Douyin Search & Videos Scraper - Keywords and Post URLs
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Douyin Search & Videos Scraper - Keywords and Post URLs
Search Douyin (抖音) by keyword or fetch posts by URL. Captions, likes, comments, shares, saves, author, music, cover, play URL and images. No login. Export CSV, Excel, JSON, XML.
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🎬 Douyin Search & Videos Scraper
🚀 Export Douyin (抖音) search results in seconds. 32 fields per post, 100 to 130 posts per keyword, exact like, comment, share and save counts, no login and no browser.
Douyin is the Chinese version of TikTok and one of the largest short video platforms in the world. Its desktop site now asks every visitor to log in before it will search. This Actor reads Douyin's own mobile search pages, which still serve results to logged-out visitors, and turns every post into a clean row: caption, hashtags, publish time, duration, likes, comments, shares, saves, the author's name, Douyin ID, sec_uid and bio, the sound used, the cover image, a direct MP4 address and the full picture list of image posts.
Coverage: any keyword Douyin can search, in Chinese or English. A keyword returns about 150 result cards, of which 100 to 130 are posts (the rest are live streams and topic cards, which are skipped). In a 32 post test run every row carried a cover, caption, publish date, author and exact counts, 88 percent had hashtags and 78 percent were videos with a play URL. You can also paste post links or IDs to fetch single posts in full.
| 🎯 Target Audience | 💡 Primary Use Cases |
|---|---|
| 📣 Brand and marketing teams | Track what Chinese consumers post about a product, brand or category |
| 🔍 KOL and influencer scouts | Find creators who rank for a keyword and read their bio and contact lines |
| 📈 Trend analysts | Compare engagement across keywords, formats and publish dates |
| 🛍 Cross-border sellers | See which products and hooks go viral on Douyin before they reach TikTok |
| 🤖 Data and AI teams | Build Chinese caption, hashtag and video datasets |
| 🎓 Researchers | Study short video culture and platform dynamics in China |
📋 What the Douyin Search & Videos Scraper does
Give it keywords, post links, or both. It searches Douyin for each keyword, pages through the results, and writes one row per post.
- 🔎 Keyword search. 100 to 130 posts per keyword, in Douyin's own ranking order, with the rank on every row.
- 🔗 Post links. www.douyin.com/video and /note links, iesdouyin.com share links or v.douyin.com short links.
- 🎞 Videos and image posts. Keep both or only one type. Image posts come with every picture.
- ❤️ Exact counts. Likes, comments, shares and saves as whole numbers, not "1.2w".
- 👤 Author on every row. Name, Douyin ID, numeric UID, sec_uid, profile link, avatar, bio and verification label.
- 🎵 Sound and media. Music title and author, cover image, a direct MP4 address, width, height and duration.
- 🧹 Filters. Minimum likes and a published-after date, applied before anything is charged.
💡 Why it matters: Douyin trends usually reach TikTok, Instagram and Western marketplaces weeks later. Searching Douyin directly shows you what is working now, in the market where it started, with the numbers to rank it.
🎬 Full Demo (🚧 Coming soon)
📊 Output
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| 🖼 imageUrl | Cover image of the video, or the first picture of an image post |
| 📌 title | Post title, or the first line of the caption |
| 🔗 url | Post page on www.douyin.com |
| 🆔 id | Douyin post ID |
| 🎞 contentType | Video or Image post |
| 📝 description | Full caption with hashtags |
| #️⃣ hashtags | Hashtags used in the caption |
| 📅 createdAt | Publication time |
| ⏱ durationSeconds | Video length in seconds |
| ❤️ likeCount | Likes |
| 💬 commentCount | Comments |
| 🔁 shareCount | Shares |
| ⭐ collectCount | Saves |
| 👤 authorNickname | Author display name |
| 🪪 authorDouyinId | Author's Douyin number (抖音号) |
| 🔢 authorId | Author's numeric user ID |
| 🔐 authorSecUid | Author's sec_uid, the key in profile links |
| 🔗 authorUrl | Author profile page |
| 🧑 authorAvatarUrl | Author avatar |
| ✍️ authorSignature | Author bio |
| ✅ authorVerification | Verification label, or None |
| 🎵 musicTitle | Sound used by the post |
| 🎤 musicAuthor | Author of the sound |
| 🎧 musicUrl | Audio file of the sound, when Douyin publishes one |
| ▶️ videoPlayUrl | Direct MP4 address (signed, valid for about a day) |
| ↔️ videoWidth | Video width in pixels |
| ↕️ videoHeight | Video height in pixels |
| 🖼 imageUrls | Pictures of an image post |
| 🔎 searchKeyword | Keyword that found the post |
| 🏅 searchRank | Position in that keyword's results |
| 🕒 scrapedAt | Time the row was collected |
| ❌ error | Error message, null on success |
Three real rows from a test run (a keyword result, an image post and a post requested by link; image lists shortened to two):
✨ Why choose this Actor
- 🔓 No login, no cookies. It never asks for a Douyin account, so nothing of yours can be banned.
- ⚡ No browser. Plain HTTP against Douyin's own pages keeps runs fast and cheap: a 30 post keyword takes about 15 seconds and 247 posts from two keywords took under 3 minutes in the cloud.
- 🧾 One flat row per post. Post, author, sound and media in a single row that opens cleanly in Excel.
- 🔁 Duplicate-free. Posts are deduplicated by post ID across keywords and links, so you never pay twice for one post.
- 🧭 Honest coverage. The log shows every results page and when Douyin ends the list.
📈 How it compares to alternatives
| This Actor | Logged-in scrapers | Manual browsing | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Douyin account or cookies needed | ❌ No | ✅ Yes, and accounts get flagged | ✅ Yes, the desktop site asks for a login |
| Posts per keyword | 100 to 130 | Several hundred | As many as you can copy |
| Exact like, comment, share and save counts | ✅ | ✅ | Rounded ("1.2w") |
| Author sec_uid and profile link on every row | ✅ | Varies | Manual |
| Image posts with all pictures | ✅ | Varies | Manual |
| Play count | ❌ Douyin does not publish it | ❌ | ❌ |
| Author follower count | ❌ Withheld on search results | Varies | ✅ On the profile |
Douyin ends a logged-out search at about 150 result cards, which is 100 to 130 posts once live streams are skipped. To go wider, add related keywords (for example 美食教程, 家常菜, 街头美食 next to 美食): posts are deduplicated across them. For followers and the full post list of a creator, use the Douyin Profile Scraper with the authorUrl from these rows.
🚀 How to use
- Create a free Apify account with $5 credit: sign up here.
- Open the Douyin Search & Videos Scraper and add one or more keywords, post links, or both.
- Optionally set the content type, a minimum number of likes, or a published-after date.
- Set Max Items and click Start. A 30 post keyword takes about 15 seconds.
- Download the dataset as CSV, Excel, JSON or XML, or read it through the API.
A minimal run looks like this:
💼 Business use cases
📣 Brand and category monitoring
Search your brand, product names and category words every week. Sort by likes and saves to see which posts and hooks drive attention, and who made them.
🔍 Creator discovery
Search a niche keyword, keep posts above 10,000 likes, and group the rows by authorSecUid. The bio column often carries a business contact line (商务合作).
📈 Trend research
Run the same keywords on a schedule and compare the ranks, counts and publish dates over time to see which topics are rising.
🛍 Product and content sourcing
Search product keywords such as 口红 or 露营装备 to see which items, packaging and video formats go viral in China before they reach other markets.
🔌 Automating Douyin Search & Videos Scraper
- ⏰ Schedules. Run it daily or weekly from the Apify console.
- 🔗 Make and Zapier. Send new posts to Google Sheets, Airtable or a CRM.
- 💬 Slack. Post a message when a keyword gets a post above a like threshold.
- 🔄 Airbyte. Load the dataset into your warehouse.
- 🐙 GitHub Actions. Trigger runs from your pipeline through the API.
- 📁 Google Drive. Export each run as a spreadsheet automatically.
🌟 Beyond business use cases
- 🎓 Research. Study Chinese short video trends, hashtags and engagement.
- 🙋 Personal. Save recipes, tutorials or travel ideas you found on Douyin, with links.
- 🤝 Non-profit. Monitor public conversation about health or safety topics.
- 🧪 Experimentation. Build a caption and hashtag dataset for Chinese language models.
🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper
Paste this page into ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini and ask things like "Which keywords should I add next to 美食 to get 500 unique posts?" or "How do I chart likes per hashtag from this dataset?".
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
🔑 Do I need a Douyin account or cookies?
No. The Actor reads Douyin's mobile search pages, which serve results to visitors who are not logged in. It never asks for an account or cookies.
🔢 How many posts do I get per keyword?
100 to 130 (115 for 口红 and 130 for 露营 in a test run). Douyin stops a logged-out search at roughly 150 result cards, and some of those are live streams or topic cards, which are skipped. Add related keywords to collect more; duplicates are removed.
🌐 Should I search in Chinese or English?
Chinese gives the most relevant results because Douyin is a Chinese platform. English keywords work too and return Chinese posts that mention them.
🎞 What is an image post?
A post made of pictures instead of a video (图文). Its contentType is "Image post", imageUrls lists every picture, and the video columns are empty or 0.
▶️ Can I download the videos?
videoPlayUrl is a direct MP4 address that Douyin signs for about a day. Download the files soon after the run.
👀 Why is there no view count?
Douyin does not publish play counts for other people's posts. Likes, comments, shares and saves are all exact.
👥 Why is there no follower count?
Douyin withholds the author's follower count on search results. Use the Douyin Profile Scraper with authorUrl to get followers, total likes and the full post list.
📅 Can I sort by newest or filter by date?
Douyin's public search ranks by relevance only. Use "Published after" to drop older posts; the filter runs before anything is charged.
🔗 Which post links work?
www.douyin.com/video/ID, www.douyin.com/note/ID, iesdouyin.com share links and v.douyin.com short links from the app's share button.
🧾 Am I charged for errors?
No. A deleted or private post is written as an error row for transparency and never charged.
🛡️ Why is the proxy off by default?
Douyin's mobile search pages answer Apify's servers directly. Turn on the datacenter proxy only if your runs start returning nothing.
🔌 Integrate with any app
Use the Apify API, the JavaScript and Python clients, webhooks, or ready-made integrations for Make, Zapier, Slack, Google Sheets, Airbyte and more to send Douyin data wherever you need it.
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⚠️ Disclaimer: independent tool, not affiliated with Douyin or ByteDance; only publicly available data is collected.
