China Trending Topics — Weibo, Douyin, Baidu, Zhihu Hot Lists

What does China Trending Topics do?

It collects the real-time hot search rankings of China's biggest platforms (7 lists) in one run:

| Platform | What you get | |

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---| | Weibo 微博 热搜 | top 50 keywords + heat score + label (热/新/爆) | | Douyin 抖音 热榜 | top 50 topics + heat + video count + event time | | Bilibili B站 热搜 | top hot search keywords | | Bilibili B站 热门 | top 50 popular videos + views + likes | | Zhihu 知乎 热榜 | top ~30 questions + heat + answer count | | Baidu 百度 热搜 | top 50 searches + heat + summary | | Toutiao 头条 热榜 | top 50 news topics + heat |

It also detects cross-platform topics, meaning stories trending on two or more platforms at the same time. Those are the real "China-wide" trends, and no other scraper does this.

No login, no cookies, no API key. A full run takes about 10 seconds.

🇬🇧 Built-in English translation

Don't read Chinese? Turn on Translate to English and every text gets an English version next to the original, at no extra cost:

{ "title": "日本误报9.9级地震", "titleEn": "Japan falsely reports a 9.9 magnitude earthquake" }

Use cases

• Daily China trend briefings for brands, agencies and newsrooms (schedule it hourly or daily)
• Feeding AI agents and LLMs with what China is talking about right now
• Market research & PR monitoring: spot breaking stories early
• Trend datasets: run it on a schedule and build a time series of China's attention

Pricing

| Result | Price | |

Related Actors

• Google Maps Scraper — Local business leads with emails
• Instagram & TikTok Scraper — Social media profiles
• LinkedIn Profile Scraper — B2B profiles with emails
• Facebook Ads Library Scraper — Competitor ad intelligence

---|

Related Actors

• Google Maps Scraper — Local business leads with emails
• Instagram & TikTok Scraper — Social media profiles
• LinkedIn Profile Scraper — B2B profiles with emails
• Facebook Ads Library Scraper — Competitor ad intelligence

---| | Trend | $0.001 | | Cross-platform topic | $0.002 |

🆓 On Apify's Free plan you can try it practically free (about $0.01 per 1,000 results). The prices above apply to paid plans.

A full run with all 6 platforms (~280 trends) costs about $0.30.

Output examples

Cross-platform topic

{
  "type": "crossPlatformTopic",
  "topic": "日本误报9.9级地震",
  "platformCount": 3,
  "platforms": [
    "baidu",
    "toutiao",
    "weibo"
  ],
  "bestRank": 1,
  "ranks": {
    "weibo": 1,
    "baidu": 14,
    "toutiao": 1
  },
  "urls": {
    "weibo": "https://s.weibo.com/weibo?q=%23日本误报9.9级地震%23",
    "baidu": "https://m.baidu.com/s?word=%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E8%AF%AF%E6%8A%A5%E7%A7%B0%E5%8F%91%E7%94%9F9.9%E7%BA%A7%E5%9C%B0%E9%9C%87&sa=fyb_news",
    "toutiao": "https://www.toutiao.com/trending/7696782172228881983/"
  },
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-16T09:09:44.671449+00:00"
}

Weibo trend

{
  "type": "trend",
  "platform": "weibo",
  "platformName": "Weibo 微博",
  "title": "日本误报9.9级地震",
  "heat": 1094837,
  "url": "https://s.weibo.com/weibo?q=%23日本误报9.9级地震%23",
  "rank": 1,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-16T09:09:43.384540+00:00"
}

Douyin trend

{
  "type": "trend",
  "platform": "douyin",
  "platformName": "Douyin 抖音",
  "title": "英雄联盟S16世界赛开赛",
  "heat": 12358998,
  "videoCount": 5,
  "eventTime": "2026-10-16T06:05:52+00:00",
  "url": "https://www.douyin.com/search/英雄联盟S16世界赛开赛",
  "rank": 1,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-16T09:09:43.384540+00:00"
}

Zhihu trend

{
  "type": "trend",
  "platform": "zhihu",
  "platformName": "Zhihu 知乎",
  "title": "美国肯德基 2027 年起将改用可口可乐，背后是什么原因？消费者实际感受差别大吗？",
  "heat": 15650000,
  "heatText": "1565 万热度",
  "excerpt": "当地时间10月15日，美国肯德基宣布与可口可乐公司建立新的合作伙伴关系。从2027年1月开始，肯德基将把其美国饮料合作伙伴关系转至可口可乐公司，预计到2027年春季，可口可乐产品将在全美所有肯德基餐厅供应。（界面新闻）",
  "answers": 116,
  "url": "https://www.zhihu.com/question/2094346221913690254",
  "rank": 1,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-16T09:09:43.384540+00:00"
}

More China data scrapers

All with English field names, pay-per-result pricing and optional English translation:

• Bilibili Scraper (all-in-one)
• Bilibili Comments
• Bilibili Danmaku 弹幕
• Bilibili Creators UP主
• Bilibili Search
• Bilibili Trending
• Bilibili Live 直播
• Bilibili Hot Search 热搜
• Weibo Scraper (all-in-one)
• Weibo Search
• Weibo User Posts
• Weibo Comments
• Weibo Hot Search 热搜
• WeChat Articles 公众号
• Douyin Hot Search 抖音热榜
• Baidu Hot Search
• Zhihu Hot List

Is it legal?

These are public trending lists shown to every visitor. No personal data is collected.

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