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Explore Rednote's public lifestyle feed: one page of note cards, the dynamic channel list, and public author cards. 1 endpoint documented below.

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First request

Endpoint: GET /rednote/explore
Cost: 1 credit/request

curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/rednote/explore" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

API key authentication Error handling guide Rate limits and credits Rednote Lifestyle Feed API

How to use Rednote endpoints

Rednote's official site presents a broad lifestyle feed spanning fashion, food, beauty, television and movies, K-pop, careers, home decor, gaming, travel, fitness, and video. Apple's official listing identifies the developer as Xingin Information Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. and describes a community built around everyday experiences, from cooking and home decor to travel and pets. Crawlora publishes the anonymous explore route: one page of public note cards plus the channel list. On 2026-10-30 the default feed returned 35 cards from channel homefeed_recommend, with 12 channel IDs (Fashion, Food, Beauty, TV & movies, KPOP, Career, Love & life, Home decor, Gaming, Travel, Fitness, Videos). Cards mixed video and normal notes, titles were mostly Chinese, and like counts ran from 0 to 5,201 in the first page of results. There is no cursor, date window, note-detail or comment route in the published surface, and no search or author profile. Preserve each channel and fetch time so recommendations are not mistaken for an archive, and treat cards as user experiences rather than editorial verification.

Step 1
Use the served channel list
/rednote/explore accepts an optional channel_id. Read IDs from the response's channels array and pass an exact returned value on a later request. The default response reports channel_id homefeed_recommend, which is not one of the listed IDs (those look like homefeed.travel_v3), so store the served value as returned instead of assuming it is in the list.
Step 2
Store each response as one feed window
The route returns one page of cards (35 on 2026-10-30) and has no page, cursor, since, or date-window input. Record the request time and the channel actually served; two calls minutes apart are two samples, not two pages of one feed.
Step 3
Read card fields as they arrive
Each card has note_id, note_url, a separate xsec_token field, type (video or normal), title, cover_url, liked_count, and an author card with user_id, nickname, and avatar. The note_url carries no token. Cover URLs embed a timestamp segment such as 202610301212, so download or re-fetch images rather than storing them as permanent links.
Step 4
Interpret lifestyle topics as editorial context
The publisher's visible category mix is useful for classifying returned cards, but those labels are not documented API filters. Build your own topic taxonomy from returned text and channel metadata, and keep the original card fields for auditability.

Rednote API endpoints

GET/rednote/exploreapiKey1 credit/request

Anonymous Rednote explore/channel feed

Returns one page of the anonymous Rednote (international Xiaohongshu) explore feed as normalized note cards: note id, a public note_url of the form https://www.rednote.com/discovery/item/<id>, the card's short-lived xsec_token, media type, title, cover image, like count, and a public author card. Omit channel_id for the default recommendation feed; use channel_id with an id from the channels list returned by this endpoint for a category feed. The upstream serves one server-rendered page per channel (typically 20-35 cards) and has no credential-free cursor, so there is no pagination. Note detail, user profiles, comments, and search are not available on this anonymous surface: note detail and profiles require the page's guest session, and search requires login, so note_url is a link for a human browser rather than a follow-up API call.

Optional: channel_id.

Sampled 30 Oct 2026: 35 items. Filled in every item: note_id, note_url, xsec_token, type, title, cover_url, liked_count, author. In the sample: type: video (20), normal (15); liked_count: 13 to 5,462, median 237; title: “娃衣稿｜对错打卡娃袋✅❌” and 34 other values; note_url: rednote.com; cover_url: sns-web-i10.rednotecdn.com.

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Rednote API Documentation

Explore Rednote's public lifestyle feed: one page of note cards, the dynamic channel list, and public author cards. 1 endpoint documented below.

Try Anonymous Rednote explore/channel feed Start with endpoint docs Pricing

First request

Endpoint: GET /rednote/explore
Cost: 1 credit/request

curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/rednote/explore" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

API key authentication Error handling guide Rate limits and credits Rednote Lifestyle Feed API

How to use Rednote endpoints

Step 1
Use the served channel list
/rednote/explore accepts an optional channel_id. Read IDs from the response's channels array and pass an exact returned value on a later request. The default response reports channel_id homefeed_recommend, which is not one of the listed IDs (those look like homefeed.travel_v3), so store the served value as returned instead of assuming it is in the list.
Step 2
Store each response as one feed window
The route returns one page of cards (35 on 2026-10-30) and has no page, cursor, since, or date-window input. Record the request time and the channel actually served; two calls minutes apart are two samples, not two pages of one feed.
Step 3
Read card fields as they arrive
Each card has note_id, note_url, a separate xsec_token field, type (video or normal), title, cover_url, liked_count, and an author card with user_id, nickname, and avatar. The note_url carries no token. Cover URLs embed a timestamp segment such as 202610301212, so download or re-fetch images rather than storing them as permanent links.
Step 4
Interpret lifestyle topics as editorial context
The publisher's visible category mix is useful for classifying returned cards, but those labels are not documented API filters. Build your own topic taxonomy from returned text and channel metadata, and keep the original card fields for auditability.

Rednote API endpoints

GET/rednote/exploreapiKey1 credit/request

Anonymous Rednote explore/channel feed

Optional: channel_id.

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First request

How to use Rednote endpoints

Use the served channel list

Store each response as one feed window

Read card fields as they arrive

Interpret lifestyle topics as editorial context

Rednote API endpoints

Anonymous Rednote explore/channel feed

Other Social & Creator Platforms APIs

Rednote API Documentation

First request

How to use Rednote endpoints

Use the served channel list

Store each response as one feed window

Read card fields as they arrive

Interpret lifestyle topics as editorial context

Rednote API endpoints

Anonymous Rednote explore/channel feed

Other Social & Creator Platforms APIs