Xiaohongshu (RedNote) Scraper — Notes, KOLs, Comments & Search 📕

🎉 Six scrapers in one — extract Xiaohongshu / RedNote (Little Red Book / 小红书 / XHS) notes, profiles, comments & search results

Built for KOL agencies, China-market researchers, brand teams, and lifestyle / beauty / fashion / food strategists who need clean structured RedNote data — no API key, no setup, no scraping headaches

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📋 Overview

Tired of brittle DIY scrapers that break every time Xiaohongshu / RedNote ships a UI tweak? This actor delivers reliable, flat structured datasets from China's #1 lifestyle-discovery platform (300M+ MAU) — one clean run per task, one tidy dataset out.

Whether you call it Xiaohongshu, RedNote, Little Red Book, 小红书, or XHS, this scraper has you covered. The actor unifies six Xiaohongshu / RedNote scraping operations under one Apify actor — pick the operation, paste the input, run.

Why teams choose SIÁN for Xiaohongshu / RedNote data:

• ✅ Six operations, one actor: note detail · user profile · user note catalog · comments · search notes · search users
• ⚡ ~20 results per page on search & user feeds — paginate to 50 pages in a single run
• 🎯 Production-ready data shape: curated camelCase aliases (noteId, likedCount, collectedCount, userName, redId, noteTitle, notePageUrl…) PLUS the raw upstream fields for power users
• 💰 Pay-per-result pricing — only charged for successful extractions, never for empty pages or errors
• 💎 No API key, no setup, no proxies — paste a note ID, user ID, or keyword and run
• ✨ Retry-resilient: auto-retry on transient upstream failures (which competitors silently surface as broken rows)
• 🌐 Chinese AND English keyword search — every other RedNote scraper documents one or the other; we handle both natively

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✨ Features

• 📕 Note Detail: title, description, images, like/save/share/comment counts, creator info, timestamps, video info (for video notes)
• 👤 User Profile: fan count, follow count, note count, bio, verification badge, level, location, full avatar set, collected-content stats
• 📰 User Notes: full creator note catalog with engagement metrics, paginated ~20 notes/page
• 💬 Note Comments: top + reply comments with author, IP location, like count, plus a top-5 reply sample per thread
• 🔍 Search Notes: keyword search supporting Chinese, English, and mixed queries — ~20 results/page
• 🔎 Search Users: discover creators by keyword with handle, RedID, verification, bio — ~20 results/page
• 🖼️ HTTPS-normalized URLs: every cover, avatar, and image URL ready to embed
• 🔐 xsec_token passthrough: surfaces the per-note signed token so subsequent detail / comment calls have higher reliability on geo-sensitive notes
• 📄 Cursor-based pagination: stream through up to 50 pages per run with one input parameter
• 📊 HTML run report: saved automatically to key-value store with success rate, errors, duration, inputs

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🎬 Quick Start

Paste a Xiaohongshu / RedNote keyword and run — no RedNote API or Xiaohongshu account required.

curl -X POST https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/sian.agency~xiaohongshu-rednote-scraper/runs?token=YOUR_TOKEN \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"operation":"searchNote","keyword":"美食","maxPages":3}'

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🚀 Getting Started (3 Simple Steps)

1. Pick your operation

Operation	Input	Output rows / page	Best for
📕 noteDetail	noteId (24-char hex)	1	Deep scrape of a single note
👤 userDetail	userId (24-char hex)	1	Full creator profile + counters
📰 userNotes	userId + maxPages	~20	Creator's full note catalog
💬 noteComments	noteId + maxPages	~10	Comment mining + sentiment
🔍 searchNote	keyword + maxPages	~20	Discover notes in a niche
🔎 searchUser	keyword + maxPages	~20	Discover creators in a niche

2. Paste your input

• Note ID → 24-char hex like 69ec85eb000000001e00cd6c (find it in the RedNote URL https://www.xiaohongshu.com/explore/{ID})
• User ID → 24-char hex like 5ee58a2e000000000100057e (find it in the profile URL https://www.xiaohongshu.com/user/profile/{ID})
• Keyword → any Chinese, English, or mixed query (美食, outfit, skincare, 穿搭)

3. Run it

Every run produces:

• 📦 A clean dataset (one row per extracted item)
• 📊 An HTML summary report (success rate, errors, duration)

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💰 Pricing — Pay Per Result

Transparent per-event pricing. You are only charged for successful extractions. Failed pages and empty results cost nothing.

Event	Charge
Actor run start	$0.015 (one-time)
📕 Note detail result	$0.020 per row
👤 User profile result	$0.020 per row
📰 User notes result	$0.005 per row
💬 Note comment result	$0.005 per row
🔍 Search note result	$0.005 per row
🔎 Search user result	$0.005 per row

Apify Marketplace tier discounts apply automatically — Silver (10% off), Gold (50% off), Platinum & Diamond (deeper savings).

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🎯 Use Cases

1. KOL & Creator Discovery

Search Xiaohongshu / RedNote by keyword to surface trending creators in beauty, fashion, food, travel, parenting, or any niche. Then pull full profiles (fans, verification, level, bio) to shortlist KOLs for brand campaigns.

2. China Market Entry Research

RedNote / Little Red Book is China's #1 discovery platform for Western brands targeting Gen-Z and Millennial consumers. Monitor lifestyle, beauty, fashion, food, and travel trends with daily keyword scrapes.

3. Content Trend Tracking

Scrape keyword searches daily to track viral notes, emerging hashtags, and breakout creators. Combine likedCount, collectedCount, and commentsCount to identify which content shapes are working right now.

4. Comment Sentiment Mining

Pull comments on any note — buyer reactions, brand feedback, community sentiment — for NLP analysis, customer-service intelligence, or competitor monitoring. The subCommentSample field gives you reply context in a single row.

5. Creator Catalog Mapping

For any user ID, pull their complete note history with engagement metrics, titles, and posting times — ideal for KOL audit, content-strategy reverse-engineering, and influencer due diligence.

6. Lifestyle Trend Intelligence

Track what's trending in beauty 💄, fashion 👗, food 🍜, travel ✈️, fitness 💪, parenting 👶 — Xiaohongshu is the canonical signal for consumer-lifestyle trends in China.

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📊 Sample Output (searchNote)

{
  "_operation": "searchNote",
  "_fetchedAt": "2026-05-12T13:20:50Z",
  "_sourceKeyword": "美食",
  "_page": 1,
  "status": "success",
  "noteId": "69ec85eb000000001e00cd6c",
  "noteTitle": "我妈尝了一口，让我原地出摊！！",
  "noteDesc": "...",
  "noteType": "normal",
  "xsecToken": "YBJwDVhExZtED4VfSbDR5egiH44n0JKZ4ODgqZapZ7YGE=",
  "noteCoverUrl": "https://sns-webpic-qc.xhscdn.com/...",
  "noteImageUrls": ["https://sns-webpic-qc.xhscdn.com/..."],
  "likedCount": 4231,
  "collectedCount": 892,
  "commentsCount": 167,
  "sharedCount": 23,
  "userId": "5ee58a2e000000000100057e",
  "userName": "香香的美食",
  "userRedId": "257152115",
  "userVerified": false,
  "userAvatarUrl": "https://sns-avatar-qc.xhscdn.com/...",
  "postedAt": 1729184563,
  "notePageUrl": "https://www.xiaohongshu.com/explore/69ec85eb000000001e00cd6c?xsec_token=..."
}

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🆚 Why This Scraper

	This actor	Most competitors
Operations bundled	6 (notes, users, comments, search)	1 per actor — costs 6× more
Pricing model	Per-result (only successful rows)	Often per-dataset-item (charges errors too)
Chinese keyword support	✅ Native	⚠️ Often documented only with English seeds
Retry on transient upstream failures	✅ Auto with backoff	❌ Surfaces broken rows
xsec_token passthrough	✅	❌
Curated camelCase + raw fields	✅ Both	⚠️ Usually one or the other
subCommentSample (replies in one row)	✅	❌ Requires second fetch

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❓ FAQ

Q: Do I need an Xiaohongshu / RedNote account? A: No. The actor handles authentication on the backend. Paste a note ID, user ID, or keyword and run.

Q: Is this affiliated with Xiaohongshu / RedNote? A: No. This is an independent third-party scraping tool. See trademark disclaimer below.

Q: What's the difference between Xiaohongshu, RedNote, and Little Red Book? A: All three names refer to the same platform (小红书 / XHS). "Xiaohongshu" is the original Chinese name; "RedNote" is the international app rebrand; "Little Red Book" is the direct English translation.

Q: Where do I get a noteId or userId? A: From any RedNote URL — https://www.xiaohongshu.com/explore/{noteId} or https://www.xiaohongshu.com/user/profile/{userId}. Both IDs are 24-character hex strings. You can also harvest them from any searchNote / searchUser run.

Q: How many notes can I scrape per run? A: Paginated operations (userNotes, noteComments, searchNote, searchUser) support up to 50 pages per run, ~20 rows/page → up to ~1,000 rows.

Q: What if a note is private or deleted? A: The actor returns an error row with a human-readable errorMessage. You are never charged for error rows.

Q: Does it support Xiaohongshu video notes? A: Yes. Video notes are returned with a videoInfo field plus all the normal note metadata. Use noteType (normal | video | multi) to filter.

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📞 Support

• 🐛 Bug reports & feature requests: Apify Console → Issues tab
• 📧 Email: ventures.sian@gmail.com
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⚠️ Trademark Disclaimer

This is an independent scraping tool. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Xingyin Information Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. or any of its affiliates. The Xiaohongshu®, RedNote®, Little Red Book®, and 小红书® trademarks are the property of their respective owners and appear here under nominative fair use solely to identify the source platform that this tool helps you collect publicly available data from.

This tool extracts only publicly available data. Users are responsible for complying with applicable laws, the platform's terms of service, and the privacy rights of individuals whose public posts they collect. SIÁN Agency does not store, resell, or redistribute scraped content.

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⚖️ Legal

This scraper is provided as-is, under the Apache 2.0 license. By using it, you agree to:

• Use the data for lawful purposes only.
• Comply with the GDPR and any other applicable data-protection laws when collecting data on EU residents.
• Comply with Xiaohongshu / RedNote's terms of service.
• Take responsibility for your downstream use of the collected data.

Read Apify's guide to ethical web scraping for context on what constitutes lawful scraping.

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