Ximalaya Scraper - Chinese Podcast & Audiobook Albums

Scrape audiobook, podcast, radio-drama and course albums from Ximalaya (喜马拉雅, ximalaya.com), China's largest online audio platform. Search albums by keyword (Chinese or English) or browse any of the 28 top-level catalog categories, and get clean, structured album records. No login, no cookies, no browser - the actor reads the same public JSON endpoints that the ximalaya.com website uses.

What it collects

For every album:

• Identity: album ID, album URL, title, tagline (custom title), short intro, cover image URL
• Anchor (creator): anchor ID, nickname and profile URL
• Category: category ID and category name
• Popularity: total play count, number of episodes (tracks), subscriber count, comment count and user rating (0-10, search mode)
• Monetization: paid / free flag, VIP type, price model (per episode or whole album), price, discounted price and total price in CNY
• Status & dates: ongoing / finished, creation date, last update date, tags

Typical uses: market research of the Chinese audio and audiobook market, finding top creators in a niche, tracking pricing of paid audiobooks, content-gap analysis, and building lead lists of audio creators.

Input

Field	Type	Description	Default
searchQuery	string	Keyword to search albums for, e.g. 三国 or history. Leave empty to browse a category.	- (prefill 三国)
category	select	Category to browse when no keyword is given (audiobooks, history, kids, business, IT, music, ...). Up to 3,000 albums per category.	youshengshu (Audiobooks)
sort	select	popular (most played), recent (recently updated) or relevance (site default).	popular
includeDetails	boolean	Fetch each album's info endpoint to add price, subscribers, tags, intro and dates. One extra request per album.	true
maxResults	integer	Maximum number of albums to return.	50
proxyConfiguration	object	Optional proxy. The endpoints usually work without a proxy.	no proxy

Example input:

{
  "searchQuery": "三国",
  "sort": "popular",
  "includeDetails": true,
  "maxResults": 50
}

Example output

{
  "album_id": 76176854,
  "url": "https://www.ximalaya.com/album/76176854",
  "title": "大乾憨婿丨历史爆笑爽文丨多人有声剧丨紫襟监制",
  "subtitle": "再让我当驸马，我就要造反了！",
  "intro": "内容简介 历史系单身狗秦墨穿越大乾，成了秦国公家的憨子世子。...",
  "cover_image_url": "https://imagev2.xmcdn.com/storages/1310-audiofreehighqps/44/96/GKwRIMAIcrfFAA-uYgIweUvK.jpeg",
  "anchor_id": 1266964,
  "anchor_name": "有声的紫襟",
  "anchor_url": "https://www.ximalaya.com/zhubo/1266964",
  "category_id": 3,
  "category_title": "有声书",
  "play_count": 1223852059,
  "track_count": 2421,
  "subscribe_count": 479047,
  "comment_count": 16525,
  "score": 9.0,
  "is_paid": true,
  "serial_status": "finished",
  "vip_type": 2,
  "price_type": 1,
  "price": 0.15,
  "discounted_price": 0.15,
  "total_price": 353.25,
  "currency": "CNY",
  "tags": [],
  "created_at": "2023-05-24T03:29:33+00:00",
  "updated_at": "2026-10-24T07:07:00+00:00",
  "source": "ximalaya.com",
  "scraped_at": "2026-10-28T06:19:35.370080+00:00"
}

Notes: comment_count and score are only returned by the site's search endpoint, so they are empty in category mode. Price fields are filled for paid albums only. In category mode with includeDetails on, created_at / updated_at are plain dates (YYYY-MM-DD).

Pricing

This actor uses pay per result: you pay only for the album records written to the dataset, at the price shown on the actor's Store page (per 1,000 results). Platform usage is minimal because the actor makes plain HTTP requests without a browser. Use maxResults to cap the cost of a run.

Limits

• Category browsing is limited by the site to 3,000 albums per category; use several keywords to go deeper.
• Data is public catalog data only; no paid audio, no user accounts.