Xiaohongshu RedNote Creator Tracker: Profiles, Posts, Comments

Track Xiaohongshu (小红书, RedNote) creators for brand monitoring, KOL vetting and agency reporting: each creator's exact likes and saves totals, follower band and post count, their recent posts, the full stats of any post from its share link, and comments with replies, exported to CSV, Excel or JSON. Turn on monitoring and schedule it, and each run returns only the posts a creator published since the last run, so you see new KOL posts on RedNote without opening the app.

Built for brands watching the China market, influencer marketing agencies and researchers who shortlist Xiaohongshu KOLs, check campaign posts and follow competitors, all from one Actor with one input and no RedNote login.

What you get in one run

• Profiles: nickname, RedNote ID (小红书号), bio, IP location shown on the profile, avatar, follower band (for example 10K+), following, exact total likes and total saves, likes + saves, number of posts.
• Recent posts of each profile: title, image or video, pinned or not, likes, publish date, cover image, position on the profile.
• Full post details from a share link: title, full text, hashtags, mentions, publish and last-edit time, likes, saves, comments, shares, all image URLs, the video URL and length, and the author.
• Comments with replies: comment text, likes, date, IP location, whether it is pinned or written by the post author, reply count, and replies as their own rows linked to their parent comment.
• Monitoring: schedule the Actor and get only new posts from each profile. The first run is free.

One run on 2026-10-14 returned 8 creator profiles, 204 of their recent posts, 8 full posts from share links and 150 comments and replies.

Every row has a type column (profile, profile-post, post, comment), so one dataset filters cleanly into four tables.

Why this Actor

• One Actor instead of four. Profiles, profile posts, post details and comments come from the same run and the same input, with the same column names.
• Input names you already know. The fields follow the most used social media scrapers on Apify: profiles, resultsPerPage, postURLs, excludePinnedPosts, oldestPostDateUnified, newestPostDate, commentsPerPost, maxRepliesPerComment.
• Honest numbers. RedNote shows large counts rounded (8.5万 = 85,000). Those values are returned as numbers and listed in countsRounded, with the original text in countsText, so you always know which numbers are exact.
• Pay only for rows you get. Missing posts, invalid links and anything RedNote did not show come back as free rows of type note that say why.

How to use it

1. Put RedNote profile links (or 24-character user IDs, or xhslink.com share links) in Profiles.
2. Put post share links in Direct URLs of posts (copy them with RedNote's Share button; they contain xsec_token=), or xhslink.com short links.
3. Choose Number of posts per profile, an optional date range, and Maximum comments per post if you want comments.
4. Run, then download CSV, Excel or JSON, or connect the dataset to Google Sheets, Zapier or Make.

Example input:

{
    "profiles": ["https://www.xiaohongshu.com/user/profile/5c9074e00000000016036d0a"],
    "resultsPerPage": 10,
    "postURLs": ["https://www.xiaohongshu.com/explore/6a6ff733000000000503030c?xsec_token=YOUR_TOKEN&xsec_source=pc_share"],
    "commentsPerPost": 20,
    "maxRepliesPerComment": 3,
    "oldestPostDateUnified": "30 days"
}

Input fields

Field	What it does
profiles	Profile links, 24-character user IDs or xhslink.com links. One profile row each, plus its posts.
resultsPerPage	Posts to return per profile (0 = profile row only).
postURLs	Post share links or xhslink.com links. One full post row each.
excludePinnedPosts	Skip posts pinned to the top of a profile.
oldestPostDateUnified	Only posts published on or after this date (2026-01-31 or 30 days).
newestPostDate	Only posts published on or before this date.
commentsPerPost	Comments to return per post in postURLs (0 = none).
maxRepliesPerComment	Replies to return under each top-level comment.
monitoringMode	Return only posts that are new on each profile since the last run.
resetMonitoringState	Forget what monitoring remembered.
useProxy	Retry through another connection when RedNote does not answer.

Output example

A post row (values shortened):

{
    "type": "post",
    "id": "6a6ff733000000000503030c",
    "url": "https://www.xiaohongshu.com/explore/6a6ff733000000000503030c?xsec_token=...",
    "postType": "video",
    "title": "Example title",
    "text": "Example text #example",
    "hashtags": ["example"],
    "createTime": "2026-08-03T02:04:35.000Z",
    "likeCount": 100000,
    "collectCount": 43000,
    "commentCount": 722,
    "shareCount": 4204,
    "countsText": { "likeCount": "10万+", "collectCount": "4.3万", "commentCount": "722", "shareCount": "4204" },
    "countsRounded": ["likeCount", "collectCount"],
    "videoUrl": "https://sns-video-zl.xhscdn.com/stream/....mp4",
    "videoDurationSeconds": 17,
    "imageUrls": ["https://sns-webpic-qc.xhscdn.com/..."],
    "authorId": "5c9074e00000000016036d0a",
    "authorNickname": "Example creator"
}

A profile row:

{
    "type": "profile",
    "id": "5c9074e00000000016036d0a",
    "nickname": "Example creator",
    "redId": "100000001",
    "followerCountText": "1万+",
    "followerCountAtLeast": 10000,
    "likeCount": 267625,
    "collectCount": 62129,
    "likesAndCollects": 329754,
    "postCount": 55,
    "ipLocation": "Zhejiang"
}

Monitoring new posts

Turn on monitoringMode and schedule the Actor (for example every hour). The first run remembers the posts each profile lists now and is free. Every later run returns only posts that were not there before. When a profile has nothing new, you pay one check for it. Posts that could not be delivered because of your spending limit are not marked as seen, so they come in the next run.

Pricing

Pay per result. Prices per 1,000 on the Apify Free plan; paid Apify plans pay less.

Result	Price per 1,000
Profile row (profile-returned)	$8.99
Full post from a share link (post-returned)	$8.99
Post listed on a profile (profile-post-returned)	$3.99
Comment or reply (comment-returned)	$4.99
Monitoring check with nothing new (source-checked)	$6.99

Rows of type note (explanations) are free.

FAQ

How do I get the follower count and total likes of a Xiaohongshu creator? Put the profile link in profiles. The profile row has total likes, total saves, likes + saves and the number of posts as exact numbers, and the follower band RedNote shows publicly (for example 1万+ = 10,000 or more).

How do I export the likes, saves and comments of a RedNote post? Copy the post's share link and put it in postURLs. The post row has likes, saves, comments and shares, the text, hashtags, images and the video URL.

How can I get RedNote comments into CSV or Excel? Add the post share links to postURLs and set commentsPerPost. Each comment is a row; replies are rows with isReply and parentCommentId.

How do I get notified when a Xiaohongshu creator posts? Turn on monitoringMode, schedule the Actor, and connect the run to email, Slack or a webhook. Each run returns only new posts.

Is RedNote the same as Xiaohongshu? Yes. Xiaohongshu (小红书, also called Little Red Book) is the Chinese name of the app and RedNote is its English name. Links from xiaohongshu.com and xhslink.com both work.

How do I compare several Xiaohongshu KOLs at once? Put all their profile links in profiles. Each creator gets a profile row and their recent posts in the same dataset, so one run gives you one table to compare likes, saves, post counts and posting dates.

Can I use this as a Xiaohongshu (RedNote) API? Yes. Start runs and read the results as JSON through the Apify API or the Python and JavaScript clients, and use schedules and webhooks to feed your own dashboard.

Do I need a RedNote account or cookies? No. The Actor reads what RedNote shows to visitors who are not logged in.

Good to know

• RedNote shows visitors about 30 recent posts per profile, and those listings carry no post ID, so profile-post rows have id and url empty. To get the full details of a post, use its share link in postURLs.
• RedNote shows visitors a follower band (for example 1万+) rather than the exact follower count. It is returned as followerCountText and followerCountAtLeast; followerCount is filled only when RedNote shows an exact number.
• Comments: RedNote shows visitors the first page of comments of a post, about 10 top-level comments with their first replies. When there are more, a free more-need-login row says so.
• Post links need the xsec_token part (it is in every link copied with the Share button). A link without it comes back as a free share-link-needed row.
• Keyword search on RedNote requires a login, so this Actor does not search by keyword.
• Contact details in bios, posts and comments (email, phone, WeChat, QQ) are replaced with a marker.
• Unofficial. Public data only. Not affiliated with Xiaohongshu.

Thanks for using this Actor

We build these tools for people who run them every day, and we improve them from what users tell us.

• Missing a field, or need another filter? Tell us in the Issues tab. If the data is there, we add it.
• Found a bug or a wrong value? Post the run ID in the Issues tab. Wrong data is the thing we fix first.

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