/iqiyi/albums/browse

POST /api/iqiyi/albums/browse

Price: 20 credits

Browse an iQIYI catalogue section — drama, movie, variety show, anime, kids or documentary — filtered by production region, genre, release period, subscription tier, subtitle method and production method, ordered by popularity or release date. Each result is a title with its synopsis, tags, VIP and exclusivity flags, episode counts, publication dates and artwork.

How to use it

This is the catalogue browser and it takes no keyword — for a text query use /iqiyi/albums/search, which in turn takes none of these filters. Which filters a section offers differs: region, period and production belong to drama, movie and anime; theme, age_range and gender_preference only to kids; film_type only to documentary; and a value the chosen channel does not offer is rejected with 422 rather than ignored. Genres are per-channel too, so `mystery` under movie and under drama are different sets of titles. `market` changes the catalogue itself, not just the labels, so the same filter returns different titles and a different count per storefront. Rows carry no `cast` and seldom a `score` — fetch /iqiyi/albums by `id` for either.

Parameters

• access-token string required

Request body

• timeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
• lang string — Language of the titles, synopses and tag names in the response (default: "en_us"; one of: "en_us", "zh_cn", "zh_tw", "ar_ae", "vi_vn", "th_th", "pt_br", "ms_my", "id_id", "es_mx")
• market string — Storefront whose catalogue and licensing the request is answered for (default: "us"; one of: "ae", "ar", "au", "bh", "bn", "br", "ca", "cl", "co", "de", "eg", "es", "fr", "gb", "hk", "id", "in", "jp", "kh", "kr", "kw", "kz", "la", "mm", "mo", "mx", "my", "nz", "om", "pe", "ph", "pt", "qa", "sa", "sg", "th", "ua", "us", "vn")
• channel string required — Catalogue section to browse (one of: "drama", "movie", "variety_show", "anime", "kids", "documentary")
• count integer required — Max number of titles to return (examples: 20; min: 1)
• region string nullable — Country or area the title was produced in (one of: "chinese_mainland", "south_korea", "thailand", "taiwan", "japan", "malaysia", "america", "uk", "hong_kong", "hong_kong_and_taiwan", "europe_and_america")
• category string nullable — Genre or subject matter (one of: "youth", "mystery", "lgbt", "costume", "urban", "romance", "sweet_love", "marriage", "drama", "comedy", "family", "friendship", "fantasy", "crime", "war", "novel_adaptation", "contemporary", "ancient", "horror", "sci_fi", "action", "thriller", "revenge", "reality", "wuxia", "adventure", "animation", "police_and_criminal", "gangster", "martial_arts", "interviews", "funny", "talent_shows", "affection", "food", "talk_shows", "music", "reality_shows", "travel", "culture", "iqiyi_original", "ceremonies", "games", "rivalry", "vitality_themed", "inspiring", "comics_adaptation", "school", "shounen", "childrens_songs", "kids_variety_show", "movie", "history", "discovery", "animals", "society", "science")
• period string nullable — Release year or year range (one of: "2026", "2025", "2024", "2023", "2022", "2021", "2015_2020", "2000_2014", "other")
• subscription string nullable — Whether playback needs a VIP subscription (one of: "vip", "free")
• subtitle string nullable — Subtitle production method (one of: "manual_translation")
• production string nullable — How the title was produced (one of: "ai_generated")
• theme string nullable — Kids theme (one of: "preschool_education", "early_education", "animals", "transportation", "parent_child", "robot")
• age_range string nullable — Kids target age range (one of: "4_6_years_old", "age_7_10", "age_11_13")
• gender_preference string nullable — Kids gender preference (one of: "girls_favorite", "boys_favorite")
• film_type string nullable — Documentary format (one of: "doc_series")
• sort string — Order the titles are returned in (default: "popularity"; one of: "popularity", "latest")

Response

• @type string (default: "IqiyiAlbum")
• id string required
• alias string nullable
• name string nullable
• short_name string nullable
• alternative_titles array (default: [])
• description string nullable
• tagline string nullable
• url string nullable
• play_url string nullable
• channel string nullable
• channel_id string nullable
• is_series boolean (default: false)
• is_short boolean (default: false)
• is_exclusive boolean (default: false)
• is_iqiyi_produced boolean (default: false)
• is_dolby boolean (default: false)
• is_1080p boolean (default: false)
• is_3d boolean (default: false)
• is_vip boolean (default: false)
• is_tvod boolean (default: false)
• is_coupon boolean (default: false)
• is_package boolean (default: false)
• pay_mark string nullable
• season integer nullable
• episode_count integer nullable
• available_episode_count integer nullable
• latest_episode_order integer nullable
• first_episode_order integer nullable
• trailer_count integer nullable
• content_rating string nullable
• content_warning string nullable
• score number nullable
• vote_count integer nullable
• score_distribution array (default: [])
• publish_date string nullable
• last_publish_date string nullable
• published_at integer nullable
• issued_at integer nullable
• default_video_id string nullable
• image string nullable
• cover string nullable
• cast array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "IqiyiCastMember")
  • id string required
  • name string nullable
  • credit string nullable
  • role string nullable
  • character string nullable
  • image string nullable
  • profile_url string nullable
• tags array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "IqiyiTag")
  • id string required
  • name string nullable
  • group string nullable
• chart_ranks array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "IqiyiChartRank")
  • chart string required
  • rank integer nullable
• audio_languages array (default: [])
• hdr_formats array (default: [])
• collection_ids array (default: [])
• allowed_regions array (default: [])

Errors

• 422 — The request body did not validate Check the fields against this schema. A URN with the wrong prefix is the most common cause.
• 408 — The request ran past its time limit Raise `timeout` in the request body, up to the maximum this endpoint documents. Lowering `count` or turning off the `with_*` flags also helps, because less work finishes sooner.
• 412 — The entity was not found, or a precondition failed Retrying will not help: either the entity does not exist, or the input points at a different one.
• 429 — Too many requests: a rate limit or a usage window is exhausted When the response carries an X-Retry-After header, wait that many seconds and retry: the same number is in the body as `detail.retry_after`, and the limit clears once that window passes. The message in the body names the limit that was hit.
• 500 — Something broke on our side Retrying will not help. If it keeps happening, send us the X-Request-ID from the response headers.
• 529 — Rate limit reached, or the endpoint is overloaded Wait at least 30 seconds, then retry.

Response headers

• X-Error — Error message text (present only on error)
• X-Request-ID — Unique request identifier
• X-Execution-Time — Execution time in seconds
• X-Result-Count — How many records the body carries. 0 means an empty result, which is a normal answer and not by itself an error. A non-zero count can come back together with X-Error when the failure happened partway through — read this header and X-Error independently.
• X-Total-Available-Results — How many records exist for this query, when the endpoint can say. On a `dry_run` request this is the answer and the body is empty. It saturates: the endpoint's documented maximum means 'at least that many', any smaller number is exact.
• X-Warning — Present when the request body carried keys this endpoint does not document. They were ignored, so any filter you meant to apply through them did not apply. Check the spelling against this schema and retry.
• X-Retry-After — Seconds to wait before retrying. Present only on 429.