Using TikTok with Schedulin

Schedulin posts videos and photo carousels to TikTok through the TikTok Content Posting API. The integration supports both Business and Creator accounts.

Account requirements

• Your TikTok account must be a Business or Creator account, not a personal one.
• Connect on the Channels page. You'll authorize Schedulin via TikTok's OAuth flow; we store a refresh token and rotate your access token automatically.

What you can publish

Our validation accepts 1 to 35 media items per post, images or videos.

Composer settings

When you're posting to TikTok, the composer exposes every setting TikTok's API requires:

• Privacy status — Public, Friends (mutual follows), Followers only, or Only me
• Allow comments
• Allow Duet
• Allow Stitch
• Disclose brand content — Your brand and/or branded content
• AI-generated content flag
• Auto-add music (photo carousels)
• Save as draft — Send the post to TikTok as a draft to finish manually in the app

Available privacy options depend on your account. Unaudited apps and private accounts are limited to private-only privacy levels; TikTok surfaces that constraint back through the API and we honor it in the composer.

Caption and hashtag limits

• Captions share the global 5,000-character limit, but TikTok itself truncates captions around 2,200.
• Hashtags are capped at 5 per caption. We block the post at validation time if you exceed that.
• @mentions are posted as plain text; they become links after publishing.

Analytics

Basic video metrics (views, likes, comments, shares) are pulled after a post publishes. They appear in the Sent tab.

Known limitations

• Music library selection, effects, stickers, and polls are not available through the API.
• "Promote" / boosted performance does not apply to posts scheduled via API.
• Alt text on videos is not supported.
• For unaudited developer accounts TikTok only allows posts to publish privately; this is a TikTok platform restriction, not a Schedulin one.