🎬 Kuaishou Trending Tracker — China Short-Video Hot Rank (快手热榜)

Pull Kuaishou (快手) trending short-video topics — Douyin's biggest rival and the #2 short-video platform in China with 400M+ daily users — as clean structured data. This is the China short-video pulse that almost no Western scraper can reach: Kuaishou is GraphQL-gated and residential-IP-sensitive, and this actor clears it to return rank, trending title, hot value, category, creator, cover art, and direct video URLs as flat JSON / CSV / Excel. No login, no Chinese phone number, no Kuaishou API key.

If you do APAC trend research, social listening, content strategy, or want to know what's going viral in China outside of Douyin, this is the feed — and it's genuinely hard to source anywhere else.

📊 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 rank (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
6	陕西山西多地有震感	1,181.9万	social
7	德国7比1库拉索造惨案	1,159.8万	sports
8	18岁女孩去世捐献器官救下5人	1,138.3万	social
9	开封男童失联已超100小时	1,116.1万	social
10	贵州外卖小哥救落水父子牺牲	1,094.6万	food

Each topic also carries a cover_image thumbnail, a direct video_url, an English title_english_translation, a rank_tag (e.g. rising), and photo_ids — ready for trend dashboards, social-listening pipelines, or Chinese-language RAG.

What you get

Per trending topic, you get a flat, typed record:

• Ranking — rank, rank_tag (e.g. rising), hot_value (numeric heat score), hot_value_raw
• Topic — title (Chinese), title_english_translation, caption, category (social / sports / education / political / food …)
• Creator — creator_name, creator_id where the hot-rank board exposes them
• Engagement — play_count, like_count, comment_count, share_count, view_count where exposed
• Media — cover_image (thumbnail URL), video_url (direct Kuaishou link), duration_seconds, photo_ids[]
• Context — hashtags[], published_at, mode, data_source, as_of_timestamp

Note: trending mode pulls Kuaishou's visionHotRank board, which exposes rank, title, hot_value, category, cover_image, and video_url for every topic. Per-video stats (play_count, like_count, creator fields) are only populated where the board surfaces them or in search mode against individual videos. We never fabricate fields the source doesn't return.

Sample inputs

1. The live Kuaishou trending board (what's hot in China right now)

{ "mode": "trending", "maxItems": 12 }

2. A deeper trending pull with English translations

{ "mode": "trending", "maxItems": 50, "includeTranslation": true }

3. Search Kuaishou videos by keyword

{ "mode": "search", "query": "美食", "maxItems": 40 }

📊 Sample Output (JSON)

One representative record, straight from a live run:

{
  "mode": "trending",
  "rank": 2,
  "title": "荷兰2比2遭日本两度追平",
  "title_english_translation": "Netherlands 2-2, twice pegged back by Japan",
  "category": "social",
  "hot_value": 13275000,
  "hot_value_raw": "1327.5万",
  "rank_tag": "rising",
  "video_url": "https://www.kuaishou.com/short-video/3xa567c9ykdb9be",
  "cover_image": "http://ws2.a.kwimgs.com/upic/2026/06/14/...",
  "photo_ids": ["3xa567c9ykdb9be"],
  "data_source": "kuaishou.com/graphql visionHotRank",
  "as_of_timestamp": "2026-06-15T04:12:06Z"
}

How it works

Kuaishou (快手) serves its trending board through a GraphQL endpoint that rate-limits datacenter IPs and is sensitive to bot traffic. This actor routes through Apify residential proxy and reads the official visionHotRank GraphQL board directly — no brittle DOM scraping, no headless rendering of the full app. That keeps compute (and your bill) low while returning clean flat fields. The maxItems cap is a hard ceiling — compute never outruns it. Set includeTranslation: true to get English titles alongside the Chinese originals.

💰 Pricing example

This actor uses Pay-Per-Event pricing — you only pay for topics that actually 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 = $0.01 + (12 × $0.15) = $1.81. No monthly minimum, no seats, no surprise overage bills.

🌏 Unique APAC content data

This is unique China-market data. Kuaishou is the #2 short-video platform in China and the primary rival to Douyin (TikTok's domestic sibling), with deep penetration in lower-tier cities that Douyin under-indexes. There's no Western equivalent, and almost no general-purpose scraper reaches its GraphQL trending board. If you're tracking China's short-video zeitgeist beyond Douyin, this feed is genuinely hard to source anywhere else.

⚖️ Legal & ToS

This actor reads only Kuaishou's public, unauthenticated trending board and video pages — the same hot rank any visitor sees without logging in. It collects public trend and video metadata. It does not access private accounts, DMs, or anything behind authentication. You are responsible for using the output in line with Kuaishou's terms and your local regulations.

❓ FAQ

Q: Do I need a Kuaishou account or a Chinese phone number? A: No. The actor works entirely off Kuaishou's public trending board and video pages — no login, no registration, no Chinese SIM.

Q: Why are some hot_value or creator fields empty? A: Kuaishou's hot-rank board surfaces rank, title, hot_value, and category for most topics, but occasionally hides the heat number on sensitive/editorial items, and per-video creator stats appear in search mode. We never fabricate numbers the source doesn't expose.

Q: How is this different from a Douyin / TikTok scraper? A: Kuaishou is a separate platform with its own audience — strong in China's lower-tier cities where Douyin is weaker. Tracking it gives you trends Douyin scrapers miss entirely.

Q: Can I search for specific topics instead of the trending board? A: Yes — set mode: "search" with a query to pull videos matching a keyword instead of the live hot rank.

Q: Why did I get fewer items than maxItems? A: The trending board simply had fewer live topics. maxItems is a ceiling, not a target — getting fewer is normal, not an error.

🔗 Related Actors

Pair this with the rest of the NexGenData APAC data stack:

• 📈 China Trends Tracker — Weibo / Baidu / Douyin Hot Topics — track what's trending across China's biggest platforms in one feed
• 🔥 Weibo Hot Search Tracker — Real-Time China Trending — the live Weibo 热搜 leaderboard as structured data
• 📺 Bilibili Video Search — China's YouTube/Niconico — search and rank Bilibili videos with view, like, and creator stats
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