RedNote Trending Scraper: Xiaohongshu 小红书 Viral Notes & Text

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What does RedNote Trending Scraper do?

It gets the notes RedNote (Xiaohongshu, 小红书) is pushing right now as clean rows you can open in Excel, Google Sheets, Python or your AI agent. No RedNote account, no login, no cookies.

• Trending notes from RedNote's main recommended feed (发现页), the viral posts people are seeing today. Each run reloads the feed many times, so you can get up to 1,000 different notes in one run.
• Full detail for every note: title, full text, tags (话题), all images, video link and length, likes, saves (收藏), comments and shares as real numbers, publish time (UTC and China time), the author's location (IP属地), author name, ID, avatar and profile link.
• Filters: only notes about your words (in the title, text or tags), only notes with enough likes, only notes from the last N days.
• Read note links you already have, including xhslink.com share links.

Why use it?

• Full detail by default. Every note is opened, so you get the whole post, not just a title, likes and a cover.
• Numbers you can sort. RedNote shows "2.8万"; you get 28000 (and the original text too).
• Fair billing. Deleted or private notes, expired links and notes that stay blocked after all retries are saved as free rows with the reason. Notes your filters skip are not saved or charged. You only pay for complete notes.
• No duplicates. A note the feed shows twice is saved once.
• Fast. 300 full notes in about 90 seconds in our tests; 150 notes in under 15 seconds with full detail off.

How to use it

1. Choose the number of trending notes (up to 1,000).
2. Optional: add filters (words, minimum likes, posted within N days).
3. Optional: paste note links.
4. Click Start.

Input example:

{
  "maxNotes": 100,
  "keywords": ["咖啡", "探店"],
  "minLikes": 1000,
  "publishedWithinDays": 30
}

Output example (one row, images shortened):

{
  "status": "ok",
  "rank": 20,
  "noteId": "6abf1c67000000001b02efe9",
  "type": "image",
  "title": "米汉堡…可保德克士荣华富贵🍔",
  "text": "德克士的米汉堡依旧和小时候一样好吃！在全是面包胚的汉堡时刻，烤过的米饭胚好满足，好像在吃一碗立起来的炸鸡拌饭[害羞R][害羞R] #我的假期美食日记[话题]# #德克士[话题]# #米汉堡[话题]#",
  "tags": ["我的假期美食日记", "野生食评人howto", "德克士", "米汉堡"],
  "likes": 5102,
  "collects": 889,
  "comments": 352,
  "shares": 3300,
  "publishedAt": "2026-10-02T02:52:23Z",
  "publishedAtChina": "2026-10-02 10:52",
  "ipLocation": "山东",
  "authorName": "头发太多L",
  "authorUrl": "https://www.xiaohongshu.com/user/profile/5a30bfab11be103721aa004e",
  "images": ["https://sns-webpic-qc.xhscdn.com/...jpg_3", "..."],
  "imageCount": 3,
  "videoUrl": null,
  "url": "https://www.xiaohongshu.com/explore/6abf1c67000000001b02efe9?xsec_token=...&xsec_source=pc_feed",
  "source": "trending feed"
}

Output fields

Field	Meaning
status	ok, or why a free row has no note (not_found, invalid_link, blocked)
rank	The note's position in the feed during this run (empty for links)
noteId, url	The note's ID and a link that opens it (with its xsec_token)
type	image (图文) or video
title, text, tags, mentions	The post: title, full text, topic tags (话题) and mentioned users
likes, likesText, collects, comments, shares	Counts as numbers; likesText is what RedNote shows (2.8万)
publishedAt, publishedAtChina, lastUpdatedAt	Post time in UTC and China time, last edit time
ipLocation	The author's location shown on the post (IP属地)
authorName, authorId, authorUrl, authorAvatar	The author
coverImage, images, imageCount, videoUrl, videoDurationSec	Pictures and video
source, input, message	Trending feed or your link, the link you gave, and why a free row has no note

Good to know

• What "trending" means here: RedNote's main recommended feed as a logged-out visitor sees it. It is made of popular notes, mostly posted in the last 3 months, and every reload brings new ones. It is not tailored to any account.
• No category feeds. RedNote's category feeds (穿搭, 美食...) show only old notes from 2023 to logged-out visitors, so this tool does not sell them as trending. Use the words filter instead (for example 穿搭 or 美食).
• Note links need their xsec_token. RedNote does not open a note for logged-out visitors without it. Copy links from the note's Share button or your browser's address bar; xhslink.com share links work too.
• Image and video links are signed by RedNote and can stop working after some time. Download the files soon if you need them.
• Not available without logging in: keyword search, comments and full user profiles. This tool does not claim them.

How much does it cost?

You pay only for complete notes saved to your dataset. Deleted, private or expired notes, invalid links and notes that stay blocked after all retries are saved as free rows with the reason, never charged. Notes skipped by your filters are not saved or charged. Set a maximum cost per run in the run options and the run stops cleanly when it is reached.

Use it from AI agents and code

Run it from the Apify API, Python or JavaScript, Make, Zapier, n8n, or any MCP client (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor) through Apify's MCP server: https://mcp.apify.com?tools=serenido/rednote-trending-scraper.

Python (pip install -U apify-client):

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("serenido/rednote-trending-scraper").call(run_input={"maxNotes": 50, "minLikes": 1000})
for note in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(note["likes"], note["title"], note["url"])

Is it legal?

It reads public pages that anyone can open without logging in. Use the data in line with RedNote's terms and the laws that apply to you, especially for personal data like author names. This tool is not affiliated with Xiaohongshu (RedNote).