Chinese news from state, commercial and overseas outlets, each labeled by type, plus Weibo 微博, Baidu 百度, Zhihu 知乎, Toutiao 今日头条 and Bilibili 哔哩哔哩 hot lists. Deletion Watch flags Weibo hot search and trending topics that disappear and shows the evidence for each flag. Deletion checks included.
Deletion flags are now an opt-in add-on.deletionWatch is off by default, so existing runs and tasks stop getting flag rows and deletion fields unless you set deletionWatch: true. Set it to keep them.
Price: $0.05 per Likely censored or Censored flag row (event deletion-watch-row), effective Nov 11, 2026 after Apify's 14-day notice. Returned rows carry no add-on charge. Base price unchanged at $8 per 1,000 results.
New free inputs: keywords (filter by title, summary or source) and alertSummary (ALERT record; requires deletionWatch). emitOnlyNew stays free and on by default.
The Deletion Watch daily preset now sets deletionWatch: true.
0.2 (Oct 2026)
Deletion watch labels: "Likely censored" by default; "Censored" only with hard evidence (dead link, platform removal notice, or a close match to a specific CDT item). A tracker keyword match alone is not enough.
Every row carries translation_status; English is machine translation where available.
Default maxItems 200 with a time budget, so default runs finish in about 4 minutes; short-timeout runs push only new rows.
Top-15 summary wording: "Flagged this run" / "Dropped off at".
Public tasks: Weibo hot search in English; China Deletion Watch; China news in English; China hot lists snapshot.