Hey Product Hunt Over the past couple of years I kept running into the same problem: trying to understand what people in China were talking about online, but not being able to follow the platforms because everything is in Chinese. There are huge conversations happening every day on places like Weibo, Zhihu, Douyin, and Bilibili. If you don’t read Chinese, you basically miss all of it — including early signals for news, trends, or public opinion shifts. ChinaTrend is an API that tries to make that data accessible. It pulls trending topics from a number of major Chinese platforms and translates them into English. On top of that, it generates a short explanation for each trend so you can understand *why* something is being discussed, not just what the headline says. Right now it: • collects trends from 10+ Chinese platforms • translates them into English • adds a short context summary for each trend • updates roughly every 10 minutes The data is available through a simple JSON API. People who’ve shown interest so far include researchers looking at public opinion, journalists trying to spot stories earlier, companies tracking brand mentions in China, and developers building monitoring or analytics tools. There’s also a free tier (100 API requests/day) so anyone curious can try it without signing up for a paid plan. If you work with China-related data, I’d really appreciate your thoughts. Are there features that would make this more useful for you? Any platforms I should add next? Or anything that feels missing? Happy to answer questions or remarks you might have.

ChinaTrend

Track Chinese social media trends with AI translations

Track Chinese social media trends with AI translations