Does Kuaishou have an API?
Not for public content: Kuaishou's video endpoints return only the videos of users who authorise your app. SocialToAI reads its publicly visible videos, comments, accounts and trends without a Kuaishou developer account: 7 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: Kuaishou's video endpoints return only the videos of users who authorise your app.
What the official API allows
Kuaishou's open platform offers login, user info, content sharing and live features. Its video endpoints return only the videos of users who authorise the app.
Source: Kuaishou's own developer documentation, checked 2026-10-17. What a platform allows changes; its own pages are the authority.
Reading Kuaishou's public data with SocialToAI
SocialToAI is an API and MCP server for publicly visible content and account information. You need no Kuaishou 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, views and publish time. | kuaishou.search | 12 |
| Trending | What is trending now: title, rank and heat. | kuaishou.trending | 2 |
| Detail | One video by ID or link: text, author, likes, comment count, views and publish time. | kuaishou.detail | 2 |
| Comments | The comments under one video: text, likes and time. | kuaishou.comments | 2 |
| Comments · reply_of | The comments under one video: text, likes and time. | kuaishou.comments:replies | 2 |
| User Profile | One account: name, bio, followers, following and post count. | kuaishou.user_profile | 12 |
| User Posts | The recent videos of one account. | kuaishou.user_posts | 12 |
curl https://api.socialtoai.com/v1/search \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $SOCIALTOAI_KEY" \ -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "platform": "kuaishou", "query": "露营装备" }'- No Kuaishou 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 Kuaishou and the others.
- Prepaid credits from 2 credits a call; 100 free credits on sign-up, no card.
Sources
- Kuaishou: open.kuaishou.com, checked 2026-10-17
- Kuaishou 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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