`: the 7-day daily series behind the chart. `trendScore7d`: 0–100 index per day. `popularity`: TikTok's 0–100 score. - `videoCount`: videos TikTok has matched to the topic. Zero is the signal behind TikTok's "content gap" label. - `search_popularity` returns dated points for 7/30/60/180 days, optionally per country. - `audience_demographics` returns shares (per-mille of classified searchers) by gender, age and country. - Hashtag `viewCount` / `videoCount` are lifetime totals. ## Tools (26) Topics: search_topics, browse_topics (suggested | content_gap | followers | trending | featured | fashion | food | sports | tourism | gaming | science), trending_topics, topic_detail, search_popularity, audience_demographics, related_topics, related_queries, content_guidance, related_videos, list_channels, list_languages. Search: search_videos, search_users, search_hashtags, hashtag_videos, hashtag_detail, search_sounds, sound_videos, search_live, search_suggestions. Records: video_detail, user_profile, creator_posts, video_comments, comment_replies. Not available: posting, ads, transcripts, private data. ## Read next - Live trends (refreshed weekly): https://tokconnect.com/trends/ - Creator Search Insights explained: https://tokconnect.com/guides/creator-search-insights/ - TikTok SEO: https://tokconnect.com/guides/tiktok-seo/ - TikTok API options: https://tokconnect.com/guides/tiktok-api/ - Data and editorial method: https://tokconnect.com/editorial/ - Sitemap: https://tokconnect.com/sitemap.xml ## Complete guide directory - [Best Hashtags for TikTok: 20 Niches, Real Counts](https://tokconnect.com/guides/best-tiktok-hashtags/): The best hashtags for TikTok in 20 niches, with real lifetime view and video counts from TikTok, a copy-paste set for each, and which tag to actually use. - [Using a Browser Agent to Learn TikTok Trends](https://tokconnect.com/guides/browser-agent-tiktok-trends/): We measured what a browser agent gets from tiktok.com. What AI agents can read, what the login wall hides, and the setup that finds real TikTok trends. - [Connect TikTok to Claude Code (MCP)](https://tokconnect.com/connect/claude-code/): Add TokConnect's TikTok MCP server to Claude Code in one command, with the bearer header, the tools check, the first result and the three errors people hit. - [Connect TikTok to Claude Desktop (MCP)](https://tokconnect.com/connect/claude-desktop/): Claude Desktop's connector screen takes OAuth, not bearer keys. Here is the mcp-remote bridge that works today, the config, the header quirk and the fixes. - [Connect TikTok to Codex (MCP)](https://tokconnect.com/connect/codex/): Add TokConnect to Codex with one config.toml table and bearer_token_env_var, so the key stays in your environment. Config, checks, errors and rotation. - [TikTok Content Gaps This Week: Searched Topics With No Videos](https://tokconnect.com/trends/content-gaps/): The topics TikTok flags as content gaps right now: real search demand, few or no videos. 60+ gap topics with 7-day search counts, by niche, refreshed weekly. - [Creator Search Insights API: What Exists in 2026](https://tokconnect.com/guides/creator-search-insights-api/): TikTok has no public Creator Search Insights API. What the Research and Business APIs cover, plus runnable Python that returns the topic records. - [Creator Search Insights on Desktop: tiktok.com/csi and Beyond](https://tokconnect.com/guides/creator-search-insights-desktop/): Creator Search Insights works on desktop at tiktok.com/csi for logged-in accounts. How to open it, which downloads to avoid, and how to get the numbers out. - [Creator Search Insights Hashtag: Should You Use It?](https://tokconnect.com/guides/creator-search-insights-hashtag/): The #creatorsearchinsights hashtag is not required and will not rank your video for the topic you found. What it is, and what to do instead. - [Creator Search Insights Not Showing: Every Fix](https://tokconnect.com/guides/creator-search-insights-not-showing/): Creator Search Insights not showing in your TikTok app? Every cause, ordered by how often it is the real one, with the fix for each of them. - [Creator Search Insights: How TikTok's Search Tool Works](https://tokconnect.com/guides/creator-search-insights/): What TikTok's Creator Search Insights shows, how to open it, what search popularity and content gap mean, and how to use the numbers to plan videos. Real examples. - [Connect TikTok to Cursor (MCP)](https://tokconnect.com/connect/cursor/): Put TokConnect in ~/.cursor/mcp.json with a bearer header and Cursor's Agent can pull TikTok search data. Config, env interpolation, checks and fixes. - [Export TikTok Comments: 3 Ways That Work (2026)](https://tokconnect.com/guides/export-tiktok-comments/): TikTok has no comment export. Here are the three routes that do work, what each costs and limits, and a worked example turning 761 comments into six themes. - [TikTok Fashion and Beauty Trends This Week (Search Data)](https://tokconnect.com/trends/fashion/): What people are searching for in fashion and beauty on TikTok this week from TikTok's own trending list. Topics, 7-day search volume and fastest risers. - [How to Find TikTok Influencers (Free Methods First)](https://tokconnect.com/guides/find-tiktok-influencers/): Every way to find TikTok influencers, cheapest first: the Users tab, TikTok One, Shop's Find Creators, paid platforms, and a real ten-creator shortlist. - [TikTok Food Trends This Week (Search Data)](https://tokconnect.com/trends/food/): What people are searching for in food on TikTok this week, from TikTok's Creator Search Insights trending list. Topics, 7-day search volume and fastest risers. - [TikTok Gaming Trends This Week (Search Data)](https://tokconnect.com/trends/gaming/): What people are searching for in gaming on TikTok this week, from TikTok's Creator Search Insights trending list. Topics, 7-day search volume and fastest risers. - [Connect TikTok to Gemini CLI (MCP)](https://tokconnect.com/connect/gemini-cli/): One gemini mcp add command puts TikTok search data in Gemini CLI, headers included. The command, the httpUrl question, the status check and the fixes. - [Trending TikTok Hashtags This Week (With View Counts)](https://tokconnect.com/trends/hashtags/): The biggest TikTok hashtags right now with lifetime views and video counts, grouped by niche and pulled straight from TikTok hashtag search. Refreshed weekly. - [Connect TikTok to Hermes (MCP)](https://tokconnect.com/connect/hermes/): Add TokConnect to Hermes with four lines of YAML under mcp_servers, reload, then check the tools. Config, key handling, the three errors and how to remove it. - [How Does TikTok Search Work? Ranking and Demand](https://tokconnect.com/guides/how-tiktok-search-works/): What happens when you search on TikTok: the seven result tabs, what TikTok has published about ranking, the chip under videos, and real search volumes. - [Most Searched Topics on TikTok This Week](https://tokconnect.com/trends/most-searched/): The most searched topics on TikTok right now, ranked by TikTok's own 7-day search figure across every category in Creator Search Insights. Refreshed weekly. - [Connect TikTok to OpenClaw (MCP)](https://tokconnect.com/connect/openclaw/): Register TokConnect as an outbound MCP server in OpenClaw with a bearer header, then probe it live. The command, the config, tool filters and what breaks. - [TikTok Science Trends This Week (Search Data)](https://tokconnect.com/trends/science/): What people are searching for in science on TikTok this week, from TikTok's Creator Search Insights trending list. Topics, 7-day search volume and fastest risers. - [TikTok Sports and Fitness Trends This Week (Search Data)](https://tokconnect.com/trends/sports/): What people are searching for in sports and fitness on TikTok this week from TikTok's own trending list. Topics, 7-day search volume and fastest risers. - [TikTok Analytics Tools: What Each One Actually Does](https://tokconnect.com/guides/tiktok-analytics-tools/): Every serious TikTok analytics tool sorted by the job it does: your own account, other people's accounts, or search demand. With current prices and one defunct tool. - [TikTok API: Every Official and Unofficial Option](https://tokconnect.com/guides/tiktok-api/): All nine official TikTok APIs in 2026: what each does, who gets access, cost and docs. Then the scraper market, and what to do when you need search data. - [TikTok Audience Insights: All 3 Datasets Explained](https://tokconnect.com/guides/tiktok-audience-insights/): Ads Manager, TikTok Studio followers and a search topic's audience panel are three different datasets. What each shows, where to click, and real niche numbers. - [TikTok Automation: What's Allowed, What Gets You Banned](https://tokconnect.com/guides/tiktok-automation/): Posting automation is allowed, engagement bots break TikTok's terms, and research automation is the one worth building. With a weekly trend brief you can run. - [TikTok Comments API: How to Pull Comments in 2026](https://tokconnect.com/guides/tiktok-comments-api/): The official TikTok comments endpoint, who can use it, what the scraper APIs charge, and an MCP route that returns comments and replies with a cursor. Real JSON. - [TikTok Competitor Analysis: Method and Template](https://tokconnect.com/guides/tiktok-competitor-analysis/): A five-step TikTok competitor analysis using only public data, run on two real car-detailing accounts, with a filled-in template, a blank one and a prompt. - [TikTok Content Gap: What It Means and How to Find One](https://tokconnect.com/guides/tiktok-content-gap/): A TikTok content gap is a search with demand and no answers. What the videos count really means, ten live gaps with numbers, and how to find your own. - [TikTok Content Strategy: Build One From Search Data](https://tokconnect.com/guides/tiktok-content-strategy/): A search-first TikTok content strategy in five steps, with real search volumes from one niche, a filled-in one-page plan and a blank version to copy. - [How Many Hashtags Should You Use on TikTok? 3 to 5](https://tokconnect.com/guides/tiktok-hashtags-vs-keywords/): Three to five relevant hashtags, and TikTok counts only five. Here is what hashtags do, what keywords do, and the data showing they measure different things. - [TikTok Keyword Research: A Step-by-Step Method](https://tokconnect.com/guides/tiktok-keyword-research/): Six steps to TikTok keyword research, worked on a live niche with real 7-day search volumes, autocomplete, competition checks and a free template. - [TikTok SEO Tools Compared: What Each One Shows](https://tokconnect.com/guides/tiktok-keyword-tools/): Ten TikTok SEO and keyword tools, checked against their own docs: where the data comes from, which ones show real TikTok search volume, what they cost. - [TikTok MCP Not Working? Fix It by Stage](https://tokconnect.com/guides/tiktok-mcp-troubleshooting/): Config, discovery, 401, hidden tools, empty results, suppressed upstream calls. Find the stage your request died at, then fix that one thing. With real errors. - [TikTok MCP: Every Server Compared, How to Connect](https://tokconnect.com/guides/tiktok-mcp/): The official TikTok Ads MCP, the open-source and scraper servers, and the one with search-demand data. What each returns, plus a one-command setup and a real session. - [TikTok Niches Ranked by Real Search Demand (2026)](https://tokconnect.com/guides/tiktok-niches/): Sixteen TikTok niches ranked on live search data: weekly searches, content gaps TikTok flagged in each category, typical competition, and which are faceless-friendly. - [TikTok Product Research With Real Search Demand](https://tokconnect.com/guides/tiktok-product-research/): Shop analytics show what already sold. TikTok's search data shows what people ask for first: the method, a scoring table and a worked air fryer example. - [TikTok Research API: Eligibility, Data and Limits](https://tokconnect.com/guides/tiktok-research-api/): Who qualifies for the TikTok Research API, how to apply, every endpoint and field it returns, the daily rate limits, and what to use if you are not an academic. - [TikTok Scraper: What Works, What Breaks (2026)](https://tokconnect.com/guides/tiktok-scraper/): An honest look at TikTok scrapers in 2026: the hosted actors, the Python libraries, what breaks them, what TikTok's terms say, and the routes that need no scraping. - [TikTok Search API: Every Working Option in 2026](https://tokconnect.com/guides/tiktok-search-api/): Every way to search TikTok programmatically in 2026: the official Research API, the unofficial vendors, and an MCP route, with real JSON and a Python example. - [TikTok Creative Center vs Creator Search Insights](https://tokconnect.com/guides/tiktok-search-insights-vs-creative-center/): TikTok Creative Center shows hashtags, views and top ads. Creator Search Insights shows search volume. Which of TikTok's three data tools to open when. - [TikTok as a Search Engine: 25 Statistics (2026)](https://tokconnect.com/guides/tiktok-search-statistics/): Sourced TikTok search statistics for 2026: who uses TikTok as a search engine, what they look for, and how it really compares with Google. Every figure cited. - [TikTok Search Suggestions: Where They Come From](https://tokconnect.com/guides/tiktok-search-suggestions/): What TikTok's search suggestions are, why yours got strange, how to clear and switch them off, and how creators mine autocomplete for keywords. With real lists. - [TikTok Search Volume: Where to See It, What It Means](https://tokconnect.com/guides/tiktok-search-volume/): TikTok shows search volume as "Search popularity" in Creator Search Insights: a 7-day, global, per-topic figure. Where to find it and what it counts. - [TikTok SEO: How to Rank in TikTok Search](https://tokconnect.com/guides/tiktok-seo/): TikTok SEO built on TikTok's own search numbers: what the platform has published about ranking, a worked keyword example, and the on-page checklist. - [How to Find Trends on TikTok: Seven Places to Look](https://tokconnect.com/guides/tiktok-trend-research/): The seven places TikTok trends show up, ranked by how early each moves, with live search numbers from this week and a fifteen-minute weekly routine. - [TikTok Trends API: What Exists and What Doesn't](https://tokconnect.com/guides/tiktok-trends-api/): TikTok publishes trend data in two products and gives neither an API. What a TikTok trends API can mean in 2026, and the routes that return real numbers. - [50 TikTok Video Ideas Backed by Real Search Demand](https://tokconnect.com/guides/tiktok-video-ideas/): Fifty TikTok video ideas across ten niches, each one a phrase people searched on TikTok this week, with its 7-day search count and how many videos already answer it. - [TikTok Travel Trends This Week (Search Data)](https://tokconnect.com/trends/travel/): What people are searching for in travel on TikTok this week, from TikTok's Creator Search Insights trending list. Topics, 7-day search volume and fastest risers. - [What Is Trending on TikTok This Week (Live Search Data)](https://tokconnect.com/trends/): The searches trending on TikTok right now, pulled from TikTok's own Creator Search Insights and refreshed weekly. Topics, 7-day search volume, risers and content gaps.