Douyin Trending Scraper - 抖音 Hot Search, Hot Topics & Charts

Scrape Douyin (抖音) trends and export the hot search list, hot and rising topics, hot videos, trending hashtags, top search terms and the music charts to JSON, CSV or Excel. Grab the live hot list (热榜) and its seeding, entertainment, society and challenge boards, follow rising topics by category or city, find the videos and hashtags taking off right now, see what people are searching for, and pull the hot, rising and original music charts - all from one Actor. Each ranked entry is one clean, flat row with its rank, heat score and trend.

No keywords, URLs, login, cookies, proxies or China IP needed - pick a board and press Start.

Unofficial notice: This is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Douyin, 抖音, ByteDance or Beijing Douyin Information Service Co., Ltd. "Douyin" and "抖音" are trademarks of their respective owners, used here only to describe what the Actor scrapes.

What is Douyin?

Douyin (抖音) is China's version of TikTok and the country's largest short-video app, with more than 750 million daily users. Its rankings decide what China talks about: the hot list (热榜) is refreshed every few minutes, and separate boards track rising topics, local city trends, breakout videos, hashtags, searches and the songs everyone is using. This scraper gives you those rankings as data, so you can spot trends early and track them over time without a Douyin account.

Operations

Pick one Operation and, optionally, a board and filters:

Operation	Boards	Filters	What you get
Hot search list (热榜)	Hot list, Seeding (种草), Entertainment, Society, Challenges	none	The live in-app hot list: rank, term, heat score, views, peak rank, badge and category. About 50 entries per board.
Hot topics (热点榜)	Total hot list, Rising topics, City topics, Challenges	category, city, sort, date range, keyword	Topics with heat score, rank change, category, city and a heat trend. The rising and city boards run thousands deep.
Hot videos (视频榜)	All, Hits from small accounts (低粉爆款), High completion rate, High follower growth, High like rate	time window, content category, keyword	Breakout videos with plays, likes, like rate, followers gained, follow rate and author data.
Trending hashtags (话题榜)	Hot, Rising	time window, content category, keyword	Hashtags with heat score, total plays, video count, average plays and a 14-day trend.
Top search terms (搜索榜)	Hot, Rising	time window, keyword	The most searched (or fastest-rising) search terms with search score and trend.
Music charts (音乐榜)	Hot, Rising, Original	none	Chart tracks with artist, duration, heat (hot chart), genre, mood and language tags, and audio URL.

How to use it (step by step)

1. Choose an Operation.
2. Pick the board for that operation (each has its own selector; the default is the main board).
3. Optionally narrow it down:
   • Hot topics -> Topic category, City (for the city board, e.g. 北京 or 上海), Topic sort (rising and city boards) and Start date / End date (total board).
   • Hot videos / Trending hashtags -> Time window and Content category.
   • Top search terms -> Time window.
   • Any board except the hot search list and music -> Keyword filter to keep only entries containing a word.
4. Set Maximum results (default 100, or 0 for everything on the board).
5. Press Start. Export the dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or via the API.

Input

Field	Type	Description
operation	string	Required. hot_search, hot_topics, hot_videos, hot_hashtags, search_terms, or hot_music.
maxItems	integer	Max rows for the board. 0 = all available. Default 100.
keyword	string	Keep only entries containing this word (hot_topics, hot_videos, hot_hashtags, search_terms).
hotSearchBoard	string	hot, seeding, entertainment, society or challenge (hot_search).
topicBoard	string	total, rising, city or challenge (hot_topics).
topicCategory	string	all or a topic category such as entertainment, society, sports, gaming, tech, finance (hot_topics).
city	string	Chinese city name or city code for the city board (hot_topics).
topicSort	string	rank or rank_change (rising and city boards).
startDate, endDate	string	Date range like 2026-09-28 for the total board (hot_topics); leave empty for the latest snapshot.
videoBoard	string	all, low_follower_hits, high_completion, high_follower_growth or high_like_rate (hot_videos).
hashtagBoard	string	hot or rising (hot_hashtags).
searchBoard	string	hot or rising (search_terms).
timeWindow	string	1h, 24h, 72h or 7d (hot_videos, hot_hashtags, search_terms).
contentCategory	string	all or a content vertical such as food, travel, dance, fashion, gaming, cars (hot_videos, hot_hashtags).
musicChart	string	hot, trending or original (hot_music).

Example: the top 200 rising entertainment topics, sorted by biggest climb:

{
  "operation": "hot_topics",
  "topicBoard": "rising",
  "topicCategory": "entertainment",
  "topicSort": "rank_change",
  "maxItems": 200
}

Output

Every row carries record_type (hot_search, hot_topic, hot_video, hashtag, search_term or music), plus operation, input (the board and filters used), board and rank.

Record type	Key fields
hot_search	word, hot_value, view_count, video_count, peak_rank, label_code, category_code, event_time, is_pinned, sentence_id, cover_url, hot_url, search_url
hot_topic	word, hot_value, rank_change, video_count, category, category_code, label, city_code, city_name, create_time, snapshot_time, trend, sentence_id, hot_url, search_url
hot_video	video_id, video_url, title, cover_url, is_image_post, image_count, duration_seconds, publish_time, hot_value, play_count, like_count, like_rate, new_followers, follow_rate, author_name, author_followers_count, author_avatar_url, play_url
hashtag	hashtag_id, hashtag_name, hashtag_url, hot_value, play_count, video_count, avg_play_count, cover_url, create_time, trend
search_term	word, hot_value (search score), trend, search_url
music	music_id, music_url, title, author, album, duration_seconds, hot_value, is_original, is_commercial, genres, moods, themes, languages, owner_id, owner_sec_uid, cover_url, audio_url

trend is a short list of {time, value} heat points (hourly, 10-minute or daily, depending on the board). Times are ISO-8601 UTC.

Example hot topic row:

{
  "record_type": "hot_topic",
  "operation": "hot_topics",
  "input": "rising | category=entertainment | sort=rank_change",
  "board": "rising",
  "rank": 465,
  "rank_change": 4017,
  "word": "薛之谦成都快闪店场周汇总",
  "hot_value": 4574001,
  "video_count": 1,
  "category": "娱乐",
  "category_code": "2005",
  "create_time": "2026-09-30T07:46:39+00:00",
  "snapshot_time": "2026-10-01T15:15:00+00:00",
  "trend": [{"time": "2026-10-01 22", "value": 5281540}, {"time": "2026-10-01 23", "value": 7374801}],
  "sentence_id": "2675044",
  "hot_url": "https://www.douyin.com/hot/2675044"
}

Common use cases

• Trend tracking - schedule the hot search list or the rising board every hour and watch topics rise and fall.
• Content planning - find the hashtags, sounds and video formats taking off in your niche before they peak.
• Local and category monitoring - follow what is trending in one city or one category (entertainment, sports, finance, gaming and more).
• Brand and market research - filter the boards by a brand or product word and see which topics, searches and videos mention it.
• Music and A&R scouting - track the hot, rising and original charts with genre and mood tags.

Notes on reliability

• Rankings are live: two runs a few minutes apart can differ. The hot search list and music charts are single boards of about 30-50 entries; maxItems above that returns the whole board.
• The hot list opens with a pinned entry (usually official news) that is not ranked; it comes back with rank 0 and is_pinned set.
• On the rising and city boards rank is the topic's place on Douyin's overall heat ranking, so it is not always 1, 2, 3 when you sort by rank change or pick a city.
• Smaller cities may have no city board at the moment you run; the run then returns nothing and costs nothing.
• The video and hashtag boards go about 1,000 entries deep. A keyword filter on the search board keeps matching terms but no longer orders them by score.
• Heat for the music charts is only published on the hot chart; on the rising and original charts hot_value is 0.
• Image, video and audio URLs are served by Douyin's CDN and expire; fetch them promptly.

FAQ

Do I need a Douyin account, cookies or a proxy? No. Just pick a board and press Start.

Do I need to enter keywords or URLs? No. Every operation reads a ranking board. The keyword field is an optional filter.

How often do the boards update? The hot list and topic boards refresh every few minutes; the video, hashtag and search boards are computed over the time window you choose.

Can I get a past day's hot list? Yes, for recent dates: choose the Total hot list board and set a start and end date.

Which cities are supported? Several hundred Chinese cities. Enter the name in Chinese (e.g. 北京, 上海, 广州) or its city code.

Can I try it for free? Yes. Users on the free Apify plan can fetch up to 10 results in total to try the Actor. Upgrade to a paid Apify plan to run it without that limit.

What export formats are supported? JSON, CSV, Excel, XML and HTML, plus the Apify API and integrations such as Google Sheets, Zapier, Make and webhooks.

Pricing

This Actor is pay per result: you are charged for each row it returns (hot-search entries, hot topics, hot videos, hashtags, search terms and music tracks), plus standard Apify platform usage. Different record types have different prices; see the Pricing tab for current rates. You are never charged for inputs that return nothing.

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