TikTok API · Videos · Image Carousels · SchedulingPublish to TikTokwithout the developer audit.
One REST call posts videos and image carousels (up to 10 images) to TikTok. PostPulse owns the TikTok audit, so you skip the developer review entirely. 10 free publications on signup. No card.
Two kinds of people land on this page.
You spent months wrestling with TikTok for Developers. Or you're about to. Either way, we've seen this movie. Pick the panel that fits.
Then you know the dance. Login Kit and Content Posting API are separate approvals. Direct publishing is gated behind extra review. Until then your sandbox app can only post to private accounts of authorised testers. Image posts and video posts use different upload endpoints.
Your audit is over. PostPulse holds the TikTok audit. Scheduling is one field. Privacy levels, comment / duet / stitch toggles, branded-content flags — all live in one settings object.
The 6 things you'd build yourself
Each line below is a real ticket the TikTok for Developers platform hands you on day one. PostPulse handles all of them.
Two separate approvals
Login Kit gives you OAuth. The Content Posting API gives you publishing. Each has its own review. Most teams get stuck on the second one for weeks.
The DIRECT_POST scope
Sandbox apps can only publish to private accounts of authorised testers. To post on behalf of real users you need DIRECT_POST — a separate gating step.
Two upload flows for one product
Video posts and image carousels use different endpoints, different mode strings, and different request shapes. You implement and test both.
Format & policy validation
360–4,096 px on each axis, 23–60 fps, ≤ 20 MB images, JPG/PNG/WEBP and MP4/MOV/WebM, 90-char title cap on image posts vs. 2,200 on video. Miss one and TikTok's API returns the error after you've already promised the user the post is queued.
Migrations land on you
TikTok deprecated the Share Video API in 2023 and required everyone to migrate to the Content Posting API. Display API responses lost fields. In 2025 the access bar tightened again. None of that work is your product — but all of it is your problem.
Scheduling and observability
TikTok has no native "publish at" parameter. You build the queue, the cron, the retry, the alerting, and the dashboard yourself.
scheduledTime field. 14 webhook events for the rest.One API call. That's it.
Drop a public video URL into attachmentPaths. PostPulse downloads it, hands it to TikTok, and publishes at the time you set. Prefer to upload bytes? Use a binary upload or a presigned URL — both work the same way.
curl -X POST https://api.post-pulse.com/v1/posts \
-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"scheduledTime": "2026-06-01T10:00:00Z",
"isDraft": false,
"publications": [{
"socialMediaAccountId": 123,
"platformSettings": {
"type": "TIK_TOK",
"title": "Day 47 of building in public.",
"privacyLevel": "PUBLIC_TO_EVERYONE"
},
"posts": [{
"content": "Day 47 of building in public.",
"attachmentPaths": ["https://your-cdn.com/video.mp4"]
}]
}]
}'Everything TikTok lets developers do — actually shipped.
Each capability below maps to a real field on a real request. No roadmap items.
Vertical or horizontal. Title up to 2,200 chars. PostPulse handles the upload, hands the video to TikTok, and tells your webhook the moment it lands.
Up to 10 images in one post. Title up to 90 chars, description up to 4,000 chars. Optional autoAddMusic flag. Same /v1/posts request shape as videos.
privacyLevel across PUBLIC_TO_EVERYONE, FOLLOWER_OF_CREATOR, MUTUAL_FOLLOW_FRIENDS, SELF_ONLY. Toggle Duet, Stitch, and comments per post.
brandContent for paid partnership disclosure, brandOrganic for "your brand" — both supported and forwarded to TikTok's content disclosure.
Format, size, frame rate, resolution, caption length, attachment count — checked before TikTok ever sees the request. See the Media Validation guide.
Per-post, per-publication, and per-schedule outcomes — plus media-import lifecycle events — fired straight to your URL the moment they happen. See the Webhooks reference.
What you ship over six weeks
Both columns assume you know your stack. Only one has you doing undifferentiated platform plumbing.
- Day 1–3 · Register TikTok developer account · configure app · set OAuth redirect URLs
- Week 1 · Implement Login Kit · PKCE · token refresh
- Week 2 · Build the Content Posting API flow · video upload · status polling
- Week 2–3 · Submit for DIRECT_POST scope · provide compliance evidence · wait
- Week 4–6 · Iterate on rejection. Re-scope. Resubmit. Wait.
- Week 6+ · Approved. Now ship a queue, retry, scheduling, webhook receiver, alerts.
- Minute 0 · Sign up
- Minute 2 · 10 free credits
- Minute 5 · Connect a TikTok account via OAuth
- Minute 8 · First post live · webhook calls your URL the second it lands
- Day 2+ · Build the actual product. Stop thinking about TikTok.
Built for indie hackers. Scales for the rest.
Three private-label paths plus a white-label tier. Start free — pick a plan only when the product makes sense.
- 10 publications, free
- No credit card required
- Every feature unlocked
- Connect unlimited TikTok accounts
- One credit = one published post
- No subscription, no expiry
- All features included
- Buy credits anytime
- Unlimited publishing per seat
- 1 seat = 1 connected TikTok account
- Add or remove seats anytime
- Annual billing also available
Capability matrix · PostPulse vs. native TikTok API
What you'd build yourself vs. what's already shipped.
| Capability | PostPulse | Native TikTok for Developers |
|---|---|---|
| App audit / Content Posting review | ✓ Done by us | ✗ Multi-week, multi-step |
| DIRECT_POST scope | ✓ Audited client | Sandbox-only until approved |
| OAuth + token refresh | ✓ Handled server-side | PKCE + refresh per user |
| Video posts | ✓ Single endpoint | Separate upload + publish flow |
| Image carousels (up to 10) | ✓ Same endpoint, attach images | Different mode + endpoint |
| Privacy + interaction controls | ✓ All flags, one object | Available — your wiring |
| Branded content flags | ✓ brandContent + brandOrganic | Available — your wiring |
| Pre-flight validation | ✓ Size · format · FPS · resolution · caption | Errors only after you've taken the user's request |
| Scheduling | ✓ scheduledTime field | Build your own queue + cron |
| Real-time post status | ✓ 14 webhook events | Poll yourself |
| White-label / Connect for end users | ✓ Included | Build your own OAuth bridge |
| Same API for 8 other platforms | ✓ Instagram · YouTube · LinkedIn · X · Threads · FB · Telegram · Bluesky | 9 separate integrations |
Why developers ship TikTok with PostPulse
Reviewed on Product Hunt
I use PostPulse with an AI agent via their MCP server. My agent literally posts to social media on its own now. Didn’t expect that to work as smoothly as it did.
$5/month for what would otherwise require a full backend engineer to maintain? Easy yes. The REST API is clean and well-documented too, which is rare.
Tried to get TikTok API access myself. Three weeks, two rejections. Switched to PostPulse and was posting to TikTok the same day. Wish I hadn’t wasted that time.
I’m a Make.com power user and needed to post to 5 platforms from one scenario. The native PostPulse app for Make connected everything in one afternoon. Would’ve taken me weeks to do manually.
I built an n8n automation for a client and needed to add social publishing. The official PostPulse n8n node was literally drag and drop. No headache.
Saved me months of dev work. I was about to start integrating Instagram and TikTok APIs separately — then I found out Meta’s app review alone can take months. PostPulse just handled all of that. Shipped social posting in under a week.
The most flexible pricing model on the market!
I'm building an AI content factory as a side hustle. I'm still in the experimentation phase, so I don't have the budget for expensive tools — but I also needed to get everything up and running quickly, so I integrated with a ready-to-go API instead. PostPulse offers a flexible pay-as-you-go model that let me experiment first without commitment — and now that we have stable traffic, I’ve switched to their $5/month subscription.
Best support on the market — the founder personally emailed me when I hit a client error and walked me through the fix.
We optimized the posting to 20 twitter accounts. It was a problem to manage such a number, but through the platform everything works out perfectly. Very convenient dashboard for tracking errors. Great product.
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