Chinese social media data API FAQ, platform by platform (2026)

DataXAPI's 230 endpoints read what each platform shows publicly; they do not log in to your account, cannot post, like or comment, and read no private messages or back-office data. Below, platform by platform, is what it can and cannot get, with the questions most asked about charging, accounts and compliance. The free trial covers up to 333 calls; a failed call is not charged.

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Updated 2026-11-06

What can and can't I get on each platform?

What it cannot get is what the platform keeps private or shows only to the account's owner.

Platform	Can get	Cannot get
Xiaohongshu	Notes, comments and replies, users, topics, trends, shop products and reviews, PGY creators and keyword indexes	Note view counts (not public)
Douyin	Videos, comments and replies, users and their videos, hot lists, play counts, Ocean Engine indexes, Xingtu creators	An account's back-office fan details and earnings
WeChat Official Accounts	Whole articles, article lists, reads, likes and other counts, featured comments and replies, account details and owner	Comments that were not featured
WeChat Channels	Videos, comments and replies, accounts and collections, live replays, videos in WeChat Search	Play counts
Bilibili	Videos, comments and replies, uploaders and their videos, popular, hot searches	Danmaku text
Kuaishou	Videos, comments and replies, users and their videos, hot list	Live room data
Weibo	Whole posts, comments and replies, likers, users and followers, hot searches	Posts visible to followers only
Zhihu	Answers and articles, questions, comments and replies, columns, pins, users and followers, hot list	Paid content in full

How is it charged?

Per call with no subscription; each endpoint has its own price, charged when data comes back and never for a failure. The free trial covers up to 333 calls with no card; after that, top-ups start at $10, by Alipay or card.

Do I need a platform account or cookie?

No. You hold one DataXAPI key: no platform login, no cookie, no device to keep alive, so nothing touches your own accounts.

Is the data live?

Yes. Each call fetches from the platform at that moment, and meta.fetched_at says when; hot lists are snapshots refreshed every few minutes.

Is using this data compliant?

It reads publicly visible data only. What you do with it is yours to judge: personal information falls under China's Personal Information Protection Law, and the data should not be used to harass people, repost content or do what the platforms forbid.

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.

Xiaohongshu note searchSearch Xiaohongshu notes by terms: title, text, author, engagement counts, images, and a link that opens.$0.0200 / a call Douyin video searchSearch Douyin videos by terms, a page at a time, sorted by relevance, newest or most liked and filtered by time posted: caption, author with follower count, engagement counts.$0.0200 / a call WeChat Official Account article detailGet one WeChat Official Account article by its link: title, text, time published, the account's name and IDs.$0.0200 / a call WeChat Channels video detailGet one WeChat Channels video by its ID, a search result's export/ ID or its share link: description, author, time published, likes, comments, forwards, saves, and the video file's address with the key that decrypts it.$0.0200 / a call Bilibili video detailGet one Bilibili video by BV number or link: title, description, uploader, views, likes, coins, saves, danmaku count, length.$0.0020 / a call Kuaishou video detailGet one Kuaishou video by ID or link: caption, author, play and engagement counts, time posted.$0.0020 / a call Weibo post detailGet one Weibo post by ID: the whole text (of a long post too), author, likes, comments, reposts, reads, pictures, topics.$0.0020 / a call Zhihu answer detailGet one Zhihu answer by ID or link: its question, text, author, time posted.$0.0020 / a call

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