How to use the Social Media Data TT API with Java, Python, PHP, Ruby and Javascript Examples

In this day and age, social media applications play a big part in our lives. Not only do they allow us to connect and interact with others, but they also serve as a source of information and entertainment. There are many social media applications currently available like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, to name just a few. TikTok is one such hugely popular social media application. The Social Media Data TT API is a REST API for TikTok. In this article, we will be learning about this API, its endpoints, and how it can be used by an application developer.

What is the Social Media Data TT API

TikTok is a video-sharing web/mobile application. It allows users to create and share short 15 second videos. It has many features which enable users to edit videos, create hashtags, like, comment, share a video, etc. It also provides an extensive music library for users to add music to their videos. Like other social media applications, Tiktok creates a feed of video posts for every user.
The Social Media Data TT API is a REST API that provides endpoints for retrieving Tiktok data. So, for example, it provides endpoints for obtaining information about a user, obtaining a feed corresponding to a hashtag, obtaining comments on a particular post, and so on.

Who is the target audience for the Social Media Data TT API

Individual Businesses/Brands – Individual businesses/brands that market their products on the Tiktok platform can use the Social Media Data TT API to obtain statistics about the latest trends, user preferences, and competition analysis. This information can then be utilized to drive the marketing efforts in the form of personalized recommendations and tailored content. Not only that, but individual businesses can also use the Social Media Data TT API to obtain information about prominent influencers and partner with them for product promotion.

Application developers – The Social Media Data TT API can also be used by application developers to build web/mobile applications. Some of the types of applications that can be developed using this API are social media applications (that leverage some of the Tiktok data and build on top of it), music/video applications (that make use of Tiktok videos/music), and entertainment applications (in the celebrities/fashion/news domains).

How does the Social Media Data TT API work

The Social Media Data TT API is a REST API and works on REST principles. It exposes its endpoints as simple HTTP URLs. A client application (written in any programming language) can consume these endpoints. While making a request, a client application needs to supply authentication information (API Key) and request parameters (values required by an API endpoint to process a request). The API endpoint then processes the request and returns an HTTP status code indicating success/failure. If the request is successful, it also returns the requested data in JSON format.

How to use the Social Media Data TT API

You can use RapidAPI to connect to the Social Media Data TT API. RapidAPI lists all the API endpoints. It also allows executing an API endpoint from within the browser itself. Developers can use this feature to execute an endpoint and view its response without having to write code. In addition, RapidAPI also provides code snippets in popular programming languages. Thus, developers do not need to write code from scratch.
To use RapidAPI to connect to the Social Media Data TT API, you need to follow the steps given below.

Step 1 – Signing Up

The first step is to create a RapidAPI account as described below.

Step 1a – Enter the Social Media Data TT RapidAPI URL (https://rapidapi.com/logicbuilder/api/social-media-data-tt/ ) in a browser. Click on the Log In/Sign Up button in the top right corner. This redirects to the following authentication page:

Step 1b – Authenticate yourself using any of the methods shown on the page like Google, GitHub, Facebook, etc. Upon successful authentication, the following page is displayed:

Step 2 – Subscribing to the Social Media Data TT API

In order to be able to execute an endpoint, you need to subscribe to the API. The Social Media Data TT API offers several plans to which users can subscribe to as per their requirements.

To subscribe to the API, you need to do the following:

Step 2a – Click on the Pricing Tab. This displays all the available plans:

Step 2b – Select a plan that is appropriate for you and click Subscribe. I will choose the Basic (Free) plan which allows 15 requests per month. Although the free plan requires credit card details, your credit card will not be charged for the first 15 requests. You can enter your credit card details as follows:

Step 2c – On entering credit card details, the following screen is displayed:

Step 3 – Executing an endpoint

As mentioned earlier, RapidAPI allows executing an endpoint and viewing its response in the browser itself without having to write any code. To execute an endpoint, you need to do the following:

Step 3a – Click on the EndPoints tab. All the available endpoints are displayed on the left:

Step 3b – Click the endpoint that you would like to execute. I have selected the Hashtag metadata (information) v2 endpoint. Click the Test Endpoint button:

Step 3c – View the Response in the Results tab:

Step 4 – Obtaining a code snippet

RapidAPI also provides code snippets in several programming languages. You can copy the code snippet in the desired programming language and use it in your application.
For example, to obtain a code snippet in C#, you need to do the following:

Step 4a – Click on C# -> RestSharp in the Code Snippets tab:

Step 4b – Copy the C# code shown and use it as desired:

Social Media Data TT Endpoints

Let us now take a detailed look at the Social Media Data TT API endpoints.

Hashtag endpoints

Post endpoints

This category includes endpoints that expose information about a video post. The following table lists all the endpoints in this category.

Music Endpoints

This category includes endpoints that expose information about the music available in Tiktok’s music library. The following table lists all the endpoints in this category.

User Endpoints

This category includes endpoints that expose information about a TikTok user. The following table lists all the endpoints in this category.

Trends Endpoints

This category includes endpoints that expose trending information.

How to use the Social Media Data TT API with various programming languages

As explained earlier, RapidAPI provides code snippets in various programming languages like Java, Python, PHP, Ruby, Javascript, NodeJS, etc. which can be used to execute the API endpoints. Let us take a look at a few code samples. All the examples shown below invoke the hashtag feed (video posts) endpoint.

Using Social Media Data TT API with Java

There are several HTTP client libraries available for Java, like OkHttp, Unirest, AsyncHttp, and java.net.http. The following code demonstrates how you can invoke an API endpoint using the OkHttp library:

OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();

Request request = new Request.Builder()
  .url("https://social-media-data-tt.p.rapidapi.com/live/hashtag/feed?name=summer")
  .get()
  .addHeader("x-rapidapi-key", "your api key here")
  .addHeader("x-rapidapi-host", "social-media-data-tt.p.rapidapi.com")
  .build();

Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();

Using Social Media Data TT API with Python

Like Java, there are several HTTP client libraries available for Python like http.client, Requests, and Unirest. The following code demonstrates how you can invoke an API endpoint using the http.client library:

import http.client

conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection("social-media-data-tt.p.rapidapi.com")

headers = {
    'x-rapidapi-key': "your api key here",
    'x-rapidapi-host': "social-media-data-tt.p.rapidapi.com"
    }

conn.request("GET", "/live/hashtag/feed?name=summer", headers=headers)

res = conn.getresponse()
data = res.read()

print(data.decode("utf-8"))

Using Social Media Data TT API with PHP

PHP also has many HTTP client libraries like cURL, HTTP v1, HTTP v2, and Unirest. The code below demonstrates invoking an API endpoint using the HTTP v1 library:

<?php

$request = new HttpRequest();
$request->setUrl('https://social-media-data-tt.p.rapidapi.com/live/hashtag/feed');
$request->setMethod(HTTP_METH_GET);

$request->setQueryData([
  'name' => 'summer'
]);

$request->setHeaders([
  'x-rapidapi-key' => 'your api key here',
  'x-rapidapi-host' => 'social-media-data-tt.p.rapidapi.com'
]);

try {
  $response = $request->send();

  echo $response->getBody();
} catch (HttpException $ex) {
  echo $ex;
}

Using Social Media Data TT API with Ruby

Ruby has two main HTTP client libraries. These are net::http and Unirest. The following code demonstrates how an API endpoint can be invoked using the Unirest client:

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
require 'openssl'

url = URI("https://social-media-data-tt.p.rapidapi.com/live/hashtag/feed?name=summer")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
request["x-rapidapi-key"] = 'your api key here'
request["x-rapidapi-host"] = 'social-media-data-tt.p.rapidapi.com'

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

Using Social Media Data TT API with Javascript

Like other programming languages, Javascript too has many HTTP client libraries like jQuery, fetch, XMLHttpRequest, and Axios. The code below demonstrates invoking an API endpoint using the XMLHttpRequest library:

const data = null;

const xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.withCredentials = true;

xhr.addEventListener("readystatechange", function () {
  if (this.readyState === this.DONE) {
    console.log(this.responseText);
  }
});

xhr.open("GET", "https://social-media-data-tt.p.rapidapi.com/live/hashtag/feed?name=summer");
xhr.setRequestHeader("x-rapidapi-key", "your api key here");
xhr.setRequestHeader("x-rapidapi-host", "social-media-data-tt.p.rapidapi.com");

xhr.send(data);

In addition, RapidAPI also provides code snippets in other programming languages like Node.js, C, Kotlin, Swift, etc which can be obtained as explained in Step 4 above.

What are the benefits of the Social Media Data TT API?

The Social Media Data TT API provides several benefits as follows:

Comprehensive – The Social Media Data TT API is comprehensive. It exposes various endpoints related to users, hashtags, videos, and music. These provide most of the information that a user can require out of a social media platform like Tiktok. Users can use this data for interacting with the Tiktok platform as required.

Widespread usage – Another important benefit of the Social Media Data TT API is its widespread application.  With a large number of endpoints that provide different types of information, this API can be used for developing a wide variety of web/mobile applications like analytical/marketing applications, social media applications, and entertainment/music applications.

Other Social Media APIs

Let us now take a look at some other APIs for TikTok and other social media platforms that are available on RapidAPI.

1. TikTok API – This is another API for TikTok. It is quite similar to the Social Media Data TT API and exposes endpoints that provide information like feeds by hashtag, feeds by username, etc. It exposes fewer endpoints than the Social Media Data TT API.
2. Facebook Graph API – Facebook is perhaps the most popular social networking platform. The Facebook Graph API is a comprehensive API for Facebook. It exposes REST endpoints that allow retrieving Facebook data like a user’s feed, friends list, profile picture, likes, photos, etc. In addition, it also allows posting data to Facebook like adding a comment, liking a post, creating an album, posting a photo to an album, etc.
3. Instagram API – Instagram is a popular photo-sharing social media platform. The Instagram API is an API for retrieving Instagram data. It exposes endpoints that provide information like user data, user followers, post likes, post comments, and much more.
4. Twine Social API – The Twine Social API is a powerful API that can retrieve content from multiple social media platforms like Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Flickr, Vine, etc. It can retrieve content by hashtag, account, and geo-location.
5. Twitter API – Twitter is another very powerful and popular microblogging social media platform. The Twitter API exposes endpoints that provide Twitter data like user information, user tweets, user following/followers, etc.

Summary

So, to summarize, TikTok is a short video-sharing social media platform. The Social Media Data TT API is a REST API for TikTok. It exposes endpoints that allow obtaining user information, hashtag information, feeds, etc. In this article, we learned about all the endpoints that this API provides. We also learned how we can use RapidAPI to connect to the Social Media Data TT API, test the API endpoints and also obtain code snippets in different programming languages.