EasyDown REST API platform guide
The numeric-looking group ID stays a string through the REST workflow so large identifiers cannot lose precision before the Toutiao video lookup.
Use the EasyDown Toutiao Video Download API for public /video/{id} pages and receive every main and backup video stream plus content image candidates.
Toutiao download API · Toutiao video parser API
Production REST endpoint
POST https://api.easydown.org/api/v1/parsetoutiao.com/video/{id}www.toutiao.com/video/{id}m.toutiao.com/video/{id}https://www.toutiao.com/video/7613611314560369152/
curl -X POST https://api.easydown.org/api/v1/parse \
-H "Authorization: Bearer ed_live_xxx" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"url":"https://www.toutiao.com/video/7613611314560369152/"}'The shared envelope stays stable while this platform determines which media arrays and attributes are populated.
Every video-list item can contribute both main and backup URLs. First frames, covers, and content thumbnails remain available in images[] for product previews.
{
"status": 200,
"data": {
"platform": "toutiao",
"title": "Example toutiao public post",
"thumbnail": "https://cdn.example.com/thumbnail.jpg",
"duration": 24,
"images": [
{
"url": "https://cdn.example.com/content-image.jpg",
"width": 1080,
"height": 1350
}
],
"videos": [
{
"url": "https://cdn.example.com/video.mp4",
"quality": "HD",
"mimeType": "video/mp4",
"width": 1080,
"height": 1920,
"hasAudio": true,
"source": "direct"
}
],
"audios": []
},
"msg": "success"
}Use Referer: https://www.toutiao.com/, a browser User-Agent, and forwarded Range headers. Stream the selected main or backup URL from your backend and re-parse after expiration.
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0
Referer: https://www.toutiao.com/
Range: bytes=0-Articles, group pages, profiles, search pages, channels, short links, live pages, private content, and URLs without one video ID are unsupported.
Only process public media you have the right to use. EasyDown does not bypass privacy controls, DRM, deleted content, or platform access restrictions.
Keep the group ID as a string in JavaScript and database columns.
Try a backup URL when the selected main stream is unavailable.
Submit a /video/{id} page rather than an article or group URL.
Create a private API token and allow this platform in its permissions.
POST one complete public post URL to the shared endpoint.
Select and proxy the required items from images, videos, and audios.
Use the MCP endpoint for AI agents, or open the browser tool for a manual public-media workflow.
Supported public single-post formats include toutiao.com/video/{id}, www.toutiao.com/video/{id}, m.toutiao.com/video/{id}. Articles, group pages, profiles, search pages, channels, short links, live pages, private content, and URLs without one video ID are unsupported.
Every video-list item can contribute both main and backup URLs. First frames, covers, and content thumbnails remain available in images[] for product previews.
Use Referer: https://www.toutiao.com/, a browser User-Agent, and forwarded Range headers. Stream the selected main or backup URL from your backend and re-parse after expiration.
A response containing at least one image, video, or audio URL costs 1 credit. Failed, unsupported, authentication, and empty-media results do not consume credits.