Pixiv Ranking Scraper

Pixiv Ranking Scraper — Export the public Pixiv daily illustration ranking. Get rank, previous rank, artwork and creator details, tags, preview links and available ranking metrics. Add supported inputs and start a run to get structured public data without providing a Pixiv account.

Export Pixiv's daily illustration ranking with current and previous ranks, dates, tags and creators. Keep each ranked artwork in one source-linked row.

At a glance	Details
📥 Input	Use daily for the latest daily illustration ranking, YYYYMMDD, or a daily illustration ranking URL.
📤 Output	One artwork per success row, with source input retained
📄 Pagination	pagesPerRanking limits result pages per input, with a default of 1. The source may end sooner.
🔐 Login required	No
⚡ Processing	Up to 5 HTTP requests concurrently with automatic retries
💾 Delivery	One Apify dataset view, useful flat columns and complete nested JSON

What the pixiv ranking scraper collects 📊

Export the public Pixiv daily illustration ranking. Get rank, previous rank, artwork and creator details, tags, preview links and available ranking metrics.

Data can include:

• Source identity and public links
• Available id, url, title, description, type code, author id, author name, author url
• Original input retained with every result
• One consistent success or failed record format

How to collect artworks from Pixiv 🚀

1. Enter one or more supported inputs in inputList.
2. Set the result-page budget for each input.
3. Start the Actor.
4. Open the Artworks dataset view and review the individual records.
5. Export the dataset or retrieve it from your application.

{
  "inputList": [
    "daily"
  ],
  "pagesPerRanking": 1
}

pagesPerRanking limits result pages per input, with a default of 1. The source may end sooner.

Pixiv artworks data and complete output 📦

Field	Type	Meaning
status	string	Result status: success or failed.
input	string	Original submitted input.
id	string or null	Stable ID of the result entity, retained as a string.
url	string or null	Public source URL of the result entity.
title	string or null	Public title supplied by the source.
description	string or null	Public description in plain text when exposed by this endpoint.
type	string or null	Type when exposed by the public response.
type_code	integer or null	Pixiv artwork type: 0 illustration, 1 manga, 2 ugoira.
author_id	string or null	Author id supplied by the source.
author_name	string or null	Author name when exposed by the public response.
author_url	string or null	Available author URL.
author_avatar_url	string or null	Available author avatar URL.
thumbnail_url	string or null	Available thumbnail URL.
width	integer or null	Image width in pixels when supplied.
height	integer or null	Image height in pixels when supplied.
image_count	integer or null	Number of images in the artwork, not the scraper pagination budget.
tags	array or null	Tags supplied by the website, kept in the parent row.
created_at	string or null	Source publication or comment time. Comment timestamps retain the source format and do not invent a timezone.
updated_at	string or null	Source update timestamp when available.
ai_type	integer or null	AI classification code supplied by Pixiv; no independent content classification is performed.
is_original	boolean or null	Is original when exposed by the public response.
is_masked	boolean or null	Whether the source masks this card; absent values remain null.
restriction	integer or null	Restriction when exposed by the public response.
age_restriction	integer or null	Age restriction when exposed by the public response.
rank	integer or null	Rank when exposed by the public response.
previous_rank	integer or null	Previous rank when exposed by the public response.
ranking_date	string or null	Date of the ranking in YYYYMMDD format, fixed across pages.
ranking_mode	string or null	Ranking mode when exposed by the public response.
ranking_content	string or null	Ranking content when exposed by the public response.
view_count	integer or null	View count supplied by the source; absent values remain null.
rating_count	integer or null	The rating_count value supplied by the ranking response; not a derived score or a total-like claim.

Nested arrays and media references stay in their parent record. Downloading source media files is not part of this Actor.

Every top-level output field appears in these complete examples. The success example is normalized from a public response. Long strings and arrays are shortened here; the Actor keeps the complete available values. Values are a snapshot and can change. Nested arrays remain inside their parent result.

Representative success result with every output field (long text and arrays shortened for readability):

{
  "status": "success",
  "input": "daily",
  "id": "149440738",
  "url": "https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/149440738",
  "title": "髪下ろし志摩リンちゃん",
  "description": null,
  "type": "illustration",
  "type_code": 0,
  "author_id": "11211325",
  "author_name": "CORE",
  "author_url": "https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/11211325",
  "author_avatar_url": "https://i.pximg.net/user-profile/img/2014/06/08/21/12/00/7969430_f567285b2bfdd405bb0691d73e8624c0_50.jpg",
  "thumbnail_url": "https://i.pximg.net/c/480x960/img-master/img/2026/09/09/00/02/05/149440738_p0_master1200.jpg",
  "width": 991,
  "height": 1352,
  "image_count": 1,
  "tags": [
    "ゆるキャン△",
    "志摩リン",
    "女の子"
  ],
  "created_at": "2026-09-08T15:02:05+00:00",
  "updated_at": null,
  "ai_type": null,
  "is_original": false,
  "is_masked": false,
  "restriction": null,
  "age_restriction": null,
  "rank": 1,
  "previous_rank": 5,
  "ranking_date": "20260910",
  "ranking_mode": "daily",
  "ranking_content": "illust",
  "view_count": 5742,
  "rating_count": 335
}

Complete failed result:

{
  "status": "failed",
  "input": "invalid input",
  "id": null,
  "url": null,
  "title": null,
  "description": null,
  "type": null,
  "type_code": null,
  "author_id": null,
  "author_name": null,
  "author_url": null,
  "author_avatar_url": null,
  "thumbnail_url": null,
  "width": null,
  "height": null,
  "image_count": null,
  "tags": null,
  "created_at": null,
  "updated_at": null,
  "ai_type": null,
  "is_original": null,
  "is_masked": null,
  "restriction": null,
  "age_restriction": null,
  "rank": null,
  "previous_rank": null,
  "ranking_date": null,
  "ranking_mode": null,
  "ranking_content": null,
  "view_count": null,
  "rating_count": null
}

A failed row preserves input, sets status to failed, and sets every other top-level field to null. The run log records the reason. Optional successful fields can be null or empty when Pixiv does not supply them. Object fields are exposed through useful columns in the single Artworks view; arrays are not expanded into extra result rows.

Input requirements and pagination settings ⚙️

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Rules
inputList	array of strings	Yes	None	Use daily for the latest daily illustration ranking, YYYYMMDD, or a daily illustration ranking URL. At least 1 item.
pagesPerRanking	integer	No	1	Maximum result pages per input. Setup requests do not count as pages. Stops when the source has no next page or repeats a continuation. Actual rows per page can vary. Minimum 1.

Use daily for the latest daily illustration ranking, YYYYMMDD, or a daily illustration ranking URL.

Examples of supported inputs: daily.

Duplicate normalized inputs are processed once. Within the collection for one source input, repeated records are removed while distinct interactions or objects remain separate. The same object returned for different source inputs retains its source relationship.

The first result page counts as page 1. Public-page preparation and metadata lookups do not consume result pages. Collection stops at your page budget or the end of the available list. A short page alone does not mean that the list has ended.

Pixiv artworks use cases 🎯

Collect the current Pixiv illustration ranking

Export Pixiv's daily illustration ranking with current and previous ranks, dates, tags and creators. Keep each ranked artwork in one source-linked row.

Review a dated Pixiv illustration ranking

Collect a specified day's Pixiv illustration ranking. Compare current and previous rank fields in your own analysis of the source's dated ranking records.

Compare two dates of Pixiv illustration rankings

Export Pixiv daily illustration rankings for two dates. Keep ranking dates and artwork identifiers to compare the returned lists in your own analysis.

Pricing and saved-result behavior 💰

Check the Actor’s Pricing tab for the active pricing model and current rate. Store settings can change, so this README does not claim a fixed price or runtime.

Under dataset-item pricing:

• Each successful result represents one artwork for its source input.
• An invalid or unavailable input, an input with no accessible results, or an exhausted request can produce a failed row.
• Retry attempts and supporting requests do not create extra dataset rows by themselves.
• Nested media, profile information and other arrays remain part of their parent row.
• A normal empty continuation after earlier successes creates no additional row.
• Saved failed rows are not assumed to be free; check their treatment in the active pricing configuration.

More inputs and larger page budgets can produce more saved rows. Start with a small run and check actual usage before increasing the workload.

Pixiv artworks API 🔌

Replace $ACTOR_ID with the identifier shown in this Actor’s API tab and $APIFY_TOKEN with your Apify token.

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/$ACTOR_ID/runs?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"inputList":["daily"],"pagesPerRanking":1}'

Download the dataset in JSON, CSV, Excel or other formats available in the Console, or retrieve it through the Apify API. Use schedules, webhooks and Apify integrations to connect results to Google Sheets, Make, Zapier, cloud storage or your own application. These connections are configured separately by the user.

Reliability, retries, and public-data limits ⚠️

Collection uses pure HTTP with up to five concurrent requests. Invalid syntax and confirmed missing, removed or unavailable targets stop without unnecessary retries. Temporary network or proxy failures, timeouts, blocking responses, malformed data, throttling and server errors allow up to five total attempts per request.

Successful earlier pages remain saved if a later request fails. A normal end after saved results is not retried. An input with no accessible results can receive a failed row; that alone does not prove that its underlying source does not exist. An exhausted later request can add a failed row while preserving previous output.

Only daily illustration rankings are supported. All pages use the same date returned by the first response. rating_count retains the website field meaning and is not labelled total likes or a calculated score. Rankings can omit or mask items.

Pixiv controls public availability, ranking and optional fields. Result counts can be affected by duplicates, removed content and changes during a run. A page budget is a collection limit, not a promise of exhaustive coverage.

An invalid string within a valid input list does not stop other inputs. Invalid overall configuration, such as a non-string list item or a wrong page-count type, exits before source requests. Startup failures, unavailable dataset storage or an unrecoverable result-save error can still stop the whole run. A failed save is not retried as a new scraping request.

Frequently asked questions ❓

What does one Pixiv Ranking Scraper result represent?

Each successful row represents one artwork. The source input is retained, and nested fields stay in the same row.

Which source limits apply?

Only daily illustration rankings are supported. All pages use the same date returned by the first response. rating_count retains the website field meaning and is not labelled total likes or a calculated score. Rankings can omit or mask items.

Does it download media files?

No. Where available, the Actor returns media URLs and metadata within the result row.

Does it require a Pixiv account or personal cookies?

No. You do not need to provide a Pixiv account, password or personal session cookie. Collection uses HTTP without opening a browser.

What happens to invalid or unavailable inputs?

Invalid individual inputs are recorded as failed without a source request. Confirmed missing or unavailable targets stop without unnecessary retries. Temporary failures allow up to five total attempts per request; other inputs and earlier saved results remain available.

Can I export results or run the same input again?

Yes. Export the default dataset or retrieve it through the Apify API. You can create an Apify schedule and connect completed runs to your own workflow.

Support, responsible use, and related actors 🛟

For a reproducible issue, use the Actor’s Issues tab and provide the run ID, approximate time, a safe public input, expected behavior and actual result. Include the mode or page budget when relevant. Never share access tokens, personal cookies or proxy credentials.

Use public data responsibly and follow applicable privacy, copyright, contractual and platform requirements before storing, analyzing or redistributing collected information.