Silkline DataChina social media search API
Search Chinese social media and news with one keyword: Weibo (微博), WeChat (公众号), Zhihu (知乎), Douyin (抖音), Xiaohongshu (小红书), Bilibili, Kuaishou and news sites in one run. Set a time window, pick platforms, use AND / OR / exclude queries. For China brand monitoring. No login needed.
China social media search API in one table
| Official public API for people outside China | No. This tool collects the publicly visible data instead. |
|---|---|
| What you send | A keyword, a link or an ID, depending on the request type |
| What you get back | JSON rows with English field names; 1 request types |
| Login, cookies, Chinese phone number | None needed |
| Output formats | JSON, CSV, Excel, or the Apify API |
| Price | Pay per result, no subscription |
| Last verified with a real run | 2026-11-09 |
1 kinds of China social media search request
Most Chinese platforms cannot be searched from outside China, and each one needs its own tool. This Actor searches them together and returns one flat list of posts with the same field names on every platform. It is not affiliated with any of the platforms; it reads what anyone can see in their public search.
A real run, 13 fields per record
Run on 2026-10-26 with input {"mode": "search", "keywords": ["小米"], "maxResults": 10}. Personal fields of ordinary users are masked here.
| keyword | siteName | text | platform | publishedAt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 小米 | 今日头条 | 153cm小个子大基数减肥中… ⭕️纪录的第106天，减肥的第185天 身高：153cm 当前体重：108.8斤（... | news | 2026-10-25T09:45:32Z |
| 小米 | 今日头条 | None | news | 2026-10-25T09:45:33Z |
All 13 fields in one record
typepostplatformnewssiteName今日头条keyword小米titletext153cm小个子大基数减肥中… ⭕️纪录的第106天，减肥的第185天 身高：153cm 当前体重：108.8斤（...urlhttp://toutiao.com/group/1880014488383497authorNameauthorIdauthorAvatarUrlpublishedAt2026-10-25T09:45:32ZimageUrlsvideoUrl
Call the China social media search API
Every run is one HTTP call: send the input as JSON, get the rows back. The same works from Make, Zapier or n8n.
Pay per result
You pay per event: a start fee of $0.045 per search, plus $0.023 per post returned.
- Every further keyword pays the start fee again, and so does every further keyword and platform pair when you choose platforms.
- A post already returned by an earlier search of the same run is not returned or charged twice.
- Example: 40 posts for one keyword cost $0.045 + 40 x $0.023 = $0.965.
- Example: 3 keywords with 20 posts each, platforms left empty (all eight in one search each), cost 3 x $0.045 + 60 x $0.023 = $1.515.
- Example: 1 keyword on 3 chosen platforms with 40 posts each is 3 searches and costs up to 3 x $0.045 + 120 x $0.023 = $2.895.
- Each keyword and platform pair is a separate search with its own start fee. Leaving
platformsempty searches all eight platforms in one search with one start fee. - A spending limit set on the run is respected: the run stops cleanly when the next post or start fee does not fit.
On the free Apify plan you get 2 free trial runs of this Actor with your own input, up to 10 results each, and nothing is charged; after that, runs return a stored sample dataset (a real result of the prefilled input). Use any paid Apify plan for full runs.