Douyin (抖音)

Douyin (抖音) MCP Server

Douyin (抖音) data inside Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and your own code: search videos, read comments, look up creators and find the products they sell. Hosted and read-only. No Douyin login, no cookies, nothing to install.

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Douyin MCP is a hosted Douyin MCP server that connects your AI assistant to Douyin (抖音), the Chinese short-video app often called Chinese TikTok or TikTok China. Ask in English or Chinese: your assistant searches videos by keyword or hashtag, reads a video's full details and media links, pulls the comments under a video, looks up creators with their follower counts and recent posts, and searches Douyin Shop products with price, monthly sales and creator commission. Results come back as structured rows it can sort, filter, translate and summarise. Developers can call the same tools as a Douyin API.

Why Douyin MCP

• No Douyin account. No QR-code login, no cookies, no Chinese phone number. Your own Douyin account is never used, so it is never at risk.
• Nothing to install. Add one URL and sign in with Apify. Works in claude.ai and ChatGPT too, not only in desktop apps.
• Five tools in one server. Video search, video details, creator profiles with their posts, comments, and Douyin Shop product search.
• Rich, structured data. Likes, comments, shares and saves per video, hashtags, music, upload city, creator followers, total likes and agency (MCN), and for products the price, monthly sales, shop score and creator commission rate.
• Maintained for you. Used by more than 15,000 people on the Apify Store. When Douyin changes, the tools are updated; your setup stays the same.
• Made for assistants. A bundled skill teaches your assistant the inputs that work and how to chain the tools, and long requests keep running while it checks back.
• Pay per result. Plus a small start fee per run, billed to your own Apify account. No subscription; try it on Apify's free plan.

How it works

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A["Your AI assistant Claude · ChatGPT · Cursor · VS Code"] -->|"remote MCP URL Apify sign-in"| B["Douyin MCP server hosted on Apify"] B --> C["Video search"] B --> D["Video details"] B --> E["Creator profiles"] B --> F["Comments"] B --> H["Product search"] C --> G["Structured rows"] D --> G E --> G F --> G H --> G G -->|"sort · filter · translate · summarise"| A

Each tool call starts a run on your Apify account. Your assistant waits for it, reads the rows, and answers in plain language. Chain the tools for deeper answers: search a topic, open the top videos, read their comments, then look up the creators behind them.

Quick start

1. Create a free [Apify account](https://console.apify.com/sign-up) if you do not have one.
2. Add the server to your assistant. Click a button above, or follow the steps for your client below.
3. Sign in with Apify when your assistant asks, then ask a question such as *"Find the 10 most-liked Douyin videos about camping (露营) from the past week and list the creators, likes and saves."*

About the Apify sign-in page. Apify notes that your assistant "was registered dynamically and wasn't verified by Apify" and asks for full API access. Every assistant that signs in this way sees that notice; it lets your assistant start runs on your account. You can remove the access at any time on your Apify Console integrations page.

Server URL, for any client that accepts a remote MCP server:

https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,get-actor-run,get-dataset-items,zen-studio/douyin-search-scraper,zen-studio/douyin-video-scraper,zen-studio/douyin-profile-scraper,zen-studio/douyin-comments-scraper,zen-studio/douyin-product-search-scraper

Set up with your AI agent

Paste this repository's URL into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or another agent and ask it to set up Douyin MCP. The steps below are written so your agent can follow them.

For AI agents installing this server:

1. This is a hosted remote MCP server (streamable HTTP). There is nothing to download or build. It needs a free Apify account and an Apify sign-in (OAuth) in the user's browser; do not ask for an API token unless the sign-in fails.
2. Server name douyin, server URL:

   https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,get-actor-run,get-dataset-items,zen-studio/douyin-search-scraper,zen-studio/douyin-video-scraper,zen-studio/douyin-profile-scraper,zen-studio/douyin-comments-scraper,zen-studio/douyin-product-search-scraper

1. Add it with the client's own command:

• Claude Code: claude plugin marketplace add zen-studio-labs/douyin-mcp, then claude plugin install douyin@douyin-mcp (adds the server and the Douyin skill).
• Codex: codex mcp add douyin --url " ", then codex mcp login douyin.
• VS Code: code --add-mcp '{"name":"douyin","type":"http","url":" "}'.
• Cursor and other clients: add {"mcpServers": {"douyin": {"url": " "}}} to the client's MCP config file (Cursor: ~/.cursor/mcp.json).

1. Ask the user to complete the sign-in. In Claude Code they run /mcp, select douyin and choose Authenticate; other clients open the Apify sign-in page themselves. A client restart may be needed before the tools appear.
2. Check it works with one small Video details request, for example videoUrls: ["7702714233150131482"]. Each video is billed to the user's Apify account. Do not test with search: Apify's free plan allows only two search runs in total.
3. Before real requests, read the Douyin skill: it explains how long runs work, how the tools chain together and which inputs return good results.

Tools

All tools are read-only. They never post, like, comment, follow, send messages or buy.

Key fields per tool

| Creator profile | Two shapes. By default, one row per post: id, url, text, createDate, isPinned, statistics, hashtags, videoMeta, musicMeta, images, region, city, with the creator in authorMeta; no flat videoUrl/coverUrl and no saved files. With maxPostsPerProfile: 0, one row per creator with the profile at the top level: name, secUid, signature (bio), followersCount, totalLikesReceived, awemeCount (posts)