What's trending in China today

See what is trending in China: the live Weibo hot search, Douyin and Kuaishou hot lists, Zhihu hot list and Pipixia video board on one page, with an AI summary of the stories trending across them. Sign in with SandBase and fetch them in seconds.

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Frequently asked questions

What is a Chinese hot search list?

Weibo, Douyin, Kuaishou, Zhihu and Pipixia each publish a live ranking of the topics people are searching, posting about or watching most. Together they are the quickest view of what Chinese internet users are talking about right now.

How does this page get the lists?

When you press the button, Lab calls five SandBase data APIs with your SandBase session, one per platform, and shows the current ranking of each. Every press fetches the lists live; the last result stays in your browser.

What does a fetch cost?

The five list calls cost about $0.008 together at list price (Weibo $0.00225, the others $0.0015 each), and the AI summary usually about $0.01. It is billed to your SandBase account; data APIs currently include a daily free quota per organization.

How is the AI summary written?

A language model reads the titles on the five lists and groups the same story across platforms into a few points, in Chinese and English. It sees only the titles, so it can be wrong or miss context; open the original entry before relying on it.

Why does the same story rank differently on each platform?

Each platform ranks by its own signals: Weibo by searches and discussion, Douyin and Kuaishou by video views and searches, Zhihu by question views and answers, Pipixia by plays today. Their audiences differ too.

What are the pinned entries?

Entries the platform itself pins above the ranking, usually official announcements or promoted topics. They are shown as pinned and left out of the AI summary.

Can I get these hot search lists through an API?

Yes. Each list comes from a SandBase data API, such as weibo/web-v2/hot-search-summary or douyin/app-v3/hot-search-list. One call returns the whole current list as JSON.