Douyin Search Scraper

Search Douyin (抖音) by keyword: caption, likes, comments, shares, saves, author with followers, music, hashtags and video links. Real play counts on request.

$4.50 per 1,000 videos.

What it's for

• Market and trend research in China: what people post about a product, brand or topic, by relevance, likes or date.
• Brand monitoring: new videos about your brand or a competitor's, on a schedule with publishTime: one_day.
• Creator discovery: the accounts behind the most liked videos for a keyword, with their followers.
• Data for AI agents and dashboards: clean JSON, CSV or Excel, or straight from the API.

Input

Field	What it does
keywords	Keywords in Chinese or any language, hashtags included (#美食), one per line
maxResultsPerQuery	Videos per keyword (default 100; 0 returns all Douyin has, up to 2,000)
sort	general (relevance), most_liked or latest
publishTime	unlimited, one_day, one_week or half_year
duration	unlimited, under_1m, one_to_five or over_5m
includePlayCounts	Real play counts, which Douyin hides from search results

Coming from another Douyin scraper? These are the input fields of the most used Douyin search scraper on Apify, and the main output fields keep its names (authorMeta, statistics, videoMeta…). Saved inputs and API calls keep working.

Output

One row per video or image post:

{
  "id": "7698536677140130417",
  "url": "https://www.douyin.com/video/7698536677140130417",
  "shareUrl": "https://www.iesdouyin.com/share/video/7698536677140130417/",
  "type": "video",
  "text": "小猫“人模人样”开窗户，网友：再进化下去该学会开锁了。#媒体原创",
  "createTimeISO": "2026-10-20T00:14:10.000Z",
  "createDate": "2026-10-20",
  "region": "CN",
  "isPinned": false,
  "isAd": false,
  "authorMeta": {
    "id": "3456469629417758",
    "secUid": "MS4wLjABAAAAcql96AwAhCEywWGo4ERqVzfOGUazbiUlobEuF3o_dBYJh915kpZyQB6LjbuHXnGA",
    "name": "快看",
    "username": "3527829518",
    "customUsername": "quicklook",
    "profileUrl": "https://www.douyin.com/user/MS4wLjABAAAAcql96AwAhCEywWGo4ERqVzfOGUazbiUlobEuF3o_dBYJh915kpZyQB6LjbuHXnGA",
    "verified": true,
    "enterpriseVerifyReason": "新华社快看官方账号",
    "signature": "新华社旗下新媒体平台",
    "followersCount": 9030650
  },
  "videoMeta": { "duration": 22801, "width": 720, "height": 1280, "format": "mp4", "playUrl": "https://v3-search.douyinvod.com/...", "cover": "https://p5-ex-gddgtc-sign.douyinpic.com/..." },
  "musicMeta": { "id": "7698536483426192168", "title": "@快看创作的原声", "author": "快看", "isOriginal": true, "duration": 22 },
  "statistics": { "diggCount": 1953, "commentCount": 98, "shareCount": 1211, "collectCount": 193, "playCount": 90314, "downloadCount": 33, "recommendCount": 67 },
  "hashtags": [{ "id": "7495235888088090635", "name": "媒体原创" }],
  "images": [],
  "searchKeyword": "猫咪",
  "searchPosition": 5,
  "input": "猫咪"
}

videoMeta.duration is in milliseconds. Image posts ("type": "image") list their images in images, without watermark. statistics.playCount is filled only when includePlayCounts is on.

Searches Douyin doesn't answer get a row with the reason, free of charge:

{ "input": "猫咪", "error": "Douyin didn't return this search" }

Price

• $4.50 per 1,000 videos
• $1 per 1,000 play counts, when you turn them on
• A video found by two keywords is charged once

Run	Cost
1 keyword, 100 videos	$0.45
10 keywords, 200 videos each	$9
The same, with play counts	$11

A run stops at the maximum cost you set for it. On Apify's free plan, a run returns up to 100 videos.

FAQ

Do I need a Douyin account, cookies or a Chinese proxy? No.

Can it download the video files? Each row links to the video without watermark (videoMeta.playUrl), valid for about a day, and to its cover.

Can I get a creator's own videos? Use the Douyin Scraper with their profile links.

Is it legal? It reads only public videos. Captions and usernames can be personal data under China's PIPL, the GDPR and similar laws: use them for a legitimate purpose and honor deletion requests.