The transcript of a Xiaohongshu video note, from the captions the site publishes for the video: timed segments (start and end in seconds, text), the whole text, the SRT file, and the caption tracks available (the original speech and its translations, e.g. zh-CN and en-US). Not every video has captions: a video without them answers 404. Xiaohongshu only opens a note with the xsec_token that comes with its link (feeds, share links, the url fields of our responses): pass the whole link as url, or the id with xsec_token. Every response includes credits_used: the credits this call cost.
Parameters
name
type
description
url
string
A xiaohongshu.com note link with its xsec_token. Example: https://www.xiaohongshu.com/explore/6455d77f0000000013015a1d?xsec_token=ABj6wOII3wKf1doBy-UiXlhJthCEnY24u-ia26hw8aO1k=&xsec_source=pc_feed
note_id
string
Note id (24 hex characters), with xsec_token, instead of url.
xsec_token
string
The note's xsec_token (from the link), with note_id.
language
string
Caption track: source (the original speech, the default) or a language such as zh-CN or en-US.
import os, requests
res = requests.get(
"https://api.api.sh/xiaohongshu/v1/note/transcript",
params={"url": "https://www.xiaohongshu.com/explore/6455d77f0000000013015a1d?xsec_token=ABj6wOII3wKf1doBy-UiXlhJthCEnY24u-ia26hw8aO1k=&xsec_source=pc_feed"},
headers={"x-api-key": os.environ["APISH_KEY"]},
timeout=120,
)
res.raise_for_status()
data = res.json()
const url = new URL("https://api.api.sh/xiaohongshu/v1/note/transcript");
url.searchParams.set("url", "https://www.xiaohongshu.com/explore/6455d77f0000000013015a1d?xsec_token=ABj6wOII3wKf1doBy-UiXlhJthCEnY24u-ia26hw8aO1k=&xsec_source=pc_feed");
const res = await fetch(url, { headers: { "x-api-key": process.env.APISH_KEY } });
if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`${res.status} ${await res.text()}`);
const data = await res.json();
Response
A JSON object with the fields described above, plus raw (the source's own data), cached, fetched_at and credits_used. Errors return {"success": false, "error": "…"} with the HTTP status (see errors). A lookup that ran but found nothing (404) costs the price above; refused calls and errors on our side are free (what's charged).
The fastest way to see the full response is the playground: it runs this endpoint with your account and shows the exact JSON.