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Changelog
What's new at TikHub
New platforms, endpoints, pricing and developer-experience improvements — curated from our release announcements. Join Discord for real-time updates.
2026
Improvement
WeChat API series refactored to V2
- New versioned routes: /wechat_search/v2, /wechat_mp/v2, /wechat_channels/v2
- Legacy routes kept on a 7-day grace period for migration
Improvement
Xiaohongshu APIs refactored to App V2 series
- Unified under /xiaohongshu/app_v2/* with version-based naming for cleaner iteration
- Legacy app/web routes on a 7-day grace period
2025
Pricing
Alipay payments now available
- QR-code top-ups for all users (beta: $50/transaction, 5 transactions/day)
Improvement
Douyin Search series restored & optimized
- General/video/user/live/image/experience/discuss search all back online with better stability
- New Image Search V3 endpoint for more accurate image-text retrieval
V5.3.2New platforms
Threads, LinkedIn & Weibo App endpoints; Instagram V1/V2 rework
- New platforms: Threads, LinkedIn, Weibo mobile app
- Instagram rebuilt on versioned routes — V1 (web, $0.001/req) and V2 (app: Stories, Highlights, follower lists, $0.002/req)
New platforms
Sora2 API — 14 endpoints incl. AI video generation
- Posts, comments, profiles, social graph, trending feed and search for OpenAI's Sora2
- Text-to-video / image-to-video generation with task tracking and watermark-free downloads
Feature
cache_url & docs fields in every response
- cache_url re-opens that exact response for 24h (free to access) — a debug/share aid; API data is always real-time, never cached
- docs deep-links straight to the endpoint's Swagger UI page
V5.3.1New platforms
8 new platforms in one release
- WeChat Channels, Reddit, Weibo V2, Zhihu, Douyin Hot Rankings, Douyin Xingtu, Bilibili, Toutiao
- Bulk endpoints fetch up to 50 items per request; core endpoints respond in under 2s (~30% faster)
V5.3.0Improvement
Request tracing with request_id
- Every request carries a unique request_id — support can pinpoint issues instantly
- ~15% faster average response time and friendlier bilingual error messages
Infrastructure
Mainland China acceleration domain
- api.tikhub.dev — direct access from mainland China, same paths and parameters
New platforms
Xiaohongshu App-protocol API series
- Users, notes, comments, topics and search built on the App protocol
Feature
TikTok Creator API & Douyin Search API
- Creator account health, insights, live and video analytics, product performance
- Douyin general/video/user/live/hashtag search with multi-dimensional filters
Community
Open-source Multi-Functional Downloader released
- Free GUI tool on GitHub: watermark-free downloads, batch mode, profile data collection, EN/中文
Infrastructure
TikTok U.S. ban response: nodes migrated, zero API downtime goal
- Data nodes moved to unaffected regions so TikTok APIs kept working through the shutdown window
- Same week: Rednote (Xiaohongshu), Kuaishou App, Douyin Xingtu, hot rankings and new search endpoints
2024
V5.2.8New platforms
Toutiao endpoints; TikTok Shop series fixed
- Toutiao article and video info APIs
- Shop home, product detail (V2) and category endpoints stabilized
V5.2.7New platforms
Lemon8 API — full series
- 14 endpoints: users, posts, comments, discover page, topics, hot search and share-link resolution
V5.2.4Feature
Douyin rankings & audience-portrait series
- Billboards, city hot lists, real-time challenge lists and related videos
- Fan portrait / fan interest / video-like portrait for audience analysis; Xiaohongshu V2 endpoints
V5.2.3New platforms
Bilibili Web — full series; Twitter/X social graph
- 25+ Bilibili endpoints: videos, users, comments, danmaku, live rooms, rankings
- Twitter followings/followers, retweet lists and trending topics
V5.2.2Improvement
TikTok home feed; Twitter search timeline upgrades
- Home feed for TikTok App V2/V3; Twitter media, replies and faster search timeline
V5.1.9Feature
Live room WebSocket streams for Douyin & TikTok
- Real-time danmaku, gifts and viewer events over ws/wss with free HTTP parameter assembly
- Plus fan/following lists, home feeds and Xiaohongshu comment endpoints
V5.1.8New platforms
Twitter/X Web API
- Tweet detail, user profiles and user timelines — expanded rapidly in later releases
V5.1.4New platforms
YouTube Web API
- Video info, subtitles, comments and Shorts parsing; NetEase Cloud Music APIs followed the same week
V5.1.0New platforms
Xiaohongshu & Kuaishou Web APIs
- Notes, users and search for Xiaohongshu; videos, comments and profiles for Kuaishou
V5.0.7New platforms
Instagram Web & App API
- Users, posts, Reels, hashtags, locations and search — Stories and Highlights added days later
V5.0.2Improvement
Rate limit doubled to 10 QPS per endpoint
- Every endpoint now accepts 10 requests/second (up from 5)
V5Feature
TikHub API V5 goes live
- New production API at api.tikhub.io with a rebuilt user dashboard
- Multiple API keys per account, per-request logs, purchase history and online payments
Pricing
Base price halved: $0.002 → $0.001 per request
- Combined with daily-volume tiered discounts, effective cost drops to $0.0005/request
Pricing
Billing overhaul: pay only for HTTP 200
- Failed requests are free; subscriptions removed — balances never expire
- Automatic tiered discounts up to 50% based on daily request volume
Feature
TikTok App V3 + TikTok Shop data (beta)
- Latest App-protocol endpoints plus product and shop data interfaces
V5.0.0Feature
V5.0.0 public beta opens
- Free public beta at beta.tikhub.io covering Douyin/TikTok Web and App API families
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