Get a Kwai post

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Retrieve a public Kwai video post by /@handle/photo/id URL, with music, tags and media metadata. Responses retain null values and coverage.

GET/v1/kwai/postx-api-key

Headers

Get your API key

x-api-keystringrequiredheader

Your ScrapeAtlas customer key. Create one on /account/ and set SCRAPEATLAS_API_KEY.

Query parameters

urlstringrequiredquery

Required canonical HTTPS Kwai /@handle/photo/numeric-id URL. Short/share links, other URL formats and query strings are unsupported.

max 350 chars

Examplehttps://www.kwai.com/@example/photo/5193363430624671876

Response fields

requestIdstring

Request correlation identifier.

Upstream attempts, combined decoded response bytes and elapsed milliseconds.

accounting.upstreamRequestsinteger

Always included.

≥ 0

accounting.responseBytesinteger

Always included.

≥ 0

accounting.durationMsnumber

Always included.

≥ 0

successboolean

True when usable public data was retrieved.

statusenum

success, partial, failed or challenged. Inspect coverage even for HTTP 200.

one of: success, partial

sourceUrlstring

Canonical public Kwai profile or post URL.

absolute HTTPS URL

fetchedAtstring

UTC retrieval time.

Complete means this supported bounded response has no known omissions; it does not mean an entire account was enumerated.

coverage.sourcestring

Always included.

coverage.completeboolean

Always included.

coverage.warningsstring[]

Always included.

Provider data. Unknown fields are null; unknown counts are never zero-filled.

data.idstring

Exact authoritative string post ID. Use this for storage and requests.

data.photo_idinteger

Source numeric alias, which may be rounded in JavaScript for 64-bit IDs. Use id for exact identity.

≥ 0

data.urlstring

Always included.

absolute HTTPS URL

data.captionstringnullable

Source caption or null.

data.created_atstringnullable

Source millisecond timestamp as UTC ISO 8601, or null when unavailable.

data.created_at_textstringnullable

Source display timestamp without timezone conversion.

data.video_urlstringnullable

First public playback URL; may expire and is never fetched.

data.cover_urlstringnullable

First source thumbnail URL.

data.view_countintegernullable

Public view count or null. Like, comment and forward counts follow the same rule.

data.like_countintegernullable

Always included.

data.comment_countintegernullable

Always included.

data.forward_countintegernullable

Always included.

Public numeric ID, handle, display name, avatar and verification metadata. Encrypted source author IDs are verified against the public profile before returning its numeric ID.

data.author.idinteger

Always included.

-9007199254740991 – 9007199254740991

data.author.handlestring

Always included.

data.author.usernamestring

Always included.

data.author.avatar_urlstringnullable

Always included.

data.author.verifiedbooleannullable

Always included.

data.author.verified_descriptionstringnullable

Always included.

Available music ID, name, artist and URL. Null with music_unavailable when the detail source omits it.

data.music.idinteger

Always included.

-9007199254740991 – 9007199254740991

data.music.namestringnullable

Always included.

data.music.artiststringnullable

Always included.

data.music.urlstringnullable

Always included.

data.tagsJSON[]nullable

Source tags array. Null with tags_unavailable when absent; an empty array stays empty.

HTTP 200 returns the success variant. Check status: partial means usable data with warnings, and failed or challenged requests carry a failure object described in Errors & responses.

Error codes

HTTP	failure.code	Meaning
200	`partial`	Known omissions: profile_counts_unavailable, privacy_unavailable, music_unavailable, tags_unavailable, post_counts_unavailable, media_unavailable, timestamp_unavailable or album_limit.
400	`invalid_request`	Missing, duplicate, ambiguous, unsafe or unsupported inputs.
401	`unauthorized`	Missing or invalid worker API key.
403	`restricted`	The requested feed or post is private or restricted.
404	`not_found`	The source returned no requested profile or post.
429	`upstream_rate_limited`	Source throttling; no retry.
502	`upstream_challenged`	The source challenged the request; no retry.
502	`unsupported_page`	Malformed response, mismatched identity, or invalid pagination.
502	`response_too_large` `payload_too_complex`	Byte, depth or node bounds exceeded.
502	`unsafe_redirect` `request_limit` `upstream_error`	The bounded source request failed.
503	`busy`	All worker slots are occupied.
504	`timeout`	Total request deadline expired.

Code example

curl "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/kwai/post?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kwai.com%2F%40example%2Fphoto%2F5193363430624671876" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/kwai/post?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kwai.com%2F%40example%2Fphoto%2F5193363430624671876",
  {
    headers: {
      "x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"
    }
  }
);

const data = await response.json();
console.log(data.status, data);

type Result = {
  status: "success" | "partial" | "failed" | "challenged";
  requestId: string;
  [field: string]: unknown;
};

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/kwai/post?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kwai.com%2F%40example%2Fphoto%2F5193363430624671876",
  {
    headers: {
      "x-api-key": process.env.SCRAPEATLAS_API_KEY!
    }
  }
);

const data = (await response.json()) as Result;
if (data.status === "failed" || data.status === "challenged") {
  throw new Error(`Kwai request failed: ${data.requestId}`);
}
console.log(data);

import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/kwai/post",
    headers={"x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"},
    params={
        "url": "https://www.kwai.com/@example/photo/5193363430624671876"
    },
    timeout=60,
)
data = response.json()
print(data["status"], data)

package main

import (
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/kwai/post?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kwai.com%2F%40example%2Fphoto%2F5193363430624671876", nil)
	req.Header.Set("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
	resp, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	defer resp.Body.Close()

	var data map[string]interface{}
	json.NewDecoder(resp.Body).Decode(&data)
	fmt.Println(data["status"], data)
}

import java.net.URI;
import java.net.http.HttpClient;
import java.net.http.HttpRequest;
import java.net.http.HttpResponse;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        var client = HttpClient.newHttpClient();
        var request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
            .uri(URI.create("https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/kwai/post?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kwai.com%2F%40example%2Fphoto%2F5193363430624671876"))
            .GET()
            .header("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
            .build();
        var response = client.send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());
        System.out.println(response.body());
    }
}

Use your sa_live_… customer key at https://api.scrapeatlas.com.

Responses

Successful result. Synthetic example validated against the runtime contract.

{
  "success": true,
  "status": "partial",
  "requestId": "00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000001",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.kwai.com/@example/photo/5193363430624671876",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-09-11T00:00:00.000Z",
  "coverage": {
    "source": "public_api",
    "complete": false,
    "warnings": [
      "music_unavailable",
      "tags_unavailable"
    ]
  },
  "accounting": {
    "upstreamRequests": 2,
    "responseBytes": 4200,
    "durationMs": 180
  },
  "data": {
    "id": "5193363430624671876",
    "photo_id": 5193363430624672000,
    "url": "https://www.kwai.com/@example/photo/5193363430624671876",
    "caption": "Synthetic post",
    "created_at": "2026-06-07T03:00:00.028Z",
    "created_at_text": "2026-06-07 03:00:00",
    "video_url": "https://example.test/video.mp4",
    "cover_url": "https://example.test/cover.webp",
    "view_count": 123,
    "like_count": 45,
    "comment_count": 6,
    "forward_count": 7,
    "author": {
      "id": 123456,
      "handle": "example",
      "username": "Synthetic Creator",
      "avatar_url": "https://example.test/avatar.jpg",
      "verified": true,
      "verified_description": "Synthetic verification"
    },
    "music": null,
    "tags": null
  }
}

Missing, duplicate, ambiguous, unsafe or unsupported inputs.

{
  "requestId": "9d2f1c0a-6b1e-4c7d-9a8e-2f3b4c5d6e7f",
  "accounting": {
    "upstreamRequests": 0,
    "responseBytes": 0,
    "durationMs": 0
  },
  "success": false,
  "status": "failed",
  "failure": {
    "code": "invalid_request",
    "message": "Invalid request: missing, duplicate, unsupported or malformed parameters."
  }
}