# Changelog of Douban Movie Scraper — Ratings, Reviews & Hot Lists (`sian.agency/douban-movie-scraper`) Actor

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## Changelog

All notable changes to Douban Movie Scraper will be documented in this file.

### \[2026-05-26]

#### 🎉 Douban Movie Scraper — Launch!

- **Recent Hot Movie & Hot TV** - Pull Douban's live trending movie and TV lists with ratings and posters, no seed ID required — the only Douban scraper built around *what's hot right now*
- **Subject Detail with IMDb Cross-ID** - Extract title, year, director, cast, genre, region, language, release date, duration, rating, and the IMDb ID for any movie or TV
- **Long-Form Reviews** - Scrape sortable reviews with rating labels, upvotes, downvotes, and reply counts for any title
- **Viewer Comments with Province Geo** - Collect short audience comments with rating labels, useful-votes, and province-level location for sentiment and regional analysis
- **Full Review Detail** - Retrieve the complete body of any single Douban review
- **Six Operations, One Actor** - Go from trending discovery to deep-dive in a single tool, with clean structured datasets

#### 💎 User Benefits

- No Douban account, no API key, no cookies — pick an operation and run
- Trending-first workflow surfaces rising titles before you even know a subject ID
- IMDb cross-IDs bridge Chinese ratings to Western film and box-office datasets
- Transparent pay-per-row pricing — only charged for successful rows, generous FREE tier

#### 🎯 Use Cases

- Media monitors tracking what's trending on China's biggest film community
- Researchers mining Douban reviews and comments for audience sentiment
- China-market analysts joining Douban ratings to IMDb for cross-market film intelligence
- Localization teams informing acquisition, dubbing, and release-timing with real audience data