# Changelog of Toutiao Scraper - Chinese News & Article Data API (`sian.agency/toutiao-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/sian.agency/toutiao-scraper/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/sian.agency/toutiao-scraper.md

## Changelog

All notable changes to **Toutiao Scraper — Chinese News, Articles & Content Data** will be documented in this file.

### \[2026-07-21]

#### 🎉 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.

#### 💎 User Benefits

- 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.

#### 🎯 Use Cases

- 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.