Douyin Hot video board API

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Read the video board of Hot Spot Treasure, Douyin's own trend tool: the overall board, or the boards for highest follower growth or highest like rate, over the last hour, day, 3 days or 7 days. Each work has plays, likes, like rate, followers gained, follower-growth rate, heat score and author followers, highest heat first. Up to 50 per page; Douyin filters some works out, so pages often come back shorter and a short page is not the end. Rows carry no rank.

Price $0.81 per 1,000 requests ($0.000806 per call). Failed calls and empty results are not charged. Synchronous. For slow jobs add "mode": "async" to the body, take the job_id and poll.

AI prompt

Please help me write a data collection script with the EveryInfra Douyin Hot video board endpoint (douyin/billboard_video_hot).

How the endpoint works:
- Request: POST https://api.everyinfra.com/api/v1/social with the header Authorization: Bearer <API key>. Read the key from the EVERYINFRA_API_KEY environment variable and never hard-code it.
- In the request body, set platform to douyin and action to billboard_video_hot, and put the parameters inside params.
- No required parameters.
- Optional parameters:
  - board: Board for billboard_video_hot: all (default) is the overall board, follower_growth the board for works that gained the most followers relative to plays, and like_rate the board for the highest like rate. (allowed: all / follower_growth / like_rate)
  - keyword: Optional: keep only works related to this word, such as food; leave it out for the whole board.
  - page_token: Page token. Leave it out for the first page, then pass back the previous response's next_page_token exactly as received, with the other parameters unchanged. Each page holds up to 50 works and is one call.
  - time_window: Time window: 1h (last hour), 1d (last 24 hours, default), 3d or 7d. (allowed: 1d / 1h / 3d / 7d)
- Returns a list of records. Main fields of each record: id, url, text, media_type (Media type: video, or image for image p…), image_count (Number of images in an image post (Hot…), cover_image_url (Video or image-post cover thumbnail URL…), video_url (Video playback URL (signed, expires), duration_seconds, duration_sec (Video length in seconds), author_name, author_avatar_url (Author avatar image URL: the creator on…), author_follower_count; 20 fields in total, full list at https://api.everyinfra.com/api/v1/social/catalog?platform=douyin.
- Example request body:
{
  "platform": "douyin",
  "action": "billboard_video_hot",
  "params": {}
}
- Price: $0.81 per 1,000 requests; failed and empty results are not charged.
- For dozens or hundreds of targets, add "mode": "async" to the body: you get a job_id at once and poll GET https://api.everyinfra.com/api/v1/jobs/{job_id} for the result.
- On 422, fix the request using the suggested parameter names and allowed values in the error; on 429 or 503, wait for Retry-After and try again.

Before writing code, ask me which targets I need, how many, which fields, and what output format I want; then confirm the plan and the rough cost with me.

Request parameters

Name	In	Type	Required	Default	Description
`Authorization`	header	`string`	Yes	-	Bearer followed by your API key. Create it in the console; never put it in a URL or a code repository.
`platform`	body	`string`	Yes	`douyin`	Platform identifier, fixed value.
`action`	body	`string`	Yes	`billboard_video_hot`	Capability identifier, fixed value.
`board`	body.params	`string (enum)`	No	-	Board for `billboard_video_hot`: `all` (default) is the overall board, `follower_growth` the board for works that gained the most followers relative to plays, and `like_rate` the board for the highest like rate.Allowed values`allfollower_growthlike_rate`
`keyword`	body.params	`string`	No	-	Optional: keep only works related to this word, such as `food`; leave it out for the whole board.
`page_token`	body.params	`string`	No	-	Page token. Leave it out for the first page, then pass back the previous response's `next_page_token` exactly as received, with the other parameters unchanged. Each page holds up to 50 works and is one call; Douyin filters some works out, so a page often holds fewer than 50 and a short page is not the end. Tokens last 24 hours; the last page has no `next_page_token` (about 1,000 works per board at most).
`time_window`	body.params	`string (enum)`	No	-	Time window: `1h` (last hour), `1d` (last 24 hours, default), `3d` or `7d`.Allowed values`1d1h3d7d`

Code samples

bash

curl -X POST 'https://api.everyinfra.com/api/v1/social' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $EVERYINFRA_API_KEY" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data-raw '{
  "platform": "douyin",
  "action": "billboard_video_hot",
  "params": {}
}'

OpenAPI definition (JSON)Samples read the key from the EVERYINFRA_API_KEY environment variable; copied code never contains your key.

Response example

Field preview

No sample response is available for these parameters yet. This preview shows the response shape and fields from the API definition, with … as placeholders; it is not the result of a live call.

json

{
  "id": "req_…",
  "platform": "douyin",
  "action": "billboard_video_hot",
  "results": [
    {
      "id": …,
      "url": …,
      "text": …,
      "media_type": …,
      "image_count": …,
      "cover_image_url": …,
      "video_url": …,
      "duration_seconds": …,
      "duration_sec": …,
      "author_name": …,
      "author_avatar_url": …,
      "author_follower_count": …,
      "play_count": …,
      "like_count": …,
      "like_rate": …,
      "new_follower_count": …,
      "follower_growth_rate": …,
      "hot_value": …,
      "posted_at": …,
      "next_page_token": …,
      "platform": …
    }
  ],
  "next_page_token": …,
  "pagination": { … },
  "count": …,
  "billing": {
    "charged": …,
    "charged_usd": …,
    "balance_after_usd": …,
    …
  },
  "quota": { … }
}

Response fields

Business data is in results. The table lists the fields a record can contain; values the platform does not show are never made up.

Field	Meaning
`id`	The record's unique ID on the platform. Unique only within one platform; IDs can repeat across platforms.
`url`	Link to the record on the platform.
`text`	Body text with HTML removed, returned in full and never cut short (on a few platforms the list results themselves carry only an excerpt; the platform's field notes say so).
`media_type`	Media type: video, or image for image posts.
`image_count`	Number of images in an image post (Hot Spot Treasure video boards; only when media_type is image).
`cover_image_url`	Video or image-post cover thumbnail URL (search / user_posts rows).
`video_url`	Video playback URL (signed, expires; download promptly if you need to keep it). Null for image posts or when the source omits it.
`duration_seconds`	Duration in seconds. null for content that is not video or audio.
`duration_sec`	Video length in seconds.
`author_name`	Author's display name.
`author_avatar_url`	Author avatar image URL: the creator on search, user_posts and video rows, the commenter on comments rows.
`author_follower_count`	Author's follower count. null means not disclosed.
`play_count`	Play count. On the Hot Spot Treasure video boards (billboard_video_hot, billboard_low_fan_explosion, billboard_high_completion) it is Douyin's own play figure. Elsewhere Douyin does not publish play counts, so the value (usually 0) never reflects real plays; judge reach by likes, comments and shares.
`like_count`	Likes. null means the platform or this capability does not disclose it; it is not 0.
`like_rate`	Like rate on the Hot Spot Treasure video boards: like_count divided by play_count, as a decimal (0.0118 means 1.18%).
`new_follower_count`	Followers the work brought in (Hot Spot Treasure video boards).
`follower_growth_rate`	Follower-growth rate on the Hot Spot Treasure video boards: Douyin's own decimal, roughly new_follower_count divided by play_count.
`hot_value`	Heat value, Douyin's own measure, comparable only within one board and window: on trending, the heat of the entry (often empty on the hotspot board); on the Hot Spot Treasure video boards, the board's heat score, rows ordered highest first; on billboard_search_hot, the term's search heat in the window.
`posted_at`	Publish time in ISO 8601, UTC (for example 2026-08-07T12:34:56+00:00). Non-standard strings from the platform are passed through as is, so parse defensively. null means the platform does not disclose it.
`next_page_token`	Page token (search / user_posts / comments / comment_replies / billboard_video_hot / billboard_low_fan_explosion / billboard_high_completion / billboard_account_search / music_search): pass it back unchanged as page_token to fetch the next page, keeping the other parameters the same; valid for 24 hours. Every row of a page carries the same value, which also appears at the top level of the response. Absent on the last page. Comment pages walk all top-level comments page by page.
`platform`	Source platform identifier, the same as platform in the request (for example xiaohongshu, tiktok).

Errors and billing

401: Missing or invalid key.
402: Insufficient balance. Top up first.
422: Invalid parameter name or value. Fix it using the suggestions in the error. No charge.
429: Per-minute request limit reached. Wait for Retry-After, then try again.
503: Could not complete. The held charge is returned to your balance. If the outcome is unknown, verify it before you retry.
200 empty: No data. No charge.

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