🔥 Douyin Hot Search Scraper | 抖音热搜 & Chinese Short Video Trends API

Get douyin hot search trending topics in real-time. Scrape 抖音热搜 (Douyin trending keywords), hot values (热度值), video counts, and cover images. The most reliable douyin scraper for chinese short video trends and tiktok china trending topics — no login, no API key required. Single API call returns ~50 trending topics in under 5 seconds.

Features

• Douyin Hot Search Topics — Get the current 抖音热搜 trending keywords in real-time
• Hot Values — Each trending topic includes its hot value (热度值) for trend intensity
• Video Counts — Number of videos and discussion videos for each trending topic
• Cover Images — Cover image URLs for each trending topic
• Rank Position — Each topic includes its ranking position number
• Event Timestamps — When each trending topic was first detected
• No Login Required — Uses Douyin's public hot search API, no account needed
• No API Key Required — Access the Douyin trending API without authentication
• Fast — All trending topics in under 5 seconds
• Structured JSON Output — Ready for dashboards, ML pipelines, or databases
• Proxy Support — Optional Apify proxy for access from outside China

Use Cases

• Trend Monitoring — Track what's trending on 抖音 (Douyin) in real-time
• Content Strategy — Identify viral douyin trending topics for content creation
• Market Research — Understand what Chinese audiences are searching for right now
• Social Listening — Monitor tiktok china trending topics and discussions
• Competitive Analysis — Track competitor mentions in douyin hot search
• Academic Research — Study chinese short video trends and digital culture
• SEO & Marketing — Discover trending keywords for Chinese market campaigns
• News Aggregation — Build real-time news feeds from douyin api trending data
• Brand Monitoring — Check if your brand appears in Douyin's hot search
• Influencer Discovery — Identify trending topics to find relevant KOLs

Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
proxyConfiguration	object	No	Apify proxy	Proxy config (residential recommended outside China)

Output Fields

Trending Topic Object

Field	Type	Description
rank	int	Ranking position (1-based)
word	string	Trending topic keyword/phrase
hotValue	int	Hot value (热度值) — higher = more trending
sentenceId	string	Douyin sentence ID for the topic
wordType	int	Topic type code
eventTime	string	ISO timestamp when topic was first detected
groupId	string	Douyin group ID for the topic
videoCount	int	Number of related videos
discussVideoCount	int	Number of discussion videos
coverUrl	string	Cover image URL for the topic
activeTime	string	Active time of the trending list (from API)
trendingDesc	string	Trending description (e.g., "实时上升热点")
scrapedAt	string	ISO timestamp of scraping

How It Works

1. Single API call — The actor calls Douyin's public hot search API endpoint
2. Parse response — Extracts ~50 trending topics ordered by hot value (descending)
3. Structure & enrich — Each topic is enriched with rank, hot value, video counts, and cover images
4. JSON output — Results saved to Apify dataset, ready for consumption

Pricing

This Actor uses pay-per-event pricing:

Event	Cost
Actor start (1GB RAM)	$0.005
Topic scraped	$0.002

Example: 50 trending topics = $0.005 + (50 × $0.002) = $0.105

Technical Details

This douyin scraper uses Douyin's public hot search API:

• Hot Search: https://www.douyin.com/aweme/v1/web/hot/search/list/

No headless browser is needed. The scraper sends proper headers (Windows Chrome User-Agent + Referer) to access the public API. No login or cookies are required.

Runtime & SDK

• Runtime: Node.js 20
• SDK: Apify SDK v3 + Crawlee v3
• Execution: Single API call, no browser overhead

Requirements

• Works from any region (residential proxies recommended outside China)
• No Douyin account needed
• No API key needed

API Notes

• The Douyin hot search API returns ~50 trending topics
• Topics are ordered by hot value (descending)
• The API updates frequently (every few minutes)
• Response includes active_time showing when the list was last updated

Why Use This vs Alternatives?

Feature	This Actor	Douyin Scraper (videos)	Douyin Search Scraper	Douyin Analytics Scraper
Hot search ranking (抖音热搜)	✅	❌	❌	✅
Hot values (热度值)	✅	❌	❌	✅
Video counts per topic	✅	❌	❌	❌
Cover images	✅	❌	❌	❌
No login required	✅	❌	✅	✅
Single API call (fast)	✅	❌	❌	✅
Cover image URLs	✅	❌	❌	❌
Event timestamps	✅	❌	❌	❌

FAQ

Keywords

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