# Research TikTok and Instagram from Claude or ChatGPT

> Ask your agent which videos on your topic did best on TikTok this month and what Instagram shows under your hashtag. Manifold reads public TikTok and Instagram posts and their numbers, with no account or developer app of yours, at 1 credit a search page. Our TikTok search for AI marketing tools returned 30 videos with 11.6 million views; #aimarketing on Instagram returned 10 posts with 2,751 views.

| | |
| --- | --- |
| Job | What people watch and save in a niche |
| Tools | tiktok_search_videos, instagram_search_posts |
| Credits | 2 for the two searches in this run |
| Numbers | Views, likes, comments, shares and saves, where the platform shows them |
| Run on | "AI marketing tools" and #aimarketing, past month, 26 October 2026 |

## The prompt

We asked our own agent, Claude Code connected to Manifold, on 26 October 2026:

```text
What videos about AI marketing tools did best on TikTok this past month, and what is posted
under #aimarketing on Instagram? Give me views, likes, comments, shares and saves, say which
ones are ads, and tell me what the top videos have in common.
```

## The calls

| Step | Tool | Input | Credits |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | [`tiktok_search_videos`](https://www.manifoldmcp.com/docs/tools/tiktok#tiktok_search_videos) | "AI marketing tools", past month, most popular | 1 |
| 2 | [`instagram_search_posts`](https://www.manifoldmcp.com/docs/tools/instagram#instagram_search_posts) | #aimarketing, past month | 1 |

TikTok search takes any words and returned 30 videos on its first page. Instagram search takes one hashtag and returned 10 posts. The two lists come from different kinds of search, so compare each platform with itself, not with the other.

## What came back

**TikTok:** 30 videos, with 11,568,114 views in all. The ten most viewed:

| Video | Views | Likes | Saves | Ad |
| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: | --- |
| [ChatGPT prompts for product images](https://www.tiktok.com/@jose.gonzalez.ia/video/7696933202920869142), in Spanish | 2,194,924 | 108,274 | 109,131 | No |
| [ChatGPT text watermarks in the EU](https://www.tiktok.com/@willfrancis24/video/7700578235649920279) | 1,490,889 | 65,411 | 20,263 | No |
| [The best AI tool for every job](https://www.tiktok.com/@maverickgpt/video/7700444273329671455) | 1,038,066 | 56,534 | 58,237 | No |
| [Vibe coding](https://www.tiktok.com/@susanvibecodes/video/7693330436902161695) | 810,385 | 34,382 | 40,622 | No |
| [Five Claude skills](https://www.tiktok.com/@nocode.joshua/video/7697000653733891346) | 792,019 | 55,596 | 60,864 | No |
| [CapCut video ads](https://www.tiktok.com/@creators.hustle/video/7697225500539817247) | 776,128 | 8,693 | 3,196 | Yes |
| [Google Flow prompts](https://www.tiktok.com/@creedapex/video/7696909740173004033) | 590,318 | 30,222 | 26,320 | No |
| [Claude tips](https://www.tiktok.com/@theexecutivescoach/video/7697760350644473102) | 507,916 | 33,596 | 46,112 | No |
| [AI videos for a shop](https://www.tiktok.com/@azharaz836/video/7690252080161869062) | 399,187 | 17,994 | 20,100 | No |
| [A video editing skill for Claude or ChatGPT](https://www.tiktok.com/@jamout.ai/video/7695100487216975118) | 352,499 | 21,371 | 29,396 | No |

**Instagram:** 10 posts under #aimarketing, with 2,751 views and 172 likes in all. One reel, which offers a free AI visibility audit to anyone who comments AUDIT, had 1,611 of the views. Of the 15 comments that came back on it, 7 are the word AUDIT.

## What the agent concluded

- **Claude is the subject.** 13 of the 30 TikTok videos name Claude in the caption or hashtags, and they had 5.3 million of the 11.6 million views.
- **People save these videos.** 20 of the 30 were saved more often than they were liked. Lists and how-tos, such as the best tool for each job or five Claude skills, are videos people keep to use later.
- **Some of the reach is paid.** TikTok marks 7 of the 30 as ads, among them the sixth most viewed.
- **The Instagram hashtag is quiet.** #aimarketing had little reach this month, and its biggest post was an offer of a free audit in return for a comment. For this topic, TikTok showed far more of what people watch.

## Run it on yours

Put your own topic and hashtag in the same prompt:

```text
What videos about {your topic} did best on TikTok this past month, and what is posted under
#{your hashtag} on Instagram? Give me views, likes, comments, shares and saves, say which ones
are ads, and tell me what the top videos have in common.
```

Then read what the top videos say with [`tiktok_get_transcript`](https://www.manifoldmcp.com/docs/tools/tiktok#tiktok_get_transcript) or [`instagram_get_transcript`](https://www.manifoldmcp.com/docs/tools/instagram#instagram_get_transcript), size an account with [`tiktok_get_profile`](https://www.manifoldmcp.com/docs/tools/tiktok#tiktok_get_profile) or [`instagram_get_profile`](https://www.manifoldmcp.com/docs/tools/instagram#instagram_get_profile), or read a brand's recent reels with [`instagram_get_reels`](https://www.manifoldmcp.com/docs/tools/instagram#instagram_get_reels).

## Questions

### Do I need a TikTok or Instagram account?

No. Manifold reads public TikTok and Instagram through a data provider, with no login, no Meta app and no TikTok developer account of yours.

### Why does the Instagram search take only a hashtag?

Instagram search here is by hashtag: a phrase is run together into one tag, so ai marketing searches #aimarketing. TikTok search takes any words.

### Are the results complete?

No. Both platforms rank their search and return one page at a time. Ask for the next page, or a narrower window, to see more.

### Can my agent read what a video says?

Yes. The transcript tools return what a TikTok video or an Instagram reel says, at 1 credit each.

### Which videos are ads?

TikTok marks paid videos, and the search returns that mark with each video. In our run, 7 of the 30 were ads.

## Next

- [TikTok MCP server](https://www.manifoldmcp.com/mcp/tiktok)
- [Instagram MCP server](https://www.manifoldmcp.com/mcp/instagram)
- [TikTok tools in the docs](https://www.manifoldmcp.com/docs/tools/tiktok)

Published 24 October 2026. Updated 26 October 2026.