CapCut Trending Templates Scraper

Scrape thousands of trending CapCut templates — by category or by keyword — ranked by usage. No login, no API key, no proxy required.

From $2.00 / 1,000 templates — 10 free templates to test.

What you get

This actor paginates CapCut's live template feed and returns full, structured records for every template — not just the handful shown on the homepage.

• Browse any category (For You, TikTok, Memes, Velocity, Lyrics, Business, Effects, Fandom, Lifestyle, Friends) — each has thousands of templates
• Keyword search — find templates for any topic (gym, birthday, travel, wedding, …), up to ~200 per keyword
• Deep pagination — set limit to 1,000+ and the actor keeps fetching pages until it hits your target
• Ranked by usage (the primary trending signal)
• Full metrics per template: plays, uses, likes, favorites, exposure, velocity (uses/day)
• Cover image, preview video URL, author, duration, template detail URL
• Lightweight HTTP-only actor — no browser, fast and cheap

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
limit	integer	100	Max templates to return (sorted by usage). Set high to scrape thousands.
category	string	For You	Trending category to scrape (ignored when keywords is set).
keywords	array	[]	Search by keyword instead of a category. Each keyword returns up to ~200 templates.
sinceDays	integer	0	Only keep templates created within N days (0 = no filter). Category mode only.

Example — top 500 trending Memes

{ "limit": 500, "category": "Memes" }

Example — keyword search

{ "limit": 200, "keywords": ["gym", "birthday", "travel"] }

Output (dataset)

Each row includes:

• id — capcut-{web_id}, webId, title, url, summary, topics
• usageAmount, playAmount, likeCount, favoriteCount, exposureAmount, velocity
• publishedAt, createTime, durationMs
• coverUrl, videoUrl, templateUrl, authorName, authorUid
• Run metadata is stored in key-value store key OUTPUT_META

Pricing

Tier	Per 1,000 templates
Standard	$2.00
Free trial	10 templates

Billing event: template — one charge per dataset row (paying users only). The actor calls Actor.charge({ eventName: 'template', count }) before each pushData batch. Do not enable synthetic apify-default-dataset-item on this Actor (that would double-bill).

Apify Console setup (required for revenue)

1. Publication → Monetization → Pay-per-event
2. Add custom event: template
3. Set price: $0.002 per event (= $2.00 / 1,000 templates)
4. Publish the Actor

Quick start

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("IgMcRLhlRllSs4EIV").call(run_input={
    "limit": 200,
    "category": "TikTok",
})
for row in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(row["usageAmount"], row["title"][:50], row["url"])

Notes

• Templates are fetched from CapCut's private template API (the same one the public web app uses), so results match what users see in the gallery.
• velocity = usageAmount / days since creation, useful for spotting fast-rising templates.