# Changelog of Xiaohongshu Comments Scraper - RedNote Nested Reply Threads (`sian.agency/xiaohongshu-rednote-comments-scraper`) Actor

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

## Changelog

All notable changes to Xiaohongshu Comments Scraper will be documented in this file.

### \[2026-09-04]

#### 🎉 Xiaohongshu Comments Scraper — Launch!

- **Flat Thread Rows** — every RedNote comment *and* every reply arrives as its own row, so a CSV export opens in a spreadsheet instead of exploding into `replies/0/content` columns
- **Reply-To Attribution** — inside a long thread a reply usually answers another reply, not the root; both `parentCommentId` and `replyToCommentId` ride on the row, with the answered author's name
- **Deep Reply Pagination** — set `maxRepliesPerComment` to 0 and a 200-reply argument comes back whole, page by page, with no duplicates
- **Creator Signals Decoded** — pinned, written-by-the-note-author and liked-by-the-note-author become plain booleans, lifted out of the tag array where Xiaohongshu hides them
- **IP City & Comment Pictures** — the province RedNote shows beside a comment, and full-size images people attached, both in their own columns
- **Three Input Formats** — a browser URL, an `xhslink.com` share link from the phone app, or a bare 24-character note ID, mixable in one list
- **Honest Sort Menu** — newest-first and RedNote's own default order. Sort-by-likes is absent because the source accepts it and then ignores it

#### 💎 User Benefits

- A reply thread rebuilds with one `GROUP BY` and drops into a sentiment pipeline unchanged
- Charged per row returned — a note with no comments costs nothing, and error rows are never billed
- Replies bill separately from comments, so turning them off genuinely lowers the bill
- No account, cookies or API key: paste a link, press Start
- Two spend caps, per note and per run, both set before anything is fetched

#### 🎯 Use Cases

- Brand managers mining Chinese consumer opinion before a China market entry
- Agencies monitoring what happened underneath a KOL campaign's sponsored notes
- ML teams collecting conversational Chinese with real turn-taking for model training
- Product teams reading the complaints — and the defect photos — under a competitor's launch
- Community managers exporting a full thread that the RedNote interface will not give them
- Media buyers vetting whether a creator's comment section is a real audience