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This has been a big mystery to me so I'm gonna ask here in a hope that someone can help me with it.

So, I'm trying to use the TikTok API to Auto Publish videos onto TikTok's account.

I cannot find any information about this on their API docs.

So I did a research and found out that other companies like 'Later' or 'HootSuit' have this Auto Publishing feature for TikTok.

So I signed up on Later to test how they do it. I found out that there are these Scopes/Permissions being used:

user.info.basic,
user.insights,
video.list,
video.insights,
comment.list,
comment.list.manage,
video.publish

and I found those from the URL when I allowed the Later TikTok App to be added to my TikTok account:

https://www.tiktok.com/auth/authorize?client_id=7051484449883553794&client_key=7051484449883553794&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fapp.later.com%2Fusers%2Fauth%2Ftiktok_business%2Fcallback%3Fstate%3De0af91a683a02ec0636ee1b42e6e9caf60ccc8295252260b&response_type=code&scope=user.info.basic%2Cuser.insights%2Cvideo.list%2Cvideo.insights%2Ccomment.list%2Ccomment.list.manage%2Cvideo.publish&state=e0af91a683a02ec0636ee1b42e6e9caf60ccc8295252260b

My TikTok app (this is the API app), asks for these permissions:

user.info.basic,
video.upload,

Now, I know that is the fist and most probably the main issue here BUT I don't have any option to add those Scopes to my App!

The only scopes that TikTok API mentions and talks about are these:

user.info.basic
video.list
video.upload

which you can see here:

https://developers.tiktok.com/doc/tiktok-api-scopes/

My app now only uploads the video on the users account and the users get a push notification on their app asking them to login to their account and edit/pulish the video!

So there is no auto publishing.

Just to clarify, the user's account is a business account as well as this is a requirement for the TikTok auto publishing to work.

The question is, where and how I can add those scopes/permissions to my App?

are there any other steps that I need to take?

drago
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  • Hello Drago, Even if it has nothing to do with your initial question, I would like to ask you the following question Were you able to get a valid URL with multiple scopes? My application has the video.list scope but when I try to add it to the user.basic.info, TikTok tells me that my scope is wrong. (works well with only user.basic.info) URL: https://www.tiktok.com/auth/authorize?client_key=my_key&response_type=code&redirect_uri=my_url&scope=user.info.basic%2Cvideo.list&state=my_state – thomasA Oct 25 '22 at 23:33
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    @thomasA, Yes, I don't have any issues with getting a valid url with multiple scopes. use this instead: https://www.tiktok.com/auth/authorize?client_key=YOUR-KEY&scope=user.info.basic,video.upload,video.list&response_type=code&redirect_uri=your-redirect-rul%3Fstate%3D6356cdb2d12a1&state=6356cdb2d12a1 – drago Oct 26 '22 at 07:20

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Since you are using a Tiktok Business account, may you should rather use the Marketing APi (https://ads.tiktok.com/marketing_api/docs?id=1753986142651394)

This has video publish scopes too and is a lot different from the Tiktok API you get from Tiktok for developers.

Note: Tiktok for developers API is geared towards general use, while the Marketing API is for Businesses, hence more features.

Caution JFYI, If you have a business account, you cannot monetize the content. I am facing the same issue, but i cant move to business account(and Marketing API) for that reason.

Qaisar Rajput
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  • Also, if you were able to figure out another way to get it to publish without having a business account and using Tiktok API. Please let me know – Qaisar Rajput Feb 20 '23 at 03:52
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first of all you need to add scops in your developer account like 'video.publish','user.info.basic'. and submit for review I think they will approve your app scops changes in 24 hours. then you need to use direct publish API for direct publish your video which is 'https://open.tiktokapis.com/v2/post/publish/video/init/'

but you need to follow tiktok guideline https://developers.tiktok.com/doc/content-posting-api-get-started/ for direct publish

first of all need to call creator/info API for getting account info then you can use direct publish apis

here there are two option for uploading video "FILE_UPLOAD" and "PULL_FROM_URL". if you have your videos uploaded on third party video storage so you can directly use that Video URL to direct post using "PULL_FROM_URL" method but in this case you need to verify your video domain or if you have direct video then you can use "FILE_UPLOAD" method

there is some detail documentation and guideline for video upload you can find it here https://developers.tiktok.com/doc/content-posting-api-media-transfer-guide/ this full guideline for video upload using chunk and video upload using url

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