All notable changes to Toutiao Scraper — Chinese News, Articles & Content Data will be documented in this file.
🎉 Toutiao Scraper — Launch!
Keyword Article Search — turn any keyword into a ranked feed of Toutiao (今日头条) news articles with reads, comments, likes, and favorites.Full Article Content — extract the complete HTML body, image galleries, and creator IDs for any Toutiao article.Creator Profiles — pull a creator's name, avatar, follower and publish counts, and external links by user ID.User-ID Resolver — convert a Toutiao profile URL into a numeric creator ID for downstream lookups.Bulk Processing — batch multiple keywords, article IDs, user IDs, or profile URLs into a single run.
The only working Toutiao dataset on Apify — a genuinely greenfield Chinese-news data source.
Clean, flat JSON with curated camelCase fields, ready for CSV, Excel, or a database.
Pay-per-result pricing with a generous FREE tier — no credit card to start.
Reliable extraction with automatic retry on transient upstream blips.
PR and comms teams doing Chinese media monitoring with same-day engagement metrics.
AI teams building current Mandarin news corpora for LLM training and RAG.
Analysts tracking breakout stories and trends on China's largest content aggregator.
Researchers mapping ByteDance content creators and competitor coverage.
