Xiaohongshu Video Transcript Scraper — AI Speech-to-Text for 小红书 / RedNote

Turn any Xiaohongshu (小红书 / RedNote) video note into text with real AI speech recognition. Paste note links, get back the full spoken transcript plus timestamped sentences as clean JSON — with best-in-class Mandarin Chinese accuracy, ready for LLMs, RAG pipelines, content research, and subtitle workflows.

This is real ASR, not caption scraping. Most "transcript" tools only download captions a creator happened to upload — and Xiaohongshu videos almost never have them. This Actor runs industrial speech recognition on the video's audio track, so it works on any 小红书 video with speech, captions or not. Chinese (Mandarin) recognition is its strongest language.

Unofficial. This Actor is not affiliated with, authorized, or endorsed by Xiaohongshu / 行吟信息科技. It is an independent tool that processes publicly available content. Use it in compliance with Xiaohongshu's terms and all applicable laws; you are responsible for how you use the retrieved data.

What you get per video note

• Full transcript (fullText) — the complete spoken content as one string.
• Timestamped sentences (sentences[]) — each with startMs / endMs, ready for subtitles, deep links, and clip selection.
• Note metadata — title, description, author, duration, publish time, like / collect / comment / share counts, and IP location, so every transcript arrives with its engagement context attached.

Quick start

1. Open the Actor and press Run — the default input works out of the box.
2. Replace the example with your own note links: explore URLs (https://www.xiaohongshu.com/explore/…), short share links (https://xhslink.com/…), pasted share text, or bare note IDs.
3. Language defaults to Chinese; switch to Auto for mixed or non-Chinese content.
4. Collect results from the Dataset tab as JSON / CSV / Excel, or pull them via the Apify API and MCP from your own code.

No proxies, no cookies, no login — everything runs server-side.

Example output

{
  "noteId": "6907434c000000000703bf59",
  "noteUrl": "https://www.xiaohongshu.com/explore/6907434c000000000703bf59",
  "title": "黑绷带和AGE七天测评‼️效果差强人意",
  "description": "再贵的护肤品也不是万能药，均衡搭配是王道。#抗衰 #护肤品测评",
  "author": "Freya",
  "durationSec": 221,
  "likedCount": 1034,
  "collectedCount": 352,
  "commentsCount": 219,
  "language": "zh",
  "detectedSpeech": true,
  "sentenceCount": 42,
  "fullText": "今天给大家带来黑绷带和AGE面霜的七天实测对比…",
  "sentences": [
    { "text": "今天给大家带来黑绷带和AGE面霜的七天实测对比，", "startMs": 240, "endMs": 3100 },
    { "text": "先说结论，赫莲娜略胜一筹。", "startMs": 3100, "endMs": 5400 }
  ]
}

What people build with it

• Beauty / fashion / lifestyle research — 小红书 is where Chinese consumers review products on camera; transcripts turn those spoken reviews into searchable, quotable data.
• Viral-hook mining — pull transcripts of the top video notes in your niche and study the exact opening lines and structures that earn likes and collects.
• Influencer & brand monitoring — capture verbatim what KOLs and KOCs say about your brand or competitors, at scale.
• Cross-border content — transcribe Chinese videos, then translate and repurpose them for TikTok, Instagram, or your own market.
• LLM & RAG pipelines — build Chinese-language corpora from real short-video speech, with engagement scores as a free quality signal.
• Subtitles & translation — timestamped sentences drop straight into SRT/VTT generation and dubbing workflows.

Pricing & billing

Pay per audio minute — $0.025/min, billed by the beginning minute. A 0:50 clip bills 1 minute; a 1:10 clip bills 2 minutes. Timestamped sentences are included free — no separate subtitle or export charge. There is no per-run start fee and no separate compute or platform fee: the price you see is the price you pay.

Failed fetches, deleted notes, image-only notes, and failed transcriptions are not charged — you only pay for audio we actually transcribe.

Why this Actor

• Best-in-class Chinese ASR — Mandarin recognition is its strongest language, where Western transcript tools struggle most.
• Works without captions — real speech recognition on the audio track; 小红书 videos rarely carry captions to scrape.
• Engagement context included — every transcript ships with like / collect / comment / share counts, so you can rank by performance immediately.
• Image notes filtered free — non-video notes are detected and skipped without charge.
• 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.
• Structured JSON — export to CSV, Excel, or JSON, or pull straight from the API / MCP.

Tips for better results

• Feed it the winners: find the top-performing video notes in your niche first (search / profile scrapers), then transcribe just those.
• Keep the language on Chinese for 小红书 content — it noticeably improves accuracy over Auto.
• Sentence timestamps let you deep-link to the exact second a phrase is spoken, handy for review and clip selection.
• detectedSpeech: false flags music-only / no-speech videos so you can filter them out downstream.

FAQ

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

Does it work on videos without captions? Yes — that's the point. It runs real speech recognition on the audio, so captions are never required (and 小红书 videos rarely have them).

What happens with image notes? They're detected, skipped, and not charged — only video notes produce transcripts.

How good is the Chinese accuracy? Mandarin is the model's strongest language; it handles fast colloquial speech, regional accents, and product pitches well, and returns punctuated sentences.

How am I billed? One fixed price per successfully transcribed video note. Notes that can't be fetched or transcribed are not charged.

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 Xiaohongshu? No. It's an independent tool that processes publicly available content. Use it in line with the platform's terms and applicable law.