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Platform API endpoint with unified authentication and usage tracking.

Production API
Platform API endpoint
https://api.sandbase.ai/v1/api/cn-social/search
Authorization header
Authorization: Bearer $SANDBASE_API_KEY
# The quoted heredoc keeps Unicode and shell metacharacters unchanged.
result=$(curl --fail-with-body --silent \
  -X POST "https://api.sandbase.ai/v1/api/cn-social/search" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SANDBASE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --data-binary @- <<'SANDBASE_JSON'
{
  "end": "2026-11-02 00:00:00",
  "start": "2026-10-19 00:00:00",
  "source": "ALL",
  "keyword": "人工智能"
}
SANDBASE_JSON
)
printf '%s\n' "$result"

2. Authentication

Set your SandBase API key in your server environment. Requests use Bearer authentication.

API key environment variable
export SANDBASE_API_KEY="YOUR_API_KEY"

Keep your key on the server. Do not expose it in browser code.

3. Parameters

keywordstring

Search query string. Supports these five syntax forms: - AND (&&): A && B matches content containing both A and B. - OR (||): A || B matches content containing A or B. - Exclusion (-): -A matches content that does not contain A. - Parentheses (): (A && B) || C matches content containing C, or both A and B. - English double quotes (""): "A" disables tokenization and requires an exact match for A.

sourcestring

Target social media platform for search filtering.

Default: "ALL"

Possible values: ALL, NEWS, WEIBO, WEIXIN, ZHIHU, DOUYIN, XIAOHONGSHU, BILIBILI, KUAISHOU

startstring

Start time of the search period (yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss). Required for initial request.

endstring

End time of the search period (yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss). Required for initial request.

nextCursorstring

Pagination cursor provided by the 'nextCursor' field in the previous response.

4. Response

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