Xiaohongshu RedNote Note to Text

Turn a Xiaohongshu (小红书 / RedNote) note into text an LLM can read. Image notes too: every photo is described and its text read out.

Official website: linkdigest.dev — powered by LinkDigest, which also offers this as an MCP server and a REST API.

The problem this solves

Most of Xiaohongshu is 图文 — a caption plus a stack of photos. yt-dlp only understands video notes, so the majority of the platform returns nothing. The words that matter are inside the images.

This Actor returns the post instead — every image described and OCR'd, the caption, and the key points:

{
  "platform": "xiaohongshu",
  "author": "周星星",
  "title": "从 Agent Team 到 Agent Swarm（下篇）",
  "transcript_source": "none"
}

Input

Field	Type	Notes
urls	array of strings	Required. xhslink.com/… or xiaohongshu.com/discovery/item/… — share links work as-is.
format	json or markdown	json gives separate fields; markdown gives one ready-to-paste document per link.
maxItems	integer	Optional ceiling so a long list cannot cost more than expected.

This Actor only reads xiaohongshu links. Paste anything else and it says so rather than failing quietly. For every platform in one place — Xiaohongshu, Douyin, TikTok, YouTube, X and ordinary web pages — use apify.com/loongnian714/social-url-to-llm-text.

Output

One dataset item per link: platform, author, title, posted_at, caption, transcript ({t, text}), ocr_text, images ({description, ocr}), key_points, source_url, transcript_source, degraded, cached, credits.

A link that cannot be read still produces an item carrying url and error. Nothing is silently dropped — a short dataset is the worst way to find out that three of your fifty links failed.

Pricing

Event	Price
digest-completed	$0.02 per link successfully read
extra-credit	$0.01 per credit beyond the first

Credits track the two things that actually cost money: images to describe and minutes of media to transcribe. One base credit covers a typical post and its first six images; each further six images adds one, and each minute of audio or video adds two.

A link that fails is never charged. Neither is a run that fails because of a problem on our side.

Notes

• Already-digested links return in about a second — anything anyone has run before is cached, and cached links cost one credit, never more.
• The heavy work runs on our servers, not on Apify: reading these platforms takes session cookies, ffmpeg, speech recognition and a vision model.
• Chinese text is returned as-is, not translated.