Douyin Pro Scraper

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Full-featured Douyin / 抖音 (China TikTok) scraper. Five modes, one Actor, clean structured JSON. No login, no cookies, no broken-token surprises.

Built for serious workloads — China short-video trend research, KOL / KOC discovery, AI training pipelines harvesting Chinese-language video metadata, brand-watch dashboards, hashtag campaign tracking.

What does this Actor do?

Pick a mode, give it inputs, get a dataset:

• Keyword search — search Douyin by keyword. Three sort modes (comprehensive, most liked, newest) × four time windows (any / 24h / week / 6 months).
• Video detail by aweme ID / URL — paste a numeric aweme ID, a full douyin.com/video/<id> URL, or a short v.douyin.com/... share link; get caption, author, plays, likes, comments, shares, collects, cover, video URL, music, hashtags, and (optional) top comments.
• User profile + uploads — fetch a creator's profile (followers, gender, location, verification badge, total favorites) and their recent uploaded videos with pagination.
• Hashtag feed — pull every recent video tagged with a Douyin challenge ID, plus the hashtag's metadata (view count, user count).
• Hot search board — Douyin's live "hot search" board — what's trending across the entire app right now.

Each video returns a flat, schema-validated JSON row that's downloadable as JSON, CSV, Excel, HTML, or XML — and queryable via the Apify REST API for pipeline integration.

Why use Douyin Pro Scraper?

• No cookies, no breakage. Other Douyin actors in the store rely on the user's logged-in Douyin cookie that expires every few days. Customers end up with a stream of -352 / 412 errors and 1.5★ reviews. We use a maintained backend surface that stays stable.
• Five modes in one Actor. Search, detail, user, hashtag, hot — pick a mode per run; no juggling separate Actors.
• Full-field output. Caption, author + sec_uid, plays, likes, comments, shares, collects, forwards, cover URL, play URL, music title, hashtags, publish time — all in one row.
• AI training-ready. Chinese-language video metadata, clean JSON, deduplicable by awemeId. Drop straight into a vector DB, an LLM fine-tune set, or a trend classifier.
• Marketing dashboards. Schedule keyword + hashtag runs hourly and build a real-time pulse of any brand, product, or campaign on China's #1 short-video app.

How to use

1. Open the Actor and click Try for free.
2. In the Input tab, pick a Scrape mode (search is the default).
3. Fill the inputs for your mode:
   • search: keywords, optional sortType + publishTime
   • videos: aweme IDs / douyin.com URLs / v.douyin.com short links in videoIds
   • user: sec_uid strings in secUserIds (find in douyin.com/user/<sec_uid>)
   • hashtag: numeric challenge IDs in hashtagIds
   • hot: nothing required
4. Set Max items per input (default 50).
5. Click Save & Start. Results stream into the dataset live.
6. Download or stream the dataset; schedule the run under the Schedules tab.

Input

JSON example — keyword search:

{
"mode":"search",
"keywords":["AI","Claude"],
"sortType":"_1",
"publishTime":"_7",
"maxItemsPerInput":100
}

Output

{
"awemeId":"7642544676239790570",
"caption":"工作放手交给AI ...",
"author":"写AI的老韩",
"authorSecUid":"MS4wLjABAAAAZ-cmp_SmexldJ_NyG4",
"authorUid":"12345678901234",
"authorAvatar":"https://p3-pc.douyinpic.com/...avatar.jpg",
"cover":"https://p3-pc.douyinpic.com/...cover.jpg",
"videoUrl":"https://www.douyin.com/video/7642544676239790570",
"playUrl":"https://aweme-cdn.douyinpic.com/...play.mp4",
"duration":119955,
"plays":482915,
"likes":39201,
"comments":1832,
"shares":2841,
"collects":12480,
"forwards":220,
"publishedAt":"2026-05-18T08:15:00.000Z",
"music":"原创音乐 - 写AI的老韩",
"hashtags":["#ai量化","#搞钱","#分享"],
"keyword":"AI",
"scrapedAt":"2026-05-22T14:34:25.000Z"
}

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Pricing

$4.99 per 1,000 results. Each video returned counts as one result. videos mode with fetchComments=true returns richer rows but is billed at the same rate.

Free vs. paid Apify plans

Apify free-plan users get 2 sample runs capped at 10 results each so you can verify the data shape and quality before committing. Further runs from free accounts are blocked with an upgrade prompt — this Actor relies on a paid backend, so we can't subsidise unlimited free use. Any Apify paid plan ($49/month and up — see Apify pricing) unlocks unlimited runs at the rate above.

Cost estimates

Apify also charges a small compute fee (typically $0.01-0.05 per minute of run time).

Tips

• Schedule, don't poll. Douyin trends turn over fast; scheduling hourly during campaign launches captures the peak.
• Deduplicate by awemeId. Sequential runs overlap; merge and dedupe on awemeId.
• Pair user + videos modes. Use mode: "user" to find prolific creators, then drill into top videos with mode: "videos" + fetchComments.
• publishTime: "_1" + sortType: "_2" for real-time newest-first keyword monitoring (last 24h).
• hot mode is cheap and high-signal. Run it every 30 min to track real-time trending terms before your competitors notice.

FAQ

Q: Why is this Actor different from the other Douyin scrapers on the Store? A: Most existing actors depend on the customer providing a logged-in Douyin cookie that expires within days. We don't. We've engineered around stable backend surfaces so the Actor stays usable across cookie expiries.

Q: Will this break when Douyin changes their API? A: Possibly. Our team maintains the backend; we patch usually within 24-72 hours of a backend change. Bug reports via the Issues tab.

Q: Is scraping Douyin legal? A: We pull only publicly-accessible content — what any visitor can see without an account. Your usage is your responsibility; comply with your jurisdiction's law and Douyin's Terms of Service.

Q: Can I get my data via API? A: Yes. Every Apify run exposes a stable REST API for inputs, datasets, and run status. Plug into n8n, Make, Zapier, or your own pipeline.

Q: How do I find a user's sec_uid? A: Open the creator profile on douyin.com or in the Douyin app share menu; the URL contains /user/<sec_uid>. It looks like MS4wLjABAAAA….

Q: How fast are runs? A: Search: ~3 seconds per page (~10 videos). User: ~2 seconds per page (20 videos). Video detail: ~1 second per video. Hashtag: ~2 seconds per page.

Q: I need a richer integration or higher-volume contract. A: Reach out via Apify chat. Custom endpoints and SLAs available on request.