How to create a TikTok Source

Supported Instagram Sources

The TikTok API currently only allows content to be aggregated from TikTok accounts connected with Buzzspark.

Before you can start aggregating content from TikTok, your Buzzspark account must have at least one valid connection with a TikTok account.

Creating a TikTok Source

Step 1: Navigate to Sources

From the left menu, browse to Content > Sources

Step 2: Click to create add a new source

Click on the + Source button on the top right. This launches the Create New Source window. The tabs along the top in this window and the features within each tab may vary depending on the type of content you wish to ingest from Instagram. Each of the tabs are detailed in the following steps.

Step 3: General tab

‘Source Name’ (required)
Enter a short name to help you identify this Source e.g. ‘Official’.

‘Network’ (required)
From the drop-down list, select TikTok.

‘Type’ (required)
From the drop-down list, select ‘User’. The TikTok API currently only allows content from connected TikTok accounts to be aggregated.

‘User’ (required)
From the drop-down list, select one of your connected TikTok profiles. Refer to TikTok connections for further details.

‘Tags’ (optional)
Click in the Tags field and start typing the name of an existing Tag you want to add to all posts aggregated by this Source. You can also click on the ‘Add New Tag’ button to create and add a new Tag. Tags help you group content to simplify moderation and to filter content to show on different Displays. Learn more about Tags.

At this point you could click on the Save and Close button to save the new Source and start aggregating content, however we recommend you explore the additional steps below that guide you through advanced features for refining and filtering content that is aggregated, auto moderation, aggregating historical content and scheduling.

Step 4: Advanced tab

Keyword filtering
Any hashtags or keyword entered here will be used to further filter all content that is aggregated via this Source.

Only aggregate content that includes any of the following hashtags or keywords
If a post does not contain any of the specified keywords, it will not be aggregated, regardless to any preceding settings.

Do not aggregate content that includes any of the following hashtags or keywords
If a post contains any of the specified keywords, it will not be aggregated, regardless to any preceding settings.

Use partial matching
By default, only exact matches of any keywords you specify are filtered. If you enable partial matching, the match criteria are expanded so filtering for "bread" will also match "gingerbread" and "breadcrumb".

‘Enable Back-Off’
This setting automatically optimises aggregation based on activity levels for this Source and we recommend leaving it selected.

Step 5: Moderation tab

Settings under the Moderation tab are common to Sources for all Networks. See Banned Word Filter and Auto-Moderation features in Buzzspark for further details.

Step 6: Aggregation tab

Settings under the Aggregation tab are common to Sources for all Networks. See enabling and disabling a Source, aggregating Historic content from social networks, and how to schedule aggregation of content from social networks for further details.

Saving or Discarding changes to a Source

You can click on the Close, Save and Close or Save buttons at the bottom at any time.
Close – closes the Source page without saving and changes since the last ‘Save.
Save and Close – saves any changes and closes the Source page
Save – saves any changes without closing the Source page

Updated on: 03/02/2023