Douyin KOL Discovery

What Douyin KOL Discovery does

The skill is run through four small commands from the skill root: search-cli.js for keyword search, post-cli.js for a creator's posts, comment-cli.js for a video's comments and hot-cli.js for the live hot list. Search can sort by likes or by newest and filter by time window, duration and content type. Creators and videos can be given as a link, an app share text, a sec_uid or an aweme_id. Results are printed as structured JSON with title, author, like, comment, favorite and share counts, tags and video links, and are also saved to a logs folder.

It needs no Douyin login and reads only public data. A single call can return up to 10,000 items, and it usually takes 10 to 60 seconds because a task is created and polled. The README sets rules for agents: stop and report on an authentication error, do not retry after an explicit error code, and never present an empty result as a success. The current version is 1.3.0, and the README is written in Chinese.

Key features

• Keyword search sorted by likes or recency, with time and duration filters
• Creator post retrieval from a profile link or sec_uid
• Comment retrieval for a video, up to 10,000 items per call
• Live Douyin hot list
• Pure JSON on stdout with logs saved to a logs folder
• Defined exit codes and retry rules for AI agents

When to use it

• Finding creators and high-like videos on a topic for a campaign
• Reviewing a creator's recent posts and engagement before approaching them
• Reading a video's comment section to gauge sentiment

Who it is for: Marketers and short-video operators who want an agent to research Douyin creators and content.

How it fits with Hermes Agent

Tagged as a hermes-skill alongside many other agent platforms. The README gives no Hermes-specific install steps.

Requirements: Node.js 16.14.0 or newer and a GUAIKEI_API_TOKEN environment variable from www.guaikei.com

Note: It needs a token for the third-party guaikei.com service, and keywords and links are sent to that API.

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