Douyin Scraper - Videos, Creators, Comments & Hot Search

What does Douyin Scraper do?

Douyin Scraper extracts public data from Douyin (抖音), China's short-video app, and turns video links, creator pages, hashtags and the hot-search boards into structured rows: each video with its caption, likes, comments, shares, saves, publish date, creator stats, music, Douyin's own content category, the no-watermark MP4 link and its bit-rate ladder; each creator with followers, total likes and IP location; comments, danmaku (bullet comments) and trending topics as their own rows. Built for China-market researchers, brand and KOL teams, agencies and data pipelines that need Douyin numbers without the app.

Douyin Scraper - 抖音 Scraper - Douyin Video Scraper - Douyin Comments Scraper - Douyin Hot Search Scraper

• Five kinds of rows in one actor: videos (by URL, creator, hashtag or the related list), creator profiles, comments, danmaku and hot-search topics. recordType tells them apart; each has its own price, and you only pay for the kinds you switch on.
• Every link Douyin shares: douyin.com/video/…, /note/…, ?modal_id= URLs, iesdouyin.com/share/… links, v.douyin.com short links (or the whole pasted share text) and bare ids.
• The numbers on the video page: likes, comments, shares, saves and recommends, the publish time, duration, hashtags, Douyin's three-level content category (videoTags, e.g. 美食 → 美食探店 → 餐厅探店) and the creator's followers and total likes.
• Free no-watermark MP4 link on every video (videoMeta.downloadUrl, the highest H.264 resolution Douyin lists, e.g. 1080x1920) plus the full bit-rate ladder; a photo post carries its images instead. Optionally the MP4 file itself saved to your storage.
• All five hot-search boards: 热榜 Hot search, 种草榜 Seeding, 娱乐榜 Entertainment, 社会榜 Social and 挑战榜 Challenge, about 50 topics each, with rank, hot value, video count and event time.
• No login, no cookies, no API key, no proxy needed: paste links and run.
• Monitor mode for schedules: each run delivers only videos, comments and danmaku it has not delivered before (a creator's profile row comes with the first run and again only with new videos - with maxVideosPerProfile: 0, again whenever the creator's counts, name or bio changed); boards return only topics that are new, moved or dropped off.
• Export anywhere: JSON, CSV, Excel, XML; schedules, webhooks, Make, Zapier, n8n, Google Sheets; Apify API and MCP, with a compact mode for AI agents.

What data can you get from Douyin?

🆔 Video id, URL and share URL (`id`, `url`, `shareUrl`)	📝 Caption, title, preview title (`text`, `itemTitle`, `previewTitle`)	📅 Publish time (`createTime`, `createDate`)
❤️ Likes (`statistics.diggCount`)	💬 Comments (`statistics.commentCount`)	🔁 Shares, saves, recommends (`shareCount`, `collectCount`, `recommendCount`)
👤 Creator: name, Douyin ID, sec_uid, bio, verification (`authorMeta`)	👥 Creator stats: followers, total likes, video count, IP location	🎵 Music: title, author, original flag, play URL (`musicMeta`)
🎬 Video: duration, size, ratio, cover, dynamic cover, play URLs (`videoMeta`)	⬇️ No-watermark download URL + bit-rate ladder (`downloadUrl`, `bitRates`)	🏷️ Content category, 3 levels (`videoTags`)
#️⃣ Hashtags with ids (`hashtags`) and @mentions (`mentions`)	📚 Collection and series episode (`mix`, `series`), chapters (`chapters`)	📍 Tagged place (`poi`), "people also search" words (`suggestWords`)
🧑‍💼 Profile rows: followers, following, total likes, videos, IP location	💬 Comment rows: text, likes, reply count, IP label, commenter, date	💭 Danmaku rows: text and the second of the video it appears at
🔥 Topic rows: board, rank, word, hot value, video count, event time	🔗 Related videos (`sourceType: "related"`, `relatedTo`)	📥 Saved MP4 and cover files (`videoFile.kvUrl`, `coverFile.kvUrl`)

Field fill on a 920-row platform run (run RpdwJka3QlUY6pG9g, 2026-10-08: 1 video URL, 1 creator × 20, 1 hashtag, the Hot and Entertainment boards, comments (20 per video), danmaku (30 per video) and related videos (3 per video - 91 of the 126 video rows) on): every video row had the id, URL, caption, publish date, all five counts, the creator's name and sec_uid, the cover and the music; 99% the no-watermark download URL, play URL and duration (the 1% is a photo post, which carries images instead), 95% the audio URL (Douyin's related list leaves it out for some videos); 100% videoTags, 94% hashtags, 88% suggestWords, 24% a collection, 10% chapters, 8% a tagged place. Creator followers and total likes are on every row from a video URL, a creator page or a hashtag (35 of 35); Douyin's related list carries the creator's name and ids but not their counts. 382 of 385 comment rows had the text (two image-only comments and one Douyin sent without text), all of them the likes, reply count and commenter, 384 the IP label; every danmaku row its text and time; every topic row the word and rank, 94% the hot value (the Hot board's pinned topic and its trending events carry none).

How to scrape Douyin with Douyin Scraper

1. Create a free Apify account - $5 of monthly credit, no card needed.
2. Open Douyin Scraper and click Try for free.
3. Paste Douyin video links, creator pages or hashtag links, or tick the hot-search boards you want.
4. Switch on the extras you need (creator profile, comments, danmaku, related videos, MP4 files) and set the limits.
5. Click Start and wait - the sample input finishes in about 10 seconds.
6. Download the rows as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read them through the API.

⬇️ Input

Parameter	Type	Description
videoUrls	array	Video / photo-post links, share links or ids. One video row each.
profileUrls	array	Creator pages, share links or sec_uids (MS4wLjABAAAA…). Profile row + newest videos by publish date.
hashtags	array	Hashtag pages or ids. The hashtag's top 15 videos as full video rows.
trendingBoards	array	hot, seeding, entertainment, social, challenge.
profileSort	string	latest (default: newest publish date first; a video the creator pinned counts at its own date, although Douyin's page shows pins on top) or popular (most liked among the newest ~44).
postedAfter / postedBefore	string	2026-09-01, 7 days, 3 weeks or a day count.
excludePinnedPosts, minLikes, mediaType, keywordFilter		Filters applied to every video row before it is delivered.
includeProfile	boolean	One profile row per creator. Default true.
includeComments + maxCommentsPerVideo	boolean, integer	Comment rows for every video from your lists, in Douyin's own order (popular first). Default 20 per video.
includeDanmaku + maxDanmakuPerVideo	boolean, integer	Bullet-comment rows. Default 200 per video.
includeRelated + maxRelatedPerVideo	boolean, integer	Douyin's related videos (up to 10 per video) as video rows, for each video row from your lists delivered in the run.
downloadVideos, downloadQuality, downloadCovers, maxDownloadSizeMb, kvStoreName		Save MP4 / cover files to a key-value store (MP4 is a paid add-on, covers are free). downloadQuality: standard (720p) or highest (e.g. 1080p).
monitorMode + monitorStoreName	boolean, string	Only new rows since the previous run with the same store name.
maxVideosPerProfile	integer	Default 20, newest first. Douyin shows signed-out visitors one page of 44 of a creator's videos (the pinned ones + the newest), so a larger number returns those 44 and the status message says so. 0 = profile row only.
maxTopicsPerBoard, maxItems, commentsOnly, compact		Output size and shape.
proxyConfiguration, maxConcurrency		Optional; Douyin answers the actor's own IP.

Input JSON

{
  "videoUrls": ["https://www.douyin.com/video/7577614489533680959"],
  "profileUrls": ["https://www.douyin.com/user/MS4wLjABAAAAk1tZ-L085zZf2yW_H5dnVFZWyk8Rt8v4RAvf9KhTyPoVdMDxTs7Q_rvgTJGWXezS"],
  "maxVideosPerProfile": 20,
  "trendingBoards": ["hot"],
  "includeComments": true,
  "maxCommentsPerVideo": 50
}

Paste any Douyin link - the actor routes it

A creator link pasted into the video box is still read as a creator, and a v.douyin.com short link (or the whole "复制打开抖音…" share text) is resolved first. Bare numbers in the video box are video ids; in the hashtag box they are hashtag ids. A hashtag is opened by its page URL or id (douyin.com/hashtag/1594485689837575); a hashtag name cannot be resolved because that needs Douyin search.

Use maxVideosPerProfile: 0 for creator stats only

With the profile row on and no videos, a run returns one row per creator - followers, following, total likes, video count, IP location - without any video rows to pay for.

Comments only for a list of videos

Set commentsOnly: true to get the comment rows of your video links without the video rows themselves. On its own it reads the comments of your video links only: creators and hashtags in the same run still deliver their video rows, with no comments unless includeComments is on. With includeDanmaku: true it delivers the bullet comments only; set includeComments: true as well to get both. No related videos are added in this mode.

⬆️ Output

A video row (shortened; real values from run se7YQoQk62GryRMam):

{
  "recordType": "video",
  "id": "7577614489533680959",
  "url": "https://www.douyin.com/video/7577614489533680959",
  "text": "这个贵州五线小城，凭什么是中国“吃商”最高的城市？ …",
  "createDate": "2025-11-28T09:00:00.000Z",
  "statistics": { "diggCount": 4063998, "commentCount": 163216, "shareCount": 5188455, "collectCount": 855097, "recommendCount": 254037 },
  "videoTags": [{ "level": 1, "name": "美食" }, { "level": 2, "name": "美食探店" }, { "level": 3, "name": "餐厅探店" }],
  "authorMeta": { "name": "盗月社食遇记", "username": "daoyueshe", "followersCount": 2270852, "totalLikesReceived": 19561152 },
  "videoMeta": { "duration": 1082500, "width": 3840, "height": 2160, "downloadUrl": "https://…zjcdn.com/…", "downloadQuality": "1920x1080 normal_1080_0" },
  "durationSeconds": 1082.5,
  "mix": { "id": "7486681757459154981", "name": "吃遍中国街头美食", "episode": 8, "totalEpisodes": 11 },
  "sourceType": "url"
}

A comment row: { "recordType": "comment", "cid": "…", "videoId": "7577614489533680959", "text": "…", "diggCount": 2, "replyCount": 0, "ipLabel": "贵州", "user": { "nickname": "…" }, "createDate": "2026-09-08T13:36:49.000Z" }. A topic row: { "recordType": "trending-topic", "board": "hot", "rank": 2, "word": "…", "hotValue": 11108397, "videoCount": 3, "eventDate": "2026-10-08T11:07:…" } (the top entry of the Hot board is often Douyin's pinned topic, which has no hot value). The dataset has four views: Videos, Comments & danmaku, Creators and Hot-search topics.

How can I use Douyin data?

• 🛍️ Brands entering China - follow a category's hashtags and creators, read videoTags, likes and saves to see which content converts.
• 🧑‍💼 KOL and agency teams - shortlist creators by followers, total likes and posting cadence; profile rows alone are the cheap first pass.
• 📰 Newsrooms and analysts - schedule the five hot-search boards hourly with monitor mode and log what enters, climbs and drops off.
• 💬 Sentiment and audience research - comment text with the commenter's IP province (ipLabel) and danmaku timed to the second.
• 🤖 AI pipelines - compact rows of captions, tags and counts fit an LLM context window; MP4 files feed your own transcription or vision models.

How much does it cost to scrape Douyin?

Douyin Scraper is pay-per-event (the Pricing tab always shows the live rates). There is no start fee.

Event	Price	When it is charged
video	$0.004 per video ($4.00 per 1,000)	Each video or photo-post row delivered after your filters
profile	$0.0055 per creator	Each creator profile row
comment	$0.0016 per comment ($1.60 per 1,000)	Each comment row
danmaku	$0.001 per bullet comment	Each danmaku row
trending-topic	$0.0056 per topic	Each hot-search topic row (monitor mode: each NEW, CHANGED or EXPIRED topic)
video-download	$0.00094 per MP4	Each video whose MP4 file was saved (files over your size limit are skipped and not charged)

Worked examples:

• The sample input (1 video URL + 1 creator × 20 videos) = 21 × $0.004 + $0.0055 = $0.0895
• An empty input runs the sample video only (its video row, no extras) = 1 × $0.004 = $0.004
• 100 video URLs = 100 × $0.004 = $0.40
• 1 video + 100 of its comments = $0.004 + 100 × $0.0016 = $0.164
• 10 creators × 44 newest videos + profiles = 440 × $0.004 + 10 × $0.0055 = $1.815
• The Hot board once (about 56 topics) = $0.31; all five boards (about 255 topics) = $1.43

Apify platform usage is included in these prices. Measured on the platform on 2026-10-09 at the default 1 GB of memory: the sample input took 8-13 seconds (two runs).

Integrations, API, scheduling & MCP

• Schedules: run Douyin Scraper hourly or daily from the Schedules tab; with monitorMode each run returns only what is new.
• Webhooks: fire a URL when a run finishes - push rows to your CRM, Slack or a sheet.
• No-code: Make, Zapier, n8n, Google Sheets, Airtable, Slack via Apify integrations.
• API: apify-client for Node.js or Python, and the Apify API reference.
• MCP / AI agents: connect Claude, Cursor or any MCP client through the MCP tab; switch on compact to keep answers small.

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Limits & empty runs

• What Douyin shows a signed-out visitor is the ceiling. A creator's newest ~44 videos (Douyin's first page, which also holds the videos the creator pinned; older videos need a login), a hashtag's top 15 videos, and no keyword or user search (Douyin answers "请先登录，再继续搜索吧" - log in to search). The actor never logs in, so search and full creator catalogues are not available; when that page is what stops a creator's list (you asked for more than 44, or your filters left fewer videos than you asked for), the status message names it (e.g. "newest 44 videos of … (of 211); you asked for 100"); it stays silent when your own maxVideosPerProfile, monitor memory or postedAfter is what limited the list.
• Plays: Douyin returns 0 plays for every video to signed-out visitors, so the rows carry no play count.
• Replies: Douyin answers the reply list of a comment with an empty response to signed-out visitors; comment rows carry replyCount, the reply texts are not included.
• Duplicates: Douyin repeats popular comments on the next page; the actor delivers and charges each comment once, also when Apify restarts a run midway (the rows already in the dataset are read back, never delivered or charged again, and count toward your per-video limits).
• Media URLs expire: play and download URLs about an hour after the run, covers in 14-30 days; id and url are permanent. Use downloadVideos to keep the files.
• Speed: a browser opens one Douyin page per run (2-7 seconds) when video details or creator videos are needed; boards, comments and profiles need none.
• Empty dataset: your filters removed everything, the video is private or deleted (not_found in the run summary), or monitor mode found nothing new.
• Links that are not Douyin (a TikTok link, a link to another site such as toutiao.com, a Douyin search page) are skipped with a free error row that says why; nothing is charged for them, and an input made only of non-Douyin links delivers no paid rows. An empty input (no video, creator, hashtag or board at all) runs the sample video instead and charges it as one video row ($0.004); comments, danmaku, related videos or MP4 files switched on are not applied to it.

FAQ

How many videos can Douyin Scraper get from one creator?

Up to 44: the one page Douyin shows a signed-out visitor (the creator's pinned videos + the newest). The actor returns them newest first by publish date; a larger maxVideosPerProfile returns all 44 and the status message names the ceiling; profileSort: "popular" returns the most liked of those.

Can Douyin Scraper download Douyin videos without a watermark?

Yes. Every video's row has videoMeta.downloadUrl, the no-watermark file at the highest H.264 resolution Douyin lists (a photo post carries its images instead); switch on downloadVideos to save the MP4 itself to a key-value store ($0.00094 per file).

Can Douyin Scraper get Douyin comments?

Yes, with includeComments: true: text, likes, reply count, the commenter's IP province and the date, in Douyin's own order (popular first), 20 per page, as many as maxCommentsPerVideo allows.

Can I track Douyin hot search with Douyin Scraper?

Yes. Tick the boards in trendingBoards; with monitorMode on a schedule, each run returns only topics that are NEW, moved rank (CHANGED) or left the board (EXPIRED).

Can I run Douyin Scraper on a schedule?

Yes. Save the input as a task, open Schedules, pick a cadence and switch on monitorMode; a run that finds nothing new delivers no rows (the creator's profile row is repeated only with a run that finds new videos; with maxVideosPerProfile: 0 it is repeated whenever the creator's follower, following, like or video count, name or bio changed - for an active creator that is most runs).

Can I use Douyin Scraper with the Apify API?

Yes - start runs and read datasets with apify-client for Node.js or Python.

Can I use Douyin Scraper through an MCP server?

Yes. Open the MCP tab, connect your client and ask for Douyin videos, creators or hot topics in plain language.

Do I need a Douyin account, cookies or a proxy?

No. Paste links and run; no account, cookie export or QR login is involved, and Douyin answers the actor without a proxy.

Why did my Douyin Scraper run return no rows?

The video is private or deleted, your filters removed every video (the run summary lists why), monitor mode found nothing new, or the input was not a Douyin link: each such line gets a free error row, and a TikTok link points you to TikTok Scraper. Nothing is charged for those lines.

Is it legal to scrape Douyin?

Douyin Scraper collects publicly available data only, nothing behind a login. You are responsible for complying with Douyin's terms of service, creators' copyright and data-protection law (GDPR, CCPA, PIPL); creator profiles and comments are personal data.

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