# TikTok Popular Creators

> TikTok Popular Creators is a paid API for AI agents from Scrape Creators at mpp.orthogonal.com, paid per call via MPP, $0.02/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Retrieves a list of currently popular/trending creators on TikTok

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://mpp.orthogonal.com/scrapecreators/v1/tiktok/creators/popular
- Price: $0.02/call
- Payment: MPP
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Provider: Scrape Creators
- Docs: https://api.scrapecreators.com
- Website: https://api.scrapecreators.com
- Tags: social-media, tiktok, instagram, youtube, scraping, social, data
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/scrape-creators-tiktok-popular-creators-25320918
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_gDNNJMw-RfENEbS6YkyOU

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability scrape-creators-tiktok-popular-creators-25320918
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up a list of the most popular TikTok creators right now using Scrape Creators so I can see who's trending on the platform?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need a quick, no-input snapshot of who is currently popular on TikTok — ideal for influencer discovery, market research, or trend monitoring without needing to specify search terms or filters. Prefer this over profile-lookup endpoints when you don't have a specific creator in mind and want to explore the top of the TikTok creator landscape.

## Known failure modes

- TikTok rate limiting or blocking causing empty or partial results
- Stale data if TikTok's popularity signals change faster than cache refresh
- HTTP 429 if API quota exceeded
- HTTP 500 if TikTok scraping infrastructure is temporarily unavailable
- Empty result set if TikTok changes its platform structure

## How this service works

Get popular creators Pagination billing: call the first page normally and save billing.requestId from the Orthogonal /v1/run response. For later page, offset, or cursor calls on the same logical search, pass parentRequestId with unchanged non-pagination parameters. Valid continuation calls still get their own request IDs and quoted price, but are charged 0. Changing filters starts a new billable request.

## Output

A list of popular TikTok creators, likely including profile details such as usernames, display names, follower counts, and engagement indicators for currently trending accounts on TikTok.

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/scrape-creators-tiktok-popular-creators-25320918/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from mpp.orthogonal.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/mpp.orthogonal.com/llms.txt)