> *Hey Product Hunt! 👋 Maker here.* > > About a year ago, I was building a China-focused market analysis tool and hit a wall. I needed to know what was trending on Weibo, Baidu, and Zhihu — but every option was terrible. Scrapy scripts that broke after platform updates. Paywalled Chinese-only services. Random Telegram channels posting screenshots. Nothing had structured data, English translations, or a unified API. > > So I built it myself. > > Started with one platform (Weibo hot search). Added Baidu. Then Zhihu. Then Douyin, Bilibili, Toutiao... The data pipeline grew from a weekend hack to a production system scraping 8 platforms simultaneously, deduplicating 1000s of records, and running everything through an LLM pipeline for translation + monetization analysis. > > **The result is the Chinese Trending Data API** — 3,577+ real-time trends from 8 Chinese platforms, all accessible via REST API, all with AI-generated English translations, heat scores, and monetization tags. > > Some things I'm most proud of: > - **Cross-platform comparison** — Search once, see how a topic ranks across all 8 platforms side-by-side. No other API does this. > - **English-first** — Every single record has LLM-translated title and content. You don't need to read Chinese to use this. > - **Real heat scores** — These are native platform metrics (millions of Weibo reads, Baidu search indices), not made-up scores. > > 🎉 **Product Hunt Launch Offer:** Use code **PH50** at checkout on RapidAPI for **50% off your first month** on any paid plan (Basic or Pro). Good for the first 100 subscribers. > > Free tier is live right now — 5 calls/day per endpoint, no credit card needed. Try it, break it, tell me what to build next. > > Happy to answer any questions about the tech stack, data pipeline, or China's internet landscape. Let's go! 🚀

Chinese Trending Data API

The pulse of China,in one API

The pulse of China,in one API