🇨🇳 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, view count, an auto-classified category, extracted hashtags, 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

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 — view_count
• Media — cover_image (thumbnail URL), video_url (direct Kuaishou link), photo_ids[]
• Context — hashtags[], mode, data_source, as_of_timestamp

Important — engagement & creator fields are NULL in trending mode. The hot board does not expose per-video 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, so it may return no results — trending is the dependable path.

Sample input

{
  "mode": "trending",
  "maxItems": 30,
  "includeTranslation": true,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"]
  }
}

📊 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": 12570000,
  "hot_value": 11200000,
  "hot_value_raw": "1120.0万",
  "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. RESIDENTIAL recommended.

How it works

Kuaishou (快手) serves its hot board through a GraphQL endpoint (visionHotRank) that rate-limits datacenter IPs. This actor routes through Apify residential proxy and reads the board directly — no brittle DOM scraping, no headless rendering. The maxItems cap is a hard ceiling. If every path is blocked the actor returns a single graceful maintenance-stub record so downstream pipelines never crash.

💰 Pricing example

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

• Actor start: $0.01
• Per item: $0.15

A 50-topic trend pull = $0.01 + (50 × $0.15) = $7.51. A quick 12-topic board check = $1.81. 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. A residential proxy is recommended.

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, view count, category and hashtags — 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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