# Is the Douyin search index a number of searches? No. The trend-index (巨量算数) says in its own help that the search index is not the actual number of searches: it is a weighted sum the platform works out from searches for the keyword and related content. DataXAPI reads Douyin with 36 endpoints, from $0.0020 a call; a failed call is not charged. ## The two keyword indexes Its in-page help gives two keyword indexes, for overall volume and for search heat. The **composite index** is a weighted sum of related content, views and searches; the **search index** a weighted sum of the searches for the keyword and related content. The weights are not published. So an index tells you how a keyword moves against its own past, or against another keyword on Douyin. It does not tell you how many people searched, and it is not on one scale with another platform's index. ## Other figures with similar names The trend-index's own topic boards have a topic index; DataXAPI's `douyin.index.trends.list` returns it as `heat`. Douyin's hot lists in the app have a heat value of their own; `douyin.trends.list` returns that as `heat`, read from another field of another board. Nothing published puts the two on one scale. ## Getting the indexes `douyin.index.keywords.history` takes `keyword`, or up to five as `keywords`, with `since` and `until`, and returns `points`, one a day, each with `search_index` and `composite_index`. Days are calendar days in China time (UTC+8), and a day's figure usually comes a day or two late. ## Endpoints - [Douyin trend-index keyword trends](https://dataxapi.com/apis/douyin/index/keywords/history/) ($0.0060 / a call): Get the day-by-day search index and composite index of a keyword, or of one to five keywords at once, on Douyin over a date range, from 巨量算数 (the Douyin index), with the daily averages of the period, of the one before and of a year earlier. An index is the platform's score of volume, not a count of searches; days are calendar days in China time (UTC+8). - [Douyin trend-index related keywords](https://dataxapi.com/apis/douyin/index/keywords/related/) ($0.0020 / a call): Get the keywords related to a keyword on Douyin in one week, from the platform's own keyword tool: those searched together with it and those that appear with it in content, each with its relevance, its place by relevance, its search index and its composite index. An index is the platform's score of volume, not a count of searches. - [Douyin trend-index live hot topics](https://dataxapi.com/apis/douyin/index/trends/list/) ($0.0020 / a call): Get the live topic board or the fastest-rising topic board of Douyin's index tool, about 30 entries each: place, name, topic index, number of related videos, their plays and a category. The topic index is the platform's score of heat, not a count of searches. - [Douyin hot search board](https://dataxapi.com/apis/douyin/trends/list/) ($0.0020 / a call): Get a Douyin hot list: hot searches, rising topics, topic ranking, top search terms or the music chart, with rank and heat. ## How-to guides - [How to get Douyin keyword trends in bulk](https://dataxapi.com/guides/douyin-keyword-trends/) ## Sources What this page says of other services is from their own pages and documents, read on 2026-10-29. Prices and features change: check the source before you decide. - [Trend-index (巨量算数): keyword index page](https://trendinsight.oceanengine.com/arithmetic-index) - [Trend-index in-page help (index definitions)](https://lf-fe-creator.douyinstatic.com/obj/douyn-creator-scm-cdn/count/fe/count-fe/static/js/async/7129.58975b9b.js) - [Trend-index in-page help (index definitions, continued)](https://lf-fe-creator.douyinstatic.com/obj/douyn-creator-scm-cdn/count/fe/count-fe/static/js/async/9798.f2820fcf.js) ## More about Douyin - [Douyin API](https://dataxapi.com/apis/douyin/) - [Douyin trend-index API](https://dataxapi.com/apis/douyin/index/) - [How do I export Douyin data?](https://dataxapi.com/answers/export-douyin-data/) - [What is sec_uid on Douyin, and how is it different from uid and the Douyin ID?](https://dataxapi.com/answers/douyin-sec-uid/) - [What are aweme_id and modal_id on Douyin, and what is a v.douyin.com link?](https://dataxapi.com/answers/douyin-aweme-id-modal-id/) - [What is the Douyin keyword index (Ocean Engine)?](https://dataxapi.com/answers/what-is-douyin-keyword-index-ocean-engine/) - [What is Douyin Xingtu?](https://dataxapi.com/answers/what-is-douyin-xingtu/) - [How to export Douyin video comments in bulk](https://dataxapi.com/guides/douyin-video-comments/) - [How to look up a Douyin creator's Xingtu rate card](https://dataxapi.com/guides/douyin-xingtu-creator-rates/) --- Catalog revision 5c3194deef3264cc. [HTML version](https://dataxapi.com/answers/douyin-search-index-vs-search-count/)