RedNote (Xiaohongshu) Scraper

Get the latest notes of RedNote (Xiaohongshu, 小红书) profiles, or single notes by link: title, caption, likes, saves, comments, shares, hashtags, images and video links, with the author's followers, likes and saves, and IP location.

$3 per 1,000 notes.

What it's for

• Creator and KOL analysis: a creator's engagement, note by note, before you hire them.
• Competitor tracking: brands' and creators' new notes, on a schedule.
• Campaign reports: the latest numbers of every note in a campaign, from a list of links.
• Creator lists: followers, likes and saves, note count and IP location of many profiles at once, with maxNotesPerProfile: 0.

Input

Field	What it does
profileUrls	Profile URLs (xiaohongshu.com/user/profile/…), share links (xhslink.com/…) or user IDs, one per line
maxNotesPerProfile	Notes per profile, newest first with pinned notes on top (default 100; 0 returns the profiles alone)
noteUrls	Note URLs, share links or whole share texts, one per line

Coming from another RedNote scraper? These are the input fields of the most used RedNote profile scraper on Apify, includeNotes: false included, and the output keeps its field names (engagement.liked_count, author.red_id…). Saved inputs and API calls keep working.

Output

One row per note:

{
  "id": "6adaefaa000000003101e6e6",
  "url": "https://www.xiaohongshu.com/discovery/item/6adaefaa000000003101e6e6",
  "type": "video",
  "title": "地理书上的“南北分界线”，在此刻具象化了",
  "desc": "绝美一幕！网友在太白山景区，拍下秦岭主峰“半山红叶半山雪”的景色。网友：南北分界线在此刻具象化了！（来源：@陈住气丨📷 ） #敬畏大自然的鬼斧神工 #神奇的自然景观 #游赏绝美自",
  "hashtags": ["敬畏大自然的鬼斧神工", "神奇的自然景观", "游赏绝美自"],
  "timestamp": 1792733098,
  "published_at": "2026-10-23T05:24:58.000Z",
  "sticky": false,
  "ip_location": "Beijing",
  "engagement": { "liked_count": 101491, "collected_count": 15033, "comments_count": 818, "shared_count": 24172 },
  "author": {
    "userid": "63d11800000000002702bee2",
    "red_id": "5061832029",
    "nickname": "人民日报",
    "avatar": "https://sns-avatar-qc.rednotecdn.com/avatar/...",
    "profile_url": "https://www.xiaohongshu.com/user/profile/63d11800000000002702bee2",
    "verified": true,
    "desc": "人民日报官方账号",
    "followers": 1475126,
    "following": 0,
    "liked_and_collected": 14790160,
    "notes_count": 486
  },
  "images": [{ "url": "https://sns-i11.rednotecdn.com/...", "url_large": "https://sns-i11.rednotecdn.com/...", "width": 1515, "height": 2020 }],
  "video": { "duration_seconds": 17, "cover": "https://sns-i11.rednotecdn.com/...", "url": "http://sns-v28.rednotecdn.com/stream/....mp4" },
  "input": "https://www.xiaohongshu.com/user/profile/63d11800000000002702bee2"
}

type is normal for image notes, which have no video. ip_location is the province or country RedNote shows for the note and the account. RedNote shows no view counts.

With maxNotesPerProfile: 0, one row per profile, with the author fields above.

Profiles and links that can't be read get a row with the reason, free of charge:

{ "input": "https://www.xiaohongshu.com/explore/6a0000000000000000000001", "error": "Not found" }

Price

• $3 per 1,000 notes
• $0.02 per profile or note link that returns results
• $0.01 per video from a note link
• Private, deleted or invalid profiles and links: free

Run	Cost
10 profiles, 100 notes each	$3.20
100 profiles alone	$2
100 note links, image notes	$2.30

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

FAQ

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

Can it download the images and videos? Each row links to its images and to the video file.

Can I search by keyword, or get a note's comments? Use the RedNote Search Scraper, and the RedNote Comments Scraper with note links.

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