Douyin Feed Scraper

Collect what Douyin is recommending right now: the guest home feed, a named category feed (food, gaming, knowledge, anime, music), any other channel by its tag_id, or the short-drama discovery feed. No Douyin login or account required. Pick a mode with scraperType.

Modes

scraperType	Feed
feedHome (default)	Guest home recommendation feed
feedFood, feedGame, feedKnowledge, feedAnime, feedMusic	Named category feeds
feedChannel	Any other category feed, by tag_id
feedSeries	Short-drama (短剧) discovery feed

Input

Field	Use it for
tag_id	Channel ID for feedChannel. Required only for that mode — the food channel, for example, is 300203.
series_content_type	feedSeries only. Integer 0–10, default 0; different values return different sets of series.
maxItems	Caps the run. Default 100. Set 0 for no limit.

{
  "scraperType": "feedChannel",
  "tag_id": "300203",
  "maxItems": 50
}

Output

Field	Mode	Contents
aweme_id, desc, create_time, duration, statistics, author, music, share_url	The seven video feeds	Each recommended video
series_id, series_name, series_stats, series_status, cover, author, aweme_id	feedSeries	Each recommended series and its current episode

{
  "aweme_id": "7669645030730091791",
  "desc": "《越狱》深度解析 第21期丨 500万巨款引发全员狂飙！",
  "create_time": 1785729198,
  "statistics": { "digg_count": 11007, "comment_count": 167, "share_count": 337, "collect_count": 1416 }
}

Questions

Why do I see the same videos again if I run this twice, or across pages in one run? These feeds have no stable pagination — Douyin's recommendation ranking shifts between requests, so sequential pages genuinely overlap. Within one run, the Actor dedupes on aweme_id and stops once a full page brings back nothing new. Across separate runs there is no such guard: the feed itself repeats rather than advancing like a normal list, so a second run later the same day will still return some of the same videos.

Is feedSeries the same underneath? No. The seven video feeds page on an internal counter with no proper end signal, which is what makes the overlap above happen. feedSeries is a different shape — it pages cleanly on an offset with its own end-of-list flag, so it does not share that overlap behaviour to the same degree.

Where do I find a tag_id for feedChannel beyond the five named feeds? Douyin doesn't publish a directory of them. 300203 (food) is a known example; beyond the five named category feeds this Actor already covers, a channel ID has to come from elsewhere — a URL you already have, or another source that references it.

Related Actors

Actor	Purpose
Douyin Short Drama Scraper	Found a series_id in feedSeries? Get its full detail and every episode in order
Douyin Search Scraper	Looking for specific content rather than what's currently recommended? Search by keyword instead
Douyin Hot Search Scraper	Ranked trending terms and charts, rather than a raw video feed

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