Facebook vs TikTok

Meta's Graph API is the single HTTP interface behind Facebook Login, Page management, and Social Plugins, exposing versioned endpoints under graph.facebook.com that read and write data about people, Pages, and Groups once a user grants OAuth permissions. Most scopes that touch another person's data or a business Page require Meta's app review process before they work outside development mode, and the same Graph API infrastructure also underlies Instagram's Business API stack.

TikTok for Developers bundles several OAuth-based kits under one app registration — Login Kit for authentication, Display API for a user's own public videos, and Content Posting API for publishing on their behalf — all issued through open.tiktokapis.com. More sensitive scopes require TikTok's app review before going live, and a separate Research API exists for qualified academics to query public data.