🎨 Pixiv Tracker — Illustration Rankings & Search (SFW)

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Pull the Pixiv (ピクシブ) illustration rankings and keyword search — the heart of Japan's (and the world's) illustration, anime-art, and doujin creative scene, where the next big artists and fan-art trends break first. Get rank, title, artist, view counts, tags, thumbnails, and artwork URLs — SFW / all-ages only, no login, no Pixiv API key.

Pixiv is the world's largest illustration community, yet it's almost invisible to Western data tooling — the site is Japanese-first, login-gated for most browsing, and has no usable public API for outsiders. This actor surfaces the public SFW rankings and search in clean structured form: untapped signal for anyone tracking anime/game IP popularity, scouting illustrators, or studying Japanese visual-culture trends.

📊 Sample Output

Real artworks returned by this actor for { "mode": "ranking", "rankingMode": "daily", "maxItems": 12 } — every row below comes straight from a live run (all is_sfw: true):

Rank	Title	Artist	Views	Top tags	Rating
1	カフカ	モ誰	40,462	カフカ / 崩壊:スターレイル	SFW
2	雪月花	torino	40,585	緋英 / 崩壊スターレイル	SFW
4	銀狼LV.999	モ誰	31,203	崩壊:スターレイル	SFW
5	はじまりのUTA vol.3 セットリスト	アボガド6	30,740	UTAU / はじまりのUTA	SFW
9	Rossi	void_0	13,856	アークナイツ:エンドフィールド	SFW
12	志乃と恋6巻出る！	千種みのり	18,691	オリジナル / 百合	SFW

The daily ranking is a live map of which IP and characters are hot in Japan right now — note how 崩壊:スターレイル (Honkai: Star Rail) fan art dominates this pull. That's IP-popularity signal you can't get from any English-language source.

What you get

Per illustration, a flat, typed record:

• Ranking — rank, previous_rank (momentum), mode (which board)
• Artwork — illust_id, title, page_count, create_date
• Artist — artist_name, artist_id
• Engagement — view_count, bookmark_count, rating_count
• Discovery — tags[] (IP, character, and theme tags Pixiv is built on)
• Media — thumbnail_url, pixiv_url (direct artwork link)
• Safety — is_sfw (always true — this actor is SFW-only)
• Provenance — scraped_at

Sample inputs

1. Daily SFW ranking (the headline use case)

{ "mode": "ranking", "rankingMode": "daily", "maxItems": 12 }

2. Weekly ranking, deeper pull

{ "mode": "ranking", "rankingMode": "weekly", "maxItems": 50 }

3. Keyword/tag search (SFW)

{ "mode": "search", "query": "初音ミク", "maxItems": 40 }

JSON sample record

One representative record, exactly as returned:

{
  "illust_id": "145935525",
  "title": "カフカ",
  "artist_name": "モ誰",
  "artist_id": "1878082",
  "rank": 1,
  "previous_rank": 4,
  "view_count": 40462,
  "rating_count": 1498,
  "tags": ["カフカ", "崩壊:スターレイル", "カフカ(スターレイル)"],
  "thumbnail_url": "https://i.pximg.net/c/480x960/img-master/img/2026/06/13/03/32/03/145935525_p0_master1200.jpg",
  "pixiv_url": "https://www.pixiv.net/artworks/145935525",
  "page_count": 1,
  "create_date": "2026-06-12T18:32:03Z",
  "is_sfw": true,
  "mode": "ranking",
  "scraped_at": "2026-06-15T04:56:29Z"
}

How it works

This actor reads Pixiv's public SFW ranking boards (daily / weekly / monthly / rookie / original) and keyword search through Apify proxy, and parses the structured results directly into one flat record per artwork — rank, artist, view/rating counts, tags, thumbnail, and artwork URL. R18 / R18G boards are intentionally not offered; the actor is SFW / all-ages only by design. maxItems is a hard ceiling, so compute and your bill never outrun what you asked for.

🗾 Why this Japanese data is unique

Pixiv is the global home of illustration, anime art, and doujin culture — and it's Japan-native to its core. Its tag system is a living taxonomy of which game and anime IPs, characters, and ships are surging, and its ranking board is the closest thing to a real-time popularity index for Japanese visual culture. There's no Western equivalent and no public API for outsiders, so this signal — which characters and franchises are trending among the artists who shape fandom — is invisible to teams relying on English-language tools. Clean, structured, English-readable fields make it usable.

⚖️ Legal & ToS

This actor reads only public, SFW Pixiv ranking and search pages — the same all-ages listings any visitor sees, no login required. It collects publicly displayed artwork metadata (title, artist, counts, tags, thumbnail, URL). It does not access, return, or surface R18 / R18G (adult) content — those boards are deliberately excluded and every record is is_sfw: true. It does not download full-resolution files, access private/members-only works, or touch anything behind authentication. Artwork and artist names remain the property of their creators; you are responsible for using the output in line with Pixiv's terms and your local regulations.

❓ FAQ

Q: Do I need a Pixiv account or API key? A: No. The actor works entirely off Pixiv's public SFW ranking and search pages — no login, no token.

Q: Does this return any adult (R18) content? A: No. This actor is SFW / all-ages only. R18 and R18G ranking boards are intentionally not offered, and every returned record carries is_sfw: true.

Q: What ranking modes are available? A: daily, weekly, monthly, rookie (top new-artist works), and original (top original, non-fan-art works) — all SFW.

Q: Can I search by a specific character or IP? A: Yes. Use mode: "search" with a query (a tag or keyword, e.g. a character or franchise name) to pull matching SFW artworks.

Q: Why did I get fewer items than maxItems? A: A ranking board or search has a finite number of results. maxItems is a ceiling, not a target — getting fewer is normal, not an error.

🔗 Related Actors

Pair this with the rest of the NexGenData Asia-data fleet — the markets Western scrapers can't reach:

• 📺 Niconico Video Search — Japan's Bilibili — search and rank Japan's homegrown video platform
• 🇯🇵 Yahoo! Japan Realtime Trends — Live Buzz Ranking — what Japan is searching for right now
• 📹 Bilibili Video Search — China's Niconico — the China counterpart for anime/creator-culture video data
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💰 Pricing example

This actor uses Pay-Per-Event pricing — you only pay for artworks that actually land in your dataset:

• Actor start: $0.005
• Per item: $0.03

A 12-artwork daily ranking = $0.005 + (12 × $0.03) = $0.365. A 100-artwork deep pull = $0.005 + (100 × $0.03) = $3.005. No monthly minimum, no seats, no surprise overage bills.

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