RedNote (Xiaohongshu) Profile Scraper

RedNote (Xiaohongshu) User Profile Scraper / API

Give it RedNote profile links or user IDs. Get back the profile: nickname, RedNote ID, avatar, banner, bio, follower count, following count, likes + collects, verification badge, IP location, gender, city, profession, and the user's recent notes with likes, collects and comments on each.

No login. No cookies to paste. No browser — this is a plain HTTP scraper, which is why it is cheap.

$2.90 per 1,000 profiles ($0.0029 each), plus $0.003 each time a run starts — the lowest per-profile price of any RedNote / Xiaohongshu Actor on the Apify Store with an active user base. Resolved against the live Store on 10 August 2026, comparing every rival at its own cheapest volume tier: the next cheapest is actorzlab/rednote-scraper (18 monthly users) at $3.00 per 1,000, the dedicated zen-studio/rednote-user-profile-scraper (111 monthly users) is $4.99 per 1,000 and $5.99 on the free plan, and the two highest-priced, sian.agency/xiaohongshu-rednote-scraper (327 monthly users) and zhorex/rednote-xiaohongshu-scraper (198 monthly users), are $37.50 and $40.00 per 1,000. You are charged per profile actually returned — blocked pages, missing users and empty runs cost nothing.

What you get per profile

Real values from a real row (5b723a65c756070001d43c6c, scraped 2026-08-10):

Field coverage — measured, not guessed

220 profiles pulled from RedNote's live explore feed on 2026-08-10, one run, nothing excluded:

Inside recentNotes: type, collectedCount, commentCount and coverImage on 100%, likedCount on 96.5%, title on 98.4%.

The fields below 100% are blank because the creator left them blank — most people have no profession chip and only 5% of accounts are verified. Nothing here is null because the scraper failed to read it.

Follower counts: exact for most accounts

RedNote gives the exact number up to about 10,000 followers and abbreviates above it. Across those 220 profiles, 52.7% came back exact (5911, 1306, 83) and the rest abbreviated to one decimal (194.8K, 15.9K). Both readings are returned:

• followerCount — a number, so you can sort and filter.
• followerCountText — the original string.
• followerCountIsExact — true when the string was a plain integer.

countsAreApproximate is true whenever the follower or likes figure was abbreviated. 194.8K becomes 194800, which is within 0.05% of the truth — not a bucket floor.

Input

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

Bare 24-character user IDs work as well as full URLs. maxItems is a cap, not a target: leave it at 0 and you get one row per URL you supplied.

includeExploreFeed is an optional extra that tops the list up with authors from RedNote's public explore feed, so you can try the Actor without hunting for links first. It is off by default.

Throughput

Two runs on the Apify platform, 2026-08-10: 220 of 220 profiles in 47 seconds, and 240 of 240 in 72 seconds, at 8 concurrent requests. About 47 KB of traffic per profile.

The Actor opens each profile through RedNote's mobile page. That page needs an xsec_token, which the Actor mints for itself from the public explore feed at the start of every run — one request, and the token then opens every profile in the queue. You never have to supply one.

The one thing that can go wrong is that mint. RedNote meters its server-rendered pages per exit address, and on a busy day it answers with an empty client-render shell instead. The Actor walks several exit pools looking for one that answers. If none does, you get a single uncharged TOKEN_UNAVAILABLE row and the run stops immediately rather than burning your compute — re-run a few minutes later, or paste a token from your own browser into the xsecToken input. A token stays valid for at least an hour and works for every profile.

Limits, stated plainly

No note permalinks. The profile page identifies each recent note by a 32-character hash, not by the 24-character note ID that /explore/<id> accepts. There is no way to turn one into the other, so the Actor returns each note's title, type, likes, collects, comments and cover image, and does not emit a url it knows would 404. If you need note bodies, use the companion RedNote Scraper, which reads note pages directly.

There is no lifetime note total. The profile shows following, followers and likes+collects. It does not show "posted N notes", so the Actor does not invent one. recentNoteCount is how many recent notes are in that row, not the user's career total.

The explore feed is a bonus, not a feature. It yields about thirty authors per page and is refused more often than a profile page. When it is on and RedNote refuses it, you get one uncharged FEED_UNAVAILABLE row and the run carries on with the URLs you supplied.

A user ID that does not exist looks identical to a refusal. RedNote serves the same login shell for both, so the diagnostic row mentions both possibilities. Check the ID before assuming you were rate-limited.

Bios are as written. RedNote's own "还没有简介" placeholder ("no bio yet") is site text, not user text, so it comes back as null.

No email or phone. RedNote does not publish either on a profile, so neither is in the output.

Billing

$2.90 per 1,000 profiles, plus $0.003 when the run starts. One charge per profile row actually returned. Blocked pages, missing users, TOKEN_UNAVAILABLE and empty runs produce _diagnostic rows that cost nothing. An empty input returns one labelled _sample row so you can see the shape, also free.

A 100-profile run costs $0.293. A 1,000-profile run costs $2.903. Flat rate — no volume tiers, no plan gates, so those are the numbers on the free plan and on Diamond alike.

FAQ

Do I need a RedNote account or cookies? No. Everything here is the public, signed-out profile page.

Is RedNote the same thing as Xiaohongshu? Yes. 小红书 / Xiaohongshu is the Chinese name; RedNote is what most English speakers call it.

How do I find a user ID? Open any RedNote post, click the author, and copy the URL. The 24-character hex string after /user/profile/ is the ID. Paste either the whole URL or just that string.

Do I get exact follower counts? For most accounts, yes — RedNote publishes the exact number up to roughly 10,000 followers. Above that it abbreviates to one decimal place (194.8K). followerCountIsExact tells you which you got; it was true on 52.1% of a 240-profile sample.

Can I get a user's full note history? No. You get up to 30 recent notes from the first page of the profile, with their engagement counts but without permalinks.

What is the xsecToken input for? Nothing, normally — leave it empty and the Actor mints its own. It exists only so you can unblock a run that reported TOKEN_UNAVAILABLE, by pasting the xsec_token out of your browser's address bar.

What happens if a profile is deleted or the ID is wrong? You get an uncharged diagnostic row with an errorCode and a hint. You are not billed for it.

Can it run on a schedule? Yes, like any Actor.

How does the price compare? $2.90 per 1,000 profiles — the lowest per-profile price of any RedNote / Xiaohongshu Actor on the Store with an active user base. Every rival was compared at its own cheapest volume tier, not its headline rate: actorzlab/rednote-scraper is $3.00 per 1,000, the dedicated zen-studio/rednote-user-profile-scraper is $4.99 (and $5.99 on the free plan), socialdatax/socialdatax-xhs-data-api and habit.zhou/xiaohongshu-pro-scraper are $4.99 and $5.00, and the two at the top of the market are $37.50 and $40.00. Prices checked 2026-08-10.