RedNote (Xiaohongshu) Profile Scraper

RedNote Profile Scraper: Xiaohongshu profiles, followers and recent notes

Paste RedNote profile links or bare user ids and get one row per account: nickname, RedNote ID, bio, avatar, follower and following counts, total likes and collects, the verified badge, the province RedNote shows next to the account, and up to 30 recent notes with their own engagement numbers.

The counts need one caveat. RedNote publishes some figures exactly and rounds others on the page, so followerCount can be a real integer or a reading of 94.3K. Every row carries followerCountIsExact and countsAreApproximate so you always know which you got.

👤 What RedNote Profile Scraper does

Give it the accounts you want. A profile link, or just the 24-character id from the end of one, and you get one row back per entry. If your links still carry the ?xsec_token= they were shared with, leave it on: it saves a request.

Recent notes come with the profile. Up to 30 of them, newest first, each with its title, type, likes, collects, comment count, whether it is pinned, and a cover image. Set Recent notes per profile to 0 if you only want the account itself.

Discovery, if you do not have a list yet. Switch on Also seed profiles from the explore feed and it takes the authors of whatever is on RedNote's public explore feed. It is off by default. One thing to watch: if you also paste URLs, raise maxItems above the number you pasted, or the run stops at your own list and the feed adds nothing.

📥 What you give it

{
  "profileUrls": [
    "https://www.xiaohongshu.com/user/profile/5b723a65c756070001d43c6c",
    "620f2fbd000000001000e44c"
  ],
  "maxNotesPerProfile": 10,
  "maxItems": 0
}

Run it with nothing in the box and the feed switched off, and you get one labelled sample row.

📤 What you get back

A real profile row from a recent run, with one recent note attached.

{
  "ok": true,
  "userId": "5b723a65c756070001d43c6c",
  "url": "https://www.xiaohongshu.com/user/profile/5b723a65c756070001d43c6c",
  "nickname": "无糖小馒头",
  "redId": "607277765",
  "avatar": "https://sns-avatar-qc.xhscdn.com/avatar/1040g2jo321mc2hj8no2g...format/jpg",
  "bannerImage": "http://sns-avatar-qc.xhscdn.com/user_banner/1040g2k031tjje5h1ne60...format/jpg",
  "description": "十年美食无人问，一朝绑匪天下知。",
  "followerCount": 1295,
  "followerCountText": "1295",
  "followerCountIsExact": true,
  "followingCount": 69,
  "followingCountText": "69",
  "likesAndCollectsCount": 94300,
  "likesAndCollectsCountText": "94.3K",
  "countsAreApproximate": true,
  "ipLocation": "江苏",
  "gender": null,
  "location": null,
  "profession": null,
  "isVerified": false,
  "verifiedType": null,
  "verifiedReason": null,
  "tags": [],
  "recentNoteCount": 1,
  "recentNotes": [
    {
      "title": "刷牙教程",
      "type": "normal",
      "likedCount": 8003,
      "collectedCount": 855,
      "commentCount": 285,
      "pinned": true,
      "coverImage": "https://sns-na-i2.xhscdn.com/c4d52afd-cc13-9234-6e10-6965baa3935b?imageView2..."
    }
  ],
  "source": "xiaohongshu.com",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-18T13:02:46.237Z"
}

🧾 Reading the output

Three kinds of row can land in your dataset.

Diagnostic rows and the sample row are never charged.

▶️ How to run it

1. Open RedNote Profile Scraper and click Try for free. 2. Paste your links or ids into Profile URLs or user IDs, one per line. 3. Set Recent notes per profile, or 0 to skip them. 4. Click Start. 5. Download the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read it from the Apify API.

💰 How much does it cost?

$2.90 per 1,000 profiles. Flat on every Apify plan, no volume tiers.

One row is one profile, whether you asked for 30 recent notes on it or none. The sample row and every diagnostic row are not charged, so a profile RedNote will not serve produces no row to pay for, and neither do the URLs listed on a RATE_LIMITED row.

💡 What people use it for

• Vetting creators before an outreach campaign, with followers and recent engagement side by side.
• Checking whether a creator's audience is real by comparing follower count against likes on recent

notes.

• Building a shortlist by province, using ipLocation.
• Watching a set of accounts week by week and diffing the counts.
• Finding new creators in a niche through the explore feed, then reading their profiles properly.

🚧 What it does not do

• No email and no phone. RedNote does not publish contact details on a profile, so there are

none to return.

• Some counts are rounded. RedNote prints 94.3K on plenty of pages, and that is what you get.

countsAreApproximate tells you when it happened.

• A missing account and a refused page look the same. Both produce a row explaining that it

could be either. Check the profile in a browser before assuming it is gone.

• At most 30 recent notes, and no lifetime post total. RedNote does not publish the total, and

the recent list is as deep as the profile page goes.

• No note permalinks in the recent list. You get the title, the numbers and a cover image, not a

link to each note.

• Some fields can arrive null. RedNote does not always serve the full profile page; when it

serves the lighter one, bannerImage, verifiedReason and the collect and comment counts inside recentNotes come back empty.

• Explore-feed seeding is a helper, not a search. It takes whoever happens to be on the feed, and

the feed changes between runs.

• Rows are a snapshot. Followers move, bios change, notes get deleted.

🧭 Which Chinese platform scraper do you need?

❓ Questions people ask

Do I need a RedNote account or a cookie? No. Nothing to log into and nothing to paste, in the normal case.

What is the xsec_token box for then? A fallback. The run gets its own token, and only if that fails does it ask you for one. One token covers every profile in the run and stays good for at least an hour.

Can I search RedNote for creators by keyword? Not here. Give it profiles you already know, or switch the explore feed on and take what it offers.

Why is followerCount exact on one row and rounded on another? Because RedNote itself prints it that way. followerCountIsExact is the field to trust.

Can I run it on a schedule? Yes. userId is stable, so a weekly run plus a join on that field gives you a growth curve per creator.

Is scraping RedNote profiles legal? These are public profiles. Apify's write-up on scraping and the law is a good place to start, and we are not lawyers.

🆘 If something breaks

Open the Issues tab on the actor page. Send one of the profile links and the run ID. The errorCode and its hint on the diagnostic row usually name the problem on their own.