Toutiao Details API

Q: What does verify_reason add to is_verified?

is_verified only says whether Toutiao verified the account, and null there means the status could not be determined. verify_reason is the description attached to the verification, which tells you what kind of account it is; keep it when you sort sources into outlets, organizations and individual writers.

Q: How do I see what the account publishes?

Pass the same user_id to the Toutiao Posts by user capability, which lists the account's articles, videos and short posts with reads, plays and engagement. To look for posts on one subject within the account, the Toutiao Profile search capability takes the same ID plus a keyword.

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Pull up a Toutiao account's nickname, bio, avatar, profile link, and verification status with its description. user_id takes the account token, usually starting with MS4w, or a full profile URL, not a nickname or short numeric ID.

Toutiao Details looks up one Toutiao account's public profile, given its user_id: nickname, bio, avatar, profile link, whether the account is verified, and the verification description. It answers who is behind an account, which media monitors, PR teams and researchers need when they attribute articles to an author, confirm that a source is the verified outlet it claims to be, or keep author records up to date.

Key your records on user_id rather than nickname, which is only a display name. bio is the account's own description and may hold line breaks and emoji, so tidy it before you search it for keywords. url gives the profile address to cite in a report or to open when you check an account by hand.

Price $0.56 per 1,000 requests ($0.000556 per call). Failed calls and empty results are not charged. Synchronous. For slow jobs add "mode": "async" to the body, take the job_id and poll.

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Paste this into your AI assistant. It already holds this endpoint's parameters, response fields and an example request, so the assistant can ask what you need and then write the scraper.

Please help me write a data collection script with the EveryInfra Toutiao Details endpoint (toutiao/profile).

Endpoint contract:
- Request: POST https://api.everyinfra.com/api/v1/social with the header Authorization: Bearer <API key>. Read the key from the EVERYINFRA_API_KEY environment variable and never hard-code it.
- In the request body, set platform to toutiao and action to profile, and put the parameters inside params.
- Required parameters:
  - user_id: Target user profile token or secUid, typically starting with MS4w. A full Toutiao profile URL can also be passed in this field. It does not accept display nicknames or short numeric UIDs.
- Returns one object. Main fields: user_id, nickname, bio, url, avatar_url, is_verified, verify_reason.
- Example request body:
{
  "platform": "toutiao",
  "action": "profile",
  "params": {
    "user_id": "MS4wLjABAAAA3KU9ifwN12G41E6PJRpZgIfzVrXWQ4WPF66ns54c0uw"
  }
}
- Price: $0.56 per 1,000 requests; failed and empty results are not charged.
- For dozens or hundreds of targets, add "mode": "async" to the body: you get a job_id at once and poll GET https://api.everyinfra.com/api/v1/jobs/{job_id} for the result.
- On 422, fix the request using the suggested parameter names and allowed values in the error; on 429 or 503, wait for Retry-After and try again.

Before writing code, ask me which targets I need, how many, which fields, and what output format I want; then confirm the plan and the rough cost with me.

Request parameters

Name	In	Type	Required	Default	Description
`Authorization`	header	`string`	Yes	-	Bearer followed by your API key. Create it in the console; never put it in a URL or a code repository.
`platform`	body	`string`	Yes	`toutiao`	Platform identifier, fixed value.
`action`	body	`string`	Yes	`profile`	Capability identifier, fixed value.
`user_id`	body.params	Not declared	Yes	-	Target user profile token or `secUid`, typically starting with `MS4w`. A full Toutiao profile URL can also be passed in this field. It does not accept display nicknames or short numeric UIDs.

Code samples

bash

curl -X POST 'https://api.everyinfra.com/api/v1/social' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $EVERYINFRA_API_KEY" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data-raw '{
  "platform": "toutiao",
  "action": "profile",
  "params": {
    "user_id": "MS4wLjABAAAA3KU9ifwN12G41E6PJRpZgIfzVrXWQ4WPF66ns54c0uw"
  }
}'

[OpenAPI definition (JSON)]Samples read the key from the EVERYINFRA_API_KEY environment variable; copied code never contains your key.

Response example

Real response

Captured September 26, 2026 at 08:56 (UTC) by calling this API with the parameters in the code sample above. results and count are that call's real response with personal information (names, handles, avatars, profile links, contact details) removed. id, billing and quota differ on every call, so only their shape is shown.

json

{
  "id": "req_…",
  "platform": "toutiao",
  "action": "profile",
  "results": {
    "user_id": "MS4wLjABAAAA3KU9ifwN12G41E6PJRpZgIfzVrXWQ4WPF66ns54c0uw",
    "nickname": "（已隐去）",
    "bio": "闪电新闻，先声夺人。山东广播电视台倾力打造的融媒体客户端。",
    "url": "https://www.toutiao.com/c/user/token/MS4wLjABAAAA3KU9ifwN12G41E6PJRpZgIfzVrXWQ4WPF66ns54c0uw/",
    "avatar_url": "https://p3-sign.toutiaoimg.com/（已隐去）",
    "is_verified": true,
    "verify_reason": "闪电新闻官方账号",
    "platform": "toutiao"
  },
  "billing": {
    "charged": …,
    "charged_usd": …,
    "balance_after_usd": …,
    …
  },
  "quota": { … }
}

Response fields

Business data is in results. The table lists the fields a record can contain; values the platform does not show are never made up.

Field	Meaning
`user_id`	User's unique ID on the platform.
`nickname`	Keeps the platform's own meaning
`bio`	Profile bio written by the account; may contain line breaks and emoji.
`url`	Link to the record on the platform.
`avatar_url`	Avatar image link. Some platforms return sized CDN links that can expire.
`is_verified`	Whether the platform verified the account. null means it cannot be determined.
`verify_reason`	Keeps the platform's own meaning
`platform`	Source platform identifier, the same as platform in the request (for example xiaohongshu, tiktok).

FAQ

Where do I find a Toutiao `user_id`?

Open the account's profile on Toutiao and copy the address: the long token in it, usually starting with MS4w, is the user_id, and you can also pass the address as a whole. Nicknames and the short numeric UIDs some pages show cannot identify an account here.

What does `verify_reason` add to `is_verified`?

is_verified only says whether Toutiao verified the account, and null there means the status could not be determined. verify_reason is the description attached to the verification, which tells you what kind of account it is; keep it when you sort sources into outlets, organizations and individual writers.

How do I see what the account publishes?

Pass the same user_id to the Toutiao Posts by user capability, which lists the account's articles, videos and short posts with reads, plays and engagement. To look for posts on one subject within the account, the Toutiao Profile search capability takes the same ID plus a keyword.

Errors and billing

401: Missing or invalid key. Authentication runs before parameter checks, so unauthenticated requests never see the parameter schema.
422: Wrong parameter name or value. The error lists the parameters and allowed values this capability accepts and the closest match; it happens before any charge.
402: Insufficient balance. Top up first.
429: The account's per-minute request limit was reached (all of its API keys count together; a key's own lower limit applies first). Wait for Retry-After and try again; a rate package in the console raises the limit.
503: Could not complete right now. Any charge for the call goes back to your balance automatically, and the billing receipt in the response states the actual outcome, including when it is not yet known. Do not resend blindly.
200 empty: The request completed without data and is not charged (billing.reason = empty_result_refunded).