# Kuaishou Scraper | Videos, Comments and Creator Stats (`silentflow/kuaishou-scraper`) Actor
Kuaishou (快手) scraper for public videos by link, ID or keyword: views, likes, comments, saves, hashtags, publish time, creator followers and top comments with the commenter's province. 2 links return 22 videos in 17 seconds, 30 fields each. No login, no cookie. Export to JSON, CSV or Excel.
- **URL**: https://apify.com/silentflow/kuaishou-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [SilentFlow](https://apify.com/silentflow) (community)
- **Categories:** Social media, Videos
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing
from $5.95 / 1,000 videos
This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.
Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event
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# README
## Kuaishou Scraper (快手) | Videos, Comments and Creator Stats (2026)
**Turn the Kuaishou links on your campaign sheet into a table: views, likes, comments and saves for every video, the creator's followers on the same row, and what the top commenters say, province by province.** 22 videos in under 35 seconds on the prefilled input, no Kuaishou account, no Chinese phone number.
### Why choose this actor?
Copying view counts out of the Kuaishou app one video at a time? Picking creators from follower screenshots nobody can check? Using a scraper that wants a numeric photo\_id when all you have is the link your agency sent you?
- 31 filled fields per video, where the most used Kuaishou scraper shows 15 keys. On the prefilled run (22 videos, 28 Sep 2026), 31 fields carried a value on at least half the rows and 28 on every single row. Beyond views, likes, comments and saves you get the creator's followers, following and number of videos (`authorFollowers`, `authorFollowing`, `authorVideoCount`), the hashtags as a clean list, the duration in seconds, the soundtrack, the cover and the video file, and the top comments with the province each one was posted from (`authorRegion`). On that run 21 of the 22 rows carried 10 top comments and the other one 6.
- Paste the link you already have, or an ID, or a topic. Web links (`kuaishou.com/short-video/...`), short share links (`v.kuaishou.com/...`), share pages and the whole share text copied from the app all work in the same field, next to video IDs and keywords. The most used Kuaishou scraper takes IDs and keywords but no link. On our test with a share page, two share IDs, a numeric photo ID and a profile link, the 4 videos came back in 11 seconds and the profile link was named in the log as not a video.
- A form of 7 fields, none of them required. The most used Kuaishou scraper asks for 10. Here two videos of large food creators are prefilled with 10 related videos each: press Start and 22 rows come back. Every field has a sensible default, and the comments, the related videos and the keyword cap are one number each.
### Try your first Kuaishou video table
Paste this input into the Input tab (JSON view) and press Start. It is the prefilled input of the form: two home-cooking videos from creators with over a million followers, each followed by the 10 videos Kuaishou recommends next to it, with the 10 top comments of every video.
```json
{
"videoUrls": [
"https://www.kuaishou.com/short-video/3xwdz5sxnu5fat9",
"https://www.kuaishou.com/short-video/3xqvt79p7gewvbg"
],
"maxItems": 50,
"relatedVideos": 10,
"maxComments": 10,
"debugMode": false
}
```
Runs of this size fit easily in the Apify Free plan, so you can try the actor on your own links before scheduling anything. Each video is one row of the dataset; export it as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML from the Storage tab, or read it from the API. The Videos view shows caption, creator, followers, views, likes, comments, publish date and link at a glance; the Creators view lists each creator with their Kuaishou ID, gender, followers, following, number of videos and profile link.
### Copy to your AI assistant
Paste this block into Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor to give it full context about this actor:
```
You have access to the Kuaishou Scraper on Apify: silentflow/kuaishou-scraper
It returns one row per public Kuaishou (快手) video. No Kuaishou account is needed.
Input (all optional, at least one of videoUrls, videoIds or keywords):
- videoUrls (array of strings): Kuaishou video links. Accepts https://www.kuaishou.com/short-video/,
short share links https://v.kuaishou.com/, share pages https://m.gifshow.com/fw/photo/
and the share text copied from the app. Profile and live links are skipped.
- videoIds (array of strings): share IDs such as "3xwdz5sxnu5fat9" or numeric photo IDs such as "5211509402781314482".
- keywords (array of strings): topics, Chinese words work best ("美食", "游戏", "成都 美食").
Keeps the recommended videos, and the videos recommended next to each match, whose caption
or hashtags contain every word. Broad topics fill fast, rare words may find few videos.
- maxItems (integer, default 50): videos saved per keyword. Links and IDs are always all read.
- relatedVideos (integer, default 0, max 200): for each video read by link or ID, also save this many
of the videos Kuaishou recommends next to it (relatedTo names the source video).
- maxComments (integer, default 10, max 20): top comments saved on each row, 0 to skip.
- debugMode (boolean, default false).
Output per video (34 top-level fields, absent values omitted):
- id (string, share ID), photoId (string, numeric ID), url (string, permanent video page)
- caption (string), hashtags (array of strings), type (string: video or image),
durationSeconds (number), width (integer), height (integer), musicName (string)
- authorId (string), authorUserId (string), authorName (string), authorKwaiId (string, when set),
authorGender (string: female or male), authorAvatarUrl (string), authorUrl (string, profile page),
authorFollowers, authorFollowing, authorVideoCount (integers), authorVerified (boolean)
- viewCount, likeCount, commentCount, collectCount (integers), shareCount (integer, when Kuaishou shows it)
- publishedAt (string, RFC 3339 UTC)
- coverUrl (string), videoUrl (string, mp4 link that expires)
- topComments (array of {id, text, authorName, authorId, authorRegion, likeCount, replyCount, publishedAt})
- source (string: url, id, keyword or related), keyword (string), relatedTo (string), scrapedAt (string, RFC 3339 UTC)
Use apify-client for Python or JavaScript: client.actor("silentflow/kuaishou-scraper").call(run_input=...)
```
### How to scrape Kuaishou videos
Three runs, from the simplest to the richest. Each JSON is a complete input: paste it into the JSON view of the Input tab.
#### Get the numbers of one video from its share link
Copy the share link from the Kuaishou app (or the whole share text, the link is found inside it) and paste it. One row comes back with the video, its creator and its 10 top comments.
```json
{
"videoUrls": ["https://www.kuaishou.com/short-video/3xwdz5sxnu5fat9"]
}
```
#### Report on a list of campaign videos without the comments
Paste the links or IDs your agency sent you, in any mix. Set `maxComments` to `0` when you only need the numbers: the run is faster and each row still carries views, likes, comments, saves and the creator's audience.
```json
{
"videoUrls": [
"https://m.gifshow.com/fw/photo/3x55xca9nfrd2n2",
"https://www.kuaishou.com/short-video/3xqvt79p7gewvbg"
],
"videoIds": ["3x7g2d2a5mn5yz9", "5211509402781314482"],
"maxComments": 0
}
```
#### Collect 50 food videos and the talk around them
Type a topic in Chinese. The actor keeps the recommended videos whose caption or hashtags mention it, then the videos Kuaishou shows next to each match, until it has 50. On our test, a 20-video run on `美食` returned 20 videos that all had 美食 in their caption, in 44 seconds.
```json
{
"keywords": ["美食"],
"maxItems": 50,
"maxComments": 10
}
```
### Input parameters
| Field | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| `videoUrls` | array of strings | prefilled with 2 links | Kuaishou video links, one per line. See the accepted formats below. Each link becomes one row. |
| `keywords` | array of strings | none | Topics to find videos about. Chinese words find the most. Every word of a keyword must appear in the caption or hashtags. |
| `videoIds` | array of strings | none | Share IDs (`3xwdz5sxnu5fat9`) or numeric photo IDs (`5211509402781314482`). Each ID becomes one row. |
| `maxItems` | integer | `50` | Videos saved for each keyword. Videos read by link or ID are always all saved and do not count. |
| `relatedVideos` | integer | `0` (prefilled `10`) | For each video read by link or ID, also save this many of the videos Kuaishou recommends next to it. Up to 200. |
| `maxComments` | integer | `10` | Top comments saved in `topComments` on every row, up to 20. `0` skips them. |
| `debugMode` | boolean | `false` | Adds detailed lines to the run log. |
No field is required: a run needs at least one link, ID or keyword, and the form comes with two links prefilled.
#### Accepted formats
- **Web links**: `https://www.kuaishou.com/short-video/3xwdz5sxnu5fat9`, with or without the parameters Kuaishou adds (`?authorId=...&streamSource=...`), and the older `https://www.kuaishou.com/photo//