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title: "Search TikTok ads"
description: "TikHub tool tikhub-api-tiktok-ads-search-ads on looot: input fields, $0.001 per call, output shape, and code to run it with curl, JavaScript or Python."
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Searches TikTok ads. Optional inputs: `like`, `page`, `limit`, `cookie`, `period` and more. Do not send a cookie; public data only.

- **Tool id:** `tikhub-api-tiktok-ads-search-ads`
- **Provider:** [TikHub](/providers/tikhub)
- **Job:** [Search ads api tiktok ads](/reference/jobs/api-tiktok-ads-search-ads) (`api.tiktok.ads.search-ads`)
- **Price:** $0.001 per call. A call that fails at the provider costs $0.

## Inputs

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `ad_format` | string | no | Ad format (optional; 1:Spark Ads 2:Non-Spark Ads) |
| `ad_language` | string | no | Ad language (optional) |
| `cookie` | string | no | Custom cookie string (optional) |
| `country_code` | string | no | Country code |
| `duration` | string | no | Video duration filter value (optional) |
| `industry` | string | no | Industry ID |
| `keyword` | string | no | Search keyword |
| `like` | string | no | Performance rank (optional): 1 = top 1 to 20%, 2 = top 21 to 40%, 3 = top 41 to 60%, 4 = top 61 to 80%, 5 = top 81 to 100% |
| `limit` | integer | no | Items per page |
| `objective` | string | no | Ad objective (optional): 1 = traffic, 2 = app installs, 3 = conversions, 4 = video views, 5 = reach, 6 = lead generation, 7 = product sales |
| `order_by` | string | no | Sort by (for_you, likes) |
| `page` | integer | no | Page number |
| `pattern_label` | string | no | Creative pattern label (optional) |
| `period` | integer | no | Time period (days) |
| `search_id` | string | no | Search ID (optional) |

## Output

Shape of the run's `result`, the expected shape, not yet checked against real answers:

```txt
{ code, data: { msg, code, data: { materials: { ... }[], pagination: { ... } } }, docs, time, params: { limit }, router, message, support, cache_url, time_zone, message_zh, request_id, time_stamp, cache_message, cache_message_zh }
```

## Run it

Every call needs your API token in `LOOOT_TOKEN`; [Sign in](/get-started/sign-in#use-the-token-in-scripts-and-agents) shows how to get one. Each run also needs a new idempotency key, so a retry never pays twice. With `wait: 30` the answer comes back inline when the run ends within 30 seconds. Otherwise you get the running run back: poll `GET /v1/runs/<runId>`.

Example input with placeholder values:

<CodeGroup>

```bash curl
curl -X POST "https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LOOOT_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)" \
  -d '{"endpointId":"tikhub-api-tiktok-ads-search-ads","input":{"like":"<like>"},"wait":30}'
```

```js JavaScript
const response = await fetch("https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.LOOOT_TOKEN}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "Idempotency-Key": crypto.randomUUID(),
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    endpointId: "tikhub-api-tiktok-ads-search-ads",
    input: {
      like: "<like>",
    },
    wait: 30,
  }),
});
const run = await response.json();
console.log(run.status, run.result);
```

```python Python
import os
import uuid

import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs",
    headers={
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['LOOOT_TOKEN']}",
        "Idempotency-Key": str(uuid.uuid4()),
    },
    json={
        "endpointId": "tikhub-api-tiktok-ads-search-ads",
        "input": {
            "like": "<like>",
        },
        "wait": 30,
    },
    timeout=90,
)
run = response.json()
print(run["status"], run.get("result"))
```

</CodeGroup>

To let looot pick among every provider of this job instead, send `job:api.tiktok.ads.search-ads` as `endpointId`; see [the job page](/reference/jobs/api-tiktok-ads-search-ads).