Chinese Social Signals MCP

Chinese Social Signals MCP is a NexGenData tool on Apify that returns Weibo, Douyin, Xiaohongshu, Bilibili and Zhihu trends as agent tools from Chinese social platforms.

One MCP connection that gives your AI agent China's social pulse. Trends, hot-search, viral content and audience sentiment from Douyin, Weibo, Xiaohongshu/RedNote, Zhihu, Bilibili, Kuaishou, Douban and Toutiao — platforms Western agents can't read or reach. Connect from Claude, Cursor, n8n or any MCP client and your agent can answer "what's trending / what are people saying in China" with live data.

📊 Sample Output

This actor runs as a standby MCP server: it starts, answers tool calls at its /mcp endpoint and writes no dataset rows, so there is no row table to show. See the tool list and the sample inputs below.

🔧 Input reference

Field	Type	Default	What it does
enableServer	boolean	true	Enable MCP server mode (required for MCP usage)

💰 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).
Tool call result (apify-default-dataset-item)	$0.05	One MCP tool-call result with China social and trend data, pushed to the dataset.

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 × $0.05 = $5.00 plus the start fee.

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Tools (11)

Tool	What it returns
get_weibo_hot_search	Weibo hot-search board (微博热搜)
search_xiaohongshu	Search RedNote notes by keyword (brand/topic monitoring)
get_zhihu_qa	Zhihu hot questions & answers
search_bilibili	Search Bilibili videos (search or ranking)
get_bilibili_comments	Comments on a Bilibili video
get_kuaishou_trending	Kuaishou hot-board videos/topics
get_douban	Douban movie/TV/book ratings & hot lists
get_toutiao_news	Toutiao news — hot board or keyword search
get_china_trends	Aggregate trends across Weibo + Baidu + Douyin

Each tool takes an optional criteria dict (e.g. {"query":"..."}, {"mode":"search"}) and a limit.

Connect

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "chinese-social-signals": {
      "url": "https://nexgendata--chinese-social-signals-mcp.apify.actor/mcp",
      "transport": "streamable-http"
    }
  }
}

Example agent prompts

• "What's trending on Weibo right now?" → get_weibo_hot_search
• "What are Chinese users saying about [brand] on RedNote?" → search_xiaohongshu with {"query":"brand"}
• "Top Bilibili videos for [topic]?" → search_bilibili with {"query":"topic"}
• "Give me China's cross-platform trends." → get_china_trends

Why it's differentiated

Chinese social platforms are a hard wall for Western AI agents — closed apps, anti-bot, no English. This server fills that gap with live trend/sentiment data, behind a barrier generic scrapers can't cross. Part of the NexGenData China suite (pairs with the China Market Intelligence MCP).

Related NexGenData actors

• Bilibili Video Search
• Rednote Scraper
• Weibo Hot Search Tracker
• Douyin Trending Tracker
• China Trends Tracker

🤖 Use with AI agents

Structured JSON built for LLM and agent pipelines — point Claude, the OpenAI Agents SDK, an n8n flow or any MCP-aware client at it.

Sample agent prompt:

What is trending on Weibo and Toutiao right now? Give me the top 5 from each.