Lemon8 Scraper - Search Posts, Creators & Comments

Scrape Lemon8 and export posts, creator profiles and comments to JSON, CSV or Excel. Search posts by keyword, pull a single post's full details, collect a post's comments, or get a creator's profile - all from one Actor. Each result is one clean, flat row with views, likes, saves, comments, hashtags, images and creator data.

No login, no cookies and no proxies to configure - data is fetched through a fast, managed pipeline. Just pick an operation, add your input and press Start.

Unofficial notice: This is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Lemon8, ByteDance or their affiliates. "Lemon8" is a trademark of its respective owner, used here only to describe what the Actor scrapes.

What is Lemon8?

Lemon8 is a lifestyle content app from ByteDance, the company behind TikTok. Creators share photo carousels, short videos and written tips about beauty, skincare, fashion, food, fitness, travel, home and wellness, and the app is popular in the United States, the United Kingdom and Southeast Asia. This scraper gives you programmatic access to Lemon8 search, posts, comments and creator profiles so you can track trends, discover creators and analyze engagement without a Lemon8 account.

Operations

Pick one Operation and fill in the matching field:

Operation	Input field	What you get
Search posts by keyword	keywords	Top posts matching each keyword, with views, likes, saves, hashtags and creator data.
Post details	postUrls	The full detail of each post (text, hashtags, images, category, language, region, all engagement counts, creator followers).
Post comments	postUrls	The comments on each post, including replies, with likes and commenter data.
Creator profile	userUrls	A creator's profile: followers, following, post count, total likes and saves, bio.

postUrls accept full post URLs (https://www.lemon8-app.com/@username/7596769672020754999), short share links, or bare numeric post IDs. userUrls accept profile URLs (https://www.lemon8-app.com/@username), usernames (username or @username) or numeric user IDs - one per line.

How to use it (step by step)

1. Choose an Operation.
2. Fill in the matching input:
   • Search posts -> add one or more Search keywords (topics, products, brands and hashtags all work).
   • Post details / Post comments -> paste Post URLs / IDs.
   • Creator profile -> paste Creator URLs / usernames.
3. Set Maximum results per input (default 100, or 0 for all available) for the paginated operations.
4. For search, optionally set Sort order (relevance, most popular, most recent) and Content type (all, videos only, photo and text posts only).
5. Press Start. Export the dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or via the API.

Input

Field	Type	Description
operation	string	Required. search_posts, post_detail, post_comments, or user_profile.
keywords	array	Search keywords (for search_posts).
postUrls	array	Post URLs, share links or post IDs (for post_detail, post_comments).
userUrls	array	Profile URLs, usernames or user IDs (for user_profile).
maxItems	integer	Max results per keyword / post. 0 = all available. Default 100.
searchSort	string	relevance, popular, or recent (search only).
contentType	string	all, video, or posts (search only).

Output

Every row carries a record_type of post, user or comment. Common post fields:

Field	Description
post_id, post_url, post_type	Post identity, canonical URL and format (Gallery photo post or Video).
title, content, hashtags	Post title, plain-text body and tagged hashtags.
view_count, like_count, comment_count, favorite_count, share_count	Engagement metrics (favorite_count is saves).
author_id, author_name, author_username, author_url, author_avatar_url	Creator data.
cover_url, image_urls, image_count, duration_seconds	Cover, gallery images and video length.
category, language, region, author_followers_count	Extra detail filled on the Post details operation.
create_time	Publish time (ISO-8601 UTC).

Creator (user) rows add user_id, username, nickname, description (bio), followers_count, following_count, post_count, likes_total, favorites_total and profile_url. Comment (comment) rows add comment_id, text, like_count, reply_count, is_reply and reply_to_comment_id.

Example post row:

{
  "record_type": "post",
  "operation": "post_detail",
  "input": "7512315715774464543",
  "post_id": "7512315715774464543",
  "post_url": "https://www.lemon8-app.com/@tessapeay/7512315715774464543",
  "post_type": "Video",
  "content": "Trying the viral Korean rice mask for glass skin …",
  "hashtags": ["rice", "ricemask", "riceskincare", "homemadeskincare", "skincare"],
  "category": "beauty",
  "duration_seconds": 29,
  "create_time": "2025-06-05T04:59:06+00:00",
  "view_count": 305826,
  "like_count": 8639,
  "comment_count": 122,
  "favorite_count": 5687,
  "share_count": 37,
  "author_username": "tessapeay",
  "author_followers_count": 123944
}

Common use cases

• Trend tracking - see which beauty, food, fashion or wellness posts are getting traction for any keyword.
• Influencer discovery - find creators in a niche from search results, then pull their profiles and follower counts.
• Brand and product monitoring - track posts and comments that mention your products or competitors.
• Market and AI research - build datasets of lifestyle content, hashtags and audience comments.

Notes on reliability

• Keyword search returns a limited set of top results. Lemon8 only exposes its top-ranked posts for a keyword, and later pages increasingly repeat earlier ones. The Actor stops as soon as a page adds nothing new, so the number of unique posts per keyword is limited and varies by topic - it is not every post ever tagged with that keyword. Use several related keywords to widen coverage.
• The sort order is applied by Lemon8 loosely; treat "Most recent" and "Most popular" as preferences rather than strict orderings.
• Search rows do not include category, region or the creator's follower count; run Post details on the posts you care about to get them.
• Image and video URLs are served by Lemon8's CDN, are signed and expire; download them promptly.
• Comments are returned together with their replies; use is_reply / reply_to_comment_id to rebuild threads.
• If a post or creator is private or deleted, that input is skipped and the run continues.

FAQ

Do I need a Lemon8 account, cookies or a proxy? No. Just add your input and press Start.

Can I paste a profile URL instead of a user ID? Yes - userUrls accepts lemon8-app.com/@username URLs, bare usernames and numeric user IDs.

Can I run several keywords or URLs at once? Yes - add multiple lines. Cross-input duplicates are removed automatically.

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 record it returns (posts, comments and creator profiles), 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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