xiaohongshu 小红书

Read a Xiaohongshu post with an AI agent

Turn a Xiaohongshu / RedNote link into text an AI agent can read: caption, tags, every image described, on-screen text, and a transcript for video notes. No login, no cookies.

Why this one is hard

yt-dlp's XiaoHongShuIE reads note.video.media.stream, so it only handles video notes — and image notes are the majority of Xiaohongshu. Those need the note payload parsed out of the page directly. Xiaohongshu also serves a different page depending on user agent: a mobile UA gets a 202KB app-download shell, desktop gets the real note. And a cold request for a note is rejected outright until the session has been warmed.

What comes back

Caption, tags, every image described, on-screen text.

Plus the metadata every digest carries: title, author, platform, posted date and the source URL. Image notes and video notes. No login needed.

Use it

Paste a link like xhslink.com/o/… or xiaohongshu.com/explore/… into the console, or let an agent call it directly.

MCP — Claude Code, Cursor

claude mcp add --transport http linkdigest \
  https://linkdigest.dev/mcp \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY"

REST

curl -X POST https://linkdigest.dev/api/v1/digest \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY" \
  -d '{"url": "https://..."}'

Three digests free, no card. After that $9 a month for 500 credits — a post is 1 credit, video is 2 a minute. Anything already digested by anyone is cached and free for everyone.