Social Media API
Kuaishou API
Read 快手 videos (single or batch), profiles, comments, live rooms, hot boards, and shopping rankings as structured JSON.
- Single and batch video fetch, plus lookup by share URL
- Hot boards across live, shopping, brand, and person rankings
- The deepest reach into lower-tier-city Chinese consumers
$0.05 free credit on sign-up · no credit card · from $0.001/request
One request, structured JSON
1curl -X GET "https://api.tikhub.io/api/v1/kuaishou/app/fetch_one_video?photo_id=5xabcdef123456" \2 -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"1{2 "code": 200,3 "data": {4 "photo_id": "5xabcdef123456",5 "caption": "示例作品文案",6 "view_count": 1240000,7 "like_count": 86000,8 "comment_count": 2100,9 "author": { "user_id": "98765", "user_name": "用户昵称", "fan_count": 420000 },10 "duration": 1600011 }12}Get your API key at user.tikhub.io/dashboard/api — or follow the getting-started guide.
What's in the Kuaishou API
TikHub's Kuaishou API provides app and web access to 快手 — the short-video platform with the deepest reach in lower-tier Chinese cities. Fetch videos one-by-one or in batch, pull user profiles, hot posts, and live info, read comments, run search, and track live, shopping, brand, and magic-face ranking boards. Start with the App series, with Web as a fallback.
Kuaishou App API (recommended)
Kuaishou Web API (fallback)
Lower-tier-city China, plus batch and hot boards
Kuaishou (快手) reaches Chinese consumers Douyin under-indexes — smaller cities and rural markets. TikHub adds batch video fetch for high-volume collection and Kuaishou's live, shopping, brand, and person ranking boards, so you can track livestream commerce where it's growing fastest.
Kuaishou API endpoints
A reference of the most-used Kuaishou endpoints. Browse the full set in the API reference or the documentation.
Kuaishou App API (recommended)
The primary series — use it first, with Web as a fallback. Use the batch endpoint for high-volume collection, and look up videos by ID or share URL. Includes the live, shopping, brand, and magic-face ranking boards.
Kuaishou Web API (fallback)
Use the Web series as a fallback. Several endpoints offer V1/V2 variants; resolve a user ID from a profile link with fetch_get_user_id.
Tips & troubleshooting
Hard-won operational notes for working with Kuaishou data in production.
Recommended version — App first, Web fallback
Use the Kuaishou App series first — it's the most complete (batch fetch, hot/shopping/brand/live ranking boards, magic-face data, and search) — and fall back to the Web series when you need an endpoint the App series doesn't cover. Videos are addressed by photo_id (Kuaishou's video ID); resolve a user ID from a profile link with the Web fetch_get_user_id endpoint.
Batch fetch for high-volume collection
Kuaishou's fetch_videos_batch endpoint lets you pull multiple videos in one call, which is the efficient path when you're collecting a creator's catalog or a search result set. Combined with fetch_user_post_v2 for pagination, it keeps high-volume jobs from ballooning into thousands of single-video requests.
Lower-tier-city reach is the differentiator
Kuaishou (快手) over-indexes in smaller Chinese cities and rural markets where Douyin is weaker. If your research targets mass-market or lower-tier-city Chinese consumers — or you want to compare how a trend propagates across the two platforms — Kuaishou data fills a gap a Douyin-only view misses.
Live and ranking boards
fetch_user_live_info surfaces a creator's live status, and the hot/shopping/brand ranking boards track where attention and commerce concentrate. These are the endpoints to watch for livestream-commerce intelligence, which is growing fastest precisely in Kuaishou's core markets.
Do I need a Kuaishou developer account?
No. Create a free TikHub account, generate an API key, and call REST endpoints directly — no Kuaishou developer application, app review, or OAuth.
What Kuaishou data can I extract?
Public videos (single or batch), user profiles and hot posts, comment threads, live-room info, comprehensive search, and hot/shopping/brand ranking boards.
How much does the Kuaishou API cost?
Pay-as-you-go from $0.001 per request, with automatic daily volume discounts down to $0.0005 at 30,000+ requests/day. New accounts get $0.05 free credit (~50 requests) — no credit card required.
Is using a Kuaishou API like this legal?
TikHub only returns publicly available Kuaishou data — content any visitor can see without an account. It does not bypass authentication or access private information. Kuaishou is a Chinese platform, so the relevant constraints are its own Terms of Service and China's data and cross-border rules rather than US case law; automated access can lead to account or IP blocks, which TikHub's infrastructure absorbs for you. You remain responsible for how you store, process, and use the data — especially any personal data and any onward transfer across borders.
Kuaishou API: read China's #2 short-video platform in 2026
TikHub's Kuaishou API reads public 快手 data — videos (single or batch), profiles, comments, live rooms, hot boards, and shopping rankings — through plain REST calls. Here's how it works, what makes it distinct from a Douyin-only view, and which option fits which job.
How does the Kuaishou API work?
What is the Kuaishou API?
The TikHub Kuaishou API is a RESTful interface that returns structured JSON for public content on 快手 — China's second-largest short-video platform, with the deepest reach in lower-tier cities. You request a video, profile, comment thread, search, or ranking board and get clean, typed data, with batch endpoints for efficient high-volume collection.
No Chinese developer account is required: you authenticate with one TikHub key and read public data through web and app series.
How do you access and use it?
Create a TikHub account, generate an API key, and make an HTTP GET request with the key in the Authorization header. Identify content by photo ID (Kuaishou's video ID), user ID, or a share URL. For scale, pair fetch_videos_batch with paginated user-post endpoints, and follow returned cursors to collect comment threads and search results.
What are the benefits of using the Kuaishou API?
Why does Kuaishou data matter alongside Douyin?
Douyin and Kuaishou reach different Chinese audiences. Kuaishou is stronger in smaller cities and rural markets and skews toward livestream commerce, so a Douyin-only read of the Chinese short-video market has a blind spot. Tracking both — and comparing how a trend or product moves across them — gives a fuller picture of Chinese consumer behavior.
Who benefits, and what do they save?
China-market analysts, brands tracking livestream commerce, and AI teams building Chinese-language corpora all use it. The saving is the same as elsewhere: Kuaishou is a hard, Chinese-language scrape, and TikHub absorbs the anti-bot and maintenance burden so teams read the data in an afternoon instead of building and babysitting a scraper.
What are common use cases and alternatives?
What are the common use cases?
Teams track livestream-commerce performance in emerging Chinese markets, monitor brand and shopping ranking boards, benchmark creators, and study how trends propagate between Kuaishou and Douyin. AI teams pull short-video metadata and comments for Chinese-language training data and sentiment models.
What are the alternatives, and which is best?
Kuaishou's official open platform is gated and narrow; open-source scrapers exist but carry reliability and maintenance costs against a hard target, and few Western providers cover it. For teams that need reliable, batch-capable access without a Chinese entity or scraping infrastructure, a managed API like TikHub is the practical choice — and the same key covers Douyin and 14 other platforms.
One key, every platform
The Kuaishou API shares its key and JSON format with 15 other platforms — adding Instagram or Douyin is a one-line change.