RedNote (Xiaohongshu) Search Scraper 小红书 — Notes by Keyword, No Login

This actor is retired and no longer listed in Apify Store. Your existing runs, schedules and API calls keep working. New work belongs in Xiaohongshu (RedNote) All-in-One Scraper, which covers search with no login. Your keyword and keywords carry over as they are.

Search Xiaohongshu (小红书), also called RedNote, Little Red Book or XHS, for notes by keyword with no login and no cookie. Each row carries the note ID, title, text, author name (and author ID when it resolves), likes, saves, comments, shares, tags, publish time, full-size cover, and a ready-to-scrape note URL with its xsec_token. $5 per 1,000 notes.

Type one keyword, or a list of them. No Xiaohongshu account is involved: keyword results come back without any login. Chinese and English keywords both work. A run walks 5 pages per keyword (~100 notes) unless you set maxPages or maxItems. Turn on topUpFromOtherSorts to also pull the other two rankings and keep only new notes.

What you get per note

Field	Description
noteId	24-hex note ID
noteType	normal (image post) or video
noteTitle, noteDesc	Title and body text
likedCount / likedCountNum	Likes as shown (e.g. 1.2万) and parsed to a number (12000)
collectedCount, commentCount, shareCount	Saves, comments, shares, each with a *Num twin
userId, userName, userAvatar	Author; userId chains straight into the User Profile scraper
tags	Topic tags on the note
publishedAt	Publish time (ISO 8601)
noteCoverUrl	Cover image URL
notePageUrl + xsecToken	Ready to paste into the Note Detail or Comments scraper
searchTerm, accessMode	The keyword that produced the row, and public-search for no-cookie rows

About 20 notes per page. Set maxPages for more and maxItems to cap the total. You pay only for rows delivered.

Example input

{
    "keywords": ["三亚酒店", "skincare"],
    "maxPages": 2,
    "maxItems": 80,
    "topUpFromOtherSorts": true
}

Optional: logged-in search with a web_session cookie

You don't need a cookie for results. Paste a web_session cookie from a Xiaohongshu account you control when you want the logged-in search, which is also what applies noteType (all, video, or image posts):

1. Log in at xiaohongshu.com in your browser.
2. Open DevTools → Application → Cookies → https://www.xiaohongshu.com.
3. Copy the value of web_session into the input. Pasting your whole cookie string also works.

The cookie is marked secret in the input schema and is never logged. Sort is sent on the public search too. noteType is logged-in only; a public run logs that the filter was skipped.

FAQ

Do I need a cookie? No. Keyword search, including author IDs, works out of the box. A cookie switches to the logged-in search, which is required for noteType.

A keyword returned 0 results. Xiaohongshu's public search had no notes for it. Try the Chinese term (e.g. 护肤 instead of "skin care"); most Xiaohongshu content is written in Chinese.

The run failed with a session error. You supplied a web_session that is expired or from a logged-out browser. Copy a fresh one, or leave the field empty to use the public search.

Are the Chinese counts usable in spreadsheets? Yes. Every count comes twice: as displayed (1.2万) and parsed (12000) in its *Num twin.

Related scrapers

• RedNote Note Detail Scraper — one note's full data, no login
• RedNote Comments Scraper — comment threads
• Xiaohongshu (RedNote) All-in-One Scraper — notes, full comment threads, creators, topics, shop products and reviews in one run, no login
• Xiaohongshu (RedNote) Scraper — 8 operations including user profiles, channel feeds, and mall products

🤖 For AI Agents & LLM Apps

Compact reference for AI agents calling this actor via the Apify MCP server or the Apify API (actor: memo23/rednote-search-scraper).

Purpose: Keyword-searches Xiaohongshu (RedNote / 小红书) notes with no login. One keyword or a list. One structured row per note, including a ready-to-scrape note URL with its xsec_token.

Minimal input:

{
  "keyword": "skincare",
  "maxPages": 1,
  "maxItems": 20
}

Output: one dataset row per note; key fields: noteId, noteType, noteTitle, noteDesc, likedCount, likedCountNum, collectedCount, commentCount, shareCount, userId, userName, userAvatar, tags, publishedAt, noteCoverUrl, notePageUrl, xsecToken. Each count has a numeric *Num twin (Chinese 1.2万 → 12000).

Behaviors an agent should know:

• No cookie is needed, and rows include the author userId. keyword and keywords are merged. webSession is optional and is what makes noteType apply. An expired cookie fails the run fast. The field is secret and never logged.
• maxPages defaults to 5 (~20 notes per page, per keyword, per sort). Set maxItems to cap the bill. topUpFromOtherSorts (default false) also fetches the other two rankings and drops duplicates.
• A keyword with no matches finishes with 0 rows and a status message saying so; nothing is charged beyond the run start.
• The notePageUrl + xsecToken in each row paste directly into the RedNote Note Detail or Comments scraper for fan-out.
• Billing: pay-per-event, see the Pricing tab on the actor page.

⚠️ Disclaimer

This actor collects publicly displayed data from Xiaohongshu for legitimate research, marketing, and archival purposes. You are responsible for complying with applicable laws, Xiaohongshu's terms, and for any account whose cookie you supply. Do not use collected data for spam or harassment.

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