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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.

Open in ChatGPTOpen in Claude

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 sayWhat it calls
The most upvoted Zhihu answers on 咖啡机推荐, and which models they namezhihu.posts.search
The views in this question's first 20 answerszhihu.questions.answers.list
What the comments under this answer argue aboutzhihu.answers.comments.list
The top 10 of Zhihu's hot listzhihu.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

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

Zhihu content searchGet a page of Zhihu answers and articles matching a search; either kind alone, by relevance, newest or most upvoted.$0.0020 / a callZhihu question answersGet 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.$0.0020 / a callZhihu answer commentsGet a page of comments on a Zhihu answer: text, commenter, likes, reply count, time posted.$0.0020 / a callZhihu hot listGet Zhihu's hot list: the questions on it, their rank, heat (approximate) and answer count; an entry's ID is its question's.$0.0020 / a call

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230 endpoints on 21 platforms, from $0.0003 a call. Errors and timeouts are not charged.

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