Kwai Scraper

What does Kwai Scraper do?

Kwai Scraper is an Apify actor that scrapes video data from Kwai 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 Kwai'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 Kwai videos
• Marketers researching video trends on Kwai
• Developers needing Kwai video data for their applications
• Data analysts conducting social media research

⬇️ What You Need to Provide

• A list of Kwai URLs to scrape data from. Example URLs:
  • https://www.kwai.com/@topfilmeseseriesnatv (Profile URL)
  • https://www.kwai.com/@jadebelchior905/video/5213629630362183094 (Video URL)
• (Optional) Maximum number of items to scrape per profile URL. Set to 0 to scrape all available items.

📦 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, Avatar, Followers Count, etc.)
• 🔗 Video Download URLs (Play URL)

📥 Output Example

{
    "id": "5240932700689736196",
    "caption": "...",
    "transcript": "BANDIDO ESTAVA ESPERANDO ELE NA SAIDA DO BANCOBANDIDO ESTAVA ESPERANDO ELE NA SAIDA DO BANCO. ",
    "createTime": "2026-01-24T00:50:13Z",
    "thumb": "https://ak-br-pic.kwai.net/upic/2026/01/24/08/BMjAyNjAxMjQwODQ4MTNfMTUwMDAxNDU1MDE5OTQ1XzE1MDExMDI4NTA4NDg3NF8yXzM=_oscn2_Befd2f922b58f2b5f72e4cb3c375d043d.webp",
    "url": "https://www.kwai.com/@topfilmeseseriesnatv/video/5240932700689736196",
    "authorMeta": {
        "id": "3x9mhse7ekkvfa9",
        "name": "Topseriesfilmetv",
        "username": "topfilmeseseriesnatv",
        "avatar": "https://ak-br-pic.kwai.net/bs2/overseaHead/20250507231107_BMTUwMDAxNDU1MDE5OTQ1_t.jpg",
        "url": "https://www.kwai.com/@topfilmeseseriesnatv",
        "type": "Person",
        "followersCount": 235270,
        "likesCount": 4411622,
        "videosCount": 3490
    },
    "duration": 156,
    "width": 720,
    "height": 1280,
    "playUrl": "https://ak-br-cdn.kwai.net/upic/2026/01/24/08/BMjAyNjAxMjQwODQ4MTNfMTUwMDAxNDU1MDE5OTQ1XzE1MDExMDI4NTA4NDg3NF8yXzM=_b_Bf1ce0ec42b4fe4482cd50678b3abd2d4.mp4?tag=1-1769285165-s-0-x5pc1f58i4-2004c47424aa6f92",
    "likeCount": 2155,
    "commentCount": 21,
    "shareCount": 30,
    "viewCount": 29594,
    "genres": [
        "TV series",
        "Film&TV"
    ]
}

🧩 Integrations and Kwai 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 Kwai Scraper successfully finishes a run.

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🔌 Using Kwai 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.

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💬 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.