Maoyan Piaofang China Box Office Scraper
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Maoyan Piaofang China Box Office Scraper
Scrape real-time China box office data from Maoyan Piaofang. Extracts daily revenue, market share, screening counts, seat occupancy, and cumulative totals for all currently-screening films.
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Scrape real-time China box office data from Maoyan Piaofang — the canonical Chinese box-office data source. Extracts daily split revenue, market share, screening counts, seat occupancy, and cumulative totals for all currently-screening films.
What it does
Dashboard snapshot — returns all currently-screening films with live box-office data: revenue, market share, screening counts, seat occupancy, and cumulative totals.
Returns one record per film.
Output fields
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
movie_id | integer | Maoyan movie ID |
movie_name | string | Film title (Chinese) |
rank | integer | Today's box-office chart rank (1 = highest-grossing) |
release_info | string | Days-since-release string (e.g. "上映31天") |
box_split_unit_yuan | float | Today's split box-office in yuan |
sum_box_desc | string | Cumulative box-office display (e.g. "12.76亿") |
sum_box_yuan | float | Cumulative box-office in yuan |
daily_box_split_yuan | float | Today's split box-office in yuan (daily portion) |
box_rate_pct | float | Market share % for the day |
show_count | integer | Number of screenings today |
show_count_rate_pct | float | Screening share % |
avg_seat_view_pct | float | Average per-screening seat occupancy % |
avg_show_view | float | Average viewers per screening |
split_box_rate_pct | float | Split box-office rate % |
snapshotted_at | string | ISO-8601 capture timestamp |
Notes on glyph obfuscation
Maoyan's API encodes box-office digit fields using Unicode Private Use Area (PUA) codepoints that rotate daily. This actor automatically decodes them by:
- Parsing the per-response WOFF font (URL embedded in the API response
fontStylefield) - Using a glyph shape fingerprint to map each PUA codepoint to the correct digit 0-9
- Falling back to an algebraic solver (using film market-share ratios as constraints) if the fingerprint table does not match a new font variant
Use cases
- Hollywood studio Asia-Pacific box office monitoring
- Equity research on Chinese cinema companies (CNMC, Wanda, Alibaba Pictures)
- Entertainment ESG datasets requiring daily China market data
- Cross-referencing with Douban movie ratings for sentiment plus commercial signal
Further reading: Streaming Charts and Box Office Data: Spotify, Netflix, Maoyan & More
