Xigua Video Scraper - 西瓜视频 Creators, Videos & Comments

Scrape Xigua Video (西瓜视频) and export creator videos, profiles and comments to JSON, CSV or Excel. List every video a creator has uploaded, get a creator's profile, pull a single video's details, or collect a video's comments - all from one Actor. Each result is one clean, flat row with views, likes, comments, shares, favorites and creator data.

No login, no cookies, no proxies and no China IP 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 Xigua Video, 西瓜视频 or ByteDance. "Xigua Video", "西瓜视频" and "ByteDance" are trademarks of their respective owners, used here only to describe what the Actor scrapes.

What is Xigua Video?

Xigua Video (西瓜视频) is ByteDance's long-form video platform in China, the horizontal-video sibling of Douyin and Toutiao. It is home to documentaries, films and series recaps, knowledge and education channels, gaming, food, rural life and travel creators, many of whom publish multi-hour videos. This scraper gives you programmatic access to Xigua creators, their video catalogues and the comments under each video so you can track channels, benchmark engagement and build datasets without a Xigua account.

Operations

Pick one Operation and fill in the matching field:

Operation	Input field	What you get
Creator's uploaded videos	userUrls	Every video a creator has posted, newest first, paginated, with views, likes, comments, shares and publish time.
Creator profile	userUrls	A creator's profile: followers (total, Xigua and Toutiao), following, video count, bio, IP region.
Video details	videoUrls	One video's title, duration, likes, favorites, danmaku, comment count, cover and creator.
Video comments	videoUrls	Top-level comments for each video, with likes, time, region and commenter data.

userUrls accept ixigua.com/home/<id> or m.ixigua.com/user/<id> URLs or bare numeric creator IDs. videoUrls accept ixigua.com/<id> or m.ixigua.com/video/<id> URLs or bare numeric video IDs - one per line.

Why is there no keyword search? Xigua's own in-app video search returns zero or one video for most keywords, so a search operation would not give useful results. The Actor is creator- and video-centric instead: start from a creator you know and list their whole catalogue, or paste the video URLs you want.

How to use it (step by step)

1. Choose an Operation.
2. Fill in the matching input:
   • Creator's videos / Creator profile -> paste Creator URLs / IDs.
   • Video details / Video comments -> paste Video URLs / IDs.
3. Set Maximum results per input (default 100, or 0 for all available) for the paginated operations.
4. Press Start. Export the dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or via the API.

Input

Field	Type	Description
operation	string	Required. user_videos, user_profile, video_detail, or video_comments.
userUrls	array	Creator URLs or IDs (for user_videos, user_profile).
videoUrls	array	Video URLs or IDs (for video_detail, video_comments).
maxItems	integer	Max results per creator / video. 0 = all available. Default 100.

Output

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

Field	Description
video_id, video_url, share_url	Video identity and URLs.
title, description, category	Video title, abstract and Xigua category.
play_count, like_count, comment_count, share_count, favorite_count, danmaku_count	Engagement metrics.
author_id, author_name, author_avatar_url, author_followers_count	Creator data.
cover_url, duration_seconds, is_original	Thumbnail, length and originality flag.
publish_time, ip_location	Publish time (ISO-8601 UTC) and region.

The Creator's videos operation returns the richest video rows. Video details returns title, duration, likes, favorites, danmaku, comment count and cover, but Xigua's single-video view does not expose views, shares, publish time or category, so those are left empty (0 / blank) on detail rows. To get them, list the creator's videos instead.

Creator (user) rows add nickname, description, followers_count, xigua_followers_count, toutiao_followers_count, following_count, video_count, profile_url and ip_location. Comment (comment) rows add comment_id, content, like_count, reply_count, create_time, ip_location and author_verified.

Example video row:

{
  "record_type": "video",
  "operation": "user_videos",
  "input": "2084278615148478",
  "video_id": "7256274455167664681",
  "video_url": "https://www.ixigua.com/7256274455167664681",
  "title": "纪录片《发现甲骨文》三集全，2小时高清完整版，建议收藏观看",
  "category": "人文社科",
  "duration_seconds": 6906,
  "publish_time": "2023-07-21T23:00:00+00:00",
  "ip_location": "广东",
  "play_count": 49041,
  "like_count": 806,
  "comment_count": 27,
  "share_count": 152,
  "favorite_count": 152,
  "author_name": "纪录片小角落",
  "author_followers_count": 145550
}

Common use cases

• Channel monitoring - track a creator's uploads, views and engagement over time.
• Creator research - compare creators in a niche by followers, catalogue size and per-video performance.
• Comment and sentiment analysis - collect viewer comments, likes and regions for any video.
• Market and AI research - build datasets of Chinese long-form video content and audience reactions.

Notes on reliability

• Cover, avatar and media URLs are signed by Xigua's CDN and expire; fetch them promptly.
• View, like and comment counts reflect what Xigua returns at scrape time.
• Commenter IP region is only shown by Xigua on recent comments, so older comments leave ip_location empty.
• If a video or creator is private, deleted or unavailable, that input is skipped and the run continues.

FAQ

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

Can I use URLs and bare IDs interchangeably? Yes - both userUrls and videoUrls accept full URLs and numeric IDs.

Can I run several creators or videos at once? Yes - add multiple lines. Duplicate videos and comments are removed automatically.

Can I search Xigua by keyword? Not in this Actor - Xigua's search returns too few results to be useful. Start from a creator's URL instead.

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 (videos, 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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