🇨🇳 China Trends Tracker — Weibo + Baidu + Toutiao + Douyin Hot Search

Get every top trending topic in mainland China in a single call — Weibo Hot Search (微博热搜), Baidu Hot (百度热搜), Toutiao Hot Board (今日头条热榜) and Douyin Hot Search (抖音热搜) — aggregated, ranked, and normalized into one feed of topic, rank, score and source URL. Instead of running four separate single-platform scrapers and stitching the output, PR, brand-monitoring and marketing teams point one actor at all four boards on demand. It is the fastest way for a Western team to see what is actually going viral inside China right now.

📊 Sample Output

source	rank	topic	score	url	scraped_at
weibo	1	中美元首华盛顿会晤	1003505	https://s.weibo.com/weibo?q=#中美元首华盛顿会晤#	2026-09-25T03:21:27.804676Z
weibo	2	王楚钦孙颖莎vs松岛辉空张本美和	960810	https://s.weibo.com/weibo?q=王楚钦孙颖莎vs松岛辉空张本美和	2026-09-25T03:21:27.804718Z
weibo	3	秋月正圆思念满	702076	https://s.weibo.com/weibo?q=#秋月正圆思念满#	2026-09-25T03:21:27.804727Z
weibo	4	短剧大满贯王道铁帅得有理有据	692086	https://s.weibo.com/weibo?q=	2026-09-25T03:21:27.804735Z
weibo	5	原来八宝粥是生米装罐	652122	https://s.weibo.com/weibo?q=原来八宝粥是生米装罐	2026-09-25T03:21:27.804743Z
weibo	6	马斯克黄仁勋苏世民等参加白宫欢迎宴会	620965	https://s.weibo.com/weibo?q=#马斯克黄仁勋苏世民等参加白宫欢迎宴会#	2026-09-25T03:21:27.804751Z

Real rows from run weWUMvmwPxQkeh6Wu on build 0.0.45 (2026-09-25), unedited apart from masked emails/phones and shortened long text; fields the source does not publish are empty.

🔧 Input reference

Field	Type	Default	What it does
sources	['array', 'string']		Which platforms to query: weibo, baidu, toutiao, douyin. Accepts a list OR a single source string OR a comma/newline-separated list. Also accepts these alternative field names: pl…
proxyConfiguration	object	{"useApifyProxy": true}	Proxy for the final retry when a list refuses direct requests. Default: Apify datacenter proxy (included in your plan). Residential is an opt-in (choose RESIDENTIAL) and costs more — billed per GB.
platforms	['array', 'string']		Alternative name for sources. Accepts a list OR a single string OR comma/newline-separated.
urls	['array', 'string']		Alternative name for sources. Accepts a list OR a single string OR comma/newline-separated.
source	string		Alternative — a single value when you only need one. Comma-separated values are auto-split.
platform	string		Alternative — a single value when you only need one. Comma-separated values are auto-split.

🧾 JSON sample record

One real record from run weWUMvmwPxQkeh6Wu (emails/phones masked, long text shortened):

{
  "source": "weibo",
  "rank": 1,
  "topic": "中美元首华盛顿会晤",
  "score": 1003505,
  "label": "",
  "url": "https://s.weibo.com/weibo?q=#中美元首华盛顿会晤#",
  "scraped_at": "2026-09-25T03:21:27.804676Z"
}

💰 Pricing

Event	Price (USD)	When it is charged
Actor Start (apify-actor-start)	$0.005	Charged when the Actor starts running. Number of events charged depends on Actor memory (one event per GB, minimum one event).
Trend (apify-default-dataset-item)	$0.025	Single trending-topic record from Weibo/Baidu/Toutiao.

Pay-per-event: you pay only for what the run delivers. A run that delivers nothing bills no result events (only the actor-start event, when the actor defines one). Example: a run that delivers 100 results costs 100 × $0.025 = $2.50 plus the start fee.

中文说明

中国趋势汇总一次性聚合微博、百度、头条、抖音的热搜与热门话题,输出统一的结构化数据(JSON/CSV/Excel),方便做市场、营销与消费者洞察。

定价:按趋势条目计费,每条 $0.025(约 $1 = 40 条)。

定时运行:在 Apify 的「Schedules」中新建每日计划任务,即可持续追踪各平台热点的起落。

AI 智能体:采用按事件计费(PPE),支持通过 Apify 的 x402 让智能体用 USDC 直接调用,无需账号。

说明:所有内容均来自各平台公开的热搜与热门榜单。

Use cases

1. PR & brand monitoring — catch a brand or issue trending across multiple China platforms at once.
2. Marketing timing — align launches to viral demand windows in mainland China.
3. Category demand signals — feed trending topics into sourcing and market-entry decisions.
4. Crisis / reputation watch — early detection of a spiking topic across boards.
5. Content & research — a daily snapshot of China's attention economy in one dataset.

Sample input

{ "sources": ["weibo", "baidu", "toutiao", "douyin"] }

Pass a single source (e.g. "weibo") or any subset to query just one or two boards. Aliases platforms, source, platform and urls are also accepted.

Sample output

Each record contains topic, rank, score, source and url:

{ "source": "weibo", "rank": 1, "topic": "新能源汽车补贴政策", "score": 3820411, "url": "https://s.weibo.com/weibo?q=..." }

Code example — Python

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("nexgendata/china-trends-tracker").call(run_input={
    "sources": ["weibo", "baidu", "toutiao", "douyin"]
})

for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

Code example — cURL

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/nexgendata~china-trends-tracker/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"sources": ["weibo", "baidu", "toutiao", "douyin"]}'

Run it on a schedule

China's hot search boards turn over fast, so run it hourly if you are watching for a brand or issue, and daily if you want one snapshot of China's attention each day. Each run reads the boards live at run time. Between runs, new topics enter the boards, others drop off, and the same topics come back with a new rank and score. The actor has no built-in new-only mode; each row carries source, topic and scraped_at, so you can stack runs and track how a topic rises and falls. Send each run's results onward with a webhook, Google Sheets, Zapier, Make or the Apify API.

Video guides from Apify: Schedule your Actor · Integrations

FAQ

Why use this instead of checking Weibo, Baidu, Toutiao and Douyin directly?

Each board is free to view, but they are four separate sites in Chinese, and reaching them from outside China can be hard. This actor reads all four in one run and returns one feed in the same format: source platform, rank, topic, score and source URL. It needs no API key, no Chinese account and no VPN on your side, and it can run on a schedule.

What does a typical run cost?

You pay per result, not for run time: $0.025 for each row in the results, plus $0.005 per run start (charged per GB of run memory, minimum one). A run that returns 25 trending topics costs about $0.63. Live prices are always shown in the Pricing tab.

How do I see what is trending in China right now?

Run it with sources set to weibo, baidu, toutiao and douyin. Each board is fetched live when the run starts, and each trending topic comes back as one record with its rank and score on that board.

Can I get only Weibo Hot Search?

Yes. Pass a single source such as weibo, or any subset of the four. The field also accepts the names platforms, source, platform and urls.

Does it translate the topics or return the posts behind them?

No. Topics come back as they appear on each board, usually in Chinese. Each record has the topic, rank, score, source and a link to the topic on that platform. It does not return the posts, comments or videos behind a topic.

Related actors

• Weibo Hot Search Tracker · 微博热搜 API & Trend Monitor — go deeper on Weibo alone.
• Douyin Trending Tracker - Chinese TikTok Hot List — more detail on Douyin trends.
• China Social Sentiment Aggregate — read the tone around topics that trend.
• Xiaohongshu Trends Tracker · 小红书趋势追踪 — add RedNote, a platform this actor does not cover.
• Toutiao News Tracker - China News Hot Board & Search — find the news stories behind Toutiao topics.

Related actors from NexGenData

If this actor is useful, these related ones from the same publisher may cover your next step:

• Douyin Trending Tracker - Chinese TikTok Hot List — The live Douyin hot list with rank, category, views and English translation.
• Toutiao News Tracker - China News Hot Board & Search — Toutiao hot board and news search: rank, headline, source, link.
• Baidu SERP API — China Search Results & Rank Tracker — Live Baidu search results for a keyword: rank, URL, title and snippet.
• Chinese Social Signals MCP — Weibo & Douyin for AI Agents — Weibo, Douyin, Xiaohongshu, Bilibili and Zhihu trends as tools for AI agents.
• Google Trends Scraper — Google Trends API Alternative — Google Trends 0–100 interest by date per keyword, plus related queries and regions.