# Douyin Hot Search Scraper (抖音热榜): Trending Topics & Music (`sinodata/douyin-hot-search`) Actor

Douyin (抖音) hot search API, no login: the real-time top 50 trending topics with heat, peak rank, trending start time, video count and cover, plus rising topics and the Douyin music chart. Only-new mode for hourly alerts.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/sinodata/douyin-hot-search.md
- **Developed by:** [SinoData](https://apify.com/sinodata) (community)
- **Categories:** Social media, News
- **Security:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.90 / 1,000 topics

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Douyin Hot Search (抖音热榜): Trending Topics & Music Chart

Get **Douyin's real-time hot search list** (抖音热榜), the Chinese TikTok's trending topics, as clean JSON. No login, no cookies, no browser.

- **Hot search list (热榜)**: the top 50 topics with rank, **heat value**, **peak rank**, **when the topic started trending**, number of related videos, label (新 new, 热 hot...), cover image and a search link
- **Rising topics (实时上升)**: the topics Douyin marks as rising right now
- **Music chart (音乐榜)**: songs trending on Douyin with rank change, artist, duration and heat (a short list that Douyin updates irregularly; for full daily music charts see [China Music Charts](https://apify.com/sinodata/china-music-charts))
- **Only new topics** mode: schedule it every hour and get only topics that just entered the list

### Use cases

- **Marketing and content teams**: spot what Chinese audiences are watching before planning content or ads for Douyin.
- **Brand and PR monitoring**: get alerted when your brand or industry trends on Douyin.
- **Research and media**: build an hourly time series of Douyin trends with Apify **Schedules**.
- **Music industry**: follow the songs that are breaking on Douyin.

### Example input

```json
{
  "lists": ["hot", "rising", "music"]
}
```

Hourly alerts (schedule this every hour):

```json
{
  "lists": ["hot"],
  "onlyNew": true
}
```

### Output

```json
{
  "type": "douyinHotTopic",
  "list": "hot",
  "rank": 4,
  "word": "国防部回应美日近期军演",
  "url": "https://www.douyin.com/search/%E5%9B%BD%E9%98%B2%E9%83%A8...",
  "hotValue": 11245148,
  "peakRank": 1,
  "trendingSince": "2026-10-29T08:26:54.000Z",
  "videoCount": 5,
  "label": "热 (hot)",
  "labelCode": 3,
  "categoryCode": 3001,
  "coverUrl": "https://p5-sign.douyinpic.com/...",
  "capturedAt": "2026-10-30T08:40:00.000Z"
}
```

A music chart entry:

```json
{ "type": "douyinMusic", "list": "music", "rank": 1, "rankChange": 2, "title": "2002", "author": "Anne-Marie", "hotValue": 541538, "durationSeconds": 61, "url": "https://www.douyin.com/music/6626921478493310000" }
```

- `peakRank` is the best rank the topic has reached; `trendingSince` is when it entered the list.
- `categoryCode` is Douyin's own topic category code, kept as published.
- Cover image links are signed by Douyin and expire after about a day; download them if you need to keep them.
- All records of one run share the same `capturedAt`, so each run is one snapshot.

### Pricing

**$0.004 per topic or song ($4 per 1,000).** These prices apply from 14 November 2026. A full snapshot of the hot list costs about $0.20; an hourly schedule about $4.80 a day, or much less with **Only new topics** on.

### Notes

- These are the lists Douyin shows to logged-out visitors. Douyin's other boards (entertainment, society, challenges) require signed requests and are not included.
- For Weibo, Baidu, Toutiao, Bilibili, Zhihu and 15 more Chinese trending lists in one run, see [China Trending Topics](https://apify.com/sinodata/china-trending-topics).
- Only public data is collected.

### Related

- [China Music Charts](https://apify.com/sinodata/china-music-charts): NetEase, QQ Music and Kugou top songs
- [Weibo Scraper](https://apify.com/sinodata/weibo-scraper): keyword search, posts, comments and hot search

### 中文说明

抖音热榜接口，无需登录：实时热榜前 50 名（热度值、最高排名、上榜时间、相关视频数、标签、封面和搜索链接）、实时上升话题和抖音音乐榜，支持“只要新话题”模式，适合按小时定时监测。2026 年 11 月 14 日起每 1000 条 4 美元，可在 Apify 上直接运行或通过 API 调用。有问题请在 Issues 页面留言（中文、英文均可）。

### Feedback

Need another field? Open an issue on the Issues tab.

# Actor input Schema

## `lists` (type: `array`):

Which Douyin lists to get.

## `onlyNew` (type: `boolean`):

For scheduled runs: save (and pay for) only topics that were not on the list in your previous runs within the time below.

## `rememberHours` (type: `integer`):

With Only new topics: a topic that drops off and comes back after this many hours counts as new again.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Not needed for normal use.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "lists": [
    "hot",
    "rising"
  ],
  "onlyNew": false,
  "rememberHours": 24,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `overview` (type: `string`):

No description

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("sinodata/douyin-hot-search").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("sinodata/douyin-hot-search").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call sinodata/douyin-hot-search --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,sinodata/douyin-hot-search"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/m2emwrbX49uwI7MCM/builds/QwlIcIjPvRlh7fUFE/openapi.json