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Douyin profile

Profile header + publication metrics for a Douyin (抖音) user.

Provide exactly one of sec_uid (the canonical MS4w… id from a douyin.com/user/<sec_uid> or m.douyin.com/share/user/<sec_uid> link) or url (any douyin.com / iesdouyin.com profile URL containing one). Returns profile_info only (no post feed): identity, follower/following/post counts, verification, avatar, and lifetime likes received (total_favorited).

NOTE: a bare 抖音号/handle is NOT a sec_uid and is not accepted (resolving it needs Douyin's signed search API). Follower/following/favoriting counts are coarsened by Douyin's public share surface (see counts_are_approximate); post_count and total_favorited are exact.

POST
/v1/scrapers/douyin-profile

Authorization

ApiKeyAuth
X-API-Key<token>

Your API key. Sent on every request.

In: header

Request Body

application/json

TypeScript Definitions

Use the request body type in TypeScript.

Response Body

application/json

application/json

application/json

application/json

curl -X POST "https://example.com/v1/scrapers/douyin-profile" \  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \  -d '{    "sec_uid": "MS4wLjABAAAA4betsiKnGaXpGn50xzBdpIx4qqgCo644b_lzlxHWppk"  }'
{  "request_id": "req_8f2c1d94e7b0",  "success": true,  "status": {    "code": "OK",    "message": "Scrape completed.",    "retryable": false  },  "data": {    "data": {      "profile_info": {        "avatar": "https://p3.douyinpic.com/aweme/100x100/aweme-avatar/tos-cn-i-0813_oknuAKfBDE1Ue00AWycJAhzmMCGAFiQAiAA0Ig.jpeg?from=2956013662",        "avatar_thumb": "https://p3.douyinpic.com/aweme/100x100/aweme-avatar/tos-cn-i-0813_oknuAKfBDE1Ue00AWycJAhzmMCGAFiQAiAA0Ig.jpeg?from=2956013662",        "counts_are_approximate": true,        "custom_verify": null,        "description": "希望你天天开心❤️\n搬砖兄弟:@星河悬太清 男……男大?\n开播:@公瑾象棋",        "enterprise_verify_reason": null,        "favoriting_count": 0,        "follower_count": 3000,        "following_count": 100,        "nickname": "Aala",        "original_music_count": 0,        "original_music_used_count": 0,        "post_count": 34,        "profile_url": "https://www.douyin.com/user/MS4wLjABAAAA4betsiKnGaXpGn50xzBdpIx4qqgCo644b_lzlxHWppk",        "sec_uid": "MS4wLjABAAAA4betsiKnGaXpGn50xzBdpIx4qqgCo644b_lzlxHWppk",        "short_id": null,        "show_favorite_list": false,        "total_favorited": 609731,        "unique_id": "65581209652",        "user_id": "MS4wLjABAAAA4betsiKnGaXpGn50xzBdpIx4qqgCo644b_lzlxHWppk",        "verification_type": 0,        "verified": false      }    }  },  "error": null,  "meta": {    "client_id": "client_abc123",    "scraper": "douyin-profile",    "billable": true,    "duration_ms": 6136  }}