How do I find Douyin creators in a niche with AI?
Connect SocialToAI to your AI client over MCP, then ask in plain words. In this recorded run an AI client answered “Find home-organisation creators on Douyin for a collaboration” with 1 request on Douyin: 20 items read in 5.7 seconds for 9 credits ($0.03). Below are the calls it made, the answer with its sources, and the prompt and API calls to run it yourself. Recorded 2026-10-18.
The question
Find home-organisation creators on Douyin for a collaboration
The creator marketplace lists many accounts for a keyword, and checking each one's size and whether its content really fits the brief is slow work.
What the AI did
It chose the tools itself: 1 request on Douyin. Each row is one tool call as the client showed it, with what it sent, how much came back and what it cost.
| Platform | Tool | Sent | Requests | Returned | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Douyin | find_creators | query: "家居收纳" · scale: "small" | 1 | 20 accounts | 9 |
| Total | 1 | 20 items | 9 | ||
The answer
What the client answered, from what it had read. The line under each finding is a post it read, or a figure from those posts.
20 creators from the platform's own creator marketplace, each judged against the request:
- Strong fit85%17 of 20 judged17 accounts
- 100K followers or more45%9 of 20 creators9 accounts
- Partial fit15%3 of 20 judged3 accounts
The posts it rests on
A selection of what was read; the marked words are what a finding rests on. An item without a link says so.
What it cost
1 request, 9 credits in total: $0.03 at the $10 rate. Every answer of the API states the credits it charged and the balance left, so your AI can tell you what a question cost. A call that fails costs nothing.
| Pack | Credits per dollar | This answer |
|---|---|---|
| $10 = 3,000 credits | 300 | $0.03 |
| $50 = 20,000 credits | 400 | $0.022 |
| $200 = 100,000 credits | 500 | $0.018 |
Ask it yourself
Connect SocialToAI to your AI client once (the steps for each client), then paste the question. You do not name tools or parameters: the client picks them.
Find home-organisation creators on Douyin for a collaborationThe same in code: the calls this run made, as requests to the API.
curl https://api.socialtoai.com/v1/tools/find_creators \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $SOCIALTOAI_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "query": "家居收纳", "platform": "douyin", "scale": "small" }'What to try next
- Ask next: “Only creators under 300K followers”
- Ask next: “Show their contact categories”
- Set a follower range.
- Ask for each creator's recent videos.
- Run it as one request with the ready-made tool Find creators: Creators on one platform for a niche: their size, their recent posts, and how well each fits what you asked for, with the reasons.
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