# How do I let my AI read Zhihu, Bilibili and Weibo? (2026)

1 sentence with your key connects all three: paste it into Claude Code, Cursor or Codex, the agent sets up DataXAPI's MCP server, and then it searches Zhihu, Bilibili and Weibo when you ask, at $0.0020 a call, with no account or cookie of yours. DataXAPI reads Zhihu with 16 endpoints, from $0.0020 a call; a failed call is not charged.

Updated 2026-11-04

## Connect by MCP

Paste this into the agent: “Read https://dataxapi.com/agents.md and set up DataXAPI in this agent. My API key is dx_…; use it for every DataXAPI call.”

Or from a terminal: `npx dataxapi setup` writes the entry for these clients and installs the base skill. It does not write your key: put that in the environment variable `DATAXAPI_API_KEY`.

## Or add a Skill

Each platform has a Skill that lists its endpoints, its prices and how to call them: “Install the DataXAPI skill dataxapi-zhihu from https://dataxapi.com/skills/dataxapi-zhihu.zip.” For the others, use `dataxapi-bilibili` and `dataxapi-weibo` in both places. The Skill itself is free, you pay per call, and it needs the connection above and a key.

## What to ask, and what it comes to

Finding an endpoint and reading its parameters are free; only `call` is charged, and the agent can see the price first. Give it its own key with a limit.

| Ask | Calls | Comes to |
| --- | --- | --- |
| “Search Zhihu for 咖啡机推荐, read the answers to 3 of the questions, and tell me where they agree.” | 4 × $0.0020 | $0.008 |
| “Find Bilibili's most played videos on 机械键盘, and tell me what the comments under the first 5 complain about.” | 6 × $0.0020 | $0.012 |
| “Search Weibo for this brand, 3 pages, read 5 long posts in full, and group what people say.” | 8 × $0.0020 | $0.016 |

## Zhihu's own MCP

Zhihu's data platform has its own MCP. Its document, read on 2026-11-04, says that in Codex, WorkBuddy, Claude Code, Cursor and others it searches Zhihu and the wider web, reads the hot list and uses Zhihu's own answer agent, with an Access Secret from your account there. DataXAPI gives whole answers, comments and authors, and Bilibili and Weibo on the same key.

## What it can and cannot read

Zhihu: `zhihu.posts.search` for answers and articles, `zhihu.questions.answers.list` for the first 20 answers to a question, `zhihu.answers.comments.list` for comments. Answers run long, and `view=compact` cuts each text to 500 characters, which helps when the AI is only sifting.

Bilibili: `bilibili.videos.search` gives title, uploader, plays, likes, saves and comment counts, and `bilibili.videos.comments.list` the comments. It cannot read what is said in a video, and there is no endpoint for danmaku text: `view=full` gives only their count, in `ext.danmaku`.

Weibo: `weibo.posts.search` gives posts newest first, with long ones cut short; `weibo.posts.get` has the whole text. On all three it reads public data only and cannot post, like or comment.

## Endpoints

- [Zhihu content search](https://dataxapi.com/apis/zhihu/posts/search/) ($0.0020 / a call): Get a page of Zhihu answers and articles matching a search; either kind alone, by relevance, newest or most upvoted.
- [Zhihu question answers](https://dataxapi.com/apis/zhihu/questions/answers/list/) ($0.0020 / a call): Get the first 20 answers to a Zhihu question by ID or link, in Zhihu's own order: text, author, upvotes, comment and save counts. One page only.
- [Zhihu answer comments](https://dataxapi.com/apis/zhihu/answers/comments/list/) ($0.0020 / a call): Get a page of comments on a Zhihu answer: text, commenter, likes, reply count, time posted.
- [Bilibili video search](https://dataxapi.com/apis/bilibili/videos/search/) ($0.0020 / a call): Get a page of Bilibili videos for search terms, by relevance, newest or most played: title, uploader, views, likes, saves, comments, length.
- [Bilibili video comments](https://dataxapi.com/apis/bilibili/videos/comments/list/) ($0.0020 / a call): Get a page of comments on a Bilibili video by BV number, most liked first: text, commenter, likes, reply count, time posted.
- [Weibo realtime search](https://dataxapi.com/apis/weibo/posts/search/) ($0.0020 / a call): Get a page of Weibo posts for search terms, newest first: text (a long post is cut short here), author and follower count, likes, comments, reposts, pictures, topics.
- [Weibo post detail](https://dataxapi.com/apis/weibo/posts/get/) ($0.0020 / a call): Get one Weibo post by ID: the whole text (of a long post too), author, likes, comments, reposts, reads, pictures, topics.

## Sources

What this page says of other services is from their own pages and documents, read on 2026-11-04. Prices and features change: check the source before you decide.

- [Zhihu data platform: home page](https://developer.zhihu.com/)
- [Zhihu data platform: Zhihu MCP](https://developer.zhihu.com/docs?key=unified_mcp)

## More about Zhihu

- [Zhihu API](https://dataxapi.com/apis/zhihu/)
- [Bilibili API](https://dataxapi.com/apis/bilibili/)
- [Weibo API](https://dataxapi.com/apis/weibo/)
- [What is x-zse-96 on Zhihu? (2026)](https://dataxapi.com/answers/zhihu-x-zse-96/)
- [My Zhihu scraper stopped working: what now? (2026)](https://dataxapi.com/answers/zhihu-scraper-not-working/)
- [What does Zhihu error 40362 mean? (2026)](https://dataxapi.com/answers/zhihu-40362/)

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