I run a visa agency in Bali. Scrapers are the other half of my week, and the only part of that work I trust is the part I have run more than once. So when my TikTok Shop scraper started getting a daily health check with a fixed input, I let the results pile up instead of deleting them.

Thirteen runs, 17–28 October 2026, byte-identical input every time:

{ "searchQueries" : [ "air fryer" ], "country" : "US" , "maxProductsPerSource" : 30 , "sortBy" : "relevance" , "productDetails" : true }

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390 product rows. 154 distinct products. Zero products present in all thirteen runs. 76 of the 154 showed up exactly once and never again.

That is not a scraper fault, and it is not TikTok being broken. It is what a shopping search actually is, measured.…