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Introduction
Tikultra is a gateway to TikTok’s native mobile API: managed endpoints that return JSON, devices and signing primitives for your own pipeline, and connected sessions for accounts you own.
What you can do
Every call goes out on the wire protocol of a current app build, signed natively, from a warm device context. You can choose the client with os, app_flavour and app_version: 8 app flavours across 40+ Android and iOS releases. Responses come back decoded from protobuf into stable JSON.
- Managed gateway. 108 read endpoints for videos, profiles, feeds, search, Tako AI, LIVE, series and Shop, each with its upstream mobile path documented. Read more
- Devices, signing and primitives. Sign requests in <1 ms, provision device contexts, resolve links and decode protobuf in your own client. Read more
- Connected sessions. Publish in one call, manage comments, DMs and LIVE for accounts you own. Read more
The basics
The base URL is https://api.tikultra.com. Authenticate with the x-api-key header. Every successful call costs a fixed number of credits, and failed calls cost nothing. Every list returns { cursor, has_more }.
Every response says what it cost. Read
x-credits-cost, x-credits-tier and x-credits-remaining on each response.Start with the quickstart, or browse the endpoint catalog.