China trending API: Douyin, Weibo, Zhihu and Bilibili hot lists (2026)

Which endpoint for each platform?

Each gives rank and heat; heat is the platform's own score and does not compare across platforms.

What does hourly cost?

Five lists (Weibo, Zhihu, Bilibili, Douyin, Kuaishou) once an hour are 3,600 calls a month at $0.0020, $7.20. Twice a day is $0.60. A failed call is not charged.

After the list?

A list gives terms and heat. For the posts under each, search by the term, for example with weibo.posts.search or douyin.videos.search; a Zhihu list item's ID goes straight into zhihu.questions.answers.list for its answers.

Why DataXAPI

• Steady: endpoints were available 99.9% of the last 30 days, on a public status page you can check.
• Fast: a paid call took 2.5 seconds at the median over the last 7 days (counted 2026-11-06).
• Fewer tokens: across 226 endpoints, one recorded real response each, the platform's own JSON comes to 9.2M tokens and what an AI reads through DataXAPI's MCP server to 452k, 95% fewer; the JSON of a direct API call is 90% fewer too (counted 2026-11-06). Every platform answers in one shape: the author in author, counts in metrics, the next page in page.next_cursor, so another platform needs no new parser.
• See before you pay: every endpoint's page shows a recorded real response, field by field.
• Spending you control: a failed call is not charged; each key can have a limit, X-Max-Price caps one call, and the same Idempotency-Key within 24 hours is never charged twice.
• Ready for AI: a remote MCP server listed in the official MCP registry as com.dataxapi/mcp, usable from Claude, Cursor and ChatGPT.
• Free trial of up to 333 calls, no card.

Endpoints

Each with its price; every page has the parameters, the fields and a recorded response.

Sources

What this page says of other services is from their own pages and documents, read on 2026-11-06.

• Weibo hot search list
• Bilibili popular list
• Douyin hot spots