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Every 6 hours

Check how each new TikTok is doing after two days

Two days after you post, you get that video's views, likes, comments and shares so you can judge it early.

Runs
Every 6 hours
Apps
TikTok
AI
Not needed
Access
video.list (must be added)

Send this to your assistant

Create a ClickRuntime automation: whenever I post a new TikTok, wait 48 hours and then email me its views, likes, comments and shares.

Paste it into your assistant. It tells you what it will send or change before it runs live.

First time? Adding ClickRuntime to your assistant takes about two minutes.

Why use it

Why teams use this automation

The first two days decide most of a TikTok video's life, yet nobody wants to open the app every few hours to check. Brand teams end up looking at a video at day five, when the chance to react has passed: a pinned comment, a follow-up video, or a paid boost on something that is clearly taking off.

Every six hours this checks your account for newly posted videos and remembers each one with its post time. When a video reaches 48 hours old, it pulls the current stats for that video and emails you a short check-in with views, likes, comments and shares.

Because each video is checked once at the 48-hour mark, you get a consistent comparison between posts rather than a random snapshot. Without it, a good post can fade before anyone on the team notices.

What you get out of it

  • Every video measured at the same age

    A check at exactly 48 hours means a video posted Monday morning and one posted Friday night are compared on equal footing, so you can tell which idea was stronger instead of which one had longer to collect views.

  • Time to react while it still matters

    Two days in, a follow-up video or a reply to the top comment can still ride the momentum. An email at that point beats finding out a week later that a video had taken off.

  • No habit of refreshing the app

    The check runs in the background and mails you only once per video. You stop opening TikTok to peek at numbers, and the interruption turns into one short message per post.

  • Spot flops early

    A video far below your usual two-day numbers is a signal to review the hook or posting time. Catching that after two days, not two weeks, makes your next three posts better informed.

  • A growing log of post performance

    Each check-in email is a record of a video's two-day result. Lined up over a quarter, they show your baseline and make it clear when something was a real outlier.

How it works

What happens, step by step

  1. Every 6 hours, ClickRuntime checks your TikTok account for newly posted videos and notes when each one went up.

  2. Once a video has been live for 48 hours, it reads the views, likes, comments and shares.

  3. You get a check-in email for that video. Each video gets exactly one check-in.

Before it runs live

  • Connect TikTok

What you get

RunsEvery 6 hours
Check how each new TikTok is doing after two daystoday, 9:00Succeeded
Email · 48h check-in48h check-in: Our 30-second latte art fail Views 21,904 · Likes 2,311 · Comments 140 · Shares 86

Build your own

Need it to work differently?

This template is a starting point. Copy the prompt and change it, or describe a different automation from scratch, with your own conditions, more apps or an AI step. Your assistant writes it, tests it and runs it on ClickRuntime.
  • Your own rules

    Conditions, thresholds, filters and exceptions, written the way you'd explain them to a colleague.

  • Any number of apps

    One automation can read from one app and update several others. Over 248 apps are ready, and anything with an API works too.

  • AI where it helps

    Summaries, classification, extraction and drafts use ClickRuntime's built-in AI, with no extra key.

  • On a schedule or on each event

    Runs as often as every 5 minutes, or the moment an app sends an event, and keeps track of what it already handled.

Changes you can ask for

  • Act only on the items that match your own rules, and skip the rest
  • Add an AI step, for example to summarize, sort or draft a reply
  • Add another app, for example also send it to Slack
  • Combine it with other TikTok steps into one automation

Under the hood

The code that runs this automation

This is the Python script that runs each time the automation starts. Your AI assistant writes it for you when you send the prompt, and you allow each step in your assistant. To change how the automation works, describe the change to your assistant and it updates the script for you. For every function it can use, see the script reference.
new_video_check_in_after_48_hours.pyexample
import time
from clickruntime import on_trigger, report_fetched, state, notify, http, credentials

API = "https://open.tiktokapis.com/v2"

@on_trigger
def run(event):
    auth = {"Authorization": "Bearer " + credentials.connection("tiktok", "main")}
    waiting = state.get("waiting") or {}
    videos = http.post(f"{API}/video/list/", params={"fields": "id,create_time"}, headers=auth, json={"max_count": 10}).json()["data"]["videos"]
    seen = set(state.get("seen") or [])
    new = [v for v in videos if v["id"] not in seen]
    due = [vid for vid, t in waiting.items() if time.time() - t >= 48 * 3600]
    report_fetched(len(new) + len(due))
    if not new and not due:
        return {"summary": "Nothing new or due"}
    for v in new:
        waiting[v["id"]] = v["create_time"]
        seen.add(v["id"])
    if due:
        fields = "id,title,view_count,like_count,comment_count,share_count,share_url"
        stats = http.post(f"{API}/video/query/", params={"fields": fields}, headers=auth,
                          json={"filters": {"video_ids": due}}).json()["data"]["videos"]
        for v in stats:
            notify.email_me(f"48h check-in: {v['title'][:60]}", f"Views {v['view_count']:,} · Likes {v['like_count']:,} · Comments {v['comment_count']} · Shares {v['share_count']}\n{v['share_url']}")
            waiting.pop(v["id"], None)
    state.set("waiting", waiting)
    state.set("seen", list(seen)[-200:])
    return {"new": len(new), "reported": len(due)}

FAQ

Common questions

Why does it check every six hours instead of at 48 hours exactly?
TikTok does not push an alert when a video turns two days old, so the flow looks on a six-hour cycle. Your email arrives within about six hours after the 48-hour mark, which is close enough for the numbers to be comparable.
What happens to videos posted before I set this up?
Only videos it sees as new are tracked from then on. On the first run it records what it finds, and an older video that is already past 48 hours will not trigger a check-in, so you will not get a flood of old reports.
Which stats are in the email?
The email reports the stats TikTok returns for the video: views, likes, comments and shares, along with the title and post time. If your account has access to extra fields, such as average watch time, you can ask for them to be added.
What permissions does it need?
video.list (must be added). Nothing else in your accounts is used.
Does it need AI?
No. It runs without AI, so it doesn't use your plan's AI allowance.
How many runs does it use?
One run each time it checks. Checks that find nothing new and stop right away aren't counted.
Can I change how it works?
Yes. Describe the change to your AI assistant, for example a different schedule, channel or filter. It updates the automation, tests it and tells you what changed.

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