/v1/search"platform": "douyin"Douyin Search API
Find videos by keyword.
Search Douyin videos by keyword and get back text, author, likes, comment count and publish time, as JSON over HTTP or from your AI client over MCP. A call to the Douyin Search API costs 12 credits ($0.024 to $0.04 depending on the pack), failed calls are free, and the response has the same format as every other call. Last tested 2026-11-05.
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limit: 100 and one call pages for you: at most 13 pages, 156 credits. It stops once it has them or the list ends; pages it does not use are not charged, and neither are pages that fail. Reading 1,000 items comes to about 1,500 credits, about $5.00.Daily watch: tell your AI “watch this daily” and this call runs by itself every day, sending only what is new: at most 372 credits a month, about $1.24. How to set it up
What you get from the Douyin Search API.
From a recorded answer.
A recorded call returned 7 items; here is the first, field by field. Names and text are removed from the sample; the numbers are as recorded.
66 real calls in the last 7 days, 96% succeeded, median 2.4 s, usually 7 items (data to 2026-11-05).
Lighter for your AI: the same recorded data (7 items) is about 187,166 tokens as the platform's raw JSON and about 2,214 as this interface returns it, 98% fewer (measured 2026-11-06). How it was measured
| Field | In the recorded answer |
|---|---|
| url | removed from the sample |
| format | video |
| title | null |
| text | removed from the sample |
| published_at | 2026-09-11T01:32:11.000Z |
| author.id | removed from the sample |
| author.username | removed from the sample |
| author.name | removed from the sample |
| author.verified | null: Douyin cannot give it |
| author.followers | 2,525 |
| metrics.likes | 96,505 |
| metrics.comments | 2,219 |
| metrics.shares | 60,467 |
| metrics.collects | 7,038 |
| metrics.views | null: Douyin cannot give it |
| metrics.reposts | null: Douyin cannot give it |
| images | null |
| hashtags | 2 entries |
| is_pinned | null: Douyin cannot give it |
12 credits a call (≈ $0.024–$0.04): about 250 calls for $10.
Douyin Search API: request and response
curl https://api.socialtoai.com/v1/search \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $SOCIALTOAI_API_KEY" \ -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "platform": "douyin", "query": "露营" }'import osimport uuidimport requestsresponse = requests.post( "https://api.socialtoai.com/v1/search", headers={ "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['SOCIALTOAI_API_KEY']}", # A new key for each request; the same one again retries it without paying twice. "Idempotency-Key": str(uuid.uuid4()), }, json={ "platform": "douyin", "query": "露营", },)print(response.json())# Connected over MCP? Ask in plain words.Search Douyin for videos about "露营".# Your AI calls the search tool with:{ "platform": "douyin", "query": "露营"}valuesortpublished_within{ "platform": "douyin", "status": "ok", "items": [ { "platform": "douyin", "id": "…", "ref": "…", "approx": [], "type": "content", "url": "https://example.com/…", "format": "video", "title": null, "text": "…", "published_at": "2026-09-11T01:32:11.000Z", "author": { "id": "…", "username": "…", "name": "…", "verified": null, "followers": 2525 }, "metrics": { "likes": 96505, "comments": 2219, "shares": 60467, "collects": 7038, "views": null, "reposts": null }, "images": null, "hashtags": ["…", "…"], "is_pinned": null } ], "unavailable": ["author.verified", "metrics.views", "metrics.reposts", "is_pinned"], "page": { "has_more": true, "cursor": "cur_…", "cursor_expires_at": "2026-10-12T19:31:55.000Z" }, "cost_credits": 12}nullNames and text were removed from the sample; the numbers are as recorded.
Douyin Search API parameters.
6 parameters, 2 required.
Send them as a JSON body with POST. Your key goes in the Authorization header, never in the URL.
| Name | Type | Required | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| platform | string | Required | — | Always "douyin" on this page. |
| query | string | Required | — | Search terms |
| sort | string | Optional | "relevance" | Order: the platform's ranking, newest first, most liked first. Douyin does not serve most liked within a day; with that pair, a day's results come with each page in order of likes"relevance""latest""popular" |
| published_within | string | Optional | — | Only videos posted within the last day, week or half year; any time when left out"day""week""half_year" |
| type | string | Optional | — | "user": accounts instead of posts (2 credits)."user" |
| cursor | string | Optional | — | Pass page.cursor from the last response to get the next page. |
Douyin Search API response fields.
What Douyin cannot give is marked.
| Field | Type | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| items[].url | string | A link that opens the item. |
| items[].format | string | video, image, text or article. |
| items[].title | string | The title. |
| items[].text | string | The body text or caption. |
| items[].published_at | string | When it was published, ISO 8601 in UTC. |
| items[].author.id | string | The author's account ID. |
| items[].author.username | string | The author's handle. |
| items[].author.name | string | The author's display name. |
| items[].author.verified | booleanalways null | Whether the author is verified. |
| items[].author.followers | integer | The author's follower count. |
| items[].metrics.likes | integer | Likes. |
| items[].metrics.comments | integer | Comments. |
| items[].metrics.shares | integer | Shares. |
| items[].metrics.collects | integer | Saves. |
| items[].metrics.views | integeralways null | Views or plays. |
| items[].metrics.reposts | integeralways null | Reposts. |
| items[].images | string[] | Image addresses. |
| items[].hashtags | string[] | Hashtags, without the #. |
| items[].is_pinned | booleanalways null | Whether the author pinned it. |
nullFields Douyin cannot giveRead null as “Douyin did not give this”, not as zero. These are always null on this call:
author.verifiedWhether the author is verified.metrics.viewsViews or plays.metrics.repostsReposts.is_pinnedWhether the author pinned it.
Send the parameter and the call returns something else:
type=useraccounts instead of posts2 creditsCompared with the Xiaohongshu (RedNote) Search API, this call also gives author followers and hashtags.
Every item also has platform, id, ref, approx and type; the response around the items is the same on every call. Response format
Douyin Search API: paging and billing.
5 calls per second per key, 20 after a purchase; going over is not charged. Rate limits
A failed call costs 0 credits and is never retried on its own. Error codes
“Last tested” above is the last day a real call of this interface succeeded. Each call reads from the platform, and fetched_at in the answer is when it was read. The same request sent again with the same key within 5 minutes is a replay (replayed: true): 0 credits, and the answer as first read.
These numbers come from real calls only, worked out once a day, without our own accounts: a customer's same request on one day counts once, by how it last ended; something that does not exist or a wrong parameter is not a failure; an interface with fewer than 20 calls shows none.
Once connected over MCP, these questions use the Douyin Search API.
Search Douyin for videos about "露营".
12 creditssearch {"platform":"douyin","query":"露营"}Find Douyin accounts about "博物馆".
2 creditssearch {"platform":"douyin","query":"博物馆","type":"user"}
Give this to your AI.
Copy it into Claude or ChatGPT.
How to connectUse the SocialToAI MCP server (https://mcp.socialtoai.com/mcp) for this: Search Douyin for videos about "露营".Call the search tool with {"platform":"douyin","query":"露营"}. Needed: query; optional: sort (relevance, latest, popular), published_within (day, week, half_year).For many items pass limit (limit=100 is at most 13 pages) and one call pages for you; each page costs 12 credits and unused pages are not charged.Before you start, work out how many credits it will take in all and ask me; call it only after I agree.What usually comes next, with the ref or username it returns: detail (Detail), comments (Comments).If SocialToAI is not connected yet, tell me how to connect it; never ask me to paste a key into the chat.Answer with a link to every item you used, and tell me how many credits it cost.Paste it into a chat once SocialToAI is connected over MCP. There is no key in it: Claude and ChatGPT sign in, other clients send a key in a header.
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