When you're planning a TikTok campaign, the most useful reference isn't your competitor's ad: it's the ads that already work in your industry and country. TikTok publishes exactly that in its Creative Center "Top Ads" list, ranked by likes, click-through rate and more. Browsing it by hand is fine for one look; it's painful when you want five countries, three industries and a weekly refresh in a spreadsheet.
The TikTok Creative Center Scraper returns that list as data, with no login: brand, ad title, industry, objective, CTR, likes, budget level, duration, video and cover links, country and rank. This post pulls it into Python.
Run it from Python
from apify_client import ApifyClient client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN") run = client.actor("aurelix/tiktok-creative-center-scraper").call(run_input={ "countries": ["US", "CA", "GB"], "period": "30", # 7, 30 or 180 days "sortBy": "ctr", # or like, impression, cvr, play_6s_rate ... "maxResults": 50, }) ads = list(client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items()) for ad in sorted(ads, key=lambda a: a.get("ctr") or 0, reverse=True)[:10]: print(ad["country"], ad.get("brand_name"), ad.get("ctr"), ad.get("likes"), ad.get("video_url")) Add industries, objectives, adFormat or keywords to narrow it to your market.
Only the new ones, every day
Set "incremental": true and a stateKey, save it as a task and schedule it daily. The first run saves a baseline; every later run returns only ads that weren't in the list before, so a creative team gets a short "what's new and working" feed each morning. Paste a Slack webhook to get it as a message.
Limits worth knowing
TikTok itself shows about 125 ads per filter set (up to 500 for the 180-day period) and doesn't show landing pages to logged-out visitors. To go wider, split by country or industry.
Price
$0.90 per 1,000 ads ($0.70–0.80 on paid Apify plans), plus a small fee per country or keyword searched and per run. Apify's free plan's $5 monthly credit is plenty to try it.
