TikTok Shop video wants a visible face and the product: check first

The TikTok Shop Academy page on requirements for high-quality videos and LIVEs says to create content that "is recorded in a real-world environment, add some camera movement, and feature people", and that it must include your face and the physical product visibly. Under posting a video, it also asks for at least three seconds of dynamic content without any still images or looping visuals.

What an AI-only clip lacks

A generated product shot with no person fails the plain reading of those lines. That does not make AI useless: you can mix real footage of a person holding the product with generated inserts, and check each against the page.

A frame check you can run

The video frames API pulls stills at times you name, at source size, up to 24 per call from a clip of up to 300 s. Ask for the first, middle and last seconds and look for a face and the product.

Request

Stills at fixed times. The submit always returns 202 with a job; poll GET /v1/video-frames/{id} until resource_status is ready, then review the images in frames.

import json, os, urllib.request

body = {
    "video_url": "https://media.sume.com/artifacts/example/ad.mp4",
    "at": [0, 1, 2, 8, 14],
    "format": "jpeg",
}
req = urllib.request.Request(
    "https://api.sume.com/v1/video-frames",
    data=json.dumps(body).encode(),
    headers={
        "Authorization": "Bearer " + os.environ["SUME_API_KEY"],
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
        "Idempotency-Key": "frames-ad-001",
    },
    method="POST",
)
print(urllib.request.urlopen(req).read().decode())

Limit

Stills show you a face; they do not prove the clip passes TikTok's review. The page lists enforcement from violation points to content removal, so treat the check as a filter.