Ximalaya Scraper — Audiobooks, Podcasts, Episodes & Anchors

Export albums, episodes and anchors from Ximalaya (喜马拉雅, ximalaya.com), China's largest audio platform — audiobooks (有声书), podcasts, courses, crosstalk, radio dramas and kids' content with plays, subscribers, rating, comment count, tags, price and VIP flags, creation and update dates, the anchor's followers, and every episode's plays, likes, comments, shares, duration and publication time — as clean JSON, CSV or Excel, without a login.

Independent tool. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Ximalaya (喜马拉雅) or its operators. "Ximalaya" and "喜马拉雅" are trademarks of their owner and are used here only to describe the website this Actor reads. It reads public pages and the public data behind them; it does not log in, does not download audio and does not bypass any paywall.

Ximalaya Scraper is a Ximalaya data scraper for the Chinese audio market. It turns keyword searches, Ximalaya's 28 categories and 619 subcategories, pasted album, episode, anchor, category and search URLs — or the whole catalogue, category by category — into structured data: album title and subtitle, short and full description, category and subcategory, tags, play count, subscribers (订阅), number of episodes, listener rating out of 10, comment count, paid or free, price per episode or per album in 喜点, VIP-free flag, the VIP / SVIP / 付费 badge, finished (完结) or still updating (连载), creation and last-update dates, cover image, and the anchor (主播) with followers, number of albums and episodes, level and introduction. Turn on episodes and you also get every episode (声音) of every album: title, position in the album, duration, plays, likes, comments, shares, publication time and whether it plays free. Use it to scrape ximalaya.com by keyword or category, as a Ximalaya API alternative (Ximalaya's open platform needs an approved developer account and an app; this needs nothing), or to export Ximalaya data to CSV, Excel or JSON for your spreadsheet, BI tool, CRM or data warehouse. No Ximalaya account, no cookies, no browser, no app.

Publishers, audiobook producers, podcast networks, brand and influencer-marketing teams, investors and market researchers, language-learning and kids-education companies and AI teams use it for 喜马拉雅数据采集 (Ximalaya data collection), 喜马拉雅爬虫 (Ximalaya crawler), 有声书数据 (audiobook data), 播客数据导出 (podcast data export), 喜马拉雅专辑抓取 (album scraping), 主播数据分析 (anchor analytics) and 播放量统计 (play-count statistics): top albums per category, competitor catalogues, price research on paid audio, creator (KOL) discovery with follower counts, daily monitoring of new releases, and Chinese audio metadata for recommendation and search models. Typical searches it answers: Ximalaya scraper, Ximalaya API, scrape Ximalaya albums, Ximalaya podcast data, Chinese audiobook dataset, Ximalaya play count, Ximalaya anchor followers, Himalaya FM data export and 喜马拉雅 数据 导出 Excel. All numbers on this page were measured on 2026-10-25 from runs on the Apify platform.

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Table of contents

• At a glance
• What you get
• Who uses it — 16 workflows
• Cookbook — 18 ready-to-run inputs
• Tutorial: your first run in the Apify Console
• Tutorial: run it from the API
• Input reference
• Output data dictionary
• Real output sample
• Scale and speed (measured)
• What you pay
• Integrations
• Performance tips
• Troubleshooting: every status message explained
• Honest limits
• How it compares
• FAQ
• Glossary
• Is it legal to scrape Ximalaya?
• Changelog
• Support

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At a glance

Website	www.ximalaya.com (喜马拉雅) — web pages and the public data behind them
What it exports	Albums (专辑), episodes (声音) and anchors / creators (主播) — three row types in one dataset
How you choose what	Keywords (albums, episodes or anchors), categories and subcategories, pasted URLs or ids, or the whole catalogue
Coverage	All 28 categories and 619 subcategories, free and paid content, finished and ongoing albums
Album fields	40 columns: plays, subscribers, episodes, rating, comments, tags, price, VIP flags, badge, dates, cover, anchor and followers
Episode fields	27 columns: album, position, duration, plays, likes, comments, shares, publication time, free or paid, price
Anchor fields	23 columns: followers, following, albums, episodes, level, verification and its title, VIP, gender, province, city, sign-up time
Depth	12,000 unique albums from one category in one run (16.6 min) — lists are split past Ximalaya's 2,500 / 3,000 limits
Speed	First rows after about 2 s; 1,000 fully detailed albums in 79 s; 1,500 albums + episodes in 8 s
Login / cookies / proxy	None needed. Direct connection first, automatic fallback routes
Formats	JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, RSS, HTML table — or straight into Google Sheets, Make, Zapier, n8n, a webhook or your database
Price	Pay per result: $1.50 per 1,000 rows on the free plan, down to $1.00 per 1,000 on higher plans

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What you get

Every row has a type: album, track (an episode) or anchor. One run can mix them — for example an anchor, the anchor's albums and every episode of those albums — and each type keeps its own columns, so the dataset views below split them cleanly.

Albums (专辑) — 40 columns

• Identity: id, url, title (Chinese, as on Ximalaya), subtitle (the selling line under the title), coverUrl (original-size cover).
• Descriptions: intro (the short intro shown in lists) and description (the full album introduction as plain text with paragraphs — inline formatting removed without breaking Chinese sentences).
• Category: categoryId, categoryName (有声书, 儿童, 相声评书, 人文国学 …), subcategoryName from the album's own breadcrumb, tags as an array.
• Audience: playCount (all episodes together, e.g. 9,456,765,147 for one of the most played audiobooks), subscriberCount, trackCount, commentCount, score (listener rating out of 10).
• Money: isPaid, vipFree (Ximalaya VIP members listen free), badge exactly as the cover shows it (VIP, SVIP or 付费), priceType (per_episode or whole_album), price, discountedPrice and priceUnit (喜点/集 or 喜点 — Ximalaya's own unit; 1 喜点 = 1 CNY).
• Status and dates: isFinished (完结 = true, 连载 = false), createdAt, updatedAt.
• The anchor: anchorId, anchorName, anchorUrl, anchorAvatarUrl, anchorFollowers, anchorAlbumCount, anchorTrackCount, anchorGrade (主播等级), anchorIntro.
• Where it came from: source (search, category, anchor, album, url), query (keyword, category list with its order, anchor or URL), position (rank in that Ximalaya list), scrapedAt.

Episodes (声音) — 27 columns

id, url, title, albumId, albumTitle, albumUrl, anchorId, anchorName, durationSec, playCount, likeCount, commentCount, shareCount, createdAt (publication time, UTC), orderInAlbum, isPaid, isFree (true for every episode of a free album and for the free trial episodes of a paid one), price and priceUnit for paid per-episode albums, previewSeconds (length of the free preview of a paid episode), isVideo, coverUrl, source, query, position, scrapedAt.

Anchors (主播) — 23 columns

id, url, nickname, avatarUrl, signature, description, verifiedTitle (the organisation or title next to the V badge, e.g. 央广云听文化传媒有限公司), followers, following, albumCount, trackCount, anchorGrade, isVip, isVerified, gender, province, city, createdAt (account creation), source, query, position, scrapedAt.

Dataset views in the Console

• Albums — cover, title, plays, subscribers, episodes, rating, category, anchor and followers, paid, badge, last update.
• Album details — subtitle, intro, tags, comments, finished, VIP free, price type, price, unit, dates, subcategory.
• Episodes — episode, album, number, seconds, plays, likes, comments, shares, publication time, free, price.
• Anchors — avatar, nickname, followers, following, albums, episodes, level, verification, province, city.

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Who uses it — 16 workflows

1. Audiobook publishers and rights holders (有声书版权方)

Pull the 2,500 most played albums of 有声书 and of its subcategories (悬疑, 都市, 言情, 历史 …) with plays, subscribers, rating and price, then rank titles by plays per episode or subscribers per month since createdAt. Publishers use the list to decide which novels to license for audio, which narrators (anchors) draw the biggest audiences and which price points (priceType, price) the best sellers use.

2. Podcast networks and audio producers

Benchmark your shows against competitors in the same category: playCount, subscriberCount, commentCount, score, trackCount and updatedAt show reach, loyalty, engagement and release cadence. With episodes on, createdAt per episode gives the real publishing rhythm and playCount per episode shows which topics work.

3. Influencer and KOL marketing agencies

Search anchors by topic (searchType: anchor, keywords like 育儿, 理财, 英语, 健身) and get followers, albums, episodes, level, verification and its title, province and city — a creator shortlist with reach and location, ready for outreach planning. Verified organisations show their company name in verifiedTitle.

4. Brand and audio-advertising planners

Before buying audio sponsorships, list the albums of a category or of a set of anchors with plays and subscribers; sort by playCount and updatedAt to keep only shows that are both big and still publishing.

5. Market researchers and investment analysts covering Chinese online audio

Category-level snapshots on a schedule (the same input every week) give time series of plays, subscribers and prices per album; the share of paid, VIP-free and free albums per category; how many albums are finished versus ongoing; and which anchors grow fastest. Every number is the site's own, with the date of the run in scrapedAt.

6. Content strategy teams at Chinese media and publishing companies

Read the recently updated (最近更新) lists of a category every day to see what is being released; read the most played lists to see what lasts. Tags and subcategories show which themes cluster together.

7. Language-learning companies

Export the 外语 category (英语, 日语, 韩语, 法语 …) or search 雅思, 托福, 英语听力: albums with plays, ratings, prices and the anchor's followers show which courses and teachers lead and what they charge.

8. Kids' education and children's content companies

儿童 and 少儿素养 hold millions of albums (Ximalaya reports 2,844,613 in 儿童's list). Export the most played per subcategory (儿童文学, 科普百科, 少儿英语, 国学, 哄睡 …) with prices and ratings to map the market and find gaps.

9. Translators and international publishers looking for Chinese IP

Web novels and audio dramas with huge audio audiences are candidates for translation or adaptation. Search a genre or browse 有声书 › 幻想 / 武侠 / 悬疑, sort by plays and read the full description (author, narrator, synopsis as the album page gives it).

10. Creators and anchors benchmarking themselves

Paste your own anchor page plus a few competitors: one row per anchor with followers and counts, then every album with plays, subscribers, rating and comments. Turn on episodes to compare per-episode plays and likes.

11. Pricing research on paid audio

priceType (per episode or whole album), price, discountedPrice, priceUnit, vipFree and badge across thousands of paid albums show how Ximalaya content is monetised: per-episode prices in 喜点/集, album prices in 喜点, which albums are included in VIP and which need SVIP.

12. Academic research — media studies, Chinese studies, sociology

Ximalaya mirrors Chinese reading and listening habits: crosstalk (相声), storytelling (评书), history, self-improvement, bedtime stories. Exports with categories, tags, plays and dates support quantitative studies; the description and intro texts support content analysis.

13. AI, search and recommendation teams

Clean, typed Chinese audio metadata — titles, intros, tags, categories, plays, ratings, durations — is good training and evaluation data for recommendation models, query understanding and Chinese text classification, and good grounding data for RAG over audio catalogues.

14. Competitor monitoring for audio apps

List a category's top albums every week and compare with your own catalogue: which titles you lack, how big their audiences are, whether they are exclusive (paid / VIP) or free.

15. Journalists and data reporters

Who are China's biggest audio creators? Which history podcasts lead? How much does a paid self-help course cost? Every answer here comes with the site's own numbers and links.

16. Data resellers and dataset builders

Build a Chinese audio-content dataset category by category; the query and position columns document exactly which Ximalaya list and rank each row came from, which keeps the dataset auditable.

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Cookbook — 18 ready-to-run inputs

Every input below is complete JSON you can paste into the Console's JSON editor or send to the API. Fields you leave out keep their defaults (details on, episodes off, 1,000 results).

1. Keyword search for albums (the default example)

{
  "searchKeywords": ["三国演义"],
  "maxItems": 100
}

100 albums matching 三国演义 in Ximalaya's relevance order, each completed from its album page.

2. Several keywords, most played first

{
  "searchKeywords": ["盗墓笔记", "鬼吹灯", "三体"],
  "searchSort": "plays",
  "maxItems": 300
}

Each keyword gets a fair share (100 each) first; if one has fewer results, the others fill the rest.

3. The 1,000 most played audiobooks

{
  "categories": ["youshengshu"],
  "categorySort": "popular",
  "maxItems": 1000
}

4. Recently updated albums in one subcategory

{
  "categories": ["youshengshu"],
  "subcategories": ["悬疑"],
  "categorySort": "updated",
  "maxItems": 500
}

Subcategories can be written in Chinese (悬疑) or as the code in Ximalaya's URL (reci232).

5. A deep export of a whole category (10,000+ albums)

{
  "categories": ["youshengshu"],
  "maxItems": 12000
}

One Ximalaya list stops at 2,500 albums; the scraper continues subcategory by subcategory and then in the other two orders, skipping repeats. This exact input returned 12,000 unique albums on 2026-10-25.

6. Several categories at once

{
  "categories": ["lishi", "renwen", "shangye", "gerenchengzhang"],
  "categorySort": "popular",
  "maxItems": 2000
}

7. The whole catalogue, category by category

{
  "maxItems": 10000
}

With no keywords, categories or URLs, the run reads all 28 categories with a fair share each.

8. Every episode of one album

{
  "startUrls": ["https://www.ximalaya.com/album/3475911"],
  "includeTracks": true,
  "maxItems": 0
}

maxItems: 0 means no limit: one album row plus all 134 episodes.

9. The latest 20 episodes of several albums

{
  "startUrls": [
    "https://www.ximalaya.com/album/77855794",
    "https://www.ximalaya.com/album/47517749"
  ],
  "includeTracks": true,
  "maxTracksPerAlbum": 20,
  "trackOrder": "reverse"
}

"Reverse" flips the album's own order. Albums that list the oldest episode first then give the newest first; check orderInAlbum in the output.

10. Episode search

{
  "searchKeywords": ["郭德纲"],
  "searchType": "track",
  "searchSort": "plays",
  "maxItems": 500
}

11. Anchor (creator) discovery by topic

{
  "searchKeywords": ["英语", "雅思", "托福"],
  "searchType": "anchor",
  "maxItems": 300
}

12. One anchor's complete catalogue

{
  "startUrls": ["https://www.ximalaya.com/zhubo/1266964"],
  "maxItems": 200
}

The anchor's profile row, then every album of the anchor, each completed from its album page.

13. Anchor profiles only

{
  "startUrls": ["anchor:1266964", "anchor:10778196", "https://www.ximalaya.com/zhubo/35878101"],
  "includeAnchorAlbums": false
}

14. A category page pasted from the browser

{
  "startUrls": ["https://www.ximalaya.com/youshengshu/wenxue/"],
  "maxItems": 300
}

Category URLs keep their subcategory and order (/mostplays/, /updates/).

15. Single episodes by URL

{
  "startUrls": ["https://www.ximalaya.com/sound/118368677", "track:470135433"]
}

16. Fast list-only export

{
  "categories": ["ertong"],
  "includeDetails": false,
  "maxItems": 5000
}

Without details a category list gives only what the list shows — title, cover, anchor, plays, episodes, paid, finished and badge; the other album columns stay empty. In exchange it is about five times faster: 1,000 albums in 16.7 s instead of 79 s (measured 2026-10-25). Keyword searches stay rich without details, because Ximalaya's search already returns intro, category, tags, subscribers, rating, comments and price.

17. Daily new-release monitoring (schedule this)

{
  "categories": ["lishi", "shangye"],
  "categorySort": "updated",
  "maxItems": 200
}

Run it on an Apify schedule every morning and keep only ids you have not seen.

18. Paid-content price research

{
  "categories": ["shangye", "gerenchengzhang", "waiyu"],
  "categorySort": "popular",
  "maxItems": 3000
}

Filter the result on isPaid = true and compare priceType, price, priceUnit, vipFree and badge.

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Tutorial: your first run in the Apify Console

1. Open the Actor and click Try for free (or Start if you already use it).
2. In Search keywords type what you are looking for — Chinese works best on Ximalaya (三国演义, 郭德纲, 英语听力), English titles and names work too.
3. Choose Search for: albums, episodes or anchors. Or leave the keywords empty and pick Categories instead.
4. Set Max results — 20 for a first look, 1,000 or more for real work.
5. Click Start. Rows appear in the Output tab within a few seconds; the status line shows how many albums, episodes and anchors are saved.
6. When the run says Succeeded, open Storage → Dataset and export JSON, CSV or Excel — or pick one of the views (Albums, Album details, Episodes, Anchors) to see only those columns.

The Run summary (key-value store, record SUMMARY) lists what was read: lists and pages, album details, episode lists, retries, which route answered, latency per endpoint and why the run stopped.

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Tutorial: run it from the API

1. Get your token

Apify Console → Settings → Integrations → API token.

2. Run and get the data in one call (small runs)

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/logiover~ximalaya-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN&format=json" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"searchKeywords":["三国演义"],"maxItems":50}'

3. Start a run and fetch the data later (big runs)

# start
curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/logiover~ximalaya-scraper/runs?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"categories":["youshengshu"],"maxItems":10000}'
# poll: GET https://api.apify.com/v2/actor-runs/RUN_ID?token=YOUR_TOKEN   (status SUCCEEDED)
# data: GET https://api.apify.com/v2/datasets/DATASET_ID/items?format=csv&token=YOUR_TOKEN

4. Node.js (apify-client)

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
const run = await client.actor('logiover/ximalaya-scraper').call({
    categories: ['youshengshu'],
    subcategories: ['悬疑'],
    categorySort: 'popular',
    maxItems: 500,
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
const albums = items.filter((x) => x.type === 'album');
console.log(albums[0].title, albums[0].playCount, albums[0].score);

5. Python (apify-client)

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("logiover/ximalaya-scraper").call(run_input={
    "startUrls": ["https://www.ximalaya.com/album/3475911"],
    "includeTracks": True,
    "maxItems": 0,
})
rows = list(client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items())
episodes = [r for r in rows if r["type"] == "track"]
print(len(episodes), sum(e["playCount"] or 0 for e in episodes))

6. Read the run summary

GET https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/STORE_ID/records/SUMMARY?token=YOUR_TOKEN (the run's default key-value store) returns the outcome, rows by type, every source with how many results Ximalaya reported, the work done, retries, the route used and latency per endpoint.

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Input reference

Field	Type	Default	What it does
searchKeywords	array of strings	[]	Keywords to search on Ximalaya (Chinese or English). Each keyword is one search.
searchType	album / track / anchor	album	What the keyword search returns: albums (专辑), episodes (声音) or anchors (主播).
searchSort	relevance / plays / newest	relevance	Ximalaya's search order. Beyond 3,000 results the run continues with the other orders, then per category.
categories	array of category codes	[]	Categories to browse, e.g. youshengshu (有声书), xiangsheng (相声评书), lishi (历史), ertong (儿童). Chinese names, English labels and ids are accepted too.
subcategories	array of strings	[]	Only these subcategories of the chosen categories, by Chinese name (悬疑) or URL code (reci232).
categorySort	popular / recommended / updated	popular	Order of category lists: 播放最多, 综合排序 or 最近更新.
startUrls	array of strings	[]	Album, episode, anchor, category or search URLs (www or m.ximalaya.com), or ids: a bare number is an album id; track:<id> and anchor:<id> for the others.
includeDetails	boolean	true	Complete every album from its album page (and its rating), every anchor from the profile, every searched episode from the episode's info. Off: about five times faster for category lists, with fewer columns.
includeTracks	boolean	false	Also save every episode of every album the run saves.
maxTracksPerAlbum	integer	0	With episodes on: at most this many per album (0 = all).
trackOrder	default / reverse	default	With episodes on: the album's own order or the reverse.
includeAnchorAlbums	boolean	true	For pasted anchors: also save the anchor's albums.
maxItems	integer	1000	Maximum rows in total (albums + episodes + anchors). 0 = no limit.
maxConcurrency	integer	20	Parallel requests to Ximalaya (1–40).
proxyConfiguration	proxy object	no proxy	Optional. Without it the run uses the direct connection and falls back on its own.

The 28 category codes: youshengshu 有声书 · yinyue 音乐 · xiangsheng 相声评书 · duanzi 段子 · qinggan 情感生活 · yule 娱乐 · yingshi 影视 · ertong 儿童 · lishi 历史 · shangye 商业财经 · renwen 人文 · gerenchengzhang 个人成长 · keji IT科技 · waiyu 外语 · ertongjiaoyu 少儿素养 · toutiao 头条 · erciyuan 二次元 · xiqu 戏曲 · lvyou 旅游 · jiankang 健康养生 · shishang 时尚生活 · guangbojv 广播剧 · yueyu 粤语 · falvketang 法律课堂 · jiaoyupeixun 教育培训 · pinpai 品牌之声 · qiche 汽车 · minnanyu 闽南语.

How the inputs combine: pasted albums and episodes are read first, then every list (each anchor's albums, each search, each category) gets a fair share of maxItems; when a list runs out, the others fill the rest. Every row is de-duplicated by its Ximalaya id across the whole run, so an album found by two keywords is saved once.

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Output data dictionary

Fill rates were measured on 2026-10-25: albums on a 1,000-album run of 有声书 (most played, details on), episodes on a 1,484-episode run of 相声评书 albums, anchors on a 1,000-anchor search run over eight keywords. "Only paid" or "only verified" fields are empty for the others by nature.

Album rows (type: "album")

Field	Type	Meaning	Filled	Example
type	string	Row type	100 %	album
id	number	Ximalaya album id	100 %	4756811
url	string	Album page	100 %	https://www.ximalaya.com/album/4756811
title	string	Album title	100 %	摸金天师【第一季】（紫襟演播）
subtitle	string	Selling line under the title	99.4 %	三年寻龙，十年点穴
intro	string	Short intro as in lists	99.4 %	2020紫襟盗墓新作：盗墓手札…
description	string	Full introduction, plain text with paragraphs	99.4 %	【内容简介】\n二十岁那年…
categoryId	number	Category id	100 %	3
categoryName	string	Category	100 %	有声书
subcategoryName	string	Subcategory from the album's breadcrumb (其他 = none)	100 %	其他
tags	array	Tags on the album	53.8 %	["盗墓","悬疑","有声小说"]
playCount	number	Plays of all episodes	100 %	9456765147
subscriberCount	number	Subscribers	100 %	6394195
trackCount	number	Episodes	100 %	1133
commentCount	number	Comments	99.7 %	178951
score	number	Rating out of 10	99.1 %	9.3
isPaid	boolean	Paid album	100 %	true
isFinished	boolean	Finished (true) or ongoing (false)	93.8 %	true
vipFree	boolean	Free for VIP members	100 %	true
badge	string	Cover badge: VIP, SVIP or 付费 (paid albums)	87.4 %	VIP
priceType	string	per_episode or whole_album (paid albums)	87.4 %	per_episode
price	number	Price in 喜点 (paid albums)	87.4 %	0.2
discountedPrice	number	Current price in 喜点 (paid albums)	87.4 %	0.2
priceUnit	string	喜点/集 or 喜点 (paid albums)	87.4 %	喜点/集
createdAt	string	Creation date	100 %	2016-07-17
updatedAt	string	Last update	100 %	2026-10-24
coverUrl	string	Cover image	100 %	https://imagev2.xmcdn.com/group23/…jpg
anchorId	number	Anchor id	100 %	1266964
anchorName	string	Anchor nickname	100 %	有声的紫襟
anchorUrl	string	Anchor page	100 %	https://www.ximalaya.com/zhubo/1266964
anchorAvatarUrl	string	Anchor avatar	100 %	https://imagev2.xmcdn.com/storages/…jpg
anchorFollowers	number	Anchor's followers	100 %	28431828
anchorAlbumCount	number	Anchor's albums	100 %	140
anchorTrackCount	number	Anchor's episodes	100 %	139079
anchorGrade	number	Anchor level	100 %	16
anchorIntro	string	Anchor's introduction	96.0 %	喜马人肉故事机！…
source	string	How the row was found	100 %	category
query	string	Keyword / list / anchor / URL	100 %	有声书 · most played (播放最多)
position	number	Rank in that list	100 %	2
scrapedAt	string	Run time (UTC)	100 %	2026-10-24T21:54:25.691Z

Episode rows (type: "track")

Field	Type	Meaning	Filled	Example
id	number	Episode id	100 %	46106992
url	string	Episode page	100 %	https://www.ximalaya.com/sound/46106992
title	string	Episode title	100 %	《东游记》郭德纲 于谦
albumId, albumTitle, albumUrl	number, string, string	Its album	100 %	9723091, 郭德纲21年相声精选
anchorId, anchorName	number, string	Its anchor	100 %	1000202, 德云社郭德纲相声VIP
durationSec	number	Length in seconds	100 %	4407
playCount	number	Plays	100 %	59341120
likeCount	number	Likes	100 %	98704
commentCount	number	Comments	100 %	13614
shareCount	number	Shares	100 %	15704
createdAt	string	Publication time (UTC)	100 %	2017-08-03T09:16:34.000Z
orderInAlbum	number	Position in the album's list	100 %	4
isPaid	boolean	Paid episode	100 %	false
isFree	boolean	Plays without paying	100 %	true
price, priceUnit	number, string	Price per episode (paid per-episode albums only)	paid only	0.2, 喜点/集
previewSeconds	number	Free preview length (paid episodes only)	paid only	180
isVideo	boolean	Video episode	100 %	false
coverUrl	string	Episode cover	100 %	https://imagev2.xmcdn.com/group31/…jpg
source, query, position, scrapedAt		As for albums (source: album, query: album:<id>)	100 %	album, album:9723091, 4

Episodes found by episode search have no orderInAlbum (search does not say where the episode sits in its album); everything else is filled when details are on.

Anchor rows (type: "anchor")

Field	Type	Meaning	Filled	Example
id	number	Anchor id (uid)	100 %	293476816
url	string	Anchor page	100 %	https://www.ximalaya.com/zhubo/293476816
nickname	string	Nickname	100 %	云听精品有声书
avatarUrl	string	Avatar	100 %	https://imagev2.xmcdn.com/storages/…jpg
signature	string	Personal signature	81.1 %	越主流，越好听，好听在云听。
description	string	Personal description	88.7 %	央广云听文化传媒有限公司
verifiedTitle	string	Verification title (verified accounts)	38.7 %	央广云听文化传媒有限公司
followers	number	Followers	100 %	949212
following	number	Following	100 %	3
albumCount	number	Albums	100 %	60
trackCount	number	Episodes	100 %	11744
anchorGrade	number	Anchor level	95.0 %	11
isVip	boolean	VIP member	100 %	false
isVerified	boolean	Verified (加V)	100 %	true
gender	string	male / female as stated	72.6 %	male
province	string	Province on the profile	66.4 %	北京
city	string	City on the profile	60.1 %	青岛市
createdAt	string	Account creation (UTC)	100 %	2021-01-27T01:00:53.000Z
source, query, position, scrapedAt		As for albums	100 %	search, 有声书, 1

Deeper runs. The table above describes the 1,000 most played albums. On the 12,000-album run of 有声书 (the category's top 2,500 plus the most played albums of all 59 subcategories) the optional album columns are filled less often, because smaller albums often have no intro, tags or rating on Ximalaya — we opened such albums' pages and they are empty there too: intro / description 78.3 %, subtitle 67.7 %, isFinished 63.1 %, score 58.0 %, badge / priceType / price 34.5 % (the share of paid albums), tags 32.0 %, anchorIntro 82.3 %, anchorGrade 98.4 %, commentCount 99.9 %; every other column 100 %.

Values are exactly what Ximalaya shows: numbers are numbers, dates are ISO 8601, Chinese text is UTF-8, links are absolute https:// URLs. Nothing is masked and nothing is invented: a value Ximalaya does not give is null, never 0 or a placeholder.

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Real output sample

Three rows from runs on the Apify platform on 2026-10-25 (an album from 有声书's most played list, an episode from a 相声评书 album, an anchor from an anchor search), unchanged:

[
  {
    "type": "album",
    "id": 4756811,
    "url": "https://www.ximalaya.com/album/4756811",
    "title": "摸金天师【第一季】（紫襟演播）",
    "subtitle": "三年寻龙，十年点穴",
    "intro": "2020紫襟盗墓新作：盗墓手札。戳这里去听~【内容简介】二十岁那年我因为贪财收了一件不该收的古董，从那...",
    "description": "2020紫襟盗墓新作：盗墓手札。戳这里去听~\n\n【内容简介】\n二十岁那年我因为贪财收了一件不该收的古董，从那以后，为了活命，我不得不一次次出入那些对于活人来说十死无生的禁地。秦岭大山里的墓葬群，西北戈壁中的无人区，浩瀚深海下的失落遗迹，雪域高原上的死亡禁区……\n\n【作者/主播简介】\n作者：风尘散人，网络小说作家，代表作《摸金天师》\n主播：有声的紫襟，喜马拉雅FM超人气王牌主播，声音磁性，演播方式多变，擅长恐怖悬疑类小说，在喜马拉雅已获得400万粉丝，长期霸榜全球华语博客巅峰榜，代表作《藏地密码》《摸金天师》。",
    "categoryId": 3,
    "categoryName": "有声书",
    "subcategoryName": "其他",
    "tags": [
      "盗墓",
      "悬疑",
      "有声小说",
      "紫襟",
      "有声的紫襟",
      "陶渊明后人",
      "纸巾",
      "天天向上",
      "新男在听",
      "摸金天师上部",
      "鬼故事"
    ],
    "playCount": 9456765147,
    "subscriberCount": 6394195,
    "trackCount": 1133,
    "commentCount": 178951,
    "score": 9.3,
    "isPaid": true,
    "isFinished": true,
    "vipFree": true,
    "badge": "VIP",
    "priceType": "per_episode",
    "price": 0.2,
    "discountedPrice": 0.2,
    "priceUnit": "喜点/集",
    "createdAt": "2016-07-17",
    "updatedAt": "2026-10-24",
    "coverUrl": "https://imagev2.xmcdn.com/group23/M01/15/2B/wKgJL1gYYjzxW7fQAAWaMAvliP8961.jpg",
    "anchorId": 1266964,
    "anchorName": "有声的紫襟",
    "anchorUrl": "https://www.ximalaya.com/zhubo/1266964",
    "anchorAvatarUrl": "https://imagev2.xmcdn.com/storages/9079-audiofreehighqps/37/16/CMCoOR8EDw_4AADBsgCMSZ9J.jpg",
    "anchorFollowers": 28431828,
    "anchorAlbumCount": 140,
    "anchorTrackCount": 139079,
    "anchorGrade": 16,
    "anchorIntro": "喜马人肉故事机！来呀，等你关注。微博求关注呀：有声的紫襟。",
    "source": "category",
    "query": "有声书 · most played (播放最多)",
    "position": 2,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-24T21:54:25.691Z"
  },
  {
    "type": "track",
    "id": 18556415,
    "url": "https://www.ximalaya.com/sound/18556415",
    "title": "《摸金天师》第001章 百辟刀",
    "albumId": 4756811,
    "albumTitle": "摸金天师【第一季】（紫襟演播）",
    "albumUrl": "https://www.ximalaya.com/album/4756811",
    "anchorId": 1266964,
    "anchorName": "有声的紫襟",
    "durationSec": 1161,
    "playCount": 77382527,
    "likeCount": 276758,
    "commentCount": 51379,
    "shareCount": 76764,
    "createdAt": "2016-07-16T21:15:59.000Z",
    "orderInAlbum": 1,
    "isPaid": true,
    "isFree": true,
    "price": 0.2,
    "priceUnit": "喜点/集",
    "previewSeconds": 0,
    "isVideo": false,
    "coverUrl": "https://imagev2.xmcdn.com/group23/M01/15/33/wKgJNFgYYjzSNzBHAAWaMAvliP8250.jpg",
    "source": "album",
    "query": "album:4756811",
    "position": 1,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-24T22:12:08.057Z"
  },
  {
    "type": "anchor",
    "id": 293476816,
    "url": "https://www.ximalaya.com/zhubo/293476816",
    "nickname": "云听精品有声书",
    "avatarUrl": "https://imagev2.xmcdn.com/storages/168c-audiofreehighqps/6E/F1/CMCoOR4D5pbkAABYJACAVDp_.jpg",
    "signature": "越主流，越好听，好听在云听。",
    "description": "央广云听文化传媒有限公司",
    "verifiedTitle": "央广云听文化传媒有限公司",
    "followers": 949212,
    "following": 3,
    "albumCount": 60,
    "trackCount": 11744,
    "anchorGrade": 11,
    "isVip": false,
    "isVerified": true,
    "gender": null,
    "province": "北京",
    "city": null,
    "createdAt": "2021-01-27T01:00:53.000Z",
    "source": "search",
    "query": "有声书",
    "position": 1,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-24T22:03:45.940Z"
  }
]

CSV export columns (all row types together): type, id, url, title, subtitle, intro, description, categoryId, categoryName, subcategoryName, tags, playCount, subscriberCount, trackCount, commentCount, score, isPaid, isFinished, vipFree, badge, priceType, price, discountedPrice, priceUnit, createdAt, updatedAt, coverUrl, anchorId, anchorName, anchorUrl, anchorAvatarUrl, anchorFollowers, anchorAlbumCount, anchorTrackCount, anchorGrade, anchorIntro, albumId, albumTitle, albumUrl, durationSec, likeCount, shareCount, orderInAlbum, isFree, previewSeconds, isVideo, nickname, avatarUrl, signature, verifiedTitle, followers, following, albumCount, isVip, isVerified, gender, province, city, source, query, position, scrapedAt. Use a dataset view (Albums, Episodes, Anchors) or filter on type to export one row type with only its own columns.

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Scale and speed (measured)

All runs on the Apify platform, 2026-10-25, default settings (1,024 MB memory, 20 parallel requests, no proxy) unless stated.

Run	Rows	Time	Notes
Prefill input: 三国演义, 20 albums, details on	20	6.1 s to 15.2 s end to end (three runs)	first row after 1.7–3.2 s
有声书, most played, 1,000 albums, details on	1,000	79 s	first row after 1.7 s, 0 duplicates, 2,021 requests
有声书, 12,000 albums, details on	12,000	996 s	0 duplicates; whole category list + all 59 subcategory lists in rotation; first row after 2 s
相声评书 albums + their episodes (≤100 each)	1,500 (16 albums, 1,484 episodes)	7.7 s	episodes come 200 to a request
Anchor search, 8 keywords, profiles on	1,000	50 s	125 anchors per keyword (fair share)

Throughput with details on is about 12 albums per second (two requests per album: the album page and its rating). Episodes are fast because one request returns 200 of them; anchors take one profile request each. With details off a category list runs about five times faster (1,000 albums in 16.7 s) but carries fewer columns.

How big lists are read completely

Ximalaya serves at most 2,500 albums per category list (50 pages × 50; page 51 repeats page 50) and at most 3,000 results per search order (page ≤ 50 and offset + page size ≤ 3,000; further pages are refused). The scraper:

1. reads the list you asked for to its end;
2. for categories, continues with each subcategory in the same order, then with the other two orders (综合排序, 最近更新, 播放最多);
3. for searches, continues with the other two orders and then the same search filtered by each category;
4. drops every album, episode or anchor it has already saved (by Ximalaya id).

So the depth of a run is bounded by the number of distinct lists, not by one list. Ximalaya's own counts are much larger than any list (it reports 1,632,371 albums for 有声书), and the less popular end of a giant category is only reachable through narrower lists or keywords — see Honest limits.

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What you pay

This Actor is priced per result (each saved row — album, episode or anchor — is one result). There are no extra charges for details or episodes: a detailed album costs the same as a list-only one.

Results	Free plan	Bronze	Silver	Gold, Platinum, Diamond
per 1,000	$1.50	$1.33	$1.17	$1.00
1,000 rows	$1.50	$1.33	$1.17	$1.00
10,000 rows	$15.00	$13.33	$11.67	$10.00
100,000 rows	$150.00	$133.33	$116.67	$100.00

Episode rows count like any other row, so "every episode of 50 albums" can be thousands of rows — set maxTracksPerAlbum and maxItems to what you need.

Maximum cost per run

Every Apify run has a Maximum cost per run (set in the run options, or by Apify when you leave it empty). The scraper reads it at the start, works out how many results it covers at your price, and stops cleanly when it gets there: the run succeeds, keeps everything collected and says so in its status (Saved N rows — this run's maximum cost ($X) covers N results at the current price. Raise "Maximum cost per run" to get more.). It never writes a row it cannot charge for, so the run is never aborted halfway. For a 10,000-row run on the free plan, set the maximum cost to at least $15.

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Integrations

API, apify-client and webhooks

Everything in the Console is available over the REST API and the official clients for JavaScript and Python (see the tutorial). Add a webhook on "run succeeded" to push the dataset URL to your server, Slack or a queue the moment a run ends.

Make (Integromat)

Use the Apify app in Make: "Run an Actor" with this Actor and your input JSON, then "Get dataset items" and map title, playCount, subscriberCount, url to your next module (Google Sheets, Airtable, Notion, e-mail).

Zapier

The Apify integration in Zapier starts the Actor on a trigger (schedule, new row in a sheet, form) and passes the dataset to the next step. Filter on type if you only want albums.

n8n

Use the Apify node (or an HTTP Request node to run-sync-get-dataset-items) and continue with n8n's Spreadsheet, Postgres or Airtable nodes. The JSON is flat apart from tags, so it maps directly.

Google Sheets and Airtable

Export CSV from the dataset, or use the Google Sheets integration on the Actor's Integrations tab to append every run's rows to a sheet. Chinese text stays intact (UTF-8).

Scheduling

Apify Schedules run the same input daily or weekly — the base for monitoring new releases (categorySort: "updated"), play-count trends (compare playCount per id over time) or anchor growth (followers per anchor id).

Data warehouses (BigQuery, Snowflake, Postgres, S3)

Pull the dataset as JSON lines or CSV from the API and load it with your usual tool. id + type is a stable key; scrapedAt marks the snapshot.

MCP and AI agents

The Actor can be called from AI agents through Apify's MCP server and the Apify tools for agent frameworks: an agent asks for "the 50 most played history podcasts on Ximalaya" and gets typed rows back. The description, intro and tags texts are good grounding material for RAG over Chinese audio catalogues.

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Performance tips

• Keep details on unless you only need lists — the album page adds tags, subscribers, rating, comments, price, VIP flags, dates and the anchor's followers. For pure id/title/plays lists of a category, details off is about five times faster.
• For episodes, set maxTracksPerAlbum: popular audiobooks have thousands of episodes (one top album has 4,605).
• For broad keywords, more keywords beat one keyword with a huge maxItems: each keyword is its own list with its own 3,000-result window.
• For whole categories, Ximalaya's most played order (popular) gives the most valuable albums first.
• Parallel requests: 20 suits Ximalaya; going higher rarely helps and lowering it is only useful if the log shows many retries.
• No proxy needed. Ximalaya answers the Apify platform directly; the fallback routes switch on by themselves.

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Troubleshooting: every status message explained

Status message	What it means	What to do
Saved N/M rows (… albums, … tracks) · S s	Progress while running	Nothing
COMPLETED: saved N rows (…; max results reached) in S s.	Stopped at maxItems	Raise maxItems for more
COMPLETED: saved N rows (…; every matching result read) in S s.	Every list was read to its end	More keywords, categories or orders give more
COMPLETED: saved N rows (…; stopped at the run time limit) in S s.	The run's timeout came first; everything collected is saved	Raise the run timeout or split the input
PARTIAL: saved N rows (…) · K page(s) could not be read.	Some pages failed after all retries and routes; the rest is complete	Run the same input again; if it repeats, tell us
… · K albums without page details (Ximalaya did not answer)	Those albums are saved with their list data only	Usually a passing hiccup; run again for those albums
EMPTY_RESULT: Ximalaya answered but nothing matched …	The search or list is genuinely empty	Check spelling, try Chinese keywords or a broader category
Album N is not on Ximalaya (…已被删除…) / Episode N is not on Ximalaya. / Anchor N is not on Ximalaya.	The pasted id was removed or never existed	Check the URL
None of the subcategories … belongs to …; reading the whole category.	The subcategory name did not match that category	Use the Chinese name or URL code from the category page
Saved N rows — this run's maximum cost ($X) covers N results at the current price. Raise "Maximum cost per run" to get more.	The run stopped at your cost limit (succeeded)	Raise "Maximum cost per run"
Saved 0 rows — this run's maximum cost ($X) does not cover a single result …	The limit is below the price of one result	Raise "Maximum cost per run"
INVALID_INPUT: nothing usable in the input — … (run fails)	Nothing in the input could be used (unknown category, foreign URL …)	Fix the input as the message says
No rows collected: no page could be fetched (…) after N attempt(s). This is a source-access failure, not an empty result. (run fails)	Ximalaya refused or did not answer on every route	Run again later; it is rare and usually brief
No rows collected and N page(s) could not be read, so an empty result cannot be confirmed. (run fails)	Pages failed and nothing was saved	Run again
Crashed after saving N rows: … (run fails)	An unexpected error; rows saved before it are kept	Send us the run link

Log lines you may see: Ximalaya is not answering the direct connection (…); switching to the Apify datacenter proxy. and The direct connection answers again — using it. are the automatic route changes; no action needed.

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Honest limits

• List windows. Ximalaya serves 2,500 albums per category list and 3,000 results per search order. The scraper splits by subcategory, order and category filter, but the long tail of a category with 1.6 million albums is not reachable through lists alone; narrower subcategories and specific keywords reach deeper.
• Search keywords. Ximalaya's search needs a keyword (an empty search is refused), and its relevance order is Ximalaya's own.
• Episode order. trackOrder: reverse flips the album's own order; whether that means newest-first depends on how the album lists its episodes (see orderInAlbum).
• Albums the Ximalaya app does not serve. About one album in ten is listed on the website but not served by Ximalaya's app interface (copyright). Their episodes are read from the website's player list instead, one request per episode — slower, and without shareCount and previewSeconds.
• No audio. The Actor exports metadata only; it does not download or stream audio and does not unlock paid or VIP content.
• Comments. Comment counts are included; the text of individual comments is not.
• Rankings. Ximalaya's chart pages (排行榜) are protected by a device signature and are not used; most played category lists cover the same need.
• Numbers move. Plays and subscribers change by the minute; scrapedAt records when each row was read.

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How it compares

	This Actor	Copying from the website	Ximalaya open platform (开放平台)
Access	Apify account	Browser	Approved developer account and app
Login / cookies	None	Optional	App keys and signatures
Albums by keyword and category	Yes, 28 categories, 619 subcategories	One page at a time	Depends on the approved scope
Episodes with plays, likes, comments, shares	Yes, every episode	By hand	Depends on scope
Anchors with followers and location	Yes	By hand	Depends on scope
Past list limits (2,500 / 3,000)	Automatic splitting	No	—
Output	JSON, CSV, Excel, API, integrations	Copy and paste	Your own code
Scheduling and monitoring	Built in	No	Your own code

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FAQ

What is Ximalaya Scraper?

An Apify Actor that exports albums, episodes and anchors from Ximalaya (喜马拉雅), China's largest audio platform, as structured data: plays, subscribers, ratings, comments, prices, VIP flags, dates, durations and anchor followers.

Is there an official Ximalaya API?

Ximalaya has an open platform (开放平台) for approved developers and apps. This Actor needs no approval, no app and no keys — it reads the public data the website shows.

How do I scrape Ximalaya to Excel or CSV?

Run the Actor, open the dataset and click Export → CSV or Excel. Pick the Albums, Episodes or Anchors view first to export only those columns.

How do I get the play count of a Ximalaya album?

Paste the album URL into Ximalaya URLs or ids (or search for it). The playCount column is the album's total plays; with episodes on, each episode row has its own playCount.

Can I export all episodes of a Ximalaya album?

Yes: paste the album URL, turn on Also export every album's episodes and set Max results to 0. Popular albums with thousands of episodes are read 200 episodes per request.

How many albums can I scrape from Ximalaya?

12,000 unique albums from one category in one run were measured. Several categories or keywords in one run go further; each list adds up to 2,500 (categories) or 3,000 (search) results.

How fast is it?

About 12–13 fully detailed albums per second (1,000 albums in 79 s, 12,000 in 996 s), and around 200 episode rows per second when episodes are on (1,484 episodes plus their 16 albums in 7.7 s).

Do I need a proxy to scrape ximalaya.com?

No. Ximalaya answers the Apify platform directly. If it ever stops answering, the Actor switches to Apify's datacenter proxy and then, for a limited number of requests, a residential route on its own.

Do I need a Ximalaya account, login or cookies?

No. Nothing is logged in and no cookies are needed.

Does it work with Chinese keywords?

Yes, and Chinese keywords give the best results on Ximalaya (三国演义, 郭德纲, 英语听力). English titles and names work too.

Can I search for anchors (主播) instead of albums?

Yes: set Search for to anchors. Each anchor row has followers, following, albums, episodes, level, verification and its title, VIP, gender, province and city.

Can I scrape a Ximalaya anchor's albums?

Paste the anchor's page (https://www.ximalaya.com/zhubo/

How do I scrape a Ximalaya category?

Pick it under Categories (for example 有声书, 相声评书, 历史) or paste the category page URL. Add Subcategories to narrow it (悬疑, 文学, 郭德纲).

What does "most played", "recommended" and "recently updated" mean?

They are Ximalaya's own category orders: 播放最多, 综合排序 and 最近更新. Search has relevance (综合), most played and newest.

Is the rating (score) the same as on the album page?

Yes. score is the album's listener rating out of 10 as Ximalaya shows it; albums without enough ratings have null.

What currency are prices in?

喜点 (Ximalaya coins), as Ximalaya writes them; 1 喜点 equals 1 CNY. priceUnit says whether it is per episode (喜点/集) or for the whole album (喜点).

What does vipFree mean?

That Ximalaya VIP members can listen to the album without buying it. The badge column shows the cover badge (VIP, SVIP or 付费) as on the site.

What is the difference between isPaid and isFree on episodes?

isPaid says the episode belongs to paid content; isFree says whether it plays without paying — every episode of a free album, and the free trial episodes at the start of many paid albums.

Why do some albums have no tags?

Not every album has tags on Ximalaya (about half in our measurement). The column is null for those, never an empty placeholder.

Are duplicates removed?

Yes. Every album, episode and anchor is saved once per run, by its Ximalaya id — even when two keywords or lists contain it.

Why did I get fewer results than Ximalaya's total?

Ximalaya reports totals much larger than any list it serves (2,500 per category list, 3,000 per search order). The Actor splits lists to go further, but the reachable depth is the sum of the lists, not the headline total.

Can I monitor new Ximalaya releases every day?

Yes: browse a category with Category order: Recently updated on a daily schedule and keep the ids you have not seen before.

Can I track play counts over time?

Run the same input on a schedule and compare playCount (and subscriberCount, commentCount) per id across runs; scrapedAt dates each snapshot.

Does it download the audio files?

No. It exports metadata only and does not download, stream or unlock any audio.

Does it get the comments themselves?

It gets the comment counts of albums and episodes, not the text of each comment.

Can I paste a Ximalaya search page?

Yes: https://www.ximalaya.com/so/

Does it work with m.ximalaya.com links?

Yes, mobile album, episode and anchor links are recognised like the www ones.

Are times in China time?

Times are ISO 8601 in UTC (the Z at the end). Ximalaya shows China Standard Time (UTC+8); add 8 hours for the time shown on the site. Album dates (createdAt, updatedAt from the album page) are calendar dates as the site shows them.

Can I use the data in an AI or LLM project?

Yes, subject to your own legal review: titles, intros, descriptions, tags and categories are clean UTF-8 text; numbers are typed. See Is it legal to scrape Ximalaya?.

What happens if Ximalaya changes its site?

The run fails loudly instead of returning empty data (see the troubleshooting table), and we fix the Actor. Every run's SUMMARY shows exactly which part answered.

Can it scrape other Chinese audio platforms?

This Actor is for Ximalaya only.

I need a field or a filter that is missing. Can you add it?

Probably — write to us (see Support) with an example album or anchor.

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Glossary

Term	Meaning
喜马拉雅 (Ximalaya)	China's largest online audio platform (www.ximalaya.com)
专辑 (album)	A show, audiobook, course or series — the main unit on Ximalaya
声音 (sound / episode)	One audio episode of an album
主播 (anchor)	The creator, narrator or host who publishes albums
有声书	Audiobooks
相声 / 评书	Crosstalk comedy / traditional storytelling
广播剧	Audio (radio) drama
播放量 / 播放	Plays
订阅	Subscribe / subscribers
评分	Rating (out of 10)
评论	Comments
粉丝	Followers
完结 / 连载	Finished / still being updated
付费	Paid
免费 / 试听	Free / free trial listening
会员 (VIP) / SVIP	Ximalaya membership tiers
喜点	Ximalaya coins (1 喜点 = 1 CNY)
喜点/集	Price per episode
主播等级	Anchor level
加V / 认证	Verified account / verification
综合排序 / 播放最多 / 最近更新	Recommended / most played / recently updated
分类 / 子分类	Category / subcategory

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Is it legal to scrape Ximalaya?

This Actor reads data that Ximalaya shows publicly to any visitor, without logging in and without bypassing any paywall, signature or protection meant to keep content private. It does not download audio. Whether your particular use is lawful depends on what you do with the data and where: copyright in descriptions, cover images and audio stays with its owners; profile data of individual anchors is personal information, so if you process it you are responsible for complying with China's Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL), the EU/UK GDPR and any other law that applies to you (a lawful basis, purpose limitation, data minimisation, retention, and the rights of the people concerned). Use the data for analysis and research, respect Ximalaya's terms where they bind you, do not republish copyrighted content wholesale, and ask a lawyer if you are unsure.

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Changelog

• 1.0.0 (2026-10-25) — First release: keyword search for albums, episodes and anchors in three orders past the 3,000-result window; category browsing for all 28 categories and 619 subcategories past the 2,500-album list limit; album, episode, anchor, category and search URLs; album details (description, tags, subscribers, rating, comments, price, VIP flags, dates, anchor followers); every album's full episode list including albums the Ximalaya app does not serve; automatic route fallback; outcome statuses and a SUMMARY record; pay-per-result budget respected.

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Support

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