What it does
The Toutiao News Tracker pulls Toutiao (今日头条) — ByteDance's flagship news aggregator and one of China's most-read news products — as clean structured data: the live hot board (热榜) and keyword news search, with rank, headline, hot value, source, abstract, published time and direct article URLs. Toutiao is heavily personalized, anti-bot-defended and signed-URL-gated; this actor clears all of that with no login, Chinese phone number or API key.
Who it's for
China news monitors, APAC media-intelligence teams, public-opinion and sentiment researchers, and anyone who wants to know what China is reading right now.
Sample fields / output
Per record: rank, headline, hot value (e.g. 1,422万), label (hot/new), source, abstract, published time, cluster_id, topic image and a direct url to the article page — as JSON, CSV or Excel.
Example use cases
- China news monitoring — capture the hot board on a schedule to track the national news cycle and breaking topics.
- Brand / PR monitoring — keyword-search your brand or competitors and pull matching articles with source and abstract.
- Chinese-language RAG — feed ranked, clustered headlines and article URLs into media-monitoring or retrieval pipelines.
Try Toutiao News Tracker on Apify →
Related actors
FAQ
Do I need a Chinese account, phone number or VPN?
No. The actor clears Toutiao's anti-bot and signed-URL defences itself — no login, no Chinese phone number, no Toutiao API key.
What modes does it support?
Two: the live hot board (mode: hot) and keyword news search (mode: search), both returning flat JSON/CSV/Excel rows.
Can it deliver results somewhere directly?
Yes — optionally send results straight to your own Notion database or Supabase table in the same run via Apify's native MCP connectors; the actor never sees your credentials.
Top comments (0)