# Douban Scraper - Movies, TV, Books, Ratings & Reviews (`v1tal615/douban-scraper`) Actor

Scrape Douban (豆瓣) movies, TV shows, books and music: search, Top 250 and other charts, scores, cast, synopsis, short comments and full reviews. No login needed. Times in UTC. Export JSON, CSV, Excel.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/v1tal615/douban-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [bình minh trần](https://apify.com/v1tal615) (community)
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $3.00 / 1,000 movie, tv show, book or albums

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

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# README

## Douban Scraper: movies, TV shows, books, ratings and reviews (豆瓣)

Get structured data from [Douban](https://www.douban.com) (豆瓣), China's biggest rating site for movies, TV shows, books and music. Search by keyword, pull whole charts like the **Douban Top 250**, and add short comments (短评) and full reviews (影评/书评) for each title. The scraper needs no login or cookie, and you can export to JSON, CSV or Excel.

Use it to:

- Research the Chinese audience for a film, series, book or album.
- Track scores and comment counts of new releases over time.
- Collect Chinese reviews for sentiment analysis or LLM datasets.
- Build catalogues with cast, genres, release dates and synopsis.

It reads Douban's own mobile-site JSON API with plain HTTP requests, no browser. That makes it fast and cheap.

### What you can scrape

| Input | What you get |
| --- | --- |
| **Search keywords** | Movies & TV, books or music matching the keyword, with full details |
| **Charts (榜单)** | Top 250 (movies and books), in cinemas, coming soon, real-time hot movies and TV, hot Chinese/US/Korean/Japanese dramas, anime, variety shows, bestsellers, music charts |
| **Subject URLs or IDs** | Full details of specific movies, TV shows, books or albums |
| **Short comments** | The most helpful short comments of each title, with star rating and votes |
| **Reviews** | The most helpful long reviews, with the **complete text**, rating, useful votes and read count |

### Why this scraper

- **About 40% cheaper** than the most-used Douban scraper on the Store (see Pricing).
- **Full details by default**: genres, directors, cast, countries, languages, running time, release dates, synopsis, Douban score and rating count. Books include authors, translators, publisher, pages and price.
- **Complete review text**, not just the 100-character abstract.
- **Times in UTC** (Douban shows Beijing time), and IDs are always strings.
- **Privacy-friendly**: commenters' gender, location, IP location and registration date are left out. Only their public ID, name and profile link are kept.
- **Pay only for results.** There's no rental fee, and the run stops cleanly at your spending limit.

### Good to know: guest limits

Douban shows logged-out visitors:

- up to about **150 short comments** per title, most helpful first;
- the first two pages of **reviews** (about 40 per title), most helpful first.

Comments sorted by newest need a logged-in account, so they are not available. Search, charts and subject details have no such limit.

### How to use it

1. Add search keywords, chart IDs or subject URLs.
2. Pick what to add: full details, short comments, reviews.
3. Click **Start**, then download the results from the **Output** tab in any format.

#### Input example

```json
{
    "charts": ["movie_top250"],
    "searchQueries": ["流浪地球"],
    "searchCategory": "movie",
    "subjectUrls": ["https://book.douban.com/subject/2567698/"],
    "maxResults": 50,
    "fetchDetails": true,
    "includeComments": true,
    "maxCommentsPerSubject": 20,
    "includeReviews": true,
    "maxReviewsPerSubject": 5,
    "fullReviewText": true
}
```

**Chart IDs:** `movie_top250`, `movie_showing`, `movie_real_time_hotest`, `movie_hot_gaia`, `movie_soon`, `movie_weekly_best`, `tv_hot`, `tv_real_time_hotest`, `tv_domestic`, `tv_american`, `tv_korean`, `tv_japanese`, `tv_animation`, `show_hot`, `book_top250`, `book_bestseller`, `book_fiction`, `book_nonfiction`, `music_single`, `music_chinese`. Any other `m.douban.com/subject_collection/...` URL works too.

### Output

Every record has a `type` field: `subject`, `comment` or `review`. The **Output** tab has a separate table view for each.

#### Subject (movie, TV show, book or album)

```json
{
    "type": "subject",
    "id": "1292052",
    "subjectType": "movie",
    "title": "肖申克的救赎",
    "originalTitle": "The Shawshank Redemption",
    "aka": ["月黑高飞(港)", "刺激1995(台)"],
    "url": "https://movie.douban.com/subject/1292052/",
    "year": "1994",
    "rating": 9.7,
    "ratingCount": 3347231,
    "cardSubtitle": "1994 / 美国 / 剧情 犯罪 / 弗兰克·德拉邦特 / 蒂姆·罗宾斯 摩根·弗里曼",
    "genres": ["剧情", "犯罪"],
    "countries": ["美国"],
    "languages": ["英语"],
    "directors": ["弗兰克·德拉邦特"],
    "actors": ["蒂姆·罗宾斯", "摩根·弗里曼", "鲍勃·冈顿", "威廉·赛德勒"],
    "durations": ["142分钟"],
    "intro": "一场谋杀案使银行家安迪（蒂姆·罗宾斯 Tim Robbins 饰）蒙冤入狱…",
    "tags": ["犯罪", "越狱", "励志", "信念"],
    "honors": ["豆瓣电影Top250 #1"],
    "commentCount": 667496,
    "reviewCount": 14956,
    "coverUrl": "https://img3.doubanio.com/view/photo/m_ratio_poster/public/p2934829882.jpg",
    "detailed": true,
    "source": "chart",
    "chart": "movie_top250",
    "chartTitle": "豆瓣电影 Top250",
    "position": 1,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-04T02:58:50Z"
}
```

Books also carry `authors`, `translators`, `press`, `pages` and `price`. Albums carry `singers`, and TV shows carry `episodesCount`.

#### Short comment

```json
{
    "type": "comment",
    "commentId": "32514679",
    "subjectId": "1292052",
    "subjectType": "movie",
    "text": "恐惧让你沦为囚犯，希望让你重获自由。——《肖申克的救赎》",
    "userRating": 5.0,
    "votes": 26487,
    "status": "done",
    "createdAt": "2008-02-27T13:43:23Z",
    "authorId": "1289463",
    "authorName": "如小果",
    "authorUrl": "https://www.douban.com/people/1289463/",
    "position": 1,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-04T02:58:52Z"
}
```

#### Review

```json
{
    "type": "review",
    "reviewId": "1000369",
    "subjectId": "1292052",
    "subjectType": "movie",
    "subjectTitle": "肖申克的救赎",
    "title": "十年·肖申克的救赎",
    "url": "https://movie.douban.com/review/1000369/",
    "text": "距离斯蒂芬·金（Stephen King）和德拉邦特（Frank Darabont）们缔造这部伟大的作品已经有十年了…",
    "textTruncated": false,
    "userRating": 5.0,
    "spoiler": false,
    "usefulCount": 18953,
    "uselessCount": 735,
    "commentsCount": 1082,
    "resharesCount": 2202,
    "readCount": 1428255,
    "createdAt": "2005-05-12T12:44:13Z",
    "authorId": "1000152",
    "authorName": "大头绿豆",
    "authorUrl": "https://www.douban.com/people/1000152/",
    "position": 1,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-04T02:58:54Z"
}
```

### Pricing

Pay per result, no subscription. You are only charged for records that land in your dataset.

| Record | Event | Price |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Movie, TV show, book or album | `subject` | $3.00 per 1,000 |
| Short comment | `comment` | $3.00 per 1,000 |
| Review (full text) | `review` | $18.00 per 1,000 |

The exact current prices are always shown on the **Pricing** tab. Set *Maximum cost per run* in the run options and the scraper stops cleanly when it is reached. The whole Douban Top 250 with full details costs $0.75.

### FAQ

**Why do I get at most about 150 short comments per title?**
Douban shows logged-out visitors only the most helpful ~150 short comments and ~40 reviews per title. Everything the site shows a guest is collected.

**Can I track scores over time?**
Yes. Save a task with the charts or titles you care about and schedule it, for example daily. Each run is a timestamped snapshot of scores, rating counts and comment counts.

**Do I need a proxy?**
No. The scraper paces itself, and on the Apify platform it switches to Apify Proxy on its own if Douban blocks its IP. If Douban still blocks it for more than 5 minutes, the run stops early and keeps everything it already scraped.

**Is scraping Douban legal?**
This Actor collects only publicly visible data, through the API Douban's own mobile website uses, and leaves out personal details such as gender, location and IP location. You are responsible for how you use the data. Check Douban's terms and the data protection laws that apply to you (GDPR, PIPL...).

### Feedback

Found a bug or need another field? Open an issue on the **Issues** tab. Issues are usually fixed within a few days.

# Actor input Schema

## `searchQueries` (type: `array`):

Titles, people or keywords to search for, in Chinese or English.

## `searchCategory` (type: `string`):

Which Douban section the keywords are searched in.

## `subjectUrls` (type: `array`):

Douban links (movie.douban.com/subject/1292052/, book.douban.com/subject/2567698/, music.douban.com/subject/..., m.douban.com/...) or IDs. A bare ID is read as a movie or TV show; write book:2567698 or music:1394539 for the others.

## `charts` (type: `array`):

Chart IDs or m.douban.com/subject_collection/... URLs. Popular ones: movie_top250, movie_showing (in cinemas), movie_real_time_hotest, movie_hot_gaia, movie_soon, movie_weekly_best, tv_hot, tv_real_time_hotest, tv_domestic, tv_american, tv_korean, tv_japanese, tv_animation, show_hot (variety shows), book_top250, book_bestseller, book_fiction, book_nonfiction, music_single, music_chinese.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Upper limit of movies, shows, books or albums taken from each search keyword and each chart.

## `fetchDetails` (type: `boolean`):

Search and chart entries only carry the title, rating and a one-line summary. Turn on to add genres, directors, cast, authors, countries, languages, durations, release dates, synopsis, comment and review counts (one extra request per subject). Always on for subject URLs.

## `includeComments` (type: `boolean`):

Also get the most helpful short comments of each subject, with the commenter's star rating and vote count.

## `maxCommentsPerSubject` (type: `integer`):

Douban shows guests up to about 150 short comments per subject, most helpful first.

## `includeReviews` (type: `boolean`):

Also get the most helpful long reviews of each subject.

## `maxReviewsPerSubject` (type: `integer`):

Douban shows guests the first two pages of reviews (most helpful first), about 40 per subject.

## `fullReviewText` (type: `boolean`):

Review lists only carry a ~100 character abstract. Turn on to fetch the complete text of each review (one extra request per review).

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Not needed in most cases: the scraper switches to Apify Proxy on its own if Douban blocks it.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchQueries": [
    "流浪地球"
  ],
  "searchCategory": "movie",
  "subjectUrls": [],
  "charts": [
    "movie_top250"
  ],
  "maxResults": 10,
  "fetchDetails": true,
  "includeComments": false,
  "maxCommentsPerSubject": 20,
  "includeReviews": false,
  "maxReviewsPerSubject": 10,
  "fullReviewText": true,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `subjects` (type: `string`):

No description

## `allResults` (type: `string`):

No description

## `summary` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "searchQueries": [
        "流浪地球"
    ],
    "charts": [
        "movie_top250"
    ],
    "maxResults": 10
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("v1tal615/douban-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "searchQueries": ["流浪地球"],
    "charts": ["movie_top250"],
    "maxResults": 10,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("v1tal615/douban-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "searchQueries": [
    "流浪地球"
  ],
  "charts": [
    "movie_top250"
  ],
  "maxResults": 10
}' |
apify call v1tal615/douban-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,v1tal615/douban-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/9jujF5TDe0QHQ5EvR/builds/EAekYF7sUWXVqAJqo/openapi.json