Douyin Hot Search Scraper

What does Douyin Hot Search Scraper do?

Douyin Hot Search Scraper pulls real-time trending boards from douyin.com (抖音) — Hot Search, Seeding, Entertainment, Social and Challenge. It returns one clean row per trending topic. Each row carries the topic's live rank, peak rank, heat value and view count. It also includes video and discussion counts, category tags, cover images and the moment it started trending. Pick any subset of boards, cap how many topics per board, and optionally track what's new or rising between runs. No login, no tokens, no proxies.

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Key features

• 🔥 All five trending boards — Hot Search (热点榜), Seeding (种草榜), Entertainment (娱乐榜), Social (社会榜) and Challenge (挑战榜) in one run, or pick any subset.
• 📊 Full trend metrics — rank, peak rank, heat value, views, video and discussion counts, category tags and event time for every topic.
• 🖼️ Cover images + direct links — all cover-art mirror URLs plus a ready-to-open Douyin search URL for each topic.
• ♻️ Change tracking — incremental mode tags each topic NEW / CHANGED / UNCHANGED / EXPIRED, so you see what's rising and what dropped off between runs.
• 🧹 Cross-board dedup — a topic trending on several boards is returned (and billed) once.
• 📦 Compact mode — core-fields-only payloads for AI-agent and MCP pipelines.
• 🔔 Notifications — Telegram, Slack, Discord, WhatsApp and generic webhook out of the box.
• ⚡ Fast & tokenless — the full ~200-topic trending universe in under 10 seconds; no login, account or proxy.

What data can you extract from douyin.com?

For every trending topic on each selected board you get: the topic text, its current rank and peak rank, Douyin's heat value, total views, video and discussion counts, category and topic tags, badge, all cover-image mirror URLs, the unix and ISO event time it started trending, the board's snapshot time, Douyin identifiers (sentenceId / groupId), a pinned flag, and a ready-to-open Douyin search URL for the topic.

Input

Configure the actor through the input schema in Apify Console.

Key parameters:

• boards — Which trending boards to scrape. Leave empty to scrape all five. (default: ["hot","seeding","entertainment","social","challenge"])
• maxResultsPerBoard — Maximum trending topics to return per board (1–60). Douyin serves roughly 50 topics per board. (default: 50)
• incrementalMode — Compare against the previous run and tag each topic NEW / CHANGED / UNCHANGED / EXPIRED. stateKey is optional — is auto-derived from the selected boards and per-board cap. (default: false)
• compact — Core fields only (for AI-agent/MCP workflows). (default: false)
• ...and 19 more parameters

Input examples

Basic search — Pick one or more boards from the supported taxonomy.

→ Full payload per result — all standard fields populated where the source provides them.

{
  "boards": [
    "hot"
  ]
}

Incremental tracking — Only emit listings that changed since the previous run with this stateKey.

→ First run builds the baseline state. Subsequent runs emit only records that are new or whose tracked content changed. Set emitUnchanged: true to include unchanged records as well.

{
  "boards": [
    "hot"
  ],
  "incrementalMode": true,
  "stateKey": "hot-tracker"
}

Compact output for AI agents — Return only core fields for AI-agent and MCP workflows.

→ Small payload with the most important fields — ideal for piping into LLMs without token overhead.

{
  "boards": [
    "hot"
  ],
  "compact": true
}

Output

Each run produces a dataset of structured listing records. Results can be downloaded as JSON, CSV, or Excel from the Dataset tab in Apify Console.

Example listing record

{
  "listingId": "ff458d1f0a4e05f06fa3311ad3cd24965310b58243a2afe3702beb4f81b3d638",
  "rank": 0,
  "word": "读懂习近平主席的人工智能千里马之喻",
  "title": "读懂习近平主席的人工智能千里马之喻",
  "board": "Hot Search",
  "boardType": "hot",
  "hotValue": 0,
  "viewCount": 0,
  "discussVideoCount": 1,
  "boardActiveTime": "2026-07-18 17:21:26",
  "sentenceId": "2576120",
  "wordType": 14,
  "label": 0,
  "isPinned": true,
  "url": "https://www.douyin.com/search/%E8%AF%BB%E6%87%82%E4%B9%A0%E8%BF%91%E5%B9%B3%E4%B8%BB%E5%B8%AD%E7%9A%84%E4%BA%BA%E5%B7%A5%E6%99%BA%E8%83%BD%E5%8D%83%E9%87%8C%E9%A9%AC%E4%B9%8B%E5%96%BB",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-07-18T09:22:08.111Z",
  "source": "douyin.com"
}

Incremental fields

When incremental mode is on, each record also carries:

• changeType — one of NEW, UPDATED, UNCHANGED, REAPPEARED, EXPIRED. Default output covers NEW / UPDATED / REAPPEARED; set emitUnchanged: true or emitExpired: true to opt into the others.
• isRepost, repostOfId, repostDetectedAt — populated when a new listing matches the tracked content of a previously expired one. Set skipReposts: true to drop detected reposts from the output.

How to scrape douyin.com

1. Go to Douyin Hot Search Scraper in Apify Console.
2. Configure the input.
3. Set maxResults to control how many results you need.
4. Click Start and wait for the run to finish.
5. Export the dataset as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

Use cases

• Track what's trending in China in real time for social listening, PR and brand monitoring.
• Feed trending topics into content-planning and short-video ideation workflows.
• Monitor a topic's rise and fall across boards over time with incremental runs.
• Power dashboards and alerts on Douyin heat and view metrics.

How much does it cost to scrape douyin.com?

Douyin Hot Search Scraper uses pay-per-event pricing. You pay a small fee when the run starts and then for each result that is actually produced.

• Run start: $0.0005 per run
• Per result: $0.00599 per listing record

Example costs:

• 10 results: $0.06
• 25 results: $0.15
• 100 results: $0.6
• 200 results: $1.2
• 500 results: $3

Example: recurring monitoring savings

These examples compare full re-scrapes with incremental runs at different churn rates. Churn is the share of listings that are new or whose tracked content changed since the previous run. Actual churn depends on your query breadth, source activity, and polling frequency — the scenarios below are examples, not predictions.

Example setup: 250 results per run, daily polling (30 runs/month). Event-pricing examples scale linearly with result count.

Churn rate	Full re-scrape run cost	Incremental run cost	Savings vs full re-scrape	Monthly cost after baseline
5% — stable niche query	$1.50	$0.08	$1.42 (95%)	$2.26
15% — moderate broad query	$1.50	$0.23	$1.27 (85%)	$6.75
30% — high-volume aggregator	$1.50	$0.45	$1.05 (70%)	$13.49

Full re-scrape monthly cost at daily polling: $44.94. First month with incremental costs $3.68 / $8.03 / $14.54 for the 5% / 15% / 30% scenarios because the first run builds baseline state at full cost before incremental savings apply.

Platform usage is included in the per-result fee shown above.

FAQ

How many results can I get from douyin.com?

The number of results depends on the search query and available listings on douyin.com. Use the maxResults parameter to control how many results are returned per run.

Does Douyin Hot Search Scraper support recurring monitoring?

Yes. Enable incremental mode to only receive new or changed listings on subsequent runs. This is ideal for scheduled monitoring where you want to track changes over time without re-processing the full dataset.

Can I integrate Douyin Hot Search Scraper with other apps?

Yes. Douyin Hot Search Scraper works with Apify's integrations to connect with tools like Zapier, Make, Google Sheets, Slack, and more. You can also use webhooks to trigger actions when a run completes.

Can I use Douyin Hot Search Scraper with the Apify API?

Yes. You can start runs, manage inputs, and retrieve results programmatically through the Apify API. Client libraries are available for JavaScript, Python, and other languages.

Can I use Douyin Hot Search Scraper through an MCP Server?

Yes. Apify provides an MCP Server that lets AI assistants and agents call this actor directly. Use compact mode, a single descriptionFormat, and excludeEmptyFields to keep payloads manageable for LLM context windows.

Is it legal to scrape douyin.com?

This actor extracts publicly available data from douyin.com. Web scraping of public information is generally considered legal, but you should always review the target site's terms of service and ensure your use case complies with applicable laws and regulations, including GDPR where relevant.

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