RedNote (Xiaohongshu) Search Scraper

Search RedNote (Xiaohongshu, 小红书) by keyword: title, caption, likes, saves, comments, shares, hashtags, images, video links and author of every note.

$3 per 1,000 notes.

What it's for

• Market and trend research in China: what people say about a product, brand or topic, by relevance, likes, comments or date.
• Brand monitoring: new notes about your brand or a competitor's, on a schedule with sortType: time_descending and timeFilter: 1d.
• Creator discovery: the accounts behind the most liked notes for a keyword.
• 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, one per line
maxResults	Notes per keyword (default 100; 0 returns all RedNote has, up to 2,000)
sortType	general (relevance), popularity_descending (most liked), comment_descending (most commented) or time_descending (newest)
noteType	all, video or image
timeFilter	all, 1d, 1w or 6mo

Coming from another RedNote scraper? These are the input fields of the most used RedNote search scraper on Apify, 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?xsec_token=YBFP1g_6tErMC1fc9AgKr9FGES4IVTZ_qYoOio9PqBPA0%3D&xsec_source=app_share",
  "xsec_token": "YBFP1g_6tErMC1fc9AgKr9FGES4IVTZ_qYoOio9PqBPA0=",
  "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！",
  "hashtags": [],
  "timestamp": 1792733098,
  "published_at": "2026-10-23T05:24:58.000Z",
  "engagement": { "liked_count": 101843, "collected_count": 15086, "comments_count": 823, "shared_count": 24247 },
  "author": {
    "userid": "63d11800000000002702bee2",
    "red_id": "5061832029",
    "nickname": "人民日报",
    "avatar": "https://sns-avatar-qc.xhscdn.com/avatar/...",
    "profile_url": "https://www.xiaohongshu.com/user/profile/63d11800000000002702bee2"
  },
  "images": [{ "url": "https://sns-na-i11.xhscdn.com/...", "url_large": "https://sns-na-i11.xhscdn.com/...", "width": 1515, "height": 2020 }],
  "video": { "duration_seconds": 17, "cover": "https://sns-na-i11.xhscdn.com/...", "url": "http://sns-video-zl.xhscdn.com/stream/....mp4" },
  "input": "南北分界线",
  "keyword": "南北分界线",
  "search_position": 1
}

type is normal for image notes, which have no video. RedNote shows no view counts.

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

{ "input": "南北分界线", "error": "RedNote didn't return this search" }

Price

• $3 per 1,000 notes
• A note found by two keywords is charged once

Run	Cost
1 keyword, 100 notes	$0.30
10 keywords, 500 notes each	$15

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

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 get a creator's own notes, or a note's comments? Use the RedNote Scraper with their profile links, and the RedNote Comments Scraper with note links.

Is it legal? It reads only public notes. 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.