Kuaishou Scraper

What does Kuaishou Scraper do?

Kuaishou Scraper is an Apify actor that scrapes video data from Kuaishou short video URLs. It extracts information such as video ID, caption, creation time, thumbnail URL, video URL, author metadata, and music metadata.

Features

• 🔎 Get video data from Kuaishou's website
• ⚡ Fast and reliable scraping
• 🧑‍💻 Perfect for non-technical users
• 🔒 No need for authentication
• 🔄 Automatically handles retries for failed requests
• 📦 Outputs data in JSON format for easy integration with other tools

🎯 Who Is This For?

• Content creators looking to analyze Kuaishou videos
• Marketers researching video trends on Kuaishou
• Developers needing Kuaishou video data for their applications
• Data analysts conducting social media research

⬇️ What You Need to Provide

• A list of Kuaishou video URLs to scrape data from. Example URLs:
  • https://www.kuaishou.com/short-video/3xhf4kv5ahrt8cy
  • https://www.kuaishou.com/f/XzOKg8ZBFnb2Ty

📦 What You’ll Get (Output)

The actor outputs a dataset containing the following fields for each video:

• 🎥 Video Metadata (ID, Caption, Thumb, Create Date, Duration, etc.)
• 📊 Video Statistics (Like Count, Forward Count, Comment Count, View Count)
• 👤 Author Metadata (ID, Name, Username, Verified Status, Avatar, Followers Count, etc.)
• 🎵 Music Metadata (ID, Name, Artist, Audio URL, etc.)
• 🔗 Video Download URLs (Play URL, All Play URLs with quality types)

📥 Output Example

{
    "id": "5246975106670222075",
    "text": "2022年2月20日拳击比赛：布洛克VS卡汉 #体育 #拳王 #KO",
    "createTime": 1645366735771,
    "createDate": "20/02/2022",
    "thumb": "https://p2.a.yximgs.com/upic/2022/02/20/22/BMjAyMjAyMjAyMjE2MjVfMTc0NTI5NDQzNV82ODA1MjU2MzE5OF8yXzM=_B3d4f038cae5397286f4007922a8dd821.jpg?clientCacheKey=3xhf4kv5ahrt8cy.jpg&di=c0d2ed05&bp=10000",
    "url": "https://www.kuaishou.com/short-video/5246975106670222075",
    "authorMeta": {
        "id": "1745294435",
        "name": "糙老爷们看拳",
        "username": "3x984ye63jkct29",
        "verified": false,
        "avatar": "https://p22.a.yximgs.com/uhead/AB/2021/12/17/19/BMjAyMTEyMTcxOTU1MDBfMTc0NTI5NDQzNV8yX2hkODU3XzkzMQ==_s.jpg",
        "followingCount": 63,
        "followersCount": 6154,
        "gender": "male",
        "photoCount": 866,
        "collectionCount": 9
    },
    "musicMeta": {
        "id": "8612998810",
        "name": "糙老爷们看拳的作品原声",
        "artist": "糙老爷们看拳",
        "type": 9,
        "hasCopyright": true,
        "loudness": -15,
        "isOriginal": true,
        "audioUrl": "https://hw.a.yximgs.com/bs2/ost/NjgwNTI1NjMxOThfMTc0NTI5NDQzNQ.m4a"
    },
    "duration": 332,
    "cover": "https://p2.a.yximgs.com/upic/2022/02/20/22/BMjAyMjAyMjAyMjE2MjVfMTc0NTI5NDQzNV82ODA1MjU2MzE5OF8yXzM=_B3d4f038cae5397286f4007922a8dd821.jpg?clientCacheKey=3xhf4kv5ahrt8cy.jpg&di=c0d2ed05&bp=10000",
    "width": 1270,
    "height": 720,
    "playUrl": "https://v1.kwaicdn.com/upic/2022/02/20/22/BMjAyMjAyMjAyMjE2MjVfMTc0NTI5NDQzNV82ODA1MjU2MzE5OF8yXzM=_b_Bd4734d091c465219b7172debc8193362.mp4?pkey=AAXHd86Mp3k2XQHCzyxAm9tNkY1-WNsbZvgdiXEgjUkFemfg-ikpRks2VIe2_cE7WqnynyW-CsGxf_isHsEOC6xGELUOXVEnOjFEfK81BuBqjzXONt_-nzM9CXoIiOMrfww&tag=1-1768946212-unknown-0-npnnr2vdrj-9090fffb60b17b90&clientCacheKey=3xhf4kv5ahrt8cy_b.mp4&di=c0d2ed05&bp=10000&kwai-not-alloc=35&tt=b&ss=vpm",
    "allPlayUrls": [
        {
            "url": "https://v1.kwaicdn.com/upic/2022/02/20/22/BMjAyMjAyMjAyMjE2MjVfMTc0NTI5NDQzNV82ODA1MjU2MzE5OF8yXzM=_b_Bd4734d091c465219b7172debc8193362.mp4?pkey=AAXHd86Mp3k2XQHCzyxAm9tNkY1-WNsbZvgdiXEgjUkFemfg-ikpRks2VIe2_cE7WqnynyW-CsGxf_isHsEOC6xGELUOXVEnOjFEfK81BuBqjzXONt_-nzM9CXoIiOMrfww&tag=1-1768946212-unknown-0-npnnr2vdrj-9090fffb60b17b90&clientCacheKey=3xhf4kv5ahrt8cy_b.mp4&di=c0d2ed05&bp=10000&kwai-not-alloc=35&tt=b&ss=vpm",
            "qualityType": "720p",
            "videoCodec": "avc",
            "avgBitrate": 2238
        }
    ],
    "likeCount": 117,
    "forwardCount": 0,
    "commentCount": 8,
    "viewCount": 12926,
    "hashtags": [
        "体育",
        "拳王",
        "KO"
    ]
}

🧩 Integrations and Kuaishou Scraper

This scraper can be connected with almost any cloud service or web app thanks to integrations on the Apify platform. You can integrate with Make, Zapier, Slack, Airbyte, GitHub, Google Sheets, Google Drive, and more. Or you can use webhooks to carry out an action whenever an event occurs, e.g. get a notification whenever Kuaishou Scraper successfully finishes a run.

🔌 Using Kuaishou Scraper with the Apify API

The Apify API gives you programmatic access to the Apify platform. The API is organized around RESTful HTTP endpoints that enable you to manage, schedule, and run Apify actors. The API also lets you access any datasets, monitor actor performance, fetch results, create and update versions, and more.

To access the API using Node.js, use the apify-client NPM package. To access the API using Python, use the apify-client PyPI package.

Check out the Apify API reference docs for full details.

💬 Giving feedback

If you have any feature requests or bug reports, please create an issue on the Issues page or contact me directly via email.

If you need a custom solution of this actor, reach out to me through my email: nathan.santos159@hotmail.com