# Zhihu MCP server for Claude and Cursor (2026)

DataXAPI's MCP server has 16 Zhihu endpoints: search of answers and articles, questions and their answers, comments and replies, columns, pins, users and the hot list. In Claude, Cursor or ChatGPT you ask in a sentence at $0.0020 a call, with no Zhihu account of yours. The free trial covers up to 333 calls; a failed call is not charged.

Updated 2026-11-06

## How do I connect it?

To connect: paste this to your AI assistant: “Read https://dataxapi.com/agents.md and set up DataXAPI here. My API key is dx_…; use it for every DataXAPI call.” A client that takes a remote MCP server can be given `https://api.dataxapi.com/mcp` with the header `Authorization: Bearer <key>` instead.

## What can I ask about Zhihu?

A link to a question, answer or article, or a keyword.

| You say | What it calls |
| --- | --- |
| The most upvoted Zhihu answers on 咖啡机推荐, and which models they name | `zhihu.posts.search` |
| The views in this question's first 20 answers | `zhihu.questions.answers.list` |
| What the comments under this answer argue about | `zhihu.answers.comments.list` |
| The top 10 of Zhihu's hot list | `zhihu.trends.list` |

## Good to know

A question's answers are the first 20, one page. It reads public data only, and a failed call is not charged.

## Why DataXAPI

- Steady: endpoints were available 100% of the last 30 days, on a public status page you can check.
- Fast: a paid call took 1.7 seconds at the median over the last 7 days (counted 2026-11-06).
- Fewer tokens: across 16 endpoints on Zhihu, one recorded real response each, the platform's own JSON comes to 712k tokens and what an AI reads through DataXAPI's MCP server to 63k, 91% fewer; the JSON of a direct API call is 73% 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

- [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.
- [Zhihu hot list](https://dataxapi.com/apis/zhihu/trends/list/) ($0.0020 / a call): Get Zhihu's hot list: the questions on it, their rank, heat (approximate) and answer count; an entry's ID is its question's.

## How-to guides

- [Zhihu API in Python: questions and answers (2026)](https://dataxapi.com/guides/zhihu-api-python/)

## More about Zhihu

- [Zhihu API](https://dataxapi.com/apis/zhihu/)
- [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/)
- [How do I let my AI read Zhihu, Bilibili and Weibo? (2026)](https://dataxapi.com/answers/ai-read-zhihu-bilibili-weibo/)
- [What does Zhihu error 40362 mean? (2026)](https://dataxapi.com/answers/zhihu-40362/)
- [Zhihu API: questions, answers and comments (2026)](https://dataxapi.com/answers/zhihu-data-apis/)
- [How to find Zhihu question and answer ids (2026)](https://dataxapi.com/answers/zhihu-question-answer-id/)
- [Zhihu API for AI agents and LLMs: fewer tokens, called from Claude and Cursor (2026)](https://dataxapi.com/answers/zhihu-api-for-ai-agents/)

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