DailyHot: Aggregating 56+ Chinese Trending Lists

Problem It Solves

When you need to know what is trending across Chinese platforms today, checking Zhihu, Weibo, Bilibili, 36Kr, and Sspai separately is fragmented. This skill turns hot-list lookup into a local service call: you can query one platform directly, or run multiple platform lookups in parallel for AI, tech, and general trending summaries.

How It Works and Boundaries

• Platform lookup: a request such as “Weibo hot search” can query weibo directly.
• Topic aggregation: for AI, tech, or internet-related topics, it can query 36kr, ithome, sspai, zhihu, and bilibili in parallel, then filter and merge relevant entries.
• General hot list: if no topic is specified, it can query leading platforms such as zhihu, weibo, bilibili, douyin, and baidu, grouped by platform with Top 5 per source.
• Output fields: entries usually include title, description, heat value, author, source, update time, and total count.

It is best suited for daily trending scans, cross-platform hot-list aggregation, and lightweight filtering, not as a replacement for deep search. The service defaults to localhost:6688 and can be overridden via DAILYHOT_URL; underlying data has a 60-minute cache, so repeated queries may return the same results. For three or more platforms, parallel queries are preferred to avoid serial delays.