What it does
The Zhihu Q&A Tracker pulls Zhihu (知乎) — China's Quora — as structured data: the daily hot list (热榜) plus keyword-driven Q&A search. Each record carries the question, top-answer excerpt, voteup count, view count and category. Zhihu is the highest-signal Chinese surface for why people think something, not just that a topic is trending.
Who it's for
Market researchers, consumer-insight teams, brand monitors and offshore China-watchers who want long-form Chinese knowledge content as rows in a dataset.
Sample fields / output
Per record: question_id, question_title, question_url, category (tech/finance/business/education/etc.), answer_count, view_count, top_answer_excerpt (up to 500 chars, HTML-stripped), top_answer_author, top_answer_voteup_count, is_hot, created_at.
Example use cases
- Consumer research — mine high-voteup answers for expert opinion on a product, category or brand in China.
- Brand monitoring — keyword-search your brand and gauge sentiment from top-answer excerpts and voteup counts.
- Trend tracking — capture the daily hot list on a schedule to see what questions China is asking right now.
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FAQ
Do I need a Zhihu account?
No — no Zhihu account, Chinese phone number or CN VPN is needed.
What modes does it support?
Two: the daily hot list (mode: hot) and keyword-driven Q&A; search, both returning the same structured record.
How do I filter for quality answers?
Use top_answer_voteup_count — Zhihu's strongest quality signal — and set a voteup threshold to keep only high-signal expert answers.
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