Xiaohongshu (RedNote) Video Transcript Scraper

📕 Xiaohongshu (RedNote) Video Transcript Scraper

Get a RedNote transcript for every video post: the Xiaohongshu (RedNote) Video Transcript Scraper turns Xiaohongshu videos into text, with timestamped segments, next to the full post data (title, caption, hashtags, author, likes, saves, comments and shares). Use it for Xiaohongshu marketing research, to translate or summarise Chinese video content with an LLM, or as a simple alternative to a Xiaohongshu API (小红书 API) when what you need is 小红书视频文案提取 (video-to-text).

RedNote is where Chinese consumers discuss products, and about half of what the platform shows is video. The videos have no captions you can search or hand to a model. This Actor gives you their spoken text as data.

🎯 RedNote Transcript Use Cases

• RedNote video transcripts at scale: sample trending videos in a category and get the spoken text of each one, ready to search, translate or summarise.
• Xiaohongshu marketing research: see what Chinese consumers say on camera about beauty, food, fashion, travel or household products, with saves and shares to rank by intent.
• Translate RedNote videos: feed the Mandarin transcripts to an LLM to translate, summarise or pull out brand and product mentions.
• Transcribe specific posts (小红书视频转文字): paste the URLs of posts you already found and get their transcripts and engagement.
• Trend tracking: run daily on the categories you follow. Each run returns a fresh slice of what the platform is promoting, so a week of runs shows what is rising.

✨ Features

• AI transcripts tuned for Mandarin: the full spoken text plus segments with start and end times and a confidence score per segment.
• 12 categories: Video, Recommended, Fashion, Food, Beauty & cosmetics, Travel, Fitness, Gaming, Movies & TV, Career, Relationships, Home & household.
• Direct post URLs: paste posts you already have, copied with their full query string.
• Only videos with speech: about half of RedNote videos are music over footage with nobody talking. These are filtered out before they cost you anything, so your rows are videos with something to say.
• Engagement as numbers: likes, saves (collectedCount), comments and shares as integers, so "1.1万" arrives as 11000.
• Media links: the video URL, mirror links and the cover image, plus width, height and duration.
• Length guard: videos over your maximum length (20 minutes by default) come back as post data without a transcript, and you are not charged for one. A single hours-long livestream replay can't blow up a run's cost.
• Fair billing: image-only posts are skipped for free, a video with no detected speech isn't charged as a transcript, and a video that appears under several posts is transcribed and charged once. Runs stop at your maximum charge.

🛠️ How It Works

1. Pick categories such as Food or Beauty & cosmetics, or paste Post URLs.
2. Set Max results (default 20), the maximum video length and the spoken language (Mandarin by default).
3. Run the Actor and download the transcripts as JSON, CSV or Excel, or pull them through the Apify API.

⚙️ Input

Field	What it does
Categories	Categories to sample trending video posts from. 12 available. Defaults to Video.
Post URLs	Specific post URLs, copied from the site with their full query string (the xsec_token part).
Only videos with speech	Skip videos that have no spoken audio. On by default.
Max results	Maximum number of video posts to return, 1 to 1,000. Default 20.
Max video length (minutes)	Longer videos are returned without a transcript and not charged for one. Default 20.
Spoken language	Language of the audio: Chinese (Mandarin) by default, Automatic, or one of 12 other languages.

{
    "categories": ["homefeed.food_v", "homefeed.cosmetics_v"],
    "maxResults": 50,
    "maxVideoMinutes": 10,
    "language": "zh"
}

💰 Pricing per RedNote Video Transcript

Pay per post and per minute transcribed. No monthly rental.

Event	Price	What you get
Post scraped	$0.006 per post	One post record with all the post fields below.
Video transcribed	$0.01 per video	The transcript text and timestamped segments.
Minute of video transcribed	$0.01 per started minute	A 40-second video is 1 minute, a 65-second video is 2.
Actor start	$0.00005 per run	Charged once when the run starts.

Examples:

• A 40-second video: $0.006 + $0.01 + $0.01 = $0.026.
• A 65-second video: $0.006 + $0.01 + $0.02 = $0.036. Half of RedNote videos run under about 65 seconds, so 100 transcribed posts cost roughly $2.60 to $3.60.
• A post returned without a transcript (over the length limit, or no speech with the filter off): $0.006.

📊 Sample Xiaohongshu Transcript Output

{
    "noteId": "6a754749000000002701e755",
    "postUrl": "https://www.xiaohongshu.com/explore/6a754749000000002701e755?xsec_token=ABHcv-Nq…",
    "postedAt": "2026-08-07T02:47:37.000Z",
    "discoveredVia": "homefeed.video_v",
    "title": "一桩难寻？直达充电车位，华为乾崑有办法！",
    "description": "停车场找不到充电车位，怎么办？\n#10分钟乾崑智驾生活圈[话题]# 在华为乾崑生态合作伙伴所服务的停车场，可直接选择充电车位…",
    "tags": ["10分钟乾崑智驾生活圈", "华为乾崑", "乾崑智驾", "一键停洗充用车更轻松"],
    "authorName": "华为乾崑智能汽车解决方案",
    "authorId": "670ccb6d000000001d023cce",
    "authorUrl": "https://www.xiaohongshu.com/user/profile/670ccb6d000000001d023cce",
    "ipLocation": null,
    "likeCount": 3072,
    "collectedCount": 520,
    "commentCount": 303,
    "shareCount": 76,
    "durationSeconds": 39.53,
    "videoUrl": "http://sns-video-zl.xhscdn.com/stream/1/110/258/01ea7540d24feeb7…_258.mp4",
    "videoBackupUrls": ["http://sns-bak-v10.xhscdn.com/stream/1/110/258/01ea7540d24feeb7…"],
    "videoWidth": 1280,
    "videoHeight": 720,
    "thumbnailUrl": "http://sns-webpic-qc.xhscdn.com/202610081407/4a189bfaaac520b9…",
    "subtitles": [],
    "transcript": "这充电桩到底在哪啊戏中南薰快速找到充电桩华为乾坤有办法十分钟乾坤是一架生活圈一键直达充电车位省心省时一步到位",
    "transcriptLanguage": "zh",
    "transcriptConfidence": 0.9921875,
    "transcriptSegments": [{ "text": "这充电桩到底在哪啊", "start": 3.04, "end": 5.68, "confidence": 0.8614909 }, "…"]
}

collectedCount is saves, the strongest purchase-intent signal on RedNote. discoveredVia is the category the post came from, or direct for a pasted URL. ipLocation is the region the author posted from, shown only when the platform displays it. transcriptNote appears when a video was not transcribed and says why (no speech detected, over the length limit, or the run's maximum charge reached). subtitles holds the platform's own subtitle tracks on the rare posts that have them.

🔁 Schedule and Integrate

For trend and marketing research, run it once a day on the categories you follow. The feed serves a new set of posts on every run, so daily runs build an archive instead of repeating the same videos. Set it up in Apify Schedules, and send the results to Google Sheets, Zapier, Make, n8n or a webhook with Apify integrations, so new RedNote transcripts land where your team works or flow straight into a translation step.

🤖 Use with AI Agents (MCP)

This Actor works as a tool in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other MCP clients through the Apify MCP server (https://mcp.apify.com). An agent can call it with:

{ "categories": ["homefeed.cosmetics_v"], "maxResults": 10 }

❓ FAQ

Does Xiaohongshu have an official API? Xiaohongshu runs partner programs for merchants and brand advertisers, and they require an approved business account. There is no public API for reading posts or getting transcripts of RedNote videos. This Actor needs no key, account or approval, and returns the public post data together with the spoken text of each video.

How do I get a RedNote video transcript? Paste the post URL into Post URLs (copy it from the site with the full query string), or pick a category to transcribe trending videos. Each row carries the transcript text and transcriptSegments with timestamps.

Do I need a Xiaohongshu account or cookies? No. The Actor reads only publicly visible posts.

Can I search by keyword or follow a specific creator? Not with this Actor. It works from categories and from post URLs you paste.

Why is a transcript empty, or why did a post URL return nothing? The video may have no speech (music over footage), be over your maximum length, or the run reached its maximum charge; transcriptNote says which. With Only videos with speech on, pasted videos without speech are skipped and the run status says so. A pasted URL also fails when the post is deleted or private, or when its xsec_token has expired; copy the URL from the site again.

How accurate are the Mandarin transcripts? Confidence is around 0.99 on clear speech, and each row has transcriptConfidence so you can filter on it. Chinese transcripts come back with little punctuation, which doesn't affect keyword search, translation or LLM processing.

How can I translate RedNote videos into English? Run this Actor, then pass the transcript field to an LLM or translation tool. The segments keep their timestamps, so you can line the translation up with the video.

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• X (Twitter) Video Transcript Scraper: spoken text from videos posted on X.
• YouTube Transcript Scraper: transcripts of YouTube videos for longer-form content.
• LinkedIn Video Transcript Scraper: transcripts of LinkedIn video posts for B2B research.
• Weibo Scraper: posts from Weibo, the other big Chinese social platform, to pair with RedNote.