RedNote Xiaohongshu Profile Scraper

Look up public RedNote (Xiaohongshu) creators in bulk and get one flat row each: nickname, Red ID, bio, IP location, follower and like counts — plus the notes shown on their profile, with titles, dates, likes and cover images.

Give it profile links, or just the profile IDs.

https://www.xiaohongshu.com/user/profile/5fec4d4800000000010003dc
5a747a7ce8ac2b215c98d8ef

No login, no cookies, no account of your own.

What one row looks like

A creator, exactly as returned:

{
  "recordType": "profile",
  "userId": "61d2e18e00000000100094e4",
  "redId": "1699116963",
  "nickname": "洛杉矶大通租车",
  "profileUrl": "https://www.xiaohongshu.com/user/profile/61d2e18e00000000100094e4",
  "bio": "洛杉矶安大略24小时租车行，成立于2016年，Ontario租车免费接机…",
  "ipLocation": "美国",
  "tags": "旅行博主, 北京邮电大学",
  "avatarUrl": "https://sns-avatar-qc.xhscdn.com/avatar/645e30c3e4585fb5abee2642.jpg",
  "followersCount": 1000,
  "followersCountText": "1K+",
  "followingCount": 1000,
  "followingCountText": "1K+",
  "likesAndCollectsCount": 10000,
  "likesAndCollectsCountText": "10K+",
  "notesReturned": 31,
  "moreNotesAvailable": true,
  "notesTotalLikes": 1057,
  "latestNoteAt": "2026-08-14T05:07:32+00:00",
  "oldestNoteAt": "2026-08-03T17:54:27+00:00",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-14T06:05:21+00:00"
}

And their most recent note:

{
  "recordType": "note",
  "userId": "61d2e18e00000000100094e4",
  "redId": "1699116963",
  "nickname": "洛杉矶大通租车",
  "notePosition": 1,
  "noteTitle": "洛杉矶租车太难了！拿了一把真枪当押金！",
  "noteType": "video",
  "postedAt": "2026-08-05T03:50:08+00:00",
  "likesCount": 76,
  "likesCountText": "76",
  "isPinned": true,
  "coverUrl": "http://sns-webpic-qc.xhscdn.com/…/nc_n_nwebp_mw_1",
  "coverWidth": 720,
  "coverHeight": 1280,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-14T06:05:21+00:00"
}

Every row is flat — no nested objects — so CSV and Excel exports open correctly with no post-processing.

Two kinds of row, and you choose

Setting	What lands in the dataset
Creators (default)	One row per profile. 23 columns.
Notes	One row per note, with the creator's name and Red ID repeated on each. 17 columns.
Both	Both, in one dataset. The recordType column says which, and the Output tab shows them as two tables.

Fields

Creator row — 23 columns

Field	What it is
userId, redId	The ID in the profile URL, and the Red ID shown on the page
nickname, bio, avatarUrl	As displayed
gender	male / female, read from the badge on the profile. Absent when no badge
ipLocation	The region RedNote shows next to the account
tags	The profile's own labels — often the creator's stated niche, city or university, e.g. 旅行博主, 北京邮电大学
followersCount, followingCount, likesAndCollectsCount	Numbers to sort by, but bucketed by RedNote — read the section below before ranking on them
followersCountText, followingCountText, likesAndCollectsCountText	The same figures exactly as displayed
notesReturned	How many notes came back for this creator
moreNotesAvailable	true when the creator has posted more than the page shows
notesTotalLikes	Likes across the notes returned. The most discriminating number in the row — see below
latestNoteAt, oldestNoteAt	How recently, and for how long, they have been posting
profileUrl, inputEntry, scrapedAt	Where it came from, what you pasted, when it was read

Note row — 17 columns

Field	What it is
notePosition	Where it sits in the grid, 1 first
noteTitle	The title as displayed
noteType	image or video
postedAt	When it was published
likesCount, likesCountText	Number and displayed text
isPinned	Present when the creator has pinned it to the top
coverUrl, coverWidth, coverHeight	The grid thumbnail
userId, redId, nickname, profileUrl	Repeated, so the notes table stands alone

Read this before you sort by followers

RedNote does not show a visitor an exact follower count. Measured across live profiles, it shows one of three buckets and nothing finer:

What the profile shows	What it means
10+	under about a thousand
1K+	roughly one to ten thousand
10K+	ten thousand or more — and that is the top bucket

So followersCount separates a micro creator from a mid one, and it cannot separate a 15,000-follower creator from a celebrity with millions. Both read 10K+. The same applies to likesAndCollectsCount. Any tool reading this page is working from the same three buckets, whatever it reports.

Use the notes for reach instead, because those numbers are real. Per-note likes are exact up to about ten thousand and rounded in Chinese units above it (2846, 1.6万, 10万+), and notesTotalLikes adds them up. In one measured run that column read 1,057 for a small local business and 860,827 for a well-known creator — three orders of magnitude apart, where the follower column showed 1K+ and 10K+.

Every count comes back twice: …Text is the string exactly as a visitor sees it, and the plain column is that string as a number to sort by, always read as a floor — 10K+ becomes 10000, 1.6万 becomes 16000. A count the page hides is left empty rather than written as zero, so a creator who hides their numbers never sorts below one who has none.

Recipes

Vet a list of creators before an outreach campaign. Paste the profile links, export the creator table, and rank by notesTotalLikes — the follower column is bucketed by RedNote and tops out, so likes are what actually separates one creator from another. Then read bio, tags and ipLocation to see who is in your market: tags is where the profile's own labels live, and it is often the creator's stated niche or where they studied.

Check whether an account is alive. latestNoteAt and oldestNoteAt tell you at a glance whether someone posts weekly or stopped a year ago. notesReturned and moreNotesAvailable say whether the account has a real body of work behind it.

Find the creators worth their price. notesTotalLikes divided by notesReturned is average likes per post — the number that decides a placement. A creator sitting in the 1K+ bucket with high likes per post is usually a better buy than one in 10K+ with low ones.

Track a roster over time. Schedule it on the same profile list and keep the runs; scrapedAt is on every row, so follower growth is a subtraction.

What it costs

You pay per row stored, at two rates. A Creators run is billed entirely at the profile rate and never for notes you did not ask for.

Your Apify plan	Per 1,000 creator profiles	Per 1,000 notes
Free, Starter	$12.00	$1.35
Scale	$7.99	$0.90
Business and above	$4.50	$0.50

What a run actually costs. One creator in Creators mode is $0.0045 on the lowest rate. One creator in Both mode — the profile plus the ~26 notes their page carries — is about $0.018. A thousand creators vetted with their grids is under $18.

On the free plan, Apify gives you $5 of platform credit each month, and that is what you use to try this out — there is no separate trial to sign up for. It buys about 400 creator profiles a month in Creators mode, or about 100 creators with their notes in Both mode.

A profile that cannot be read costs nothing, duplicates in your list are charged once, and the run stops the moment it reaches whatever spending cap you set on it.

Limits

Stated plainly, because they decide whether this is the right tool:

• It returns the notes shown on the profile — about 30 — not the full archive. RedNote renders the first screen of the grid into the page and keeps the rest behind a request this Actor does not make. When a creator has more, moreNotesAvailable says so.
• Notes come back without a link to the note. RedNote does not put note IDs into the profile page, and the tokens a working link needs are not there either. You get the title, date, likes, type and cover image — not a URL.
• Follower counts arrive in three buckets and stop at 10K+. That is what RedNote shows a visitor, not a limit of this Actor, and it means the follower column cannot rank large creators against each other. Use notesTotalLikes for that — see the counts section above.
• Comments are not available. Neither the text nor the count is on the profile page.
• The input is a profile URL or the profile ID from it. The Red ID — the number displayed on the profile as the creator's handle — is a different identifier and cannot be used to open a profile; paste it and the run says so and skips that entry. There is no lookup by nickname.
• Public profiles only. Nothing that needs a login, and no follower or following lists.
• Restricted and deleted accounts are reported as failures in the run summary rather than returned as empty rows.

Output

Every run writes a flat dataset, exportable as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or HTML, and readable through the Apify API. The Output tab shows two ready-made tables — Creators and Notes — plus All fields.

The run also writes a RUN_SUMMARY record: how many profiles were read, which entries could not be used and why, and which ones the site refused. Worth reading when a run returns fewer rows than you pasted in.

FAQ

Do I need a RedNote account or cookies?

No. Nothing here needs a login.

Why do two very different creators both show 10K+ followers?

Because that is the largest bucket RedNote shows a visitor. There is no finer figure on the page to return. Rank by notesTotalLikes instead — those numbers come from the notes themselves and are far more discriminating.

Why is followersCount 10 when the profile clearly has more?

Because the profile displayed 10+, and the number is the floor of what was shown. followersCountText keeps the original string.

Can I get a creator's full posting history?

Not from this Actor. It returns the notes RedNote puts on the profile page — about 30 — and sets moreNotesAvailable when there are more.

Can I get the URL of a note?

No. RedNote does not publish note IDs on the profile page, so there is nothing to build a reliable link from.

What happens if I paste something that is not a profile?

The entry is skipped with a message naming what was wrong, the rest of the run continues, and the skipped entries are listed in RUN_SUMMARY. Duplicates in your list are collapsed, so the same creator is fetched — and billed — once.

How many profiles can I do in one run?

There is no fixed cap. Profiles are read one at a time and at a deliberate pace, so a few hundred is a run of some minutes rather than seconds.

What does a row cost if the profile is empty?

Nothing. Only stored rows are billed.

How much does it cost to vet 10,000 creators?

$45 on the lowest rate in Creators mode, or about $177 in Both mode, where each creator also brings the roughly 26 notes on their page. Set a spending cap on the run if you want a hard ceiling.

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