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.

-9007199254740991 – 9007199254740991

data.like_countintegernullable

Always included.

-9007199254740991 – 9007199254740991

data.comment_countintegernullable

Always included.

-9007199254740991 – 9007199254740991

data.forward_countintegernullable

Always included.

-9007199254740991 – 9007199254740991

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.

data.pinnedbooleanoptional

Optional.

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."
  }
}