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New: Douyin Trending Tracker — the Chinese TikTok hot list as clean JSON

What it does

The Douyin Trending Tracker captures the live Douyin (抖音 / Chinese TikTok) hot list (热榜) as machine-readable rows — topic, rank, category, view count, branded-partnership flag and a best-effort English translation. Douyin's hot list is one of the highest-signal real-time mirrors of what mainland-China consumers, fans and creators are talking about, and this actor surfaces it without a Chinese phone number, CN VPN or ByteDance mobile token.

Who it's for

Brand and marketing teams, consumer-trend researchers, and offshore China-watchers who need the Douyin trend signal as data, not a dashboard screenshot.

Sample fields / output

Per record: rank, topic (verbatim Chinese hashtag), topic_english_translation, category (entertainment/social/tech/food/fashion/etc. from a built-in classifier), view_count, video_count and is_branded_partnership.

Example use cases

  • Social listening — capture the hot list on a schedule for trend tracking and topic-emergence analysis.
  • Creator-economy monitoring — filter on the branded-partnership flag to watch live paid-collaboration activity.
  • Consumer research — bucket trends by category to read which sectors are surging with Chinese consumers.

Try Douyin Trending Tracker on Apify →

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FAQ

Do I need a Chinese account or VPN?

No — no Chinese phone number, CN VPN or signed ByteDance mobile token is required.

How good is the English translation?

topic_english_translation is a best-effort heuristic rendering of brand names, common phrases, public figures and event terms — not full machine translation. It can be turned off.

What does the branded-partnership flag mean?

is_branded_partnership marks trending topics carrying Douyin's paid-collaboration disclosure — a proxy for live creator-economy ad activity.

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