Douyin API - Videos, Creators, Comments, Search

Douyin via Scavio

Pull Douyin (the Chinese TikTok) videos, user profiles and feeds, comments, hashtags, music, live rooms, the hot-search board, and run keyword search across videos, users, music, live and hashtags. All endpoints return structured JSON.

When to trigger

Use this skill when the user asks to:

• Pull a Douyin video's full detail or statistics (play, like, share, download counts), or resolve a share link
• Read a user's profile, their posts, their liked videos, followers or following, or their current live stream
• Read a video's comments and comment replies, or videos recommended alongside it
• Look up a hashtag or a sound (music) and the videos under it
• Read the hot-search board, the recommended home feed, or a live room by web_rid
• Search Douyin by keyword - general, or scoped to videos, users, music, live streams or hashtags
• Do China-market social research, creator analysis or trend spotting on Douyin

Setup

Get a free API key at scavio.dev (50 free credits to get started, no card required):

export SCAVIO_API_KEY=sk_live_your_key

Every request is a POST with a JSON body and:

Authorization: Bearer $SCAVIO_API_KEY

Pricing

Base URL: https://api.scavio.dev.

• Search endpoints (/api/v1/douyin/search*) cost 10 credits each.
• Every other Douyin endpoint costs 1 credit.

Check credits_used on each response to confirm what a call cost.

Endpoints

Video

User

Hashtag / music / live

Trending / feed / resolve

Search (10 credits each)

Key identifiers

• aweme_id - a video id (e.g. 7436613508646702348). Used by video, video/statistics, video/comments, video/comment-replies, related.
• sec_user_id - a user id (the MS4wLjABAAAA... string). Used by the user endpoints. Get it from resolve/user-id if you only have a profile URL.
• Feed/comment endpoints paginate with max_cursor / cursor / max_time from the previous response, and take an optional count (1-50).

Examples

import requests

BASE = "https://api.scavio.dev"
# Your key from https://scavio.dev. Load it from your environment or secret
# store in real code - keep it out of source control.
API_KEY = "sk_your_key_here"
HEADERS = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {API_KEY}"}

# 1. Resolve a share link, then read that video's comments (1 credit each)
video = requests.post(f"{BASE}/api/v1/douyin/video/by-share-url", headers=HEADERS,
    json={"share_url": "https://v.douyin.com/v1zNJi__Teg/"}).json()
aweme_id = video["data"]["aweme_id"]
comments = requests.post(f"{BASE}/api/v1/douyin/video/comments", headers=HEADERS,
    json={"aweme_id": aweme_id, "count": 50}).json()

# 2. Resolve a profile URL to a user id, then read the user's posts (1 credit each)
uid = requests.post(f"{BASE}/api/v1/douyin/resolve/user-id", headers=HEADERS,
    json={"url": "https://www.douyin.com/user/"}).json()["data"]["sec_user_id"]
posts = requests.post(f"{BASE}/api/v1/douyin/user/posts", headers=HEADERS,
    json={"sec_user_id": uid, "count": 20}).json()

# 3. Keyword search - 10 credits
found = requests.post(f"{BASE}/api/v1/douyin/search/videos", headers=HEADERS,
    json={"keyword": "美食"}).json()

curl:

curl -s https://api.scavio.dev/api/v1/douyin/trending \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SCAVIO_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{}'

Response shape

Every response uses the envelope { data, response_time, credits_used, credits_remaining }. data carries the video / user / feed payload, with lists under keys like videos, comments, users and cursors for pagination.

Guardrails

• Search costs 10 credits per call; everything else costs 1. Confirm with credits_used and avoid running search in tight loops.
• Use resolve/video-id and resolve/user-id to turn a Douyin URL into the id the other endpoints need.
• Paginate only with the cursor the previous response returned (max_cursor / cursor / max_time); stop when it stops advancing.
• Trending, hot-search and rankings are point-in-time snapshots - re-fetch for a fresh board rather than assuming stability.
• Never fabricate video counts, comment text, follower numbers or user details. Only return what the API returned.
• Comments and profiles are written by real people. Summarise; do not build profiles of individuals.

Failure handling

• 400 means malformed input (e.g. a bad URL). Fix and retry.
• 401 means the API key is invalid or missing. Check SCAVIO_API_KEY.
• 422 means a required identifier is missing (e.g. no sec_user_id). Supply it and retry.
• 429 means rate or usage limit exceeded. Wait before retrying. See rate limits.
• 502 means the source is temporarily unavailable - wait a few seconds and retry.
• If SCAVIO_API_KEY is not set, prompt the user to export it before continuing.