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/7695376249594582891",
    "https://v.douyin.com/xxxxxxx/"
  ],
  "maxResults": 10
}

Input parameters

Parameter	Required	Description
urls	Yes	Douyin video links, v.douyin.com share links, or bare numeric video IDs.
maxResults	No	Maximum video rows to save. Default: 10.

Output fields

• awemeId, url, resolvedUrl, videoUrl
• desc, title, hashtags
• createTime (Unix seconds), createdAt (ISO 8601), durationSeconds
• isImagePost, imageCount
• diggCount (likes), commentCount, shareCount, collectCount (saves), playCount (only when Douyin exposes it)
• author, authorId, authorSecUid, authorFollowers, authorProfileUrl
• music, musicAuthor, coverUrl, scrapedAt

Example result

{
  "awemeId": "7695376249594582891",
  "url": "https://www.douyin.com/video/7695376249594582891",
  "videoUrl": "https://www.douyin.com/video/7695376249594582891",
  "desc": "这首歌频率太快 就像逝去的青春 #段俊 #钢琴 #nightcruising #夜间巡航",
  "createdAt": "2026-10-11T11:50:06+00:00",
  "durationSeconds": 17.5,
  "diggCount": 3041304,
  "commentCount": 31655,
  "shareCount": 189805,
  "collectCount": 201952,
  "hashtags": [
    "段俊",
    "钢琴",
    "nightcruising",
    "夜间巡航"
  ],
  "author": "段俊",
  "authorFollowers": 14419917,
  "music": "@段俊创作的原声"
}

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 viewable videos are returned. Deleted, private or region-restricted videos are skipped and listed in the run log, so you are not charged for them.
• Douyin markup changes frequently; fields that disappear from the public page stay empty rather than being invented.
• Comments and downloadable video files are not included. Douyin hides public play counts for most videos, so playCount is often empty.

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 rows and a status message explaining why. 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.

Related guides and Actors

• Compare Douyin Posts Side By Side
• Douyin Posts Data Pipeline
• Export Douyin Posts To Csv
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• Instagram Scraper — track creator and engagement data across platforms
• YouTube Scraper — extend video research beyond short-form content

Last verified: 2026-10

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