# 🎵 Douyin Content Scraper (`ethereal_wool/douyin-content-scraper`) Actor

Extract Douyin content data — likes, plays, author, and more. Scrape by keyword, URL or ID. Export to JSON, CSV & Excel, use the API, schedule runs and integrate. No code required.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/ethereal\_wool/douyin-content-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Jackie Chen](https://apify.com/ethereal_wool) (community)
- **Categories:** Social media, Videos
- **Stats:** 14 total users, 5 monthly users, 91.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

Pay per event

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/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## Douyin Video & Content Scraper

![douyin-content-scraper](https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/48FFrfZnw5XqzUC1C/records/douyin-content-scraper__hero)

Scrape **Douyin (抖音)** content four ways: **keyword video search**, **user profile videos**,
**video comments**, and the **hot-search trending list (热榜)**. Returns clean, structured data
for each record — description, play / like / comment / share / collect counts, cover and video
URLs, music title, author info, and the canonical video URL.

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

### What it does

- **Keyword search** — give one or more keywords; the Actor paginates Douyin video search
  results for each. Sort by comprehensive / most-liked / latest and filter by publish time.
- **User profile** — give one or more `sec_user_id` values (the long `MS4wLjAB...` id from a
  profile URL or share link) to scrape the videos a creator has posted.
- **Video comments** — give one or more video IDs (`aweme_id`) to scrape their comments; one
  dataset item is pushed per comment.
- **Hot-search trending list** — enable `includeHotSearch` to also pull the current Douyin
  热榜, one item per trending word.

### Input

| Field | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| `searchKeywords` | string\[] | `["美食"]` | Keywords to search. Each is paginated independently. Chinese keywords return the most results. |
| `userIds` | string\[] | `[]` | Douyin `sec_user_id` values whose posted videos to scrape. |
| `awemeIds` | string\[] | `[]` | Douyin video IDs (`aweme_id`) to scrape comments from. |
| `includeHotSearch` | boolean | `false` | Also scrape the hot-search trending list. |
| `maxItems` | integer | `50` | Max total items across all modes. |
| `sortType` | enum | `_0` | `_0` comprehensive / `_1` most liked / `_2` latest (search only). |
| `publishTime` | enum | `_0` | `_0` no limit / `_1` last day / `_7` last week / `_180` last 6 months (search only). |
| `maxCommentsPerVideo` | integer | `50` | Cap on comments fetched per video ID. |

#### Example input

```json
{
  "searchKeywords": ["美食", "穿搭"],
  "userIds": ["MS4wLjABAAAAgYvMaLdCBKJ_4vwmBkxDnv8ZbC8pL1gYRBA7sbgV_E0"],
  "awemeIds": ["7614772719099333894"],
  "includeHotSearch": true,
  "maxItems": 200,
  "sortType": "_1"
}
```

### Output

Video item (from search / user modes):

```json
{
  "id": "7614772719099333894",
  "type": "video",
  "url": "https://www.douyin.com/video/7614772719099333894",
  "shareUrl": "https://www.iesdouyin.com/share/video/...",
  "description": "茄子放入肉馅，这个是最近很火的茄子新吃法 #茄子新吃法",
  "createTime": 1772964000,
  "durationMs": 41402,
  "diggCount": 377385,
  "commentCount": 4280,
  "shareCount": 303968,
  "playCount": 0,
  "collectCount": 0,
  "coverUrl": "https://...",
  "playUrl": "https://...",
  "downloadUrl": "https://...",
  "musicTitle": "@小婷美食记创作的原声",
  "author": {
    "secUid": "MS4wLjABAAAA...",
    "uid": "391894996886567",
    "uniqueId": "...",
    "nickname": "小婷美食记",
    "followerCount": 12345,
    "verified": false
  },
  "source": "search:美食"
}
```

Comment item (from `awemeIds` mode) and hot-search item (from `includeHotSearch`) share the
same flat shape with a `type` of `comment` / `hotSearch` respectively.

### Notes

- Data is sourced live; Douyin occasionally rate-limits, so the Actor retries transient
  Cloudflare / upstream blocks with exponential backoff.
- IDs are de-duplicated within a run.
- A bare run (no input) defaults to searching `美食` so it always returns data.

***

### Why this Actor

- **Direct API, no headless browser** — fast, stable runs with nothing to babysit.
- **No login, no cookies** — we never touch your accounts, so there's no ban risk.
- **Fresh, real-time data** — every run reads the source live, not a stale cache.
- **Pay per result** — you're billed only for the rows actually delivered.
- **Structured JSON** — export to CSV, Excel, or JSON, or pull straight from the API / MCP.

### Use cases

- Pull structured content + engagement for analytics dashboards.
- Track a creator's or topic's output and performance over time.
- Build training/research datasets of posts and metadata.
- Power competitor and trend monitoring.

### FAQ

**Do I need an account, cookies, or to log in anywhere?**
No. The Actor talks to a fast, direct HTTP API server-side — you just provide inputs and run it.

**How am I billed?**
Pay-per-result: a fixed price per row returned, with no separate platform/compute charge. Caps like `maxItems` keep spend predictable.

**Can I run it on a schedule or call it from my app?**
Yes — use Apify Schedules, the REST API, the JavaScript / Python clients, or the MCP server. See the **API** tab.

**Is this affiliated with Douyin (抖音)?**
No. It's an independent tool that collects publicly available data. Use it in line with the platform's terms and applicable law.

**How do I get a `sec_user_id` or `aweme_id`?** A `sec_user_id` is the long `MS4wLjAB...` string in a profile share link; an `aweme_id` is the number in `douyin.com/video/<id>`.

### More Douyin (抖音) scrapers by us

- [**Douyin Xingtu KOL**](https://apify.com/ethereal_wool/douyin-xingtu-kol-scraper) — Influencer search · fans portrait · Xingtu index

Browse the full fleet → **https://apify.com/ethereal\_wool**

# Actor input Schema

## `searchKeywords` (type: `array`):

Keywords to search Douyin videos for. Each keyword is searched and paginated independently. Chinese keywords return the most results.

## `userIds` (type: `array`):

Douyin sec\_user\_id values (the long 'MS4wLjAB...' id from a profile URL or share link) whose posted videos you want to scrape.

## `awemeIds` (type: `array`):

Douyin video IDs (aweme\_id, the numeric id in a video URL). The Actor scrapes the comments of each of these videos and pushes one item per comment.

## `includeHotSearch` (type: `boolean`):

Also scrape the current Douyin hot-search (热榜) trending list and push one item per trending word.

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

Maximum total number of items to scrape across all keywords, users, comment sets, and the trending list.

## `sortType` (type: `string`):

How to sort keyword-search results.

## `publishTime` (type: `string`):

Restrict keyword-search results to videos published within a recent window.

## `maxCommentsPerVideo` (type: `integer`):

Maximum top-level comments to fetch per video ID in the Video IDs (comments) mode.

## `downloadVideos` (type: `boolean`):

Download each video's watermark-free MP4 into the key-value store and add a `downloads.videoFile` link to the item. Billed as a separate pay-per-event add-on.

## `downloadCovers` (type: `boolean`):

Download each video's cover/thumbnail image into the key-value store (`downloads.coverFile`).

## `downloadSlideshow` (type: `boolean`):

For image-text (图文) posts, download every slide into the key-value store (`downloads.slideFiles`).

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Optional. Route the upstream API calls through an Apify Proxy to vary the source IP. Usually not needed.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchKeywords": [
    "美食"
  ],
  "userIds": [],
  "awemeIds": [],
  "includeHotSearch": false,
  "maxItems": 50,
  "sortType": "_0",
  "publishTime": "_0",
  "maxCommentsPerVideo": 50,
  "downloadVideos": false,
  "downloadCovers": false,
  "downloadSlideshow": false,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# 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 = {
    "searchKeywords": [
        "美食"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("ethereal_wool/douyin-content-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 = { "searchKeywords": ["美食"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("ethereal_wool/douyin-content-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "searchKeywords": [
    "美食"
  ]
}' |
apify call ethereal_wool/douyin-content-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=ethereal_wool/douyin-content-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/5HH2mK1MwtxicHv5N/builds/OQqJoG60fcheqSyrf/openapi.json