Get a Kwai profile

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Read public account metadata and counts from Kwai’s public web API. Supply exactly one of handle or url. A private profile can expose public metadata with is_private=true.

GET/v1/kwai/profilex-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

handlestringquery

Kwai handle without @. Exactly one of handle or url is required. ASCII letters, digits, underscore, hyphen and dot; starts with a letter or digit, at most 100 characters.

Exampleexample

urlstringquery

Canonical HTTPS kwai.com or www.kwai.com /@handle URL. Queries, fragments, short links, credentials and nonstandard ports are rejected.

max 300 chars

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.idinteger

Source numeric user ID.

-9007199254740991 – 9007199254740991

data.eidstringnullable

Public encrypted user identifier when supplied.

data.handlestring

Always included.

data.usernamestring

Display name; handle is the account identifier.

data.biostringnullable

Public biography.

data.urlstring

Always included.

absolute HTTPS URL

data.avatar_urlstringnullable

Public avatar URL; never downloaded.

data.verifiedbooleannullable

Source verification flag; descriptions and numbers remain separate.

data.verified_descriptionstringnullable

Always included.

data.verified_numberintegernullable

Always included.

data.genderstringnullable

Source gender code; U or absent becomes null.

data.follower_countintegernullable

Source fan count, without normalization or correction.

data.following_countintegernullable

Source follow count.

data.like_countintegernullable

Source liked total, not the profile’s own liked-feed count.

data.public_post_countintegernullable

Source public post count.

data.private_post_countintegernullable

Source aggregate private post count only; no private posts are retrieved.

data.is_privatebooleannullable

Public privacy setting; null if unavailable.

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/profile?handle=example" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/kwai/profile?handle=example",
  {
    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/profile?handle=example",
  {
    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/profile",
    headers={"x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"},
    params={
        "handle": "example"
    },
    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/profile?handle=example", 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/profile?handle=example"))
            .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": "success",
  "requestId": "00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000001",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.kwai.com/@example",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-09-11T00:00:00.000Z",
  "coverage": {
    "source": "public_api",
    "complete": true,
    "warnings": []
  },
  "accounting": {
    "upstreamRequests": 1,
    "responseBytes": 4200,
    "durationMs": 180
  },
  "data": {
    "id": 123456,
    "eid": "synthetic123",
    "handle": "example",
    "username": "Synthetic Creator",
    "bio": "Synthetic biography",
    "url": "https://www.kwai.com/@example",
    "avatar_url": "https://example.test/avatar.jpg",
    "verified": true,
    "verified_description": "Synthetic verification",
    "verified_number": 0,
    "gender": null,
    "follower_count": 123,
    "following_count": 45,
    "like_count": 678,
    "public_post_count": 3,
    "private_post_count": 0,
    "is_private": false
  }
}

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."
  }
}