🇨🇳 Kuaishou Trending Tracker — 快手热榜 Hot Board API

Pull the Kuaishou hot board (快手热榜) — the live trending-topic rank for China's second-largest short-video platform, where lower-tier-city and rural consumer culture surfaces first. Each run returns roughly 48 trending topics with rank, hot value, an auto-classified category, hashtags (when the topic title carries them), cover image and a direct video link, plus a best-effort English gloss. It's the short-video counterpart to Weibo hot search for teams tracking what's going viral beyond the Tier-1-city Douyin/Xiaohongshu bubble.

No login, no Chinese phone number, no Kuaishou API key — keyword-free hot board in, clean ranked rows out.

📊 Sample Output

mode	title	title_english_translation	category	video_url	photo_ids
trending	80秒看美方高规格迎接	[CN-only] 80秒看美方高规格迎接	social	https://www.kuaishou.com/short-video/3xyzkmyiyn44au2	['3xyzkmyiyn44au2']
trending	习近平夫妇出席欢迎宴会	Xi Jinping 夫妇出席欢迎宴会	political	https://www.kuaishou.com/short-video/3xf8j2rcf5qfgqu	['3xf8j2rcf5qfgqu']
trending	今天是中秋节	[CN-only] 今天是中秋节	social	https://www.kuaishou.com/short-video/3xz9e2r4yp86t6s	['3xz9e2r4yp86t6s', '3xyieqvtcgxzkki', '3xh4rcue7kmpe5q', '3xxx8u4z4k…
trending	全国各地飘起“中国红”	[CN-only] 全国各地飘起“中国红”	social	https://www.kuaishou.com/short-video/3x9vjsxbaiqkhju	['3x9vjsxbaiqkhju']
trending	男子相亲遭抢劫嫌犯被拘	[CN-only] 男子相亲遭抢劫嫌犯被拘	social	https://www.kuaishou.com/short-video/3xzawbpq6z2trty	['3xzawbpq6z2trty']
trending	国乒女团横扫日本夺冠	[CN-only] 国乒女团横扫日本夺冠	social	https://www.kuaishou.com/short-video/3xis4aej233jrua	['3xis4aej233jrua', '3x8aqkzn3ynww6g', '3xsvuf4br8ugt5m', '3xfddrfnef…

Real rows from run 4BJ0VnXOIxJbapAth on build 0.0.7 (2026-09-25), unedited apart from masked emails/phones and shortened long text; fields the source does not publish are empty.

What trending mode can't fill, and why: the hot board lists topics, not individual videos, so caption, creator_name, creator_id, play_count, like_count, comment_count, share_count, view_count, duration_seconds and published_at are empty in mode: "trending". Those fill in mode: "search" only, and Kuaishou's search is often blocked by its risk control; when it is, the run fails with a clear message and only the start fee is charged.

🧾 JSON sample record

One real record from run 4BJ0VnXOIxJbapAth (emails/phones masked, long text shortened):

{
  "mode": "trending",
  "rank": 1,
  "title": "80秒看美方高规格迎接",
  "title_english_translation": "[CN-only] 80秒看美方高规格迎接",
  "caption": null,
  "category": "social",
  "creator_name": null,
  "creator_id": null,
  "play_count": null,
  "like_count": null,
  "comment_count": null,
  "share_count": null,
  "view_count": null,
  "hot_value": null,
  "hot_value_raw": null,
  "video_url": "https://www.kuaishou.com/short-video/3xyzkmyiyn44au2",
  "cover_image": "http://ws2.a.kwimgs.com/upic/2026/09/24/17/BMjAyNjA5MjQxNzIwNDBfMTA3MTg4NTYwN18yMDk4OTk2OTU4ODFfMF8z_B2c50233ca4a9b141b35086db1b3d6b4d.jpg?tag=1-1790294601-unknown-0-8qcfscq0cf-4decdaf8b1af54fb&type=hot&clientCacheKey=3xyzkmyiyn44au2.jpg&di=2cc888f8&bp=10004&kwai-not-alloc=35&ss=vps",
  "duration_seconds": null,
  "published_at": null,
  "hashtags": [],
  "photo_ids": [
    "3xyzkmyiyn44au2"
  ],
  "rank_tag": "rising",
  "data_source": "kuaishou.com/graphql visionHotRank",
  "as_of_timestamp": "2026-09-25T00:03:22Z"
}

Proxy: runs use Apify's datacenter proxy by default, which returned the same rows as residential in our tests (Nov 1, 2026). Residential proxy is still available in the proxyConfiguration field as an opt-in; it costs more because Apify bills residential traffic per GB.

💰 Pricing

Event	Price (USD)	When it is charged
Trending video (apify-default-dataset-item)	$0.05	Charged per Kuaishou trending/hot video record with metrics.
Actor Start (apify-actor-start)	$0.01	Charged when the Actor starts running. Number of events charged depends on Actor memory (one event per GB, minimum one event).

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.

🤖 Use with AI agents

Point Claude, the OpenAI Agents SDK, an n8n flow or any MCP-aware client at it and pull the data on demand.

Sample agent prompt:

Show today's Kuaishou hot board with an English gloss and category for each topic.

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📊 Sample Output

Real trending topics returned by this actor for mode: trending — every row below comes straight from a live run on the Chinese-language Kuaishou hot board (快手热榜):

#	Trending Title (热榜)	Hot Value	Category
1	传承弘扬遵义会议精神	—	political
2	荷兰2比2遭日本两度追平	1,327.5万	social
3	无偿献血证被倒卖牟利	1,257.0万	social
4	"赛事+"激发消费活力	1,230.1万	sports
5	2026高考查分时间汇总	1,203.3万	education

Each topic also carries a view_count, a cover_image thumbnail, a direct video_url, an English title_english_translation, a rank_tag, extracted hashtags, and photo_ids — ready for trend dashboards, social-listening pipelines, or Chinese-language RAG.

What you get

The two modes return different shapes — read this before you wire up a pipeline.

Trending mode (mode: "trending", the reliable default) pulls Kuaishou's visionHotRank board (~48 topics). Per topic you get:

• Ranking — rank, rank_tag, hot_value (numeric heat score), hot_value_raw
• Topic — title (Chinese), title_english_translation, category (social / sports / education / political / food …)
• Reach — hot_value is the board's heat score. (view_count is exposed by the API but Kuaishou currently returns null for it on every hot-board item — we pass it through as null rather than inventing a number.)
• Media — cover_image (thumbnail URL), video_url (direct Kuaishou link), photo_ids[]
• Context — hashtags[], mode, data_source, as_of_timestamp

Important — engagement, view and creator fields are NULL in trending mode. The hot board does not expose per-video view_count, like_count, comment_count, share_count, play_count, or creator fields (creator_name, creator_id, caption, duration, published_at) — they are returned as null. Those fields are only populated by search mode, which queries individual videos. We never fabricate fields the source doesn't return.

Search mode (mode: "search", best-effort) queries individual videos for a keyword and is the only mode that can populate like_count, comment_count, share_count, play_count and creator fields. Note Kuaishou frequently walls search behind browser security tokens; when it does, the run fails loudly with that reason and charges nothing — trending is the dependable path.

Sample input

{
  "mode": "trending",
  "maxItems": 30,
  "includeTranslation": true,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}

📊 Sample Output (JSON)

One representative trending-mode record — note the engagement/creator fields are null (only search mode fills them):

{
  "mode": "trending",
  "rank": 1,
  "title": "某综艺名场面",
  "title_english_translation": "Variety show highlight",
  "caption": null,
  "category": "entertainment",
  "creator_name": null,
  "like_count": null,
  "comment_count": null,
  "share_count": null,
  "play_count": null,
  "view_count": null,
  "hot_value": 12321000,
  "hot_value_raw": "1232.1万",
  "video_url": "https://www.kuaishou.com/short-video/3xa567c9ykdb9be",
  "cover_image": "http://ws2.a.kwimgs.com/upic/2026/06/14/...",
  "hashtags": [],
  "photo_ids": ["3xa567c9ykdb9be"],
  "rank_tag": "hot",
  "data_source": "kuaishou.com/graphql visionHotRank",
  "as_of_timestamp": "2026-06-29T08:00:00Z"
}

Input

Input	Type	Description
mode	enum	trending (reliable hot board) or search (best-effort keyword video search; frequently walled).
query	string	Keyword/hashtag for mode=search (e.g. 美食, 旅游). Ignored in trending mode.
maxItems	integer	Hard cap on records returned (1–200). Hot board surfaces ~48 topics.
includeTranslation	boolean	Add title_english_translation (best-effort offline gloss).
proxyConfiguration	proxy	Apify proxy. Datacenter by default (same hot-board rows as residential in our tests); residential is an opt-in that costs more.

How it works

Kuaishou (快手) serves its hot board through a GraphQL endpoint (visionHotRank) that can rate-limit busy IPs. This actor reads the board directly (Apify datacenter proxy by default; residential is an opt-in) — no brittle DOM scraping, no headless rendering. The maxItems cap is a hard ceiling. If every path is blocked, the run fails with the reason in its status message — it never bills a placeholder row and never ends green with an empty dataset.

💰 Pricing example

Pay-Per-Event — you only pay for topics that land in your dataset:

• Actor start: $0.01
• Per item: $0.05

A 48-topic board pull = $0.01 + (48 × $0.05) = $2.41. A quick 10-topic board check = $0.51. Blocked runs and empty boards deliver 0 rows and are not charged. No monthly minimum, no seats.

Use cases

• Brand & marketing — spot viral hashtags and challenges on the Kuaishou board to ride before peak.
• Consumer research — read lower-tier-city and rural consumer culture that Douyin and Xiaohongshu under-represent.
• Social listening — schedule the board for a daily trending time-series.
• Creator/influencer marketing — surface rising topics for KOL briefs.

❓ FAQ

Does it need login? No — the hot board path is public. The default datacenter proxy works for it.

How many trending topics? Around 48 per run, ranked by hot value.

Can I search Kuaishou by keyword? A best-effort search mode exists but is frequently walled by browser security tokens; trending is dependable.

Does it return like/comment counts per video? Only in (best-effort) search mode. The trending hot board returns rank, hot value, category and hashtags — view, engagement and creator fields are null there.

Kuaishou vs Douyin trending? Kuaishou skews lower-tier-city and rural; pair it with the Douyin tracker for full coverage.

🔗 Related actors — China social

• Weibo Hot Search Tracker — the live Weibo 热搜 leaderboard as structured data
• Douyin Trending Tracker — the Tier-1-city short-video hot board
• Bilibili Video Search — search and rank Bilibili videos
• China Trends Tracker — trending across China's biggest platforms in one feed
• RedNote (Xiaohongshu) Scraper — China's lifestyle/discovery platform

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