Scrape a TikTok Hashtag Into a Sortable List of Videos and Creators

A TikTok hashtag scraper opens a hashtag’s page, scrolls through the videos, and copies each one into a row you can sort. LeadTrapper’s TikTok scraper does this on its Hashtags tab: type one or more hashtags, and it exports every video’s plays, likes, comments, caption and date, together with the creator behind it and any email or phone number their profile publishes. This guide covers how it reads a hashtag, what each row holds, and how to read the results, checked against the code that runs it.

What a Hashtag Scraper Is For

Hashtags are how TikTok groups content by topic, and the people who post under a niche hashtag are telling you what they do. A mortgage broker in Toronto can scrape #torontorealestate and find the agents posting listings every week. A catering company in Riyadh can scrape #riyadhevents to find event planners. A brand in Madrid can scrape #madridfood to see which creators get real views, not just followers.

The other use is research. Export a hashtag, sort by plays, and you see which videos worked in your niche this month, how long they were, what sound they used, and what else they were tagged with.

How LeadTrapper Reads a Hashtag

For each hashtag you enter, LeadTrapper opens the hashtag’s page on TikTok in its own browser window and collects the videos as TikTok loads them. A few details matter:

• Spaces are removed. “real estate” becomes #realestate, because hashtags can’t contain spaces.
• Latest, not just Top. TikTok opens hashtag pages on a Top tab of popular videos. When TikTok shows a Latest tab, LeadTrapper switches to it, so the run isn’t limited to the curated set.
• Several hashtags in one run. Put one per line. It waits 2 to 4 seconds between hashtags rather than firing them all at once.
• Creators get a second look. For every creator it hasn’t seen in the run, it opens their public profile and looks for an email, a wa.me WhatsApp link and a phone number in international format, five profiles at a time.

What You Get for Each Video

One row per video, with the video’s numbers and its creator’s details:

Exports go to Excel or CSV. Copy Numbers copies the phone numbers found, and Load to Campaign sends them to the WhatsApp bulk sender.

Running It Step by Step

1. Open TikTok Studio in LeadTrapper and choose Hashtags.
2. Type your hashtags, one per line, with or without the #.
3. Set Max Results, from 10 to 10,000. Start with 100 per hashtag to judge the niche.
4. Tick Skip videos already collected in previous runs if you scrape the same hashtags weekly. Clear resets that memory.
5. Press Run and watch the counter. Stop keeps what it has so far.
6. Export, or load the numbers into a campaign.

If a run returns nothing, TikTok may want a login: sign in once in LeadTrapper’s TikTok window and run it again. That window keeps its own session, separate from your normal browser.

Reading the Results

A raw hashtag export is noisy. Four sorts turn it into something useful:

• By plays, to see which videos and creators the niche actually watches.
• By comments, to find videos that start conversations. Run the busiest through the Commenters tab to list the people asking questions; our guide to scraping TikTok comments explains how.
• By username, to group creators who post often under the tag. Several rows from one creator means they’re committed to the niche.
• By email or phone, to keep only creators who publish a way to reach them. If you want to pitch them, our guide to finding a TikTok creator’s business email covers the first message.

The Hashtags column is a research tool of its own. Count which other tags appear most often alongside yours, and you have your next hashtags to scrape.

Limits and Rules

The scraper collects what TikTok loads for each hashtag, so a run ends at your limit or when TikTok stops returning new videos. Very large hashtags never really end; small local ones may give you a few dozen videos. Contact details exist only where creators published them, and in most niches that’s a minority.

TikTok’s Terms of Service forbid using automated scripts to collect information from TikTok, so using any hashtag scraper is against TikTok’s rules and the risk is yours. If you sign in inside LeadTrapper’s window, the runs use that account, so use one you can afford to have limited. Contacts you collect can be personal data under the GDPR and similar laws. This isn’t legal advice.

How It Compares

Hashtags are one of five ways LeadTrapper finds TikTok leads. The others, from creator search to usernames you name, are in our guide to how to scrape TikTok, and TikTok lead generation sets this approach against paid lead ads.