# Which Douyin API should I use for search, accounts and comments? (2026)

3 endpoints cover the usual jobs: with a keyword, douyin.videos.search at $0.0200; with an account's link, douyin.users.videos.list at $0.0020; with a video, douyin.videos.comments.list at $0.0020. Choose Douyin's open platform when your own users sign in and authorise your app. DataXAPI reads Douyin with 36 endpoints, from $0.0020 a call; a failed call is not charged.

Updated 2026-11-04

## Choose by what you have

Links can be pasted as they are: web links, phone share links, v.douyin.com short links and a whole share text all work where an endpoint takes `url`.

| You have | You want | Endpoint | Each |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| A keyword | Videos, about 8 a page; newest or most liked, and by time posted | `douyin.videos.search` | $0.0200 |
| A keyword | Accounts, about 30 a page | `douyin.users.search` | $0.0020 |
| An account's link | Its profile: followers, posts; total likes with `view=full` | `douyin.users.get` | $0.0020 |
| An account's link | Its videos, newest first, about 20 a page | `douyin.users.videos.list` | $0.0020 |
| A video's link | Caption, author, likes, comments, shares, saves | `douyin.videos.get` | $0.0020 |
| A video's link | Plays and likes | `douyin.videos.metrics` | $0.0020 |
| A video's link | Comments, about 20 a page | `douyin.videos.comments.list` | $0.0020 |
| A comment's ID and its video's ID | Replies, about 20 a page | `douyin.comments.replies.list` | $0.0020 |
| Nothing yet | A hot list, about 50 with rank and heat | `douyin.trends.list` | $0.0020 |

## How it differs from Douyin's open platform

The open platform's joining page is mainly for companies, sole proprietors, government bodies, public institutions and social organisations, each with papers to show. Its OpenAPI list starts from an `access_token`, described as the credential for what a user has authorised. Its page on video search says that ability is experimental and not open at present.

So it suits an app that signs people in with Douyin and works with their own accounts, which DataXAPI does not do: it cannot post, and it reads no private data. DataXAPI reads public videos, accounts and comments with one key, with no app to register and no account of yours.

## What a study comes to

10 keywords at $0.0200 a page give about 80 videos, for $0.20. 5 pages of comments under 20 of them are 100 calls at $0.0020, $0.20, for about 2,000 comments. So $0.40. The latest page of 20 competitors' videos adds 20 × $0.0020, $0.04.

Search results, account lists and video details have no plays: read them with `douyin.videos.metrics` for the videos that matter.

## Endpoints

- [Douyin video search](https://dataxapi.com/apis/douyin/videos/search/) ($0.0200 / a call): Search Douyin videos by terms, a page at a time, sorted by relevance, newest or most liked and filtered by time posted: caption, author with follower count, engagement counts.
- [Douyin user videos](https://dataxapi.com/apis/douyin/users/videos/list/) ($0.0020 / a call): Get a page of the videos a Douyin account has posted, newest first: caption, engagement counts, time posted.
- [Douyin video comments](https://dataxapi.com/apis/douyin/videos/comments/list/) ($0.0020 / a call): Get a page of comments on a Douyin video: text, commenter, likes, reply count, time posted.
- [Douyin user search](https://dataxapi.com/apis/douyin/users/search/) ($0.0020 / a call): Search Douyin accounts by terms, a page at a time: account ID, display name, avatar, follower count, post count, total likes.
- [Douyin user profile](https://dataxapi.com/apis/douyin/users/get/) ($0.0020 / a call): Get a Douyin user's profile by account ID or profile link: name, handle, bio, follower, following and post counts, total likes, verification.
- [Douyin video detail](https://dataxapi.com/apis/douyin/videos/get/) ($0.0020 / a call): Get one Douyin video or image post by ID or link: caption, author, engagement counts, time posted.
- [Douyin video play count](https://dataxapi.com/apis/douyin/videos/metrics/) ($0.0020 / a call): Get a Douyin video's counts as of now, by its ID: plays and likes.
- [Douyin comment replies](https://dataxapi.com/apis/douyin/comments/replies/list/) ($0.0020 / a call): Get a page of the replies under a Douyin comment, by the comment's ID and its video's ID: text, replier, likes, time posted.
- [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 export Douyin video comments in bulk](https://dataxapi.com/guides/douyin-video-comments/)

## Sources

What this page says of other services is from their own pages and documents, read on 2026-11-04. Prices and features change: check the source before you decide.

- [Douyin open platform: joining as a developer](https://developer.open-douyin.com/docs/resource/zh-CN/developer/join/join-into-developer-platform)
- [Douyin open platform: OpenAPI list](https://developer.open-douyin.com/docs/resource/zh-CN/dop/develop/openapi/list)
- [Douyin open platform: search ability](https://developer.open-douyin.com/docs/resource/zh-CN/dop/ability/search-management/item-search)

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