RedNote (Xiaohongshu) Scraper - Trending Notes & Creators

Scrape RedNote / Xiaohongshu (小红书) without a login, without cookies, and without a headless browser. Pull what is trending right now across 12 category feeds, the full detail of any note (complete body text, every gallery image, playable video stream URLs, and the whole engagement breakdown), and rich creator profiles with the RedID handle, IP location, follower count and engagement rate.

No account. No cookie string. No CAPTCHA solving. Everything this actor reads is server-rendered public data, so there is no session to expire and nothing to re-authenticate when RedNote rotates its login.

Why this RedNote scraper?

Most Xiaohongshu actors are built on a logged-in session: you paste a web_session cookie, or the actor keeps a shared account alive behind the scenes. That works until the cookie dies. This actor takes the anonymous path and invests the difference in data density.

Data	Typical RedNote scrapers	This actor
Requires a login / cookie string	⚠️ usually	✅ never
Engagement as real numbers (29000)	❌ raw "2.9万" text	✅ parsed integers and original text
Combined engagement total per note	❌	✅
Author RedID handle on every note	❌	✅
Author IP location on every note	❌	✅ (enriched from the profile)
Author follower count on every note	❌	✅
All gallery images + dimensions	partial	✅ every image, W×H, live-photo flag
Video stream URLs + codecs	partial	✅ master + backup URLs, h264/h265/h266/av1
Topic tags & @-mentions	partial	✅ both, with IDs
Creator engagement rate (avg likes ÷ followers)	❌	✅ derived
Trending discovery across 12 category feeds	❌ mostly keyword-only	✅
Only-new monitor mode across scheduled runs	❌	✅

What you can scrape

Pick one of four modes:

Mode	What it does
Trending notes	Sweeps the RedNote category feeds and returns the notes that are getting distribution right now, each with full detail.
Note details	Paste note links - get the complete record for each one.
Creator profiles	Paste profile links - get the full creator record plus their recent notes.
Creator / KOL leads	Discovers trending notes, then returns one enriched creator record per unique author - a ready-made KOL prospect list.

Use cases

• KOL / influencer discovery - build a shortlist of Xiaohongshu creators who are currently getting reach, with follower counts, engagement rate, IP location and their RedID handle for outreach.
• China & cross-border market research - track what is trending in beauty, fashion, food, travel and home, with engagement you can actually sort and chart.
• Brand & competitor monitoring - schedule the actor in monitor mode and receive only newly surfaced notes mentioning your categories.
• Content & creative research - pull full body text, hashtags and the entire image gallery for swipe files and creative analysis.
• Trend datasets for AI - clean, structured, deduplicated note records with numeric engagement, ready for analysis or model training.

How to use

1. Sign up for Apify - the free plan is enough to try this actor.
2. Open the RedNote (Xiaohongshu) Scraper, leave the defaults (trending, Recommended feed, 50 notes) and click Start.
3. Watch records stream into the dataset table.
4. Export as JSON, CSV, Excel or XML - or pull results via the Apify API.

Input

{
    "mode": "trending",
    "channels": ["recommend", "homefeed.cosmetics_v3"],
    "maxItems": 100,
    "enrichNoteDetails": true,
    "includeAuthorProfile": true,
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"] }
}

• mode - trending, notes, creators, or creatorLeads.
• channels - which feeds to sweep: Recommended (homepage), Fashion, Beauty, Food, Travel, Fitness, Home & living, Career, Relationships, Film & TV, Gaming, Video.
• noteUrls - note links for notes mode. Keep the xsec_token parameter that RedNote puts in every share link - Xiaohongshu requires it to open a note.
• creatorUrls - profile links for creators mode.
• maxItems - result cap (0 = unlimited; the run still stops safely before its timeout).
• enrichNoteDetails - open every note for the full record (on by default).
• includeAuthorProfile - add the author's RedID, IP location and follower count to every note (on by default).
• monitorMode / monitorStoreName - emit only records not seen in previous runs.
• concurrency - parallel requests (lower it if you see empty results).
• proxyConfiguration - RESIDENTIAL is the default and the most reliable.

Output

One note record (trimmed):

{
    "type": "note",
    "noteId": "64a81034000000002b03f3c5",
    "url": "https://www.xiaohongshu.com/explore/64a81034000000002b03f3c5?xsec_token=...",
    "noteType": "normal",
    "title": "女孩子不一定要局限于一个风格",
    "description": "夏天的漂亮衣服真的好多呀～...",
    "publishedAt": "2023-07-07T13:16:36.000Z",
    "likes": 9287,
    "collects": 5531,
    "comments": 339,
    "shares": 666,
    "engagementTotal": 15823,
    "likesText": "9287",
    "authorId": "58fac5da50c4b4155bab85c9",
    "authorName": "佛山靓爆镜",
    "authorRedId": "94742130489",
    "authorIpLocation": "广东",
    "authorFollowers": 10000,
    "authorUrl": "https://www.xiaohongshu.com/user/profile/58fac5da50c4b4155bab85c9",
    "topics": ["穿搭", "夏日穿搭"],
    "mentions": [],
    "coverUrl": "https://sns-webpic-qc.xhscdn.com/...",
    "imageCount": 16,
    "images": [{ "url": "...", "width": 1438, "height": 1920, "livePhoto": false }],
    "videoUrl": null,
    "discoveredVia": "recommend",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-07-22T13:07:41.902Z"
}

One creator record (trimmed):

{
    "type": "creator",
    "userId": "5e632f6d0000000001006f42",
    "redId": "LiliAndT",
    "nickname": "dearClaire",
    "bio": "...",
    "gender": "female",
    "ipLocation": "法国",
    "followers": 10000,
    "following": 10,
    "likesAndCollects": 10000,
    "avgLikesPerNote": 1841,
    "engagementRate": 18.41,
    "listedNoteCount": 31,
    "recentNotes": [{ "noteId": "...", "title": "...", "likes": 2300, "url": "..." }],
    "url": "https://www.xiaohongshu.com/user/profile/5e632f6d0000000001006f42"
}

Notes on coverage (honest limits)

• Engagement counts are published by Xiaohongshu in abbreviated form (2.9万, 1千+). This actor returns both a parsed integer and the original string. Where RedNote itself only publishes a rounded band (1万+), the integer is that band's value - it is a floor, not an exact count.
• ipLocation is not present on note pages at all - it exists only on profile pages. That is why it is enriched onto notes from the author's profile (keep includeAuthorProfile on).
• Video fields are populated for video notes only; image notes have no video, by definition.
• Keyword search and comment threads are not included. Xiaohongshu gates both behind a logged-in session, and this actor is deliberately login-free. If you need those, a cookie-based actor is the right tool - this one trades that surface for never breaking on an expired session.
• Xiaohongshu rate-limits repeated requests from one IP. The actor rotates proxy sessions automatically and returns partial data with a status message rather than failing. If a run comes back light, re-run it.

Pricing

Pay per result, no start fee:

Event	Price
Note scraped	$0.004
Creator profile	$0.010

Integrations

Connect this actor to Make, Zapier, Slack, Google Drive, Airbyte, GitHub, or anything else via webhooks and the Apify API. Run it on a schedule with monitor mode for a continuous trend feed.

Use with AI assistants (MCP)

This actor is available through the Apify MCP server, so Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other MCP clients can call it directly as a tool - ask your assistant for "trending RedNote beauty creators" and it can run this scraper and read the results.

Agent-ready: autonomous payments (x402 & Skyfire)

This actor is agent-ready — AI agents can discover it, run it, and pay for it autonomously, with no Apify account and no human in the loop. It uses pay-per-event pricing and limited permissions, so it qualifies for Apify's agentic-payment standards:

• x402 — an open, HTTP-native payment protocol. Agents pay per run in USDC on the Base network directly through the Apify MCP server — no account, no API key.
• Skyfire — agent-to-service payments for fully autonomous AI-agent workflows.

Building an AI agent, MCP tool, or autonomous data pipeline? This scraper is ready to plug in and pay as it goes.

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Legal

This actor collects publicly available data that Xiaohongshu serves to anonymous visitors. It performs no login, bypasses no access control, and collects no private or personal-account data. You are responsible for using the output in line with Xiaohongshu's terms and with applicable data-protection law (including GDPR/PIPL where relevant) - in particular, have a lawful basis before using creator data for outreach.