Likee Scraper (creator videos and stats)

Likee is a short-video network, and creator numbers are hard to get out of it: the app shows a feed, not a table. Benchmarking creators, tracking a channel's growth or ranking videos by engagement needs every video as a row, with the counts attached.

Give it Likee IDs (or profile links), or the links of specific videos, and every video comes back as one item: caption, hashtags, views, likes, comments, shares, an engagement rate worked out for you, post date, sound name, country, video size and cover image. Add a profile row per creator for followers and total likes, or pull a country's top creators in one go. No login, no API key, no Likee account. The creator's Likee ID and nickname stay on the row as the byline; avatars, bios, linked social accounts, birthdays and the people a caption mentions are never collected.

Quick start (30 seconds)

1. Put one or more creators into creators, one per line: a Likee ID such as troomhands, or a profile link such as https://likee.video/@troomhands. The ID is the part after the @ in the profile address.
2. Click Start. That's the whole minimum setup.
3. When the run finishes, open the dataset's Overview tab for a clean table, or Export it as CSV/Excel/JSON.

Optional knobs: how many videos per creator, a minimum view count, a date window, a profile row per creator, specific video links, and a country whose top creators are added to the run. Any input works on a daily Schedule.

What you can build with it

• Benchmark creators by engagement. Put ten creators in creators, keep the last 50 videos each, and sort by engagementRate (likes plus comments plus shares, divided by views, as a percentage). You see who gets a reaction per view, not just who has a big audience.
• Track a channel over time. Switch on includeProfile and run daily on the same creators: followers, following and totalLikes are captured at scrape time, and each video row carries its current views and likes. Diff the snapshots to see growth and which videos still pick up views.
• Find who is rising in a country. Set topCreatorsCountry to a code such as BR or US and the actor adds the creators Likee recommends there, in Likee's own order, then reads their latest videos. Rank them yourself by views or engagement.
• Keep only the videos that took off. Set minViews to 100000 and read a creator's whole history: only the videos past that bar come back, and you pay only for those rows.
• Look up the exact videos you have. Paste video links into videoUrls and get each one's current views, likes, comments and shares, for a client report or a list of videos you track.
• Study what travels. hashtags, musicName, country and postedAt are separate columns, so a spreadsheet pivot answers which tags and sounds the best-performing videos share.
• Feed an AI agent clean data. Every field is structured and predictable, so an assistant or pipeline can read a creator's last 100 videos directly, with no personal data to scrub first.

What you get

Each video is one dataset item:

{
  "type": "video",
  "likeeId": "troomhands",
  "nickname": "Troom Troom",
  "postId": "7237052592019851234",
  "postUrl": "https://likee.video/@troomhands/video/7237052592019851234",
  "caption": "#StressOff from #Likee #HelloLikee check it out!",
  "title": null,
  "hashtags": ["HelloLikee", "StressOff", "MyDramaID", "Likee"],
  "mediaType": "video",
  "views": 7476,
  "likes": 497,
  "comments": 18,
  "shares": 12,
  "engagementRate": 7.05,
  "postedAt": "2023-05-25T09:40:13.000Z",
  "musicName": null,
  "country": "US",
  "videoWidth": 720,
  "videoHeight": 1280,
  "coverUrl": "https://videosnap.like.video/eu_live/9uN/1FWtlR_4.jpg?wmk_sdk=1&type=8",
  "imageCount": null
}

With includeProfile on, each creator also gets one profile row:

{
  "type": "profile",
  "likeeId": "troomhands",
  "nickname": "Troom Troom",
  "profileUrl": "https://likee.video/@troomhands",
  "verified": true,
  "followers": 3505001,
  "following": 28,
  "totalLikes": 3058147
}

Field notes, so you know exactly what you are buying:

• postId is Likee's video number. It is kept as text because it is longer than a spreadsheet can hold exactly. With likeeId it is a stable key, and postUrl is the human link.
• views, likes, comments, shares, followers and totalLikes are Likee's own counts at scrape time.
• engagementRate is (likes + comments + shares) / views as a percentage with two decimals. It is null when a video has no views yet.
• postedAt is the publication time in UTC. country is the country code Likee attaches to the post.
• hashtags lists the tags attached to the post, without the #. caption is the text as published, hashtags included.
• mediaType is video or photo. A photo post has imageCount set; its long text is returned as the caption and its headline as title.
• coverUrl is the cover image as Likee serves it at run time. It is a link, not an archive.
• verified on a profile row is true when Likee marks the account as a verified or official creator.
• Rows are billed per item, so a creator that cannot be read never appears in the dataset. It is named in the run's status message and in the CREATOR_REPORT record of the run's key-value store instead. Video links that could not be read are in VIDEO_LINK_REPORT.

What it does not do

• No video files. Likee does not give a logged-out visitor a playable file link, so there is no mp4 URL column and the actor cannot download videos.
• No short share links, and no hashtag or keyword search. A video link must be the address of the video page (likee.video/@<id>/video/<number>); the short l.likee.video/v/... links Likee's app shares are sent to its home page and cannot be read. Likee has no public search and its hashtag lookup did not return data when tested, so everything else starts from a creator: you name the creators, or take a country's top creators, and read their videos newest first.
• No comments, followers lists or private accounts. Only the public counts above. A private account is reported as private and nothing else is collected.

How much does it cost to scrape Likee?

$3.00 per 1,000 rows delivered, pay-as-you-go, no subscription, and you pay per result rather than per hour. Videos and profile rows both count as rows. A run that finds nothing still costs the $0.005 actor start. In plain dollars:

• 100 videos ≈ $0.30: a daily check on a handful of creators.
• 500 videos ≈ $1.50: a benchmark across a dozen creators.
• A 10,000-video crawl ≈ $30: a long history across many creators.

The price is all-inclusive: your runs' platform usage is covered by it, with no separate compute or proxy charges. The actor reads Likee directly and only falls back to the Apify proxy if the request is blocked, so there is nothing to configure.

Free-plan runs are limited to a sample of 5 items, enough to evaluate the output format against your real creators.

Not technical? Let your AI assistant set it up

Copy this into ChatGPT, Claude or any AI assistant, fill in the one line, and follow the conversation:

Help me set up the "Likee Scraper" actor on Apify
(https://apify.com/lowlanddata/likee-scraper). Guide me one step at a time.

What I want to learn: [E.G. "which of these five Likee creators gets the most engagement on their last 30 videos"]

Guide me to:
1. Propose my input values: creators (Likee IDs or profile links, one per line;
   the ID is the part after the @ in a profile address), maxVideosPerCreator,
   an optional postedAfter date, includeProfile if I want followers and total likes,
   and maxItems.
2. Check that each creator is public by opening likee.video/@<id> in my browser.
   If it shows videos, the actor can read it.
3. Create a free Apify account (apify.com), open the actor page, paste the values
   into the Input form, and start a run.
4. Set up a daily Schedule in the Apify Console with the same input, plus an email
   or Slack integration so new numbers reach me automatically.
5. Show me how to export results as CSV/Excel, or read them from the API if I code.
6. If the results are what I wanted, remind me at the end to leave a quick rating on the actor page, and to report anything broken or missing on its Issues tab.

Input

Field	Description
creators	Likee IDs or profile links, one per line or comma-separated, e.g. troomhands or https://likee.video/@troomhands.
videoUrls	Optional. Links of specific videos, one per line, e.g. https://likee.video/@troomhands/video/7237052592019851234.
topCreatorsCountry	Optional. A two-letter country code; adds Likee's recommended creators for that country, in Likee's order.
topCreatorsLimit	How many creators to take from that country list, from the top (default 10, at most 100).
maxVideosPerCreator	Videos per creator, newest first. Empty means 20, or every video inside your date window when you set one.
minViews	Optional. Only videos with at least this many views. Skipped videos are not billed and do not count toward the limit.
postedAfter	Only videos posted on or after this date (YYYY-MM-DD); stops walking a creator's older history.
postedBefore	Only videos posted on or before this date (YYYY-MM-DD).
includeProfile	Add one profile row per creator: nickname, verified flag, followers, following, total likes. Default off.
maxItems	Stop after this many rows in total, across all creators (default 500).
proxyConfiguration	Optional. Direct by default; the Apify proxy joins on its own if blocked. Set one to force a proxy.

Provide at least one creator, video link or topCreatorsCountry. Video links are read first, then creators in the order you list them, then the country list, and maxItems counts across all of them. A video that is also in a creator's list is returned once. With minViews set, a creator's videos are read newest first until maxVideosPerCreator matches are found, so on a creator with a long history and few hits, add a date window. Setting maxVideosPerCreator to 0 together with includeProfile returns profile rows only. A value that is not a Likee ID, a likee.video profile link or (for videoUrls) a video page link is refused up front with the offending names in the message. A creator that cannot be read costs that creator, not the run: the rest are delivered with an honest note in the run status.

Use it from your code

Run the actor and get rows straight back with one HTTP call (fine for scoped runs up to ~5 minutes):

curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/lowlanddata~likee-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<YOUR_API_TOKEN>" \
  -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"creators": ["troomhands"], "maxVideosPerCreator": 50}'

Node.js:

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' });
const run = await client.actor('lowlanddata/likee-scraper').call({
  creators: ['troomhands', 'troom_oki_toki'],
  includeProfile: true,
  postedAfter: '2023-01-01',
  maxItems: 200,
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();

Python:

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("lowlanddata/likee-scraper").call(
    run_input={"topCreatorsCountry": "US", "topCreatorsLimit": 5, "maxVideosPerCreator": 20})
items = client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).list_items().items

Schedules, webhooks and the Make/Zapier/n8n integrations all work out of the box: this is a standard Apify actor.

Use it with AI agents (MCP)

Claude, Cursor and other MCP-capable agents can run this scraper as a tool through Apify's hosted MCP server: the agent fills in the creators itself, starts the run and reads the results: no glue code.

Claude Code:

$claude mcp add apify --transport http "https://mcp.apify.com?actors=lowlanddata/likee-scraper"

Cursor or Claude Desktop (add a custom connector / MCP server with this URL):

https://mcp.apify.com?actors=lowlanddata/likee-scraper

Sign in with your Apify account when prompted. Runs are billed to it. Setup details per client: Apify MCP docs.

Prompts that work once connected:

• "Get the last 50 videos from the Likee creator troomhands and tell me which three had the highest engagement rate."
• "Take the top 10 Likee creators for Brazil, read their last 20 videos each, and list the hashtags the best videos have in common."
• "Pull the Likee profile rows for these creators and compare their followers and total likes."

Which creators can it read?

Public creators, found by their Likee ID. The ID is the part after the @ in the profile address: likee.video/@troomhands has the ID troomhands. An ID Likee does not know is reported as not found, and a private account is reported as private; neither costs anything, and the run carries on with the rest. If Likee is under load and answers "system busy", the actor waits and retries a few times before reporting that creator as rate limited, so you can run it again later.

The country list is Likee's own recommendation, in its order, and it changes over time. Some countries have a short list, and a country without its own list gets Likee's general one, so check the creators you got.

Is it legal to scrape Likee?

The actor reads the same public data Likee's own website shows to a visitor who is not logged in: a creator's public profile numbers and their public videos' counts. It does not log in, solve CAPTCHAs or touch private accounts, and requests are paced. The creator's Likee ID and nickname stay on each row as its byline. Avatars, bios, linked Instagram or YouTube names, birthdays, the accounts a caption mentions and Likee's internal user numbers are never read, so none of it can reach your dataset, and a test on every build fails if one ever does.

Two honest limits. Captions are the creator's own words, delivered as published: if a caption contains a name, that text is not rewritten. And Likee's terms of use are a contract between you and Likee that limit how its service and content may be used in general terms, so read them against your own use. The guarantee covers the data fields, not what creators choose to publish.

This is not legal advice. Whether your use of the data is allowed under Likee's terms and your jurisdiction's rules is yours to assess.

Is there a Likee API alternative?

Likee has no public API for creator data. This actor is the practical alternative: the same public counts as structured JSON through one HTTP call (run-sync-get-dataset-items), on a schedule, or as an MCP tool for AI agents, with no account to create.

Does Likee block scrapers?

Not in our runs so far: requests from the Apify platform went through directly, without a proxy. Likee's website loads its data from a plain JSON API with no login, signature or CAPTCHA, so the actor stays inside that: paced requests, direct fetches, load kept low. If the platform's address is ever blocked, the actor switches to the Apify proxy by itself. Under heavy load Likee can answer "system busy"; the actor retries with a short wait and, failing that, tells you which creators to run again.

How do I monitor a Likee creator?

Put the creator in creators, set postedAfter to yesterday's date, switch on includeProfile for a follower snapshot, and add a daily Schedule in the Apify Console with an email or Slack integration on the runs. The dataset then holds only the new videos with their counts at that moment, plus the creator's current followers. The AI-assistant prompt above walks a non-technical user through exactly this setup.

FAQ

Can I scrape a single video by its link? Yes, put the link of the video page in videoUrls, for example https://likee.video/@troomhands/video/7237052592019851234. You get that one video's row. Short share links (l.likee.video/v/...) cannot be read, because Likee sends them to its home page. A link in creators still means the creator, not the video.

Can I only get videos above a number of views? Yes, set minViews. Videos below it are not returned and not billed. The run reads a creator's videos newest first until it has found enough matches, so combine it with postedAfter or maxVideosPerCreator to bound how far back it goes.

Can I search Likee by hashtag or keyword? No. Likee has no public search, and its hashtag lookup did not return data when tested. The columns hashtags and caption let you filter the creators you do read.

Can I download the videos? No. Likee does not expose a playable file link to logged-out visitors, so the rows carry the cover image and the video's size, not a file.

Does it read private accounts? No. A private account is reported as private in the run status and nothing else is collected.

Why did a creator come back as "not found"? Likee does not know that ID. Open likee.video/@<id> in a browser: the ID is the part after the @, and it is not the same as the display name.

How is the engagement rate worked out? (likes + comments + shares) / views, as a percentage with two decimals. It is null for a video with no views.

Can I get only the newest videos? Yes, set postedAfter to a date. Each creator's walk stops as soon as it reaches older videos, so a daily watch collects exactly the new ones.

How many videos per creator do I get? The newest 20 by default, any number you set in maxVideosPerCreator, or every video inside your date window when you set one and leave the number empty.

Can I read a whole country's top creators? Yes: set topCreatorsCountry to a two-letter code. You get Likee's recommended creators for it, in Likee's order, up to topCreatorsLimit.

How fast is it? Measured on the Apify platform at 256 MB: the default 20 videos from one creator finish in about 5 seconds, 300 videos from one creator in about 32 seconds, and 300 videos across three creators in about 46 seconds. Likee returns up to 100 videos per request and the actor paces its requests, so a run is bounded by Likee's response time rather than by memory.

How fresh is the data? Live at run time: every run reads Likee directly. For continuous freshness, schedule the actor.

Can I export to Excel or CSV? Yes, every dataset exports as CSV, Excel, JSON or XML from the Apify Console or API.

Does it work with Make, Zapier or n8n? Yes, it is a standard Apify actor; all platform integrations, webhooks and schedules apply.

Do I need a Likee account or API key? Neither. The data comes from the public pages' own API, and no login is involved.

Does it collect profile pictures, bios or linked accounts? No. You get the creator's Likee ID and nickname as the byline, and the counts. Avatars, bios, linked Instagram or YouTube names, birthdays and mentioned accounts are never read.

Why do two runs show different counts for the same video? The counts are Likee's own at scrape time, and videos keep collecting views and likes.

How much does Likee scraping cost here? $3.00 per 1,000 rows, metered on delivery. A 100-video daily check is roughly $0.30; a failed or empty run costs the $0.005 actor start and nothing per result.

Can I try it before spending anything? Yes, a free-plan run returns up to 5 real rows from your creators, enough to check the fields against your pipeline.

Can an AI agent fetch Likee data through this? Yes, connect Apify's hosted MCP server and agents like Claude or Cursor can pick creators, run the actor and read the results themselves. Setup is in the MCP section above.

Related scrapers

More clean-output data sources from the same maker:

• Bluesky Scraper: public posts from the open social network.
• Telegram Channel Scraper: posts, views and reactions from public channels.
• Vinted Scraper: Europe's largest fashion resale marketplace.

Troubleshooting

The actor fails fast with the reason in the run's status message:

• "Not found: ...": those IDs are unknown to Likee. Check the spelling against the profile address in your browser.
• "Private account, nothing collected: ...": the creator's account is private, so only that status is reported.
• "Rate limited by Likee, try again later: ...": Likee answered "system busy" even after the retries. The other creators are delivered; run these again later.
• "Could not read: ...": an unexpected answer from Likee for those creators; the rest of the run is delivered normally.
• "Not a Likee id or profile link": a value in creators is not valid. Use an ID like troomhands or a link like https://likee.video/@troomhands.
• Fewer items than requested on a free plan: the 5-item free sample cap; run on a paid Apify plan for full results.

Support

Found an issue or missing a field you need? The fastest route is the actor's Issues tab - it is monitored and reports get fixed. For anything private, email contact@lowlanddata.com. This actor is actively maintained.

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