# Douyin Trending & Hot Search — 抖音热榜 Real-Time List (`actor-forge/douyin-hot-search`) Actor

Real-time Douyin hot list (抖音热榜): rank, topic, heat value, label, topic ID, cover image and search link for every trending topic on Chinese TikTok. No login or cookies. $2 per 1,000 topics.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/actor-forge/douyin-hot-search.md
- **Developed by:** [ActorForge](https://apify.com/actor-forge) (community)
- **Categories:** Social media, News, AI
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $2.00 / 1,000 topic results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Douyin Trending & Hot Search — 抖音热榜 Real-Time List

Real-time Douyin hot list (抖音热榜): rank, topic, heat value, label, topic ID, cover image and search link for every trending topic on Chinese TikTok. No login or cookies. $2 per 1,000 topics.

Get the live **Douyin hot list (抖音热榜)**, the trending board of Chinese TikTok, as clean data. This Douyin hot search scraper/API returns every trending topic with its rank, heat value (热度), badge (hot/new), topic ID, cover image and a direct search link. Use it for social listening, influencer and content strategy, brand monitoring in China, trend detection, cross-border e-commerce product discovery, or as a live China-context tool for AI agents. Schedule it hourly to track ranking history. No login, no cookies, nothing to configure. Need Weibo, Baidu, Toutiao or Bilibili too? Use our **China Trending Topics** actor: same schema, five boards in one run.

### What data does it return?

Every run outputs clean, schema-validated rows like these:

| platform | rank | title | heatScore | label | url |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| douyin | 1 | LOUD战胜VIT夺冠 | 12148092 | hot | https://www.douyin.com/search/… |

### How much does it cost?

Transparent pay-per-event pricing — you only pay for what you get, and the
actor **always respects your run budget**: set a maximum total charge and it
stops cleanly at the cap instead of overrunning.

| Event | Price | Charged | Worked example |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `topic-result` | $0.002 | per trending topic delivered | Top 50 once = $0.10. Hourly top 20 for a month ≈ 14,400 topics = $28.80 |
| `apify-actor-start` | $0.00005 | per run per GB of memory (platform start fee) | One run at up to 1 GB = $0.00005 (charged as one event) |

### Input options

| Field | Type | Required | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `platforms` | array | no | `["douyin"]` | Fixed to douyin (抖音热榜). For all five Chinese boards in one run, use China Trending Topics. |
| `maxTopicsPerPlatform` | integer | no | `50` | Top N topics from the board (it holds ~50). You pay per topic: 50 topics = $0.10. |
| `keywords` | array | no | `[]` | Only keep topics whose title or description contains one of these words (Chinese or English, case-insensitive), e.g. 'iPhone', '比亚迪'. Empty = keep all. Filtered-out topics are never charged. |

### Limits & honest notes

- Topics are returned in their original language (mostly Simplified Chinese). Titles are not machine-translated, so pass them to your own translator or LLM if needed.
- Each board holds roughly 50 topics at a time. Max topics above the board size returns what the board has.
- The pinned slot is excluded, so `rank` is the board position (1 = top).
- heatScore is each platform's own popularity metric.
- `label` is Douyin's badge in English (hot, new, first, exclusive, live) or null.
- Topics, ranks and heat only. No user accounts, profiles or personal data are collected.
- If Douyin is temporarily unavailable, the run fails cleanly and nothing is charged.
- Respects your run budget: set a maximum total charge and the actor stops cleanly at the cap.

### Related ActorForge actors

- [China Trending Topics](https://apify.com/actor-forge/china-trending-topics) — Douyin, Weibo, Baidu, Toutiao and Bilibili in one run
- [Weibo Hot Search](https://apify.com/actor-forge/weibo-hot-search)
- [Bilibili Video & Comment Scraper](https://apify.com/actor-forge/bilibili-scraper)

### Changelog

- **2026-10-18** — Initial release: Douyin hot list, keyword filter.

***

*Built and maintained by **ActorForge**. Reliability first: every actor in the
portfolio is monitored by an automated nightly self-test, and breakages are
typically fixed the same day.*

# Actor input Schema

## `platforms` (type: `array`):

Fixed to douyin (抖音热榜). For all five Chinese boards in one run, use China Trending Topics.

## `maxTopicsPerPlatform` (type: `integer`):

Top N topics from the board (it holds ~50). You pay per topic: 50 topics = $0.10.

## `keywords` (type: `array`):

Only keep topics whose title or description contains one of these words (Chinese or English, case-insensitive), e.g. 'iPhone', '比亚迪'. Empty = keep all. Filtered-out topics are never charged.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "platforms": [
    "douyin"
  ],
  "maxTopicsPerPlatform": 50,
  "keywords": []
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

One row per trending topic per platform: rank, title, heat score, label, category, link.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("actor-forge/douyin-hot-search").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("actor-forge/douyin-hot-search").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call actor-forge/douyin-hot-search --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,actor-forge/douyin-hot-search"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/PBwI78rD6rDgiiwzP/builds/LtJ39m8nWoBiCk20V/openapi.json