# 🍉 Xigua Video Search Scraper (`ethereal_wool/xigua-video-search`) Actor

Extract Xigua video search data — title, author, engagement, 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/xigua-video-search.md
- **Developed by:** [Jackie Chen](https://apify.com/ethereal_wool) (community)
- **Categories:** Social media, Videos
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$3.00 / 1,000 results

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.

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# README

## Xigua Video Search Scraper (西瓜视频搜索)

![xigua-video-search](https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/48FFrfZnw5XqzUC1C/records/xigua-video-search__hero)

Search [Xigua Video](https://www.ixigua.com/) (西瓜视频, ByteDance's long-form video
platform) by keyword and export structured video data: titles, summaries, durations,
watch and comment counts, cover images, author info, and direct video IDs/URLs.

> **Unofficial.** Not affiliated with, authorized, or endorsed by Xigua Video / ByteDance.
> This is an independent tool that retrieves publicly available data via a third-party API.
> Use it in compliance with Xigua Video's terms of service and applicable law; you are
> responsible for how you use the data.

### What it does

- **Keyword search** — give it one or more keywords (Chinese keywords return the most
  results) and it pages through Xigua's search feed, returning one item per video.
- Filters out the search feed's separator / ad / empty-content cards and keeps only real
  video records.
- Optional sorting (comprehensive / latest / most watched) and duration filtering.

### Input

| Field | Type | Description |
|-------|------|-------------|
| `searchKeywords` | array of strings | Keywords to search for. Default: `["美食"]`. |
| `maxItems` | integer | Max total videos across all keywords. Default `10`. |
| `orderType` | string | Sort: comprehensive / `publish_time` (latest) / `video_play` (most watched). |
| `minDuration` | integer | Optional. Minimum video length in seconds. |
| `maxDuration` | integer | Optional. Maximum video length in seconds. |
| `proxyConfiguration` | object | Optional Apify Proxy config (usually not needed). |

#### Example input

```json
{
  "searchKeywords": ["美食"],
  "maxItems": 10
}
```

### Output

Each dataset item is a flat video record:

```json
{
  "groupId": "6867358073854362123",
  "itemId": "6867358073854362123",
  "videoId": "v02004a30000bt6redppmnn8nv6uidi0",
  "url": "https://www.ixigua.com/6867358073854362123",
  "title": "羊腿烤肉鸡爪子，乡村食叔12个户外精彩美食瞬间，你最馋哪个",
  "summary": "农村大叔秘制各种户外美食...",
  "sourceName": "乡村食叔",
  "watchCount": 679819,
  "commentCount": 426,
  "videoDuration": 377,
  "publishTime": 1598943660,
  "coverUrl": "https://p26-sign.bdxiguaimg.com/...",
  "author": {
    "userId": "223935603685203",
    "nickname": "乡村食叔",
    "avatarUrl": "https://...",
    "authInfo": "优质美食领域创作者"
  },
  "source": "search:美食"
}
```

### Notes

- Powered by the TikHub API. Provide your TikHub API key as the secret environment
  variable `TIKHUB_API_KEY`.
- Xigua's search feed is paginated by `offset`; pages often contain only layout cards,
  so the actor keeps advancing the offset until real video results dry up.

# Actor input Schema

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

Keywords to search Xigua Video (西瓜视频) for. Each keyword is searched and paginated independently. Chinese keywords return the most results.

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

Maximum total number of videos to scrape across all keywords.

## `orderType` (type: `string`):

How to sort search results.

## `minDuration` (type: `integer`):

Optional. Only return videos at least this many seconds long.

## `maxDuration` (type: `integer`):

Optional. Only return videos at most this many seconds long.

## `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"
  ],
  "maxItems": 10,
  "orderType": "",
  "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/xigua-video-search").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/xigua-video-search").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/xigua-video-search --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/PY4I7YWS0rKtwxmvE/builds/3AbMaN4q985le7Xbm/openapi.json