/v1/search"platform": "kuaishou"Kuaishou Search API
Find videos by keyword.
Search Kuaishou videos by keyword and get back text, author, likes, comment count, views and publish time, as JSON over HTTP or from your AI client over MCP. A call to the Kuaishou 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 10 pages, 120 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 1,200 credits, about $4.00.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 Kuaishou Search API.
From a recorded answer.
A recorded call returned 10 items; here is the first, field by field. Names and text are removed from the sample; the numbers are as recorded.
Lighter for your AI: the same recorded data (10 items) is about 99,618 tokens as the platform's raw JSON and about 2,204 as this interface returns it, 97% fewer (measured 2026-11-06). How it was measured
| Field | In the recorded answer |
|---|---|
| url | removed from the sample |
| format | null: Kuaishou cannot give it |
| title | null: Kuaishou cannot give it |
| text | removed from the sample |
| published_at | 2026-10-10T23:04:11.943Z |
| author.id | removed from the sample |
| author.username | null |
| author.name | removed from the sample |
| author.verified | false |
| author.followers | null: Kuaishou cannot give it |
| metrics.likes | 0 |
| metrics.comments | 0 |
| metrics.shares | 0 |
| metrics.collects | 0 |
| metrics.views | 4 |
| metrics.reposts | null: Kuaishou cannot give it |
| images | null: Kuaishou cannot give it |
| hashtags | null: Kuaishou cannot give it |
| is_pinned | null: Kuaishou cannot give it |
12 credits a call (≈ $0.024–$0.04): about 250 calls for $10.
Kuaishou 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": "kuaishou", "query": "露营装备" }'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": "kuaishou", "query": "露营装备", },)print(response.json())# Connected over MCP? Ask in plain words.Search Kuaishou for videos about "露营装备".# Your AI calls the search tool with:{ "platform": "kuaishou", "query": "露营装备"}value{ "platform": "kuaishou", "status": "ok", "items": [ { "platform": "kuaishou", "id": "…", "ref": "…", "approx": [], "type": "content", "url": "https://example.com/…", "format": null, "title": null, "text": "…", "published_at": "2026-10-10T23:04:11.943Z", "author": { "id": "…", "username": null, "name": "…", "verified": false, "followers": null }, "metrics": { "likes": 0, "comments": 0, "shares": 0, "collects": 0, "views": 4, "reposts": null }, "images": null, "hashtags": null, "is_pinned": null } ], "unavailable": ["format", "title", "author.followers", "metrics.reposts", "images", "hashtags", "is_pinned"], "page": { "has_more": true, "cursor": "cur_…", "cursor_expires_at": "2026-10-12T19:22:39.000Z" }, "cost_credits": 12}Names and text were removed from the sample; the numbers are as recorded.
Kuaishou Search API parameters.
4 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 "kuaishou" on this page. |
| query | string | Required | — | Search terms |
| type | string | Optional | — | "user": accounts instead of posts (12 credits)."user" |
| cursor | string | Optional | — | Pass page.cursor from the last response to get the next page. |
Kuaishou Search API response fields.
What Kuaishou cannot give is marked.
| Field | Type | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| items[].url | string | A link that opens the item. |
| items[].format | stringalways null | video, image, text or article. |
| items[].title | stringalways null | 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 | boolean | Whether the author is verified. |
| items[].author.followers | integeralways null | 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 | integer | Views or plays. |
| items[].metrics.reposts | integeralways null | Reposts. |
| items[].images | string[]always null | Image addresses. |
| items[].hashtags | string[]always null | Hashtags, without the #. |
| items[].is_pinned | booleanalways null | Whether the author pinned it. |
nullFields Kuaishou cannot giveRead null as “Kuaishou did not give this”, not as zero. These are always null on this call:
formatvideo, image, text or article.titleThe title.author.followersThe author's follower count.metrics.repostsReposts.imagesImage addresses.hashtagsHashtags, without the #.is_pinnedWhether the author pinned it.
Send the parameter and the call returns something else:
type=useraccounts instead of posts12 creditsCompared with the Douyin Search API, this call also gives views but does not give title, author followers, images or hashtags.
Every item also has platform, id, ref, approx and type; the response around the items is the same on every call. Response format
Kuaishou 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.
Once connected over MCP, these questions use the Kuaishou Search API.
Search Kuaishou for videos about "露营装备".
12 creditssearch {"platform":"kuaishou","query":"露营装备"}Find Kuaishou accounts about "人民日报".
12 creditssearch {"platform":"kuaishou","query":"人民日报","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 Kuaishou for videos about "露营装备".Call the search tool with {"platform":"kuaishou","query":"露营装备"}. Needed: query.For many items pass limit (limit=100 is at most 10 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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