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Zhihu Search Scraper

👁 zhihu-search-scraper

Search Zhihu (知乎), China's largest Q&A and knowledge-sharing platform, by keyword. Returns clean, structured records for each result: title, excerpt, full HTML content, upvote / comment / favorite counts, the question it belongs to, and author info. Choose what to search: answers & articles & questions, videos, columns, or users.

Unofficial. This Actor is not affiliated with, authorized, or endorsed by Zhihu (智者天下 / Zhihu Inc.). It is an independent tool that retrieves publicly available data via a third-party API. Use it in compliance with Zhihu's terms and all applicable laws; you are responsible for how you use the retrieved data.

What it does

• Keyword search — give one or more keywords; the Actor paginates Zhihu search results for each until it hits maxItems or the end of results.
• Search types — pick one:
  • general (default): answers, articles and questions.
  • video: Zhihu videos (zvideo).
  • column: Zhihu columns (专栏).
  • user: Zhihu users (people).
• Promo / ad / "related query" / gaokao cards are filtered out automatically; only real content records are returned. Search-highlight <em> markup is stripped.

Input

Example input

{
"searchKeywords":["人工智能","心理学"],
"searchType":"general",
"maxItems":100,
"includeContent":true
}

Output

One dataset item per record:

{
"id":"2044932700230914484",
"kind":"answer",
"title":"如何评价知乎上以赵泠为首的人工智能唱衰党？",
"excerpt":"大家一定要对这个专业去魅 ...",
"url":"https://www.zhihu.com/answer/2044932700230914484",
"authorName":"赵泠",
"authorUrlToken":"MarryMea",
"authorHeadline":"衣沾不足惜，但使愿无违。",
"voteupCount":2159,
"commentCount":126,
"favoritesCount":0,
"questionTitle":"如何评价知乎上以赵泠为首的人工智能唱衰党？",
"questionId":"2042974223212213176",
"createdTime":1780329948,
"updatedTime":1780330499,
"content":"<p>...full answer HTML...</p>",
"source":"general:人工智能"
}

For user results the item carries authorName, authorUrlToken, authorHeadline, followerCount, answerCount and articlesCount; for column results it carries title, articlesCount and followerCount.

Notes

• Data is sourced live. The Zhihu upstream is occasionally flaky and can emit a transient error even for a good keyword; the Actor retries with exponential backoff, so a run that briefly errors usually still returns results.
• Record IDs are de-duplicated within a run.