Kwai Scraper

Scrape Kwai (kwai.com) into clean, structured data: keyword search, hashtag feeds, a creator's full video catalogue, full video detail and creator profiles, in one run or over a REST API. No login, no cookies, no API key. You pay only for the results you get.

Why this scraper

Most Kwai and Kuaishou scrapers either return a thin field set or run on residential proxies and charge accordingly. This one extracts the full public payload Kwai's own website ships, including engagement counts, every video stream variant, music metadata, cover images, dimensions, and creator branding. Because it runs on plain HTTP, the price is among the lowest on the platform.

It targets kwai.com, the international app used across Latin America, the Middle East, and Asia. Handles like @jadebelchior905 work directly; you do not need internal numeric IDs.

What you can scrape

• Search any keyword and get matching videos with full engagement metrics.
• Hashtags: every video posted under a hashtag, far deeper than keyword search.
• Creator catalogues: a creator's videos, newest first, plus their profile.
• Video detail from a URL, ID or app share link: the complete record for a single video.
• Profiles from a creator handle or URL.
• Filters: only videos posted after a date, or with a minimum number of views. Filtered-out videos are not charged.
• Only new videos for scheduled runs: each run returns just what you have not received before.
• Instant answers over HTTP: call the actor as a REST API and get JSON back per request, without starting a run.

Input

Field	Type	Description
searchTerms	array	Keywords to search. Each returns matching videos.
expandSearchWithHashtag	boolean	Top up each search term with the videos of the hashtag of the same word, without repeats, until maxItems is reached. Default off.
hashtags	array	Hashtags with or without #. Each returns the videos posted under it.
startUrls	array	Any Kwai link: video URLs return full detail, profile URLs the creator, /topic/ URLs a hashtag feed, and app share links (k.kwai.com/p/...) whatever they point to.
profileHandles	array	Creator handles without the full URL, e.g. jadebelchior905.
includeProfileVideos	boolean	Also return each creator's videos, newest first. Default off: profile record only.
videoIds	array	Raw numeric video IDs (photo_id). Alternative to full URLs.
maxItems	integer	Max videos per search term, hashtag or creator. 0 for no limit. Default 20.
postedAfter	date	Only videos posted on or after this date, e.g. 2026-09-01.
minViews	integer	Only videos with at least this many views.
onlyNewVideos	boolean	Return only videos not delivered in an earlier run. Default off.

Filters and onlyNewVideos apply to search, hashtag and creator videos. Video URLs and IDs are always returned in full.

Output

Every record has a recordType of video or profile.

Video fields

Field	Description
recordType	Always video.
videoId	Kwai video ID as a string (precision-safe).
url	Canonical video URL.
caption	Video caption.
hashtags	Hashtags parsed from the caption.
transcript	Transcript when Kwai provides one, else null.
createTime	Upload time, ISO 8601.
duration	Length in seconds.
width, height	Video dimensions.
viewCount	View count.
likeCount	Like count.
commentCount	Comment count.
shareCount	Share / forward count.
videoUrl	Playable MP4 URL.
videoUrlVariants	All available stream URLs.
coverUrl	Cover thumbnail.
firstFrameUrl	First-frame image.
musicName	Track name.
musicArtist	Track artist.
musicId	Track ID.
musicUrl	Audio URL.
authorId	Creator ID.
authorName	Creator display name.
authorDisplayName	Creator display name (detail records from older pages).
authorKwaiId	Creator handle, as used in kwai.com/@handle.
authorBio	Creator bio.
authorAvatar	Creator avatar URL.
authorVerified	Verification flag.
authorFollowers	Follower count (detail mode).
authorFollowerLikes	Total likes across the creator's videos (detail mode).
authorUrl	Creator profile URL.
tags	Content tags.
sourceKeyword	The search term that produced the row (search only).
sourceHashtag	The hashtag that produced the row (hashtag feeds, and search rows topped up from a hashtag).
sourceProfile	The creator handle whose catalogue produced the row (creator videos only).

Profile fields

Field	Description
recordType	Always profile.
handle	Creator handle.
url	Profile URL.
profileId	Creator ID.
displayName	Creator display name.
bio	Creator bio.
avatar	Avatar URL.
followers	Follower count.
totalLikes	Total likes across all the creator's videos.
videoCount	Number of videos posted.

Example record

{
  "recordType": "video",
  "videoId": "5226577472377672739",
  "url": "https://www.kwai.com/@jadebelchior905/video/5226577472377672739",
  "caption": "# tatuagem",
  "hashtags": ["tatuagem"],
  "createTime": "2024-07-31T07:24:42.000Z",
  "duration": 21,
  "width": 720,
  "height": 1280,
  "viewCount": 1284903,
  "likeCount": 41017,
  "commentCount": 94,
  "shareCount": 2640,
  "videoUrl": "https://ak-br-cdn.kwai.net/upic/.../video.mp4",
  "musicName": "Áudio original",
  "authorName": "jadebelchior905",
  "authorVerified": false
}

Examples

Search for videos

{ "searchTerms": ["dance", "receita", "comedia"], "maxItems": 20 }

Full detail for specific videos

{ "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.kwai.com/@jadebelchior905/video/5213629630362183094" }] }

A creator's profile

{ "profileHandles": ["jadebelchior905"] }

A creator's 100 latest videos

{ "profileHandles": ["cnnbrasil"], "includeProfileVideos": true, "maxItems": 100 }

More than 20 videos per keyword

{ "searchTerms": ["futebol"], "expandSearchWithHashtag": true, "maxItems": 150 }

Popular videos under a hashtag since a date

{ "hashtags": ["futebol"], "maxItems": 200, "postedAfter": "2026-01-01", "minViews": 10000 }

App share links

{ "startUrls": ["https://k.kwai.com/p/CCzy11ul"] }

Scheduled daily run: only what is new

{
  "profileHandles": ["cnnbrasil"],
  "includeProfileVideos": true,
  "hashtags": ["futebol"],
  "maxItems": 50,
  "onlyNewVideos": true
}

Schedule this input in the Apify Scheduler (for example daily at 07:00). The first run delivers up to maxItems per entry; later runs return only videos you have not received before, and a run with nothing new costs nothing. For creators that means newly posted videos. Hashtag and search feeds are ordered by relevance, not date, so there "new" means "not delivered before"; add postedAfter to limit them to recent posts.

Call this actor over HTTP

Besides normal runs, this actor exposes a REST API that answers each request in a few seconds with JSON. There is no run to start and no dataset to fetch afterwards, which suits apps, automations and AI agents that need one answer at a time. The full interactive reference is on the Endpoints tab.

Endpoint	Returns	Billed as
GET /search?query=dance&maxItems=20	Videos matching a keyword (up to 100)	One list result per video
GET /hashtag?tag=futebol&maxItems=20	Videos under a hashtag (up to 100)	One list result per video
GET /creator-videos?handle=cnnbrasil&maxItems=20	A creator's videos, newest first (up to 100)	One list result per video
GET /video?id=5226577472377672739	Full detail for one video (id, url or share link)	One video detail result
GET /profile?handle=jadebelchior905	One creator profile (handle or url)	One list result

Authenticate with your Apify API token in the Authorization header:

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>" \
  "https://unfenced-group--kwai-scraper.apify.actor/search?query=dance&maxItems=5"

Every response has the shape { "count": N, "items": [...] }, with the same fields as the dataset records above. Errors, unknown videos or profiles, and empty searches return no data and are never billed. POST with a JSON body (for example {"query": "dance"}) works the same as GET. The search, hashtag and creator endpoints also take postedAfter and minViews, and /search takes expandWithHashtag=true to go past Kwai's ~20-video search limit.

Pricing

You pay per result. Compute and any proxy cost are absorbed by us.

Event	Price (per 1,000)
List / search result	from $1.49
Video detail result	from $1.99

Higher volume tiers reduce these rates automatically.

Performance

Runs on plain HTTP, so it is fast and light. A typical run uses well under 100 MB of memory. Every feed is paginated to its end, or to your maxItems cap, whichever comes first. Creator catalogues stop as soon as they pass your postedAfter date. Runs also stop collecting shortly before the run timeout so results are always written out.

Limitations

• Kwai's keyword search ends at roughly 20 videos per keyword. Turn on expandSearchWithHashtag to top it up from the hashtag of the same word, which goes hundreds of videos deep, or use several search terms.
• Hashtag feeds are ordered by Kwai's relevance, not by date. Use postedAfter for recent posts only.
• transcript is only present when Kwai itself provides one.
• Search returns videos, not users.
• Creator records cover public branding only; individual personal data is not collected.

Technical details

The scraper reads the server-rendered data Kwai embeds in its own pages and the public web endpoints its site calls. Video IDs are returned as strings to avoid the precision loss that affects large numeric IDs in JSON.

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