Douyin Hot Search & China Trends Scraper

China Trending Scraper turns the Douyin hot search list (抖音热榜) into clean JSON, CSV or Excel, with the videos behind every topic, and adds the trending boards of Baidu (百度热搜), Zhihu (知乎热榜) and Toutiao (头条热榜) in the same row format. No login, no cookies. Built for schedules: turn on compareWithPreviousRun and every topic comes back marked new, rising, falling or stable, with rank and heat change, plus the topics that dropped off the board since your last run.

US$ 4.50 per 1,000 topics, US$ 3 per 1,000 videos, US$ 0.03 per run. Error rows and dropped rows are free.

At a glance

• Price: US$ 4.50 per 1,000 topics, US$ 3 per 1,000 videos, US$ 0.03 per run start
• A typical scheduled run: Douyin board: ~55 topics = about US$ 0.28
• Boards: Douyin hot search + rising list, Douyin hot songs chart, Baidu realtime, Zhihu hot list, Toutiao hot board
• Videos: Every Douyin hot topic's videos with likes, comments, shares, saves, author, video and cover links
• Change tracking: new / rising / falling / stable / dropped vs your previous run
• Error rows: Free, with an errorCode

Real rows

Collected on Apify on 2026-09-30, all five boards with videos (216 topics and 388 videos in 53 seconds).

Douyin topic:

{
  "type": "topic",
  "platform": "douyin",
  "board": "hot_search",
  "rank": 2,
  "title": "天安门广场国庆升旗仪式",
  "hotValue": 11627424,
  "url": "https://www.douyin.com/hot/2675813",
  "videoCount": 1,
  "eventTime": "2026-09-30T15:26:14Z",
  "topicId": "2675813",
  "trend": "new",
  "source": "douyin:hot_search"
}

A video of that topic (video and cover links cut here):

{
  "type": "video",
  "platform": "douyin",
  "id": "7691243427274542336",
  "url": "https://www.douyin.com/video/7691243427274542336",
  "description": "10月1日，天安门广场将举行升国旗仪式。关注@央视新闻 一起看国庆升旗，共同祝福伟大祖国！",
  "createdAt": "2026-09-30T08:32:42Z",
  "durationSec": 18.5,
  "likeCount": 200760,
  "commentCount": 89,
  "shareCount": 6790,
  "collectCount": 7626,
  "downloadCount": 393,
  "authorNickname": "央视新闻",
  "authorHandle": "cctvnews",
  "authorFollowers": 187478275,
  "authorVerified": "中央广播电视总台央视新闻官方抖音号",
  "musicTitle": "@央视新闻创作的原声",
  "width": 1080,
  "height": 1920,
  "topic": "天安门广场国庆升旗仪式",
  "topicRank": 2
}

The next scheduled run, with compareWithPreviousRun:

{
  "platform": "douyin",
  "board": "hot_search",
  "rank": 28,
  "title": "国庆假期逛买地图已解锁",
  "hotValue": 7681353,
  "label": "hot",
  "labelCode": 3,
  "trend": "falling",
  "previousRank": 26,
  "rankChange": -2
}

What you can do with it

• China social listening: what China is watching on Douyin right now, hour by hour.
• Brand and PR monitoring: get alerted when a topic about your brand, product or market enters the board, and follow it up and down.
• Content and marketing teams selling into China: the topics, songs and video formats that trend, with the creators behind them.
• News, research and finance: Baidu, Zhihu and Toutiao boards side by side with Douyin, in one table.

Input

Field	What it does
platforms	Any of douyin (default), douyin_music, baidu, zhihu, toutiao
includeVideos	Also return the videos of each Douyin topic
maxVideosPerTopic	Default 20
maxTopicsWithVideos	Only the top N topics get videos (empty = all)
topics	Exact words from the current Douyin board, to get only their videos
maxTopics	Keep the top N of each board (default 50)
includeRisingList	Douyin's 5 rising topics (实时上升热点), default on
compareWithPreviousRun	Mark trend and return dropped topics; state lives in a named key-value store in your account
snapshotName	Keep separate comparisons (one per schedule)

Hourly monitoring of all boards:

{ "platforms": ["douyin", "baidu", "zhihu", "toutiao"], "compareWithPreviousRun": true }

Douyin topics with their videos:

{ "platforms": ["douyin"], "includeVideos": true, "maxVideosPerTopic": 20 }

Output fields

Topic rows (type topic, or music for the songs chart): platform, board (hot_search, rising, music_chart, realtime, hot_list, hot_board), rank, title, hotValue, url, description (Baidu, Zhihu), coverUrl, label and labelCode (Douyin 新/热/爆 badges; Toutiao labels), isPinned, videoCount, eventTime, topicId, answerCount and followerCount (Zhihu), categories (Toutiao), artist, durationSec, audioUrl (songs), trend, previousRank, rankChange, previousHotValue, hotValueChange.

Video rows (type video): id, url, description, createdAt, durationSec, likeCount, commentCount, shareCount, collectCount, downloadCount, hashtags, isImagePost, authorNickname, authorHandle, authorFollowers, authorVerified, authorUrl, musicTitle, musicAuthor, videoUrl, coverUrl, width, height, topic, topicRank, topicBoard.

Only what the apps show publicly about creators: nickname, handle, follower count, verification text and profile link.

Error codes (never charged)

errorCode	Meaning
NO_RESULTS	No video for this topic (or the word is not on the current Douyin board)
NO_DATA	The board came back empty
INVALID_INPUT	A value the Actor does not understand
BLOCKED	The board did not answer after retries; run again
NOT_REACHED, UNEXPECTED	The run timeout arrived, or something unforeseen broke; only that board or topic is lost

Pricing

Event	Price
Run start	US$ 0.03 per run
Topic delivered	US$ 4.50 per 1,000
Video delivered	US$ 3 per 1,000

The Douyin board alone (about 55 topics) costs about US$ 0.28 per run. Dropped rows, duplicates and error rows are free, and there is no Apify compute bill on top.

Limitations

• Douyin serves topic videos only for words that are on its board at that moment; a free word returns NO_RESULTS. Most topics have 1 to 20 videos.
• Douyin does not publish play counts in this list; likes, comments, shares, saves and downloads are there.
• Video and cover links are signed by Douyin and expire after some hours; download them soon if you need the files.
• Pinned rows (Baidu, Toutiao) have no rank and are not compared.
• This Actor reads public boards only and respects the sites' terms.

Changelog

• 2026-09-30, 0.1: first release. Douyin hot search, rising list and songs chart, videos per topic, Baidu, Zhihu and Toutiao boards, compare with previous run, free error rows.