Does RedNote (Xiaohongshu) have an API?

RedNote (Xiaohongshu, 小红书) has a developer platform, but it is built for shops, and it lists no API for reading notes. Its homepage at open.xiaohongshu.com is titled 电商开放平台, "e-commerce open platform", and both app types it lists connect to a shop's own systems. We read the site in a browser on 2026-10-12.

What RedNote's open platform covers

The homepage lists two kinds of app:

The platform announcements on the same page, dated September 2026, are about product rules for drones, collectibles and alcohol.

What it doesn't cover

The homepage lists no API for notes (笔记), search results, comments or user profiles, and we found none. We read the homepage, not the full documentation center (文档中心). So if you want to track posts about a brand, collect comments on a product launch or study which creators cover a topic, there is no listed official route.

The website doesn't help much either. A RedNote note link such as xiaohongshu.com/explore/<note_id> showed only the site's menu and footer when we opened it logged out on 2026-10-12, with no note content.

Read public RedNote data as JSON

We make ToolzerHub. Our RedNote API returns public RedNote content as JSON with one API key, and no RedNote account. It has 24 endpoints in five groups:

• Search: posts, profiles, images, products, groups and query suggestions.
• Posts: image or video note details, comments and comment replies.
• Profiles: profile details, web profile, a profile's posts and its saved posts.
• Products: details, reviews, review summary and recommendations.
• Topics, creator inspiration and the home feed.

curl "https://api.toolzerhub.com/v2/rednote/search/posts?query=coffee" \
  -H "x-api-key: $TOOLZERHUB_API_KEY"

Live request, run 2026-10-12. The call returned 20 notes and a next_cursor; one is shown, trimmed.

{
  "data": {
    "items": [{
      "model_type": "note",
      "note": {
        "id": "6809f747000000001e006f6f",
        "title": "ʜᴏᴍᴇ ᴄᴀғᴇ｜沉浸式宅家做咖啡🟤浓郁丝滑好喝",
        "desc": "⏳ᴍʏ ᴄᴏғғᴇᴇ ᴅᴀɪʟʏ. #我的咖啡日记 #我的人生vlog …",
        "type": "video",
        "liked_count": 5288,
        "collected_count": 1921,
        "comments_count": 76,
        "shared_count": 394,
        "timestamp": 1745483591,
        "user": { "userid": "…", "nickname": "…" }
      }
    }],
    "next_cursor": "eyJwYWdlIjoyLCJzZWFy…"
  }
}

• collected_count is saves (收藏), separate from liked_count.
• timestamp is Unix seconds. type is normal for image notes and video for video notes.
• sort takes relevance, recent, popular, most_commented, most_saved or english. content_type filters to video, image or live; time_range to day, week or half_year.
• Pass next_cursor back as cursor, with page set to the next number, for the next 20.

An English query works: all 20 results for "coffee" had Chinese titles about coffee. For a full script that saves search results to CSV, see search Xiaohongshu with Python; to export one account's notes, see export a RedNote profile.

What it costs

Every RedNote v2 call costs 15 credits. A search page returns 20 notes, so 1,000 notes take 50 calls, or 750 credits. At our rates of $0.99 to $1.90 per 1,000 credits, that is $0.74 to $1.43. The free tier's 100 credits a month cover 6 calls, about 120 notes.

What it doesn't do

• Public content only: nothing behind a login, no direct messages, no private accounts.
• No posting, liking or other actions. It reads.
• No shop orders or seller back-office data. For those, RedNote's open platform is the right route, with the shop's authorisation.

We are not affiliated with RedNote or 行吟信息科技（上海）有限公司.

Sources

• RedNote e-commerce open platform homepage, https://open.xiaohongshu.com/, read 2026-10-12
• ToolzerHub RedNote reference, https://docs.toolzerhub.com/reference/rednote, checked 2026-10-12
• ToolzerHub pricing, https://toolzerhub.com/pricing, checked 2026-10-12