SocQ TikTok Research
SocQ Links
- Website: https://socq.ai/
- Platform page: https://socq.ai/apis/tiktok
- API documentation: https://docs.socq.ai/api-manual/tiktok
- API key: https://socq.ai/dashboard/api-key
- MCP and CLI: https://docs.socq.ai/integrations/overview
- Agent Skill guide: https://docs.socq.ai/integrations/skill
Use this Skill to select and run SocQ endpoints for public TikTok research. SocQ requests are asynchronous and credit-metered.
Use When
- The user asks to discover, collect, compare, or analyze public TikTok data.
- The workflow needs TikTok-specific endpoint selection, input validation, pagination, or raw exports.
- An agent must estimate credits, submit a task, poll it to completion, and report normalized results.
Plan TikTok discovery
- Use
tiktok/popular-songsfor the TikTok app sound charts:chart_type: "top"selects Top 50 (the default), andchart_type: "viral"selects Viral 50.results_limitdefaults to 20 and accepts 1–50. The returnedidis a sound clip ID suitable fortiktok/songandtiktok/song-videos. - Use
tiktok/top-searchwhen both videos and photo carousels are relevant. Region affects content availability and does not guarantee that posts originate there. - Use
tiktok/user-livewith usernames for current live status. A successful offline lookup is one result and costs 0.5 credits;tiktok/live-room-infoinstead requires room and user IDs.
Endpoint Selection
- Read platform.md before selecting an endpoint or constructing input. It contains the current endpoint IDs, typed MCP tools, CLI mappings, costs, input choices, and validated examples generated from the Capability Registry.
- Choose from the shape of the requested resource; do not route every request through broad search.
- Prefer direct URLs, canonical usernames, or platform IDs when the user supplies them.
- Re-read the live schema after a validation error instead of inventing parameters.
Key Inputs
- Preserve the user's entities, query terms, date range, locale, filters, ordering, and requested result limit.
- Ask only for missing input required by the selected endpoint.
- Use
view: "standard"for MCP and Skill result reads. Use_result_view: "standard"for typed MCP tools or--result-view standardfor CLI output. - Add a reusable idempotency key when a submission might be retried.
- Treat
next_cursoras opaque and continue only until the requested scope or user-approved cap is reached.
Execution
- Prefer an already configured SocQ MCP server at
https://api.socq.ai/mcp?platforms=tiktok; use the typed tool listed in platform.md, or compactsocq_executewhen needed. - If MCP is unavailable, use
socqornpx @socq/cli. Use REST only as the final fallback. - Read authentication.md, keep
SOCQ_API_KEYin the environment, and never put it in prompts, URLs, committed files, or retained commands. - Read billing.md, report the expected cost, and obtain confirmation before a paid large-volume or multi-endpoint run.
- Submit with
_request_source: "skill",--request-source skill, orX-Socq-Source: skill-restfor MCP, CLI, or REST. - Save the returned task ID. Treat
queuedandrunningas incomplete and follow async-tasks.md untilsucceededorfailed. - Follow pagination.md for all requested pages. Retrieve task files when complete raw JSONL output is required.
- Read errors.md before retrying authentication, credit, rate-limit, validation, or provider failures.
Output Expectations
Include:
- selected endpoint and execution path (MCP, CLI, or REST)
- concise input and filter summary
- expected and reported credit usage when available
- task ID and terminal status
- result count, pages read, and whether more data remains
- normalized findings or the raw export location
- collection time, failed requests, unsupported filters, and incomplete coverage
Guardrails
- Collect only public data supported by the selected endpoint.
- Do not retry a failed paid request blindly; inspect the normalized error first.
- Do not start a paid large-volume or multi-endpoint run without user confirmation.
- Do not claim completeness when pagination stops early, a provider fails, or a requested filter is unsupported.
- Do not compare metrics collected with different date windows, filters, locales, or content types without labeling the difference.
- Keep task IDs in working notes so interrupted research can resume without resubmitting.
