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douyin-comments: Claude Code skill scrapes Douyin comments via Chrome page SDK
douyin-comments is a Claude Code Agent Skill that scrapes one Douyin video's full comment section (top-level, nested replies, video details). The README says "不需要 TikHub 之类的付费接口，不需要 Playwright，也不用逆向 a_bogus," and measured 83 top + 112 replies = 195 comments in 35 requests over 138 seconds with no captcha.
- Changes reported
- 6
- listed below, each from a source we read
- We tested
- Not tested yet
- reported from sources; we did not run it ourselves
- Gaps we flag
- 4
- things we could not verify
- Sources
- 1
- 1 primary, linked below
What changed
| # | What the source says | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | The GitHub repository was created on October 30, 2026 as an Agent Skill for Claude Code that scrapes one Douyin video's full comment section (top-level comments, nested replies and video details), optionally downloads 720p video, and writes a like-sorted 评论全文.md plus raw JSON. | Reported |
| 02 | Requests are issued inside the user's already-logged-in Chrome tab so the page SDK computes signatures. The README states there is no TikHub paid API, no Playwright and no a_bogus reverse engineering. | Reported |
| 03 | Measured runs in the README: a 7-minute AI-tools video yielded 83 top-level + 112 replies = 195 comments (matching the displayed 195) in 35 requests over 138 seconds with no captcha; a 46-minute tutorial yielded 77 + 58 = 135 comments in 63 requests over 252 seconds. | Reported |
| 04 | Mechanism: page_hook.js captures the first real comment request as a template; page_fetch.js replaces only aweme_id, cursor and comment_id; page_ui_expand.js is a UI-click fallback; recv.py receives pages locally; build_report.py merges. Pacing is 2–4s between requests, plus 8–15s every 15 requests. | Reported |
| 05 | Install: git clone into ~/.claude/skills/douyin-comments (or project .claude/skills/). Needs Claude Code with Claude in Chrome (/chrome), a logged-in Douyin Chrome session, Python 3 stdlib and curl. Links: douyin.com/video/<id>, modal_id homepage links, v.douyin.com short links. | Reported |
| 06 | Limits in the README: no captcha solving; single video only (not Xiaohongshu, Bilibili or batch creator scrapes); deleted/folded comments missing; after ~500 top-level comments the API repeats (measured 823 of 1067); nested replies beyond 20 untested. Personal research only. | Reported |
reported by the sourcemeasured or run by usnot verified
Primary source: douyin-comments repository and README (GitHub). We are the fast, independent index; the vendor’s own page is the source of record for this release.
In the source’s words
“不需要 TikHub 之类的付费接口，不需要 Playwright，也不用逆向 a_bogus。”
“请求节奏为每次间隔 2～4 秒，每 15 次额外停 8～15 秒。”
“仅用于个人研究和内容参考。”
What we have not verified
- We did not install the skill, connect Claude in Chrome, or scrape any Douyin video ourselves.
- Measured comment counts, request totals and timings are from the README only.
- GitHub showed about 401 stars and 104 forks when we fetched the repo; star counts move and we did not re-check after publishing.
- The repository has no license file and no GitHub Releases tag.
This brief is Reported: written from the sources below, not from running the release ourselves.
Sources
- douyin-comments repository and README (GitHub)primary source · fetched 2026-11-06
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