Douban Scraper (豆瓣): Movie, TV & Book Ratings, Reviews

Douban Scraper (豆瓣): Movies, TV, Books, Music, Ratings & Reviews

Extract public data from Douban (豆瓣), China's largest community for rating and reviewing movies, TV shows, books and music, without logging in. No Chinese phone number, no cookies from you, no browser.

What you can scrape

Source	What you get
Search	Movies, TV shows, books or music albums for any keyword (Chinese or English)
Douban URLs	Full details: Douban score and number of ratings, genres, countries, languages, directors, cast, runtime, release dates, episodes, intro, cover. For books: authors, translators, publisher, publish date, pages, price. For albums: artists, track list, label, release date, media
Charts	Top 250 movies, in cinemas now, popular movies, weekly best movies; popular TV (Chinese, US, Korean, Japanese, animation, variety shows), weekly best Chinese and global TV; Top 250 books, popular books; popular albums, popular Chinese albums
Short reviews (短评)	The most popular short reviews with the reviewer's stars (1 to 5), helpful votes, date and reviewer location
Full reviews (影评/书评/乐评)	Long-form reviews with title, full text, stars and "useful" count

Use cases

• Film and publishing market research: see how Chinese audiences rate a movie, show, book or album, and why.
• Box office and release tracking: monitor what's in cinemas and trending on Douban.
• Sentiment analysis: collect rated short reviews (text plus 1 to 5 stars) as labelled training data.
• Recommendation and catalogue enrichment: add Douban scores and metadata to your own catalogue.

How to use

1. Add search keywords, Douban URLs, or pick one or more charts.
2. Turn on Short reviews and/or Full reviews if you want them.
3. Run, then download the results as JSON, CSV or Excel, or use the API.

Accepted inputs: https://movie.douban.com/subject/1292052/, https://book.douban.com/subject/1007305/, https://music.douban.com/subject/1401853/, https://m.douban.com/movie/subject/35588177/, or a bare id like 1292052 (treated as movie or TV).

Example input

{
  "charts": ["movie_top250"],
  "maxSubjectsPerSource": 50,
  "includeShortReviews": true,
  "maxShortReviewsPerSubject": 20
}

Output

Every record has a type field: subject (a movie, TV show, book or album), shortReview or review. Use the views in the dataset tab, or filter by type when exporting.

Title

{
  "type": "subject",
  "subjectType": "movie",
  "id": "1292052",
  "url": "https://movie.douban.com/subject/1292052/",
  "title": "肖申克的救赎",
  "originalTitle": "The Shawshank Redemption",
  "year": "1994",
  "rating": 9.7,
  "ratingCount": 3346721,
  "genres": ["剧情", "犯罪"],
  "countries": ["美国"],
  "directors": ["弗兰克·德拉邦特"],
  "actors": ["蒂姆·罗宾斯", "摩根·弗里曼"]
}

Short review

{
  "type": "shortReview",
  "subjectTitle": "肖申克的救赎",
  "text": "...",
  "stars": 4,
  "votes": 5225,
  "createdAt": "2008-01-13T17:53:08.000Z",
  "userName": "..."
}

Pricing

Pay only for results:

Event	Price
Title (movie, TV show, book or album)	$0.005
Short review	$0.002
Full review	$0.003

These prices apply from 14 November 2026.

The run stops cleanly when it reaches the maximum cost you set.

Limits to know

• Douban limits requests per IP address. Without a proxy, the scraper keeps to about one request every 4.5 seconds and pauses for about 4 minutes if it still hits the limit, so big runs are slow. Turn on Apify Proxy in the Advanced section to switch IP instead and run much faster.
• Logged-out visitors see about the top 180 short reviews and the top 20 full reviews per title, sorted by popularity. Newest-first sorting needs a logged-in account and is not offered.
• Only public data visible to a logged-out visitor is collected.
• Respect Douban's terms and applicable law, and don't use personal data (names, reviews) for spam or harassment.

中文说明

抓取豆瓣电影、电视剧、图书、音乐专辑的评分、评分分布、短评和长评，以及豆瓣榜单。无需登录。按结果计费，可在 Apify 上直接运行或通过 API 调用，也可设置定时任务。有问题或需要新字段，请在 Issues 页面留言（中文、英文均可）。

Feedback

Found a bug or need a field that's missing? Open an issue on the Issues tab and it will usually be fixed within a day or two.