# Toutiao 今日头条 Scraper - Articles, Videos & Comments (`vulnv/toutiao-scraper`) Actor

Scrape Toutiao (今日头条): full article details, full video details and comments for any article or video link. Export reads, plays, likes, comments, shares, favorites and author data to JSON/CSV/Excel. No login, cookies or proxy needed.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/vulnv/toutiao-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [VulnV](https://apify.com/vulnv) (community)
- **Categories:** News, Social media
- **Stats:** 3 total users, 2 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 1 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $5.00 / 1,000 article details

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Toutiao Scraper - Scrape 今日头条 Articles, Videos & Comments

**Scrape Toutiao (今日头条) and export article details, video details and comments to JSON, CSV or Excel.** Paste any Toutiao article or video link and get its full detail - title, reads, plays, likes, comments, shares, favorites and author data - or collect every comment on it, all from one Actor. Each result is one clean, flat row.

No login, no cookies, no proxies and no China IP to configure - data is fetched through a fast, managed pipeline. Just pick an operation, paste your links and press **Start**.

> **Unofficial notice:** This is an independent tool and is **not** affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Toutiao, 今日头条 or ByteDance. "Toutiao" and "今日头条" are trademarks of their respective owners, used here only to describe what the Actor scrapes.

### What is Toutiao?

Toutiao (今日头条, "Today's Headlines") is one of China's largest news and content platforms, run by ByteDance, with hundreds of millions of monthly users. It mixes news articles from official media, long-form posts from independent authors and short and long videos, all ranked by a recommendation feed. This scraper gives you programmatic access to Toutiao articles, videos and their comment sections so you can track coverage, measure engagement and analyze public reaction at scale without a Toutiao account.

### Operations

Pick one **Operation** and paste links into **Article / video URLs or IDs**:

| Operation | Input field | What you get |
|-----------|-------------|--------------|
| **Article details** | `articleUrls` | The full detail of each article: title, original source link, reads, impressions, likes, comments, shares, favorites and author data. |
| **Video details** | `articleUrls` | The full detail of each video: title, duration, plays, likes, comments, shares, favorites, categories and author data. |
| **Comments on an article or video** | `articleUrls` | Comments on each article or video, with likes, dislikes, commenter data and IP region. |

`articleUrls` accept `toutiao.com/article/<id>`, `toutiao.com/group/<id>` and `m.toutiao.com/video/<id>` URLs, or bare numeric IDs - one per line.

What this Actor does **not** do: Toutiao keyword search, author profiles and an author's full article feed are not available, so the Actor works from the links you give it. Short `m.toutiao.com/is/...` share links cannot be resolved; open them in a browser and paste the full URL.

### How to use it (step by step)

1. Choose an **Operation**.
2. Paste one or more **Article / video URLs or IDs**.
3. For comments, set **Maximum comments per item** (default 100, or 0 for all available).
4. Press **Start**. Export the dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or via the API.

### Input

| Field | Type | Description |
|-------|------|-------------|
| `operation` | string | **Required.** `article_detail`, `video_detail`, or `comments`. |
| `articleUrls` | array | Article, group or video URLs, or bare IDs (all operations). |
| `maxItems` | integer | Max comments per article / video. `0` = all available. Default `100`. |

### Output

Every row carries a `record_type` of `article`, `video` or `comment`. Article and video rows share one field set:

| Field | Description |
|-------|-------------|
| `group_id`, `item_url`, `share_url` | Item identity, canonical URL and mobile share link. |
| `title`, `description`, `categories` | Title, abstract (when present) and channel categories (videos). |
| `source_url` | The original publisher's URL (articles re-published from media sites). |
| `read_count`, `play_count`, `impression_count` | Reads, video plays and feed impressions. |
| `like_count`, `comment_count`, `share_count`, `repin_count` | Likes, comments, shares and favorites. |
| `cover_url`, `duration_seconds` | Thumbnail and video length. |
| `create_time`, `is_original` | Publish time (ISO-8601 UTC) and original-content flag. |
| `author_id`, `author_media_id`, `author_name`, `author_description`, `author_avatar_url` | Author data. |
| `author_followers_count`, `author_verified`, `author_verified_reason` | Author reach and verification. |

Toutiao does not return a publish time for articles, so an article's `create_time` is its creation time, decoded from the article ID. Comment (`comment`) rows carry `comment_id`, `content`, `like_count`, `reply_count`, `bury_count` (dislikes), `create_time`, `ip_location` and the commenter's `author_*` fields.

Example video row:

```json
{
  "record_type": "video",
  "operation": "video_detail",
  "input": "https://m.toutiao.com/video/7047393519773680165/",
  "group_id": "7047393519773680165",
  "item_url": "https://www.toutiao.com/video/7047393519773680165/",
  "title": "纪录片《云南》全集，5小时超清完整版，建议收藏观看",
  "categories": "news, video_culture",
  "duration_seconds": 18094,
  "create_time": "2022-01-01T23:00:00+00:00",
  "read_count": 594147,
  "play_count": 594147,
  "like_count": 3534,
  "comment_count": 184,
  "share_count": 3751,
  "repin_count": 15540,
  "author_name": "纪录片小角落",
  "author_followers_count": 118747
}
```

### Common use cases

- **Media monitoring** - track how an article or video performs over time: reads, likes, shares and favorites.
- **Public opinion research** - collect the comment section on a news story, with commenter IP regions.
- **Publisher and author analysis** - see which media accounts publish a story, their follower counts and verification.
- **Market and AI research** - build datasets of Chinese news content and reader reactions.

### Notes on reliability

- Cover and avatar URLs are served by Toutiao's CDN and are signed with an expiry; fetch them promptly.
- Read, like and comment counts reflect what Toutiao returns at scrape time.
- If an article or video is private, deleted or cannot be found, that input is skipped and the run continues.

### FAQ

**Do I need a Toutiao account, cookies or a proxy?** No. Just paste your links and press Start.

**What happens if I use Article details on a video link?** You still get a row, but with fewer video fields. Use Video details for videos to get duration, categories and the full video stats.

**Can I run several links at once?** Yes - add multiple lines. Duplicate items and comments 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 (article details, video details and comments), 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.

### Related scrapers

- **[Douyin Scraper](https://apify.com/vulnv/douyin-search-scraper)** - 抖音 videos by keyword, with creators and downloads.
- **[Bilibili Scraper](https://apify.com/vulnv/bilibili-scraper)** - 哔哩哔哩 videos, creators and comments.
- **[Xiaohongshu Scraper](https://apify.com/vulnv/xiaohongshu-scraper)** - 小红书 / RedNote notes, users and comments.

# Actor input Schema

## `operation` (type: `string`):

What to scrape. All three operations use the Article / video URLs field below:

• Article details → one row per article
• Video details → one row per video
• Comments → the comments on each article or video

## `articleUrls` (type: `array`):

Paste toutiao.com article, group or video URLs (e.g. https://www.toutiao.com/article/7450114952884503059/, https://www.toutiao.com/group/7450114952884503059/, https://m.toutiao.com/video/7047393519773680165/) or bare numeric IDs - one per line. Short m.toutiao.com/is/... share links cannot be resolved; open them in a browser and paste the full URL instead.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Upper bound on comments per article or video (Comments operation only; detail operations return one row per link). Cost scales linearly. Set 0 to fetch all available.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "operation": "article_detail",
  "articleUrls": [
    "https://www.toutiao.com/article/7450114952884503059/"
  ],
  "maxItems": 100
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

All scraped Toutiao results in the default dataset.

## `overview` (type: `string`):

Overview table of the scraped results.

# 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 = {
    "articleUrls": [
        "https://www.toutiao.com/article/7450114952884503059/"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("vulnv/toutiao-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 = { "articleUrls": ["https://www.toutiao.com/article/7450114952884503059/"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("vulnv/toutiao-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 '{
  "articleUrls": [
    "https://www.toutiao.com/article/7450114952884503059/"
  ]
}' |
apify call vulnv/toutiao-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,vulnv/toutiao-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/0psjIcVjZX8caAk2v/builds/FF3UabJlRPWhNszRK/openapi.json