How do I get all the original images from a Xiaohongshu note?

Q: How do I get all the original images from a Xiaohongshu note?

Call the okdata Xiaohongshu note detail endpoint with the note ID or link; the images field lists every image in the note at the largest size Xiaohongshu serves, along with the text and counts, for $0.02 per note. Downloading the files is then a plain HTTP GET; 100 notes cost $2.00.

A design team wants a mood board from the 100 most-saved notes about "small apartment storage": every image, in order, plus the caption, so they can see what layouts resonate. Screenshots lose quality and the order, and saving images one by one in the app takes hours. Note detail returns every image URL in order, so it is one call per note plus the downloads.

The endpoint

Xiaohongshu note detail takes id or url. The images array holds every image of the note in the order the creator posted them, using the largest size available. The same response carries the title, full text, hashtags, publish time, likes, saves and comment count, so the board can show why each note was picked.

To build the list of notes first:

note search with sort=popular, or
account notes for one creator's profile.

Cost

Step	Calls	Cost
Find 100 popular notes	5 search pages	$0.10
Images and text of all 100	100	$2.00
Total	105	{{cost:xiaohongshu.notes.search5+xiaohongshu.notes.get100}}

Downloading the image files themselves is not an API call and costs nothing on our side.

Python

import os, pathlib, requests

API = "https://api.okdata.online/v1/xiaohongshu/notes/get"
HEAD = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['OKDATA_API_KEY']}"}

note = requests.get(API, headers=HEAD, params={"id": "6650a1b2000000001e00abcd"}, timeout=60).json()["data"]["item"]
folder = pathlib.Path(note["id"]); folder.mkdir(exist_ok=True)
for i, src in enumerate(note["images"] or [], 1):
    (folder / f"{i:02d}.jpg").write_bytes(requests.get(src, timeout=60).content)
(folder / "caption.txt").write_text(f"{note['title']}\n\n{note['text']}", encoding="utf-8")

Download soon after fetching: image links come from Xiaohongshu's CDN and are not meant to be permanent.

What is not included

The video file of a video note. For video notes you get the text, counts and the image list Xiaohongshu provides, usually the cover. A downloader tool is the better fit for saving videos.
Images from comments.
Anything from private notes; they return not_found, which is not charged.

Rights and alternatives

Images belong to their creators. A mood board for internal research is one thing; republishing is another and needs permission. XHS-Downloader and its browser script save images and videos with your own session and suit one-off downloads. For research across many notes, the content research page covers picking notes before you fetch them.