Tiktok Url Expander

Pricing

$10.00 / 1,000 urls

Tiktok Url Expander

Follows redirects for one or many shortened TikTok (or any) URLs and returns the final resolved URL plus redirect chain.

Pricing

$10.00 / 1,000 urls

Rating

5.0

(2)

Developer

👁 Trinity

Trinity

Maintained by Community

Actor stats

Bookmarked

198

Total users

Monthly active users

18 days ago

Last modified

TikTok (and generic) URL Expander

Expand shortened or redirecting URLs (especially TikTok short links like https://vm.tiktok.com/...) and obtain the final resolved URL together with the full redirect chain.

Each processed URL becomes one dataset item containing:

{
"originalUrl":"https://vm.tiktok.com/example/",
"finalUrl":"https://www.tiktok.com/@user/video/1234567890",
"redirectChain":["https://www.tiktok.com/?_r=1","https://www.tiktok.com/@user/video/1234567890"],
"totalRedirects":2,
"durationMillis":742
}

An OUTPUT record in the key-value store includes a summary with the dataset ID and count.

Included features

Apify SDK for Actor runtime helpers
Input schema supporting single URL (url) or multiple URLs (urlsText as newline-separated)
Dataset output for structured results
Manual redirect handling (HEAD first, GET fallback) to log every hop
Configurable maxRedirects, timeoutMillis, optional custom userAgent

How it works

Reads url or urlsText from input.
For each URL performs a HEAD request with redirects disabled.
On 3xx + Location: resolve to absolute URL, append to chain, repeat.
If HEAD not allowed / errors (405 / 501 etc.), retries with GET.
Stops when non-redirect status or maxRedirects hit.
Stores result object and logs progress.

Input schema

Either url OR urlsText must be provided.

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
`url`	string	conditional	-	Single URL to expand
`urlsText`	string	conditional	-	Multiple URLs to expand (one per line)
`maxRedirects`	integer	no	10	Safety cap on redirect depth
`timeoutMillis`	integer	no	15000	Per-request timeout in ms
`userAgent`	string	no	desktop UA	Override User-Agent

Example (single URL)

{"url":"https://vm.tiktok.com/example1/"}

Example (multiple URLs)

{
"urlsText":"https://vm.tiktok.com/example1/\nhttps://vm.tiktok.com/example2/",
"maxRedirects":10,
"timeoutMillis":15000
}

Output

Dataset (default) items: one per input URL.

Retrieve via API:

https://api.apify.com/v2/datasets/<DATASET_ID>/items?format=json

Key-value store: OUTPUT summary object.

Local development

Install dependencies:

$npminstall

Run in dev (TypeScript on-the-fly):

$npm run start:dev

Build & run production JS:

$npm run build &&npm run start:prod

Deploy to Apify

apify login
apify push

Documentation reference

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