Tiktok API is VERY ANNOYING. TikTok restricts FULLY AUTOMATED VIDEO PUBLISHING (without user interaction) to Business accounts with advanced permissions. Those special scopes—like video.publish are usually GRANTED ONLY AFTER completing an OFFICIAL TIKTOK AUDIT or forming a PARTNERSHIP with TikTok. By default, MOST developer apps only have access to user.info.basic, video.list, and video.upload, which lets you UPLOAD a video as a draft and then you have to finalize it manually in the TikTok app. Tools like Later or Hootsuite? They can get around this ONLY because they have special agreements or partnerships with TikTok but guess what, not API at all.

I found myself combing through every post on StackOverflow (just like you), Reddit, and beyond just to figure out how to integrate it into my code... and when I FINALLY managed to learn the right way to create a post via API, OH SURPRISE. I can't make my posts PUBLIC TO EVERYONE? WHY, I asked myself? I read the docs and found out... you have to go through an endless TIKTOK audit just to upload a few videos monthly via API. Just DISGUSTING.

SOOOO, what I did was go through the AUDIT and create an APP so everyone can upload their TikTok videos in just a few clicks with a single API call. Check it out: https://www.upload-post.com

I let you post 10 monthly videos at no cost directly to public TIKTOK. Later, I'll start adding more platforms like Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn because their docs are just as bad and each one makes your life IMPOSSIBLE if you just want to upload a single video.