Douyin Hot Search Scraper (抖音热榜) — Real-Time Trending Topics, Hashtags & Rankings (2026)

Douyin's (抖音) live trending boards (热榜) in clean structured JSON — hot search, seeding, entertainment, social, and challenge — rank, hot value (热度), view count, video count, cover image, badge, and when each topic started trending. ~50 topics per board. No login, no account, no setup.

Zen Studio · Chinese-platform suite   •  RedNote (小红书), Douyin (抖音), Xigua (西瓜视频)
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Copy to your AI assistant

zen-studio/douyin-hot-search-scraper on Apify. Scrapes Douyin's (抖音) real-time trending topics across five boards: hot search, entertainment, social, seeding, and challenge. Call ApifyClient("TOKEN").actor("zen-studio/douyin-hot-search-scraper").call(run_input={...}), then client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).list_items().items. Full spec: GET https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/zen-studio~douyin-hot-search-scraper/builds/default (Bearer TOKEN) → inputSchema, actorDefinition.storages.dataset, readme. Token: https://console.apify.com/account/integrations

What you get

Up to ~50 trending topics per board, each with rank, hot value, view count, video count, cover image, badge, and when the topic started trending. Five boards to choose from, scraped live in seconds.

Boards

• Hot Search (热点榜): the main real-time trending list
• Seeding (种草榜): product / recommendation trends
• Entertainment (娱乐榜): celebrity and entertainment trends
• Social (社会榜): news and society trends
• Challenge (挑战榜): trending hashtag challenges

How to Get Douyin Trending Topics

Basic — the main hot-search board

{
  "boards": ["hotspot"],
  "maxResultsPerBoard": 50
}

Track news + society trends together

{
  "boards": ["hotspot", "social"],
  "maxResultsPerBoard": 50
}

Every board in one run

{
  "boards": ["hotspot", "seeding", "entertainment", "social", "challenge"],
  "maxResultsPerBoard": 50
}

Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
boards	string[]	["hotspot"]	Which boards to scrape. Any of hotspot / seeding / entertainment / social / challenge. Pick one or several.
maxResultsPerBoard	integer	50	How many topics to return per board (1–60). Douyin makes ~50 available per board, so higher values simply return everything on the board.

What Data Can You Extract from Douyin Hot Search?

One row per trending topic. Each row carries 31 fields covering ranking (rank, position, maxRank), engagement (hotValue, viewCount, videoCount, discussVideoCount), the cover image (coverImageUrl plus the full wordCover object with every mirror URL), the topic badge (labelUrl), timing (eventTime, boardActiveTime, scrapedAt), Douyin IDs (sentenceId, groupId), category codes (wordType, label, sentenceTag, displayStyle), and sparse passthroughs (postAwemeInfo, wordSubBoard, topicInfo, roomCount, hotlistParam).

Output Example

A real row, shown in full. Sparse fields come back as null so the shape stays consistent across every topic.

{
  "type": "trending",
  "board": "hotspot",
  "listType": "board",
  "rank": 25,
  "position": 24,
  "maxRank": 24,
  "word": "你真的自由了",
  "hotValue": 8387467,
  "viewCount": 31839695,
  "videoCount": 10,
  "discussVideoCount": 1,
  "articleDetailCount": 0,
  "coverImageUrl": "https://p9-sign.douyinpic.com/tos-cn-i-0813/oED1ACAaQC1GYIEC7f9AAXjAzHfoogSmADAAFq~noop.jpeg?lk3s=bfd515bb&x-expires=1780362000&x-signature=Uu1Roin4sExdXHbenKbtgnljiUM%3D&from=3218412987",
  "wordCover": {
    "uri": "tos-cn-i-0813/oED1ACAaQC1GYIEC7f9AAXjAzHfoogSmADAAFq",
    "url_list": [
      "https://p9-sign.douyinpic.com/tos-cn-i-0813/oED1ACAaQC1GYIEC7f9AAXjAzHfoogSmADAAFq~noop.jpeg?lk3s=bfd515bb&x-expires=1780362000&x-signature=Uu1Roin4sExdXHbenKbtgnljiUM%3D&from=3218412987",
      "https://p26-sign.douyinpic.com/tos-cn-i-0813/oED1ACAaQC1GYIEC7f9AAXjAzHfoogSmADAAFq~noop.jpeg?lk3s=bfd515bb&x-expires=1780362000&x-signature=UHB%2FxFTiF0EJiun%2F4%2F%2F%2BHxVZLe8%3D&from=3218412987",
      "https://p3-sign.douyinpic.com/tos-cn-i-0813/oED1ACAaQC1GYIEC7f9AAXjAzHfoogSmADAAFq~noop.jpeg?lk3s=bfd515bb&x-expires=1780362000&x-signature=%2FZO5wkJPwrMBlqgQVf27CVc6DEI%3D&from=3218412987"
    ]
  },
  "labelUrl": "https://lf3-static.bytednsdoc.com/obj/eden-cn/vjl_avo_upfbvk/ljhwZthlaukjlkulzlp/hotspot_detail_page/9.png",
  "eventTime": "2026-06-01T13:46:28.000Z",
  "boardActiveTime": "2026-06-02 03:31:14",
  "sentenceId": "2520435",
  "groupId": "6655587063489893635",
  "wordType": 1,
  "label": 9,
  "sentenceTag": 1002,
  "displayStyle": 0,
  "canExtendDetail": false,
  "hotlistParam": { "version": 1 },
  "postAwemeInfo": {
    "music_id": "7097660854023260964",
    "most_used_music_id_map": {
      "1128": "7097660854023260964",
      "2329": "7097660854023260964",
      "8663": "7097660854023260964"
    }
  },
  "wordSubBoard": [3],
  "topicInfo": null,
  "roomCount": null,
  "isPinned": false,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-06-01T19:32:07.000Z"
}

Advanced Usage

Daily trend tracking

Schedule a run once or twice a day and store each dataset. The eventTime, hotValue, and maxRank fields let you chart how a topic climbs and fades over time, and boardActiveTime tells you exactly when Douyin last refreshed the ranking.

Read Chinese trends in English

Feed word through a translation step to turn the trending phrases into English in your own pipeline — useful for newsrooms, trend reports, and social listening dashboards.

Pull the videos behind a trend

Take any word and pass it to the Douyin Search Scraper to fetch the actual videos driving the topic, with full metadata, creator profiles, and engagement stats.

Pricing — Pay Per Event (PPE)

$7.99 per 1,000 results. Each trending topic written to the dataset counts as one result. Cross-board duplicates are billed only once, and there is no charge for a board that fails to load.

Event	Per call	Per 1,000
result (one trending topic row)	$0.00799	$7.99

Free tier

10 lifetime runs, limited to the first selected board (~50 topics per run). No credit card. Plenty to evaluate the data shape before upgrading for all five boards.

FAQ

How many topics are returned per board? Around 50 — that's how many Douyin publishes per board. Set maxResultsPerBoard lower to cap it, or up to 60 to take everything the board offers.

How fresh is the data? Live — every board is fetched on demand at run time. The boardActiveTime field records exactly when Douyin last refreshed that ranking.

Can I scrape all five boards in one run? Yes. List them in boards and each is fetched and returned in the same run. A topic that appears on more than one board is returned once and billed once.

What's the difference between rank, position, and maxRank? rank is the topic's 1-based position within the board as returned in this run. position is the server-reported rank, and maxRank is the highest (best) rank the topic has reached during its run on the board.

Why does the top row sometimes have no hot value or view count? The very first row is often Douyin's hand-pinned headline slot, flagged with isPinned: true. Douyin promotes it editorially rather than by engagement, so it carries no hotValue / viewCount / videoCount — those fields come back as null. Every other row is ranked by hot value and has full metrics. Filter on isPinned: false if you only want the algorithmically-ranked topics.

Are the cover image URLs permanent? The cover and badge image URLs are signed and stay valid for roughly two weeks. If you need them long-term, download the bytes from coverImageUrl (or any URL in wordCover.url_list) into your own storage shortly after the run.

Do I need a proxy or login? No. The boards are public and load from any region without an account. A proxy is optional and only needed if you want to egress from a specific country.

Can I get the videos, profiles, or comments behind a topic? Not in this actor — it returns the trending boards only. Use the other actors in this collection (see the navigation table at the top) to pull videos, creator profiles, comments, or transcripts.

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• Features: Issues tab

Legal Compliance

Extracts publicly available data from Douyin (抖音). Users must comply with Douyin's terms of service and applicable data protection regulations (GDPR, CCPA).

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Structured Douyin trending boards — rank, hot value, view count, video count, cover image, and event time — one row per topic, in clean JSON.