Kuaishou (快手) Scraper

Scrape Kuaishou (快手) videos by keyword search and by user profile, and pull top-level comments for any video — captions, like / view / comment / share / collect counts, cover image, video URLs, timestamps and author info — as clean, flat JSON, one item per record.

Unofficial. Not affiliated with, authorized, or endorsed by Kuaishou / Kwai. This is an independent tool that retrieves publicly available data via a third-party API. Use it in compliance with Kuaishou's terms and applicable law; you are responsible for how you use the data.

What it does

Three independent modes — supply any combination of inputs:

Mode	Input	Output
Keyword search	searchKeywords	Videos matching each keyword (paginated)
User videos	userIds	Videos posted by each Kuaishou user
Video comments	videoIds	Top-level comments for each video (one item per comment)

For search and user modes you can also set includeComments: true to attach each video's top-level comments inline.

Input

{
  "searchKeywords": ["美食"],
  "userIds": [],
  "videoIds": [],
  "maxItems": 50,
  "sortType": "all",
  "includeComments": false,
  "maxCommentsPerVideo": 30
}

• searchKeywords – Keywords to search (Chinese keywords return the most results). Each is searched and paginated independently.
• userIds – Kuaishou numeric user IDs (the user_id, e.g. 95559331).
• videoIds – Kuaishou video IDs (photo_id, e.g. 5230649612694363602) to scrape comments for.
• maxItems – Max total items across all sources (default 50).
• sortType – all (comprehensive), hot, or latest.
• includeComments / maxCommentsPerVideo – Optionally attach comments to each scraped video.

A bare run (no inputs) defaults to searching 美食, so it always returns data.

Output

Video item (search / user modes):

{
  "photoId": "5230649612694363602",
  "url": "https://www.kuaishou.com/short-video/5230649612694363602",
  "caption": "今日份：爆辣曹氏 #曹氏 #爱美食爱生活",
  "duration": 312366,
  "likeCount": 53089,
  "commentCount": 8820,
  "viewCount": 3434425,
  "shareCount": 15465,
  "collectCount": 3982,
  "coverUrl": "http://ws2.a.kwimgs.com/...",
  "videoUrls": ["http://v1.kwaicdn.com/..."],
  "time": "2024-01-17 19:35:45",
  "timestamp": 1705491345228,
  "author": {
    "userId": "95559331",
    "name": "罗曼迪啊-(美食分享)",
    "kwaiId": "weiwei513-",
    "avatarUrl": "http://p22.a.yximgs.com/..."
  },
  "source": "search:美食"
}

Comment item (videoIds mode):

{
  "commentId": "844158982710",
  "photoId": "5230649612694363602",
  "content": "不懂就问，麻辣烫，麻辣香锅，冒菜，曹氏，这四种有啥区别吗",
  "likedCount": 36,
  "subCommentCount": 3,
  "authorId": "2901102496",
  "authorName": "^//.",
  "authorArea": "Guangxi",
  "time": "2024-06-16 21:38:43",
  "source": "comments:5230649612694363602"
}

Notes

• Powered by a fast, direct HTTP API — no headless browser, no login, no cookies.
• Requests are retried with backoff on transient Cloudflare / rate-limit errors.
• Results reflect what the upstream API returns and may vary over time.

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Why this Actor

• Direct API, no headless browser — fast, stable runs with nothing to babysit.
• No login, no cookies — we never touch your accounts, so there's no ban risk.
• Fresh, real-time data — every run reads the source live, not a stale cache.
• Pay per result — you're billed only for the rows actually delivered.
• Structured JSON — export to CSV, Excel, or JSON, or pull straight from the API / MCP.

Use cases

• Pull structured content + engagement for analytics dashboards.
• Track a creator's or topic's output and performance over time.
• Build training/research datasets of posts and metadata.
• Power competitor and trend monitoring.

FAQ

Do I need an account, cookies, or to log in anywhere? No. The Actor talks to a fast, direct HTTP API server-side — you just provide inputs and run it.

How am I billed? Pay-per-result: a fixed price per row returned, with no separate platform/compute charge. Caps like maxItems keep spend predictable.

Can I run it on a schedule or call it from my app? Yes — use Apify Schedules, the REST API, the JavaScript / Python clients, or the MCP server. See the API tab.

Is this affiliated with Kuaishou (快手)? No. It's an independent tool that collects publicly available data. Use it in line with the platform's terms and applicable law.

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