RedNote (Xiaohongshu) Scraper: Notes, Comments, Profiles

Get public data from RedNote (Xiaohongshu, 小红书), China's lifestyle and product-review platform, as clean JSON. No RedNote account, cookies or proxies needed, and you only pay for results you get.

What you can get

Mode	Input	One result is
Search notes by keyword	keywords	a note: title, text, author, likes, comments, saves, shares, publish time, cover, images, video
Note details	note URLs or IDs	a note with its full text, images and counts
Note comments	note URLs or IDs	a comment: text, likes, IP location, time, author; optionally its replies
User profiles	profile URLs or user IDs	a profile: nickname, followers, likes and saves, notes, verification, location, bio
Notes of a user	profile URLs or user IDs	a note from the user's profile

Search can be sorted by relevance, newest, most liked, most commented or most saved, and filtered by note type (video or image) and publish time.

Use cases

• Brand and product monitoring: what people say about your brand, product or category on RedNote.
• Market research for the Chinese market: trends, consumer language, popular products.
• Influencer research: find creators and see how their notes perform.
• Comment analysis and sentiment: pull comments with replies for a note.
• AI agents: call this Actor as a tool through Apify's MCP server.

Input example

{
  "mode": "search",
  "keywords": ["咖啡", "露营"],
  "sort": "most_liked",
  "publishedWithin": "month",
  "maxItems": 100
}

Chinese keywords match far more notes than English ones. For comments, add "maxRepliesPerComment": 5 to get replies too.

Output example

{
  "id": "soc_xia_8bc7bca06527",
  "platform": "xiaohongshu",
  "text": "在广州！超chill的一家江景咖啡店☕️ ...",
  "author": { "user_id": "5d60d15500000000010020e7", "nickname": "ooo" },
  "metrics": { "likes": 292, "comments": 8, "saves": 143, "shares": 447 },
  "extra": {
    "source_id": "6aa4068b00000000110306d4",
    "url": "https://www.xiaohongshu.com/explore/6aa4068b00000000110306d4",
    "title": "在广州！超chill的一家江景咖啡店☕️",
    "note_type": "image",
    "published_at": "2026-09-11T21:47:55+08:00",
    "cover_url": "https://...",
    "images": ["https://..."]
  },
  "input": { "keyword": "咖啡" }
}

Every result carries input: the keyword, note or user it was fetched for (and replyTo for replies). Some nicknames come masked by RedNote itself.

Pricing

Pay per result, nothing per run:

Result	Price
Note (search, details, user notes)	$3.99 per 1,000
Comment or reply	$4.00 per 1,000
User profile	$8 per 1,000

Set a maximum cost for a run and the Actor stops there. Lookups that find nothing are not charged. On Apify's free plan a run returns up to 10 results, enough to try the Actor; any paid Apify plan removes the limit.

Support

Something not working, or missing a field you need? Open an issue on this Actor's Issues tab and we'll look into it. The source platforms change from time to time: when the data service is temporarily unavailable, the run says so in its status message, and failed lookups are never charged.

FAQ

Where do I find a note or user ID? In the URL: xiaohongshu.com/explore/<note ID> and xiaohongshu.com/user/profile/<user ID>. Paste whole URLs; the Actor picks the ID out. Short xhslink.com links are not supported; open them in a browser first.

Is this official? No. This Actor is not affiliated with Xiaohongshu. It returns publicly visible data; use it in line with the laws and rules that apply to you, especially for personal data.