Douyin Scraper

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Extract public Douyin video metadata — author info, caption, and engagement stats — from share links and video URLs.

What you get

Extract public Douyin video metadata — author info, caption, and engagement stats — from share links and video URLs.

Why use this Douyin scraper

• Share-link resolution — paste short v.douyin.com links or full video URLs; the Actor resolves and normalizes them.
• Full video metadata — aweme ID, author nickname, caption, create time, and play/like/comment/share counts where the public page exposes them.
• No login or cookies — reads public pages only, so there is no account to flag or ban.
• One row per video — deduplicated, stable IDs, analytics-ready keys.

Scrape Douyin data in minutes

{
  "urls": [
    "https://www.douyin.com/video/7259656861705526567"
  ],
  "maxResults": 10
}

Input parameters

Parameter	Required	Description
urls	Yes	Video/share URLs. Example: ['https://v.douyin.com/xxx/', 'https://www.douyin.com/video/123']
maxResults	No	Cap. Default: 10.

Output fields

• awemeId
• url
• resolvedUrl
• author
• commentCount
• createTime
• desc
• diggCount
• playCount
• shareCount
• error

Example result

{
  "awemeId": "7259656861705526567",
  "url": "https://www.douyin.com/video/7259656861705526567",
  "resolvedUrl": "https://www.douyin.com/video/7259656861705526567"
}

Common use cases

• Track short-video trends and hashtag performance in the China market
• Collect creator and engagement data for research or monitoring
• Resolve Douyin share links into canonical video URLs at scale
• Feed video metadata into downstream transcription or analysis pipelines

Compared to alternatives

• vs other Douyin scrapers on the Store — pay-per-result billing means empty or failed searches cost nothing; you are not charged for a run that returns zero rows.
• vs building your own — no proxy management, markup-change maintenance, or infrastructure to run; paste inputs and consume the dataset.

Limitations

• Only publicly accessible videos are returned — region-locked or deleted posts produce an error row.

• Douyin markup changes frequently; fields that disappear from the public page stay empty rather than being invented.

• No comments or full play URLs are guaranteed — availability depends on the public page payload.

• Use public data lawfully and respect applicable privacy and platform rules.

FAQ

Do I need an account or cookies?

No — the Actor reads public data only. There is no login to configure and no account to risk.

What happens when a search returns nothing?

The run completes with zero (or an explicit error) rows. Per-result billing means you are not charged for empty output.

Can I run it on a schedule?

Yes — attach an Apify schedule or use the saved tasks to re-run the same inputs daily or weekly.

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Last verified: 2026-09

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