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Toutiao Video Detail Scraper (今日头条视频详情)

👁 toutiao-video-detail

Fetch full video details from Toutiao (今日头条) by video ID or share URL. Returns clean, structured data for each video: title, abstract, duration, play-stream qualities, like / comment / share / collect counts, cover frame, category tags, author info, and the canonical share URL. Optionally enriches each video with its top-level comments.

Unofficial. This Actor is not affiliated with, authorized, or endorsed by Toutiao (今日头条) or ByteDance. It is an independent tool that retrieves publicly available data via a third-party API. Use it in compliance with Toutiao's terms and all applicable laws; you are responsible for how you use the retrieved data.

What it does

• By ID or URL — give one or more Toutiao video IDs (a.k.a. group_id / gid, e.g. 7036185404340437511) or share URLs like https://m.toutiao.com/video/7036185404340437511/. The Actor extracts the ID and fetches the full detail for each.
• App or Web source — choose the App API (richest fields) or the Web API.
• Comments (optional) — fetch top-level comments for every scraped video.

Toutiao has no public search endpoint. To discover video IDs, use the xigua-video-search Actor — Toutiao and Xigua share the same ByteDance ID space, so the IDs it returns work directly here.

Input

Example input

{
"groupIds":[
"7036185404340437511",
"https://m.toutiao.com/video/7036185404340437511/"
],
"source":"app",
"maxItems":50,
"includeComments":true,
"maxCommentsPerVideo":10
}

Output

One dataset item per video:

{
"groupId":"7036185404340437511",
"gid":"7036185404340437511",
"videoId":"v02004g10000c6inhubc77ucdb117j10",
"url":"https://m.toutiao.com/video/7036185404340437511/",
"shareUrl":"https://m.toutiao.com/video/7036185404340437511/?app=news_article...",
"articleUrl":"https://toutiao.com/group/7036185404340437511/",
"displayUrl":"https://toutiao.com/group/7036185404340437511/",
"title":"全家一起品尝麻辣海鲜汤，软嫩蟹肉搭配美味鱼饼，味道鲜美无比！",
"abstract":"和爸妈一起吃美味海鲜，汤香美味...",
"tag":"video_food",
"categories":["video_food"],
"hasVideo":true,
"videoType":"video",
"videoDuration":1175,
"videoProportion":1.7777,
"coverUrl":"https://p3-sign...",
"diggCount":12049,
"commentCount":1010,
"shareCount":593,
"buryCount":1,
"repinCount":1226,
"readCount":1450943,
"impressionCount":18201023,
"publishTime":1638266400,
"isOriginal":true,
"author":{"name":"兴森一家","userId":"...","verified":true,"verifyReason":"知名美食领域创作者"},
"videoPlayInfo":{"status":10,"video_id":"..."},
"source":"app:7036185404340437511",
"comments":[]
}

Notes

• Data is sourced live; Toutiao occasionally rate-limits, so the Actor retries transient blocks with exponential backoff.
• videoPlayInfo is returned by Toutiao as a JSON string of stream qualities; the Actor parses it into a nested object when possible.
• Video IDs are de-duplicated within a run.