TikHub — Onboarding & Routing

TikHub is a unified API for social-media data across 16+ platforms (TikTok, Douyin, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter/X, Threads, Xiaohongshu, Weibo, Bilibili, Reddit, LinkedIn, and more): download media, fetch posts/profiles/comments, search, trends, and analytics.

Read this once, get the user set up, then hand off to the skill that owns the task.

Step 1 — Get an API key (one time)

Send the user to https://user.tikhub.io: register (email verification), open the API Keys page, and create a key. Pricing is per-endpoint, credit-based.

Step 2 — Set the key in the environment

Every path reads TIKHUB_API_KEY from the environment:

export TIKHUB_API_KEY="your_api_key_here"
# persist it: add the line to ~/.zshrc or ~/.bashrc

Step 3 — Pick a path and hand off

Setup gate (run before any TikHub call)

if [ -z "${TIKHUB_API_KEY:-}" ]; then
  echo "TIKHUB_API_KEY is not set — get a key at https://user.tikhub.io then: export TIKHUB_API_KEY=..."
fi

If unset, halt and walk the user through Steps 1–2 before proceeding.

Red flags

• Calling endpoints before TIKHUB_API_KEY is set (every call 401s).
• Forgetting that calls cost credits — warn before large/bulk pulls.