Douyin Scraper — examples

Runnable examples for the Douyin Scraper — Hot Trends, Videos & TikTok China Data on Apify.

Scrape Douyin (抖音) real-time trending topics with hot_value, view_count, discuss_count. Also supports user_videos and video_detail modes. Auto-registers ttwid — no manual cookies needed. a_bogus signed, CN-residential proxy.

What you get per record

discuss_video_count · event_time · hot_value · label · parse_confidence · rank · scraped_at · sentence_id · video_count · view_count · warnings · word · word_type

Who uses this

• China social listening — track brand/keyword mentions on the platform Western tools don't cover.
• Influencer discovery — find Douyin creators by niche with real engagement numbers.
• Trend research — what formats and sounds are breaking out in the Chinese market.

Quickstart

1. Get your Apify token: https://console.apify.com/account/integrations
2. Run a language example below. Both call the actor and print the results.

Example	File
Python (apify-client)	examples/python/run.py
JavaScript (apify-client)	examples/javascript/run.js
Sample output (real records)	examples/sample_output.json

Example input

{
  "mode": "hot_search",
  "keywords": [
    "美食"
  ],
  "maxItems": 50,
  "maxComments": 50,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "CN"
  }
}

Links

• Actor on Apify Store: https://apify.com/bovi/douyin-scraper
• Apify client docs: Python · JavaScript

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MIT-licensed examples. The actor runs on the caller's Apify account (you pay platform compute + per-result).