RedNote Comments Scraper: Xiaohongshu Comments & XHS ($1.99/1k)

💬 RedNote (Xiaohongshu / 小红书) Comments, Replies & Live Stream Chat Scraper

Extract multi-page post comments (250–1,000+ per post), top inline replies ("楼中楼"), keyword comment sweeps, real-time Live Stream chat messages (liveChat), fan-club badges, author IP locations, and customer buyer intent signals from Xiaohongshu (RedNote / 小红书) in seconds—with Zero Login & Zero Cookies Needed.

[!IMPORTANT] 🆕 V2 Engine Upgrade — Deep Multi-Page Comments & Zero xsec_token Required:

• Multi-Page Pagination (maxCommentsPerNote: 100 Default): Extracts up to 250–1,000+ root comments plus up to 3 top inline replies per comment across multi-page threads in seconds.
• Bare Post URLs & 24-Hex IDs Supported: Paste plain xiaohongshu.com/explore/<id>, rednote.com/discovery/item/<id>, xhslink.com/..., or bare 24-character Note IDs directly — ?xsec_token is not required.
• Keyword Comment Sweeps (keywords): Enter search keywords (e.g. ["Lululemon", "星巴克新品"]) to automatically discover matching posts and harvest their audience comments in one run.

Explore the Complete UnitBytes Xiaohongshu (RedNote) Suite:

• 🌟 RedNote All-in-One Scraper (xiaohongshu-scraper) — Unified 7-in-1 Keyword Search, Multi-Page Comments, Category Trends, Live Streams, KOL Leads, and Creator Profiles.
• 🔍 RedNote Search & Post Scraper (xiaohongshu-rednote-trend-scraper) — Cookieless keyword search (300+ notes/kw), bare post URLs, 13 category feeds, live rooms, and unwatermarked MP4 videos.
• 👤 RedNote Creator & KOL Leads Scraper (xiaohongshu-rednote-profile-scraper) — Automated KOL lead discovery by keyword, category feed & live stream, follower counts & ~30 portfolio posts.
• 🔴 RedNote Live Stream & Commerce Scraper (xiaohongshu-rednote-live-scraper) — Dedicated 7-category live broadcast discovery, 1080p .flv/.m3u8 streams, e-commerce filtering (hasGoods), and real-time live chat.
• 💬 RedNote Comments & Replies Scraper (xiaohongshu-rednote-comments-scraper) (You are here) — Multi-page post comments, top inline replies (楼中楼), keyword sweeps, real-time live chat, and buyer intent mining.

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🌟 2 Modes for Discussion & Buyer Intent Mining

Mode	What It Extracts	Key Signals Included
💬 comments (Post Comments & Replies)	Paginates deeply through main post comments (250–1,000+ per post) and top inline replies (up to 3 per comment) from specific note URLs (startUrls — bare explore/<note_id> URLs, ?xsec_token=... links, xhslink.com share links, or bare 24-character Note IDs), or automatically sweeps comments by search keywords or trending channels.	Comment text, exact likes (likeCount), top inline replies (isSubComment, parentCommentId, subCommentCount), 24-hex author ID & avatar, IP location (ipLocation), timestamp (createdAt), and Buyer Intent sentiment classification (sentiment.intent: "high_buyer_intent" / "general").
🔴 liveChat (Live Stream Chat & Prompts)	Sweeps active Xiaohongshu Live Stream rooms and extracts real-time viewer chat messages, live host metadata (liveHost), and e-commerce buyer prompts (roomBuyerIntentKeywords).	Real-time chat messages (isLiveChat: true), commenter 24-char user IDs, fan-club badges (fansGroup), live host details (liveHost), and room buyer prompts (e.g. ["能穿", "什么码", "尺码"]).

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✨ Key Features

• 💬 Note Comments & Nested Replies (楼中楼): Captures top-level comments and nested sub-comments from public Xiaohongshu posts, or sweeps comments across 13 trending lifestyle channels automatically.
• 🔴 Real-Time Live Stream Chat (liveChat): Taps directly into Xiaohongshu Live to extract live audience questions, fan-club badges (fansGroup), live host metadata (liveHost), and e-commerce buyer intent prompts (roomBuyerIntentKeywords).
• 📍 Geographic Intelligence: Captures commenter IP location (ipLocation) for regional market segmentation.
• 🎯 Buyer Intent & Sentiment Detection: Built-in heuristics automatically flag purchase inquiries (sentiment.isBuyerIntent: true, sentiment.intent: "high_buyer_intent", and matched sentiment.keywords).
• ⚡ Instant High-Speed Extraction: Runs on Apify's ultra-lean 256 MB RAM tier with zero browser overhead.

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⚡ Cookie-Free Architecture & Extraction Scope

This Actor uses a 100% Guest-Native, Zero-Cookie Architecture designed for maximum stability and zero account risk:

• Deep Multi-Page Note Comments & Bare Note IDs / URLs: Direct Note URLs work with or without ?xsec_token=... (including bare https://www.xiaohongshu.com/explore/<note_id> links, xhslink.com share links, and bare 24-character Note IDs), paginating deeply through 250–1,000+ main comments plus up to 3 top inline replies per comment (subCommentCount reports the full reply total on every thread; expanding the 4th+ reply inside a single sub-thread requires a logged-in Xiaohongshu account). Comments are returned in Xiaohongshu's default engagement-ranked ("Hot") order.
• Root + Reply Counting & Sweep Caps: maxCommentsPerNote (1–2,000, default 100) counts main comments and emitted inline replies combined per post—set includeSubComments: false if you want 100% top-level root comments. When running Keyword (keywords) or Category (channels) comment sweeps instead of direct startUrls, the Actor samples up to 15 top matching posts and treats maxCommentsPerNote as the total sweep cap (for exhaustive comments across dozens of specific posts, run RedNote Search & Post Scraper first and pass those URLs into startUrls).
• Creator Portfolio Depth: Commenter and live host profileUrl and 24-character user IDs can be passed directly into our RedNote Creator & KOL Leads Scraper to audit their latest ~30 portfolio posts and exact totalLikesAndCollects from public profile pages.
• Real-Time Live Stream Chat (liveChat): In liveChat mode, extracted chat messages come from currently active live broadcasts (roomUrl) while the host is live (ended broadcasts do not expose historical chat replays).

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🎯 Who Uses This Data? (High-Value Use Cases)

• 🛒 Live Commerce & E-Commerce Benchmarking: Capture real-time viewer questions (isLiveChat: true) and suggested buyer prompts (roomBuyerIntentKeywords) inside active shopping broadcasts to discover what sizing, pricing, and SKU questions drive conversions.
• 📊 Consumer Social Listening & Sentiment Mining: Filter post comments by sentiment.isBuyerIntent: true to harvest high-intent purchase leads ("求链接", "多少钱", "什么码") and regional demand (ipLocation).
• 🤝 MCNs & KOL / Influencer Recruiting: Audit comment quality, fan-club loyalty (fansGroup.fansLevel & fansGroup.activeFans), and real audience discussion depth before signing KOL sponsorships.
• 🎙️ AI / ASR Multimodal Video & Stream Analysis: Combine audience comment/chat transcripts with video and live stream broadcasts for end-to-end LLM consumer research and FAQ generation.

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📥 Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
mode	String	"comments"	comments (Note Comments & Replies) or liveChat (Live Stream Chat & Buyer Intent Prompts).
startUrls	Array	Prefilled	Post links (https://www.xiaohongshu.com/explore/<note_id> with or without ?xsec_token=..., xhslink.com/... share links, or bare 24-character Note IDs). Leave empty to sweep comments by keywords or trending channels.
keywords	Array	[]	Search keywords (e.g. ["星巴克新品", "Lululemon"]) — automatically discovers matching posts and extracts their comments & top replies.
channels	Array	["homefeed_recommend"]	When mode="comments" and startUrls/keywords are empty, automatically discovers trending notes from these channels and extracts their comments.
liveCategories	Array	["0"]	When mode="liveChat", selects which live stream categories ("0" to "6") to harvest real-time chat messages from.
maxCommentsPerNote	Integer	100	Maximum comments (root + inline replies combined; set includeSubComments: false for root comments only) per post, or total comments/chat messages across Keyword/Category Sweeps & liveChat (1 to 2,000).
includeSubComments	Boolean	true	When enabled in comments mode, includes top inline replies attached under each main comment (up to 3 top replies per comment without login).
maxSubCommentsPerComment	Integer	3	Maximum top inline replies to include per main comment (1 to 3; subCommentCount reports total replies on the thread).
proxyConfiguration	Object	RESIDENTIAL	Apify Residential Proxy configuration (useApifyProxy: true, Hong Kong recommended).

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💻 Input Samples

Sample 1: Specific Post Comments & Top Inline Replies (mode: "comments")

{
  "mode": "comments",
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.xiaohongshu.com/explore/64256e08000000001300575e"
    }
  ],
  "maxCommentsPerNote": 100,
  "includeSubComments": true,
  "maxSubCommentsPerComment": 3
}

Sample 2: Real-Time Live Stream Chat & Buyer Intent Mining (mode: "liveChat")

{
  "mode": "liveChat",
  "liveCategories": ["0", "2"],
  "maxCommentsPerNote": 50
}

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📤 Sample Output JSON

Sample 1: Post Comment Output (mode: "comments")

{
  "itemType": "comment",
  "id": "645a3517000000000a000ecb",
  "noteId": "645a13770000000014027734",
  "noteUrl": "https://www.xiaohongshu.com/explore/645a13770000000014027734",
  "content": "求同款裙子链接！🔗 多少钱入手的？",
  "likeCount": 6,
  "subCommentCount": 0,
  "subCommentHasMore": false,
  "subCommentCursor": "",
  "isSubComment": true,
  "targetCommentId": "645a340a000000001500e209",
  "parentCommentId": "645a340a000000001500e209",
  "ipLocation": "上海",
  "createTime": 1683633431000,
  "createdAt": "2023-05-09T11:57:11Z",
  "author": {
    "id": "5c0000000000000000000006",
    "nickname": "时尚种草酱",
    "avatar": "https://sns-avatar-qc.xhscdn.com/avatar/example_avatar_06.jpg",
    "ipLocation": "上海"
  },
  "sentiment": {
    "intent": "high_buyer_intent",
    "isBuyerIntent": true,
    "keywords": ["链接", "多少钱", "同款"]
  }
}

Sample 2: Live Stream Chat Message Output (mode: "liveChat")

{
  "itemType": "comment",
  "isLiveChat": true,
  "id": "1761038291042",
  "noteId": "570228761768989458",
  "roomId": "570228761768989458",
  "roomTitle": "早秋新款羊绒大衣专场 | 显瘦穿搭实测",
  "roomUrl": "https://www.xiaohongshu.com/livelist?channel_id=2&channel_type=web_live_list&room_id=570228761768989458",
  "noteUrl": "https://www.xiaohongshu.com/livelist?channel_id=2&channel_type=web_live_list&room_id=570228761768989458",
  "content": "165 105斤穿S还是M码？",
  "originLanguage": "zh-CN",
  "author": {
    "id": "5f0000000000000000000003",
    "nickname": "穿搭爱好者_01",
    "avatarUrl": "https://sns-avatar-qc.xhscdn.com/avatar/1040g2jo31user.jpg",
    "profileUrl": "https://www.xiaohongshu.com/user/profile/5f0000000000000000000003"
  },
  "fansGroup": {
    "groupName": "枝枝铁粉",
    "fansLevel": 5,
    "intimateName": "枝枝铁粉",
    "activeFans": true,
    "hasJoined": true
  },
  "liveHost": {
    "id": "680000000000000000000002",
    "nickname": "美妆时尚主理人",
    "avatarUrl": "https://sns-avatar-qc.xhscdn.com/avatar/1040g2jo31.jpg",
    "profileUrl": "https://www.xiaohongshu.com/user/profile/680000000000000000000002"
  },
  "roomBuyerIntentKeywords": ["能穿", "什么码", "尺码", "身高", "多重"],
  "sentiment": {
    "intent": "high_buyer_intent",
    "isBuyerIntent": true,
    "keywords": ["什么码"]
  },
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-20T08:00:00.000Z"
}

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This Actor runs with LIMITED_PERMISSIONS and structured output schemas, making it natively compatible with Apify's Official Hosted MCP Server—with zero local Playwright browsers, zero +86 SMS/QR logins, and zero local server maintenance.

Connect Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code, or any MCP-compatible AI agent directly to this Actor via Streamable HTTP:

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Example mcp.json configuration (Cursor / Claude Desktop / VS Code):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "unitbytes-rednote": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,get-actor-run,get-dataset-items,unitbytes/xiaohongshu-rednote-comments-scraper",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer <YOUR_APIFY_API_TOKEN>"
      }
    }
  }
}

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💰 Pricing (Pay-Per-Event)

Event	Free / Starter	Scale	Business	Enterprise	Description
Actor Start (apify-actor-start)	$0.00001	$0.00001	$0.00001	$0.00001	Micro-penny startup ($0.00). Test runs execute risk-free.
Scraped Comment (comment)	$0.00249	$0.00229	$0.00209	$0.00199	Charged per comment, nested reply, or live chat message delivered.

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⚖️ Compliance & Privacy

This Actor extracts strictly publicly available discussion data from Xiaohongshu pages. It does not log in, bypass authentication walls, or collect private user messages. Personal data is protected by regulations such as GDPR, CCPA, and PIPL—see Apify's guide on the legality of web scraping and ensure your usage complies with applicable data privacy laws.

Disclaimer

This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Xiaohongshu (RED / 小红书 / Xingin Information Technology Co., Ltd.) or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates.