China Hot Search Scraper – Weibo, Baidu, Douyin, Zhihu, Bilibili trends

Get what 1 billion+ Chinese internet users are talking about right now. This Actor collects the real-time hot-search / trending boards of the 9 biggest Chinese platforms and returns them in one clean, unified dataset – in a few seconds, without login, cookies, browsers or proxies.

Platform	Board	Platform id
Weibo (微博)	Hot Search 热搜榜	weibo
Baidu (百度)	Hot Search 热搜	baidu
Douyin (抖音, TikTok China)	Hot List 热榜	douyin
Zhihu (知乎)	Hot List 热榜	zhihu
Toutiao (今日头条)	Hot Board 热榜	toutiao
Bilibili (B站)	Popular videos 热门	bilibili
Bilibili (B站)	Hot Search 热搜	bilibili-search
Tencent News (腾讯新闻)	Hot Ranking 热点榜	tencent-news
The Paper (澎湃新闻)	Hot News 热榜	thepaper

What can I use China Hot Search Scraper for?

• 📈 China market research & trend spotting – see which brands, products, celebrities and events are trending on Weibo, Douyin and Baidu today.
• 📰 News monitoring & media intelligence – track breaking stories across Chinese news and social platforms in one feed.
• 🛍️ Marketing & content planning – find viral topics for Douyin / Xiaohongshu / Bilibili content and campaign timing.
• 🔔 Brand & keyword alerts – use the Keyword filter (e.g. 华为, Tesla, 比亚迪) and schedule the Actor every hour to get notified when your brand hits a hot list.
• 🤖 AI agents, LLM & RAG pipelines – feed fresh Chinese trending topics into ChatGPT/Claude workflows, dashboards or newsletters via the API or MCP.
• 🎓 Academic & social research – build historical datasets of Chinese public attention by running it on a schedule.

Why use this Actor?

• 9 boards, 1 schema – every item has the same fields (platform, rank, title, url, hotValue, …), so you can mix platforms in one spreadsheet.
• Fast & cheap – one lightweight request per platform, all in parallel. A full run of all 9 boards typically finishes in under 10 seconds on 256 MB memory.
• Robust – each platform is retried once and isolated: if one board is temporarily unavailable you still get the others, and the failure is reported in the SUMMARY record instead of failing the run.
• No ads – paid placements on Weibo are skipped.
• Public data only – only public, aggregate trending data (topic titles, ranks, heat scores, public links). No personal data, no login.

How to use it

1. Click Try for free / Start.
2. Select the platforms you want (default: all 9), set Max items per platform (default 20) and optionally a Keyword filter.
3. Click Start and download results as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or HTML, or fetch them via the Apify API.
4. Optional: create a Schedule (e.g. every hour) and connect integrations (Google Sheets, Slack, Zapier, Make, webhooks) to get a live China trends feed.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
platforms	array of strings	all 9	Platform ids from the table above
limit	integer 1–50	20	Max topics per platform (top N by rank)
keyword	string	–	Case-insensitive filter on title/excerpt (Chinese or English)
includeRaw	boolean	false	Attach the original upstream JSON as raw
timeoutSecs	integer 5–60	20	Per-request HTTP timeout

Example input:

{
  "platforms": ["weibo", "baidu", "douyin", "zhihu"],
  "limit": 10,
  "keyword": ""
}

Output

Each dataset item is one trending topic. Example (Bilibili popular video):

{
  "platform": "bilibili",
  "platformName": "Bilibili Popular Videos (B站热门)",
  "rank": 1,
  "title": "看这个视频我不烧心！",
  "url": "https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1WSHL66EdZ",
  "hotValue": 1567571,
  "label": "百万播放",
  "category": "搞笑",
  "excerpt": null,
  "imageUrl": "https://i0.hdslb.com/bfs/archive/cfb2508....jpg",
  "publishedAt": "2026-10-04T10:38:45Z",
  "extra": { "views": 1567571, "likes": 117947, "coins": 5902, "favorites": 14567, "danmaku": 1645, "durationSec": 273, "channel": "呱唧菌" },
  "fetchedAt": "2026-10-05T08:10:14Z"
}

Example (Baidu hot search):

{
  "platform": "baidu",
  "platformName": "Baidu Hot Search (百度热搜)",
  "rank": 1,
  "title": "过一个风清气正的节日",
  "url": "https://www.baidu.com/s?wd=...",
  "hotValue": 7904083,
  "label": null,
  "category": null,
  "excerpt": "中秋连国庆。既是举国欢庆的日子……",
  "imageUrl": "https://fyb-2.cdn.bcebos.com/hotboard_image/....",
  "publishedAt": null,
  "extra": null,
  "fetchedAt": "2026-10-05T08:10:14Z"
}

Output fields

Field	Description
platform / platformName	Platform id and human-readable board name
rank	Position on the board (1 = hottest)
title	Topic, headline or video title (original Chinese)
url	Public link to the topic / search page / article / video
hotValue	Platform heat score (Bilibili popular: views; The Paper: likes)
label	Badge such as 热 (hot), 新 (new), 爆 (boom), when provided
category	Category / channel, when provided
excerpt	Short description, when provided (Baidu, Zhihu, Tencent, Bilibili)
imageUrl	Cover image, when provided
publishedAt	Publish/event time (UTC), when provided
extra	Platform-specific extras (Bilibili stats, Zhihu answer/follower counts, Douyin video count)
fetchedAt	Snapshot time (UTC) – identical for all items of one run

A key-value store record SUMMARY contains item counts per platform and any per-platform errors.

How much does it cost?

The Actor is very lightweight (no browser, no proxy). See the Pricing tab for the current price per result. A typical run with all 9 boards × 20 topics returns ~180 results.

FAQ

Is it legal? The Actor only reads publicly available, aggregate trending lists that anyone can see without logging in. It does not collect personal data. You are responsible for using the data in line with applicable laws and the platforms' terms.

How often are the boards updated? Most boards update every few minutes. Schedule the Actor (e.g. every 30–60 minutes) to build a time series.

Can I translate titles to English? Titles are returned in original Chinese. Pipe the dataset into a translation integration or LLM if you need English.

A platform returned 0 items? Upstream boards occasionally change or rate-limit. The run still succeeds with the other platforms; check SUMMARY.errors. Please open an Issue on the Actor page and it will be fixed quickly.

Need another platform (Xiaohongshu, Kuaishou, WeChat, 36Kr…) or a custom field? Open an Issue on the Actor page with your request.