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Zhihu Scraper API
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Zhihu Scraper API is a paid API for AI agents from api.scrapeforagents.tech, paid per call via x402, $0.025/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-02).
Scrapes structured data from Zhihu (Chinese Q&A platform) including trending questions, keyword search results, question answers, article details, and column articles.
Price / call$0.025
Success—
StatusUnknown
How this service works
Pay-per-call structured web data. Failed or empty runs are not charged.
Output
Returns a JSON object with a count field, a product field set to 'zhihu', and an items array containing structured records with fields like title, excerpt, answerId, peopleId, articleId, operation, entityType, and questionId — specific fields populated depend on the operation chosen.
Example use cases
Research Chinese opinion on a topic
“Search Zhihu for '气候变化' (climate change) and pull the top 30 results — I want to see what Chinese users are saying about it, with titles and excerpts.”
Fetch answers to a trending Zhihu question
“Get the answers to Zhihu question ID 123456789 — pull up to 5 pages and 100 answers so I can analyze the responses.”
Monitor Zhihu hot trending questions
“Pull the current hot trending questions list from Zhihu right now so I can see what topics are blowing up in China today.”
Technical details
Endpoint
POSThttps://api.scrapeforagents.tech/v1/zhihu?utm_source=zero.xyzWhen to prefer
Choose this endpoint when you need structured, pay-per-call data from Zhihu — China's leading Q&A and knowledge-sharing platform — without managing your own scraping infrastructure. It is especially useful for researching Chinese-language topics, monitoring trending content, or extracting answers and articles at scale. Failed or empty runs are not billed, making it low-risk for exploratory queries.
Side effects
- Site blocking: Zhihu may block scraping requests, returning empty or failed results (not charged)
- Invalid questionId or articleId: returns empty items array
- Invalid columnId: returns empty items array
- maxPages exceeds 50: request rejected by schema validation
- Network timeout: request may fail if Zhihu is slow to respond
- Empty keyword: search operation may return no results
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| keyword | string | Search text for the search operation. Chinese and English text are accepted. |
| columnId | string | Slug from a column URL, required for column articles. |
| maxItems | integer | Maximum rows in the dataset; 0 means no row cap. |
| maxPages | integer | Page limit for search, question answers, and column articles. Article detail uses one request. |
| articleId | string | Numeric ID from an article URL, required for article detail. |
| operation | string | Choose trending questions, keyword search, question answers, article detail, or column articles. Trending questions are public; the other operations may be blocked by the site. |
| questionId | string | Numeric ID from a question URL, required for question answers. |
Output
Schema · Response
{
"type": "json",
"example": {
"count": 1,
"items": [
{
"title": null,
"excerpt": null,
"answerId": null,
"peopleId": null,
"articleId": null,
"operation": null,
"entityType": null,
"questionId": null
}
],
"product": "zhihu"
}
}Tags
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