Does Douyin have an API?
Not for public content: Douyin's open platform serves the users who authorise your app, and documents no endpoint for any public video or profile. SocialToAI reads its publicly visible videos, comments, accounts and trends without a Douyin developer account: 33 interfaces from 2 credits a call (≈ $0.004–$0.0067), and failed calls are free. Official facts checked 2026-10-17.
The short answer
Not for public content: Douyin's open platform serves the users who authorise your app, and documents no endpoint for any public video or profile.
What the official API allows
Douyin's open platform provides video data for users who authorise the app: the video list endpoint needs the user's authorisation and a permission applied for in the developer console. No endpoint for reading any public video or profile is documented.
Source: Douyin's own developer documentation, checked 2026-10-17. What a platform allows changes; its own pages are the authority.
Reading Douyin's public data with SocialToAI
SocialToAI is an API and MCP server for publicly visible content and account information. You need no Douyin account and no app review: one SocialToAI key, or signing in from Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Cursor and Codex. Each call costs a fixed number of credits, and a failed call costs nothing.
| Interface | What it returns | Price key | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Search | Find videos by keyword: text, author, likes, comment count and publish time. | douyin.search | 12 |
| Search · type=user | Find accounts by keyword: name, followers and post count. | douyin.search:user | 2 |
| Trending | What is trending now: title, rank and heat. | douyin.trending | 2 |
| Trending · type=videos | The videos trending now. | douyin.trending:videos | 2 |
| Detail | One video by ID or link: text, author, likes, comment count and publish time. | douyin.detail | 2 |
| Comments | The comments under one video: text, likes, reply count and time. | douyin.comments | 2 |
| Comments · reply_of | The comments under one video: text, likes and time. | douyin.comments:replies | 2 |
| User Profile | One account: name, bio, followers, following and post count. | douyin.user_profile | 2 |
| User Posts | The recent videos of one account. | douyin.user_posts | 2 |
| Xingtu creator search | Search Douyin creators on Xingtu by words in their name. | douyin.kol_search | 3 |
| Xingtu creator profile | Get a Douyin creator's profile on Xingtu by Xingtu creator ID. | douyin.kol_profile | 3 |
| Xingtu creator audience | Get who follows a Douyin creator, by Xingtu creator ID. | douyin.kol_audience | 3 |
21 more on the Douyin API page.
curl https://api.socialtoai.com/v1/search \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $SOCIALTOAI_KEY" \ -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "platform": "douyin", "query": "露营" }'- No Douyin account, cookie or developer approval on your side.
- What comes back is what the platform shows publicly; commenters are anonymised.
- Every platform answers in the same response format, so the same code reads Douyin and the others.
- Prepaid credits from 2 credits a call; 100 free credits on sign-up, no card.
Sources
- Douyin: open.douyin.com, checked 2026-10-17
- Douyin API on SocialToAI: every call and its credits, last tested 2026-10-17
- The live catalog: what is offered now and its credits, readable without a key
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