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New: Douban Tracker — China movie/TV ratings, hot lists and the Top 250 as clean structured data

What it does

Douban Tracker pulls Douban (豆瓣) movie and TV ratings, hot lists and Top 250 rankings as clean JSON / CSV / Excel — the China cultural-zeitgeist source almost no Western scraper can reach. Douban is rate-sensitive and anti-bot defended; the actor clears it via residential proxy and Douban's own rated-list endpoint, returning title, rating, rank, Douban ID, cover art and subject URLs. No login, no Chinese phone number, no API key.

Who it's for

APAC market researchers, content-licensing and entertainment-analytics teams, and recommendation-dataset builders.

Sample fields / output

  • title (Chinese), original_title, douban_id, douban_url
  • rating (10-point), rating_count (where exposed)
  • rank, list_type, category
  • year, genres[], director (on detail-backed lists)
  • cover_image (high-res poster), summary
  • data_source, scraped_at

Example use cases

  • See what China is actually watching and rating right now.
  • Build content catalogs or licensing trackers with posters and Chinese titles.
  • Assemble a recommendation or ratings dataset from the canonical Top 250.

Try it

Run Douban Tracker on Apify ->

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FAQ

Do I need a Douban login or API key?

No — no login, no Chinese phone number and no Douban API key.

Which lists are supported?

Hot lists, the Top 250, now-playing and keyword search across movies and TV.

Are all fields always populated?

Core fields (title, rating, cover_image, douban_id, douban_url) always; year, genres and rating_count populate on detail-backed lists. Fields the source doesn't return are never fabricated.

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