Building a Xiaohongshu (RedNote) E-commerce Scraper for RedShop Product Data

When Xiaohongshu (RedNote / Little Red Book / 小红书) launched RedShop — its US-facing e-commerce platform — in April 2026, I noticed every existing scraper on Apify only covered the social side: posts, profiles, comments, videos. None of them touched product listings, vendor catalogs, or pricing data. So I built one. Why a dedicated shop scraper? Xiaohongshu is unusual among Chinese platforms because product listings live in a separate URL space from social posts. The all-in-one social scrapers ha