Zhihu API

Zhihu Profile API

Fetch a public Zhihu profile with normalized identity and audience data.

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$1.20/1k req, pay per request, no subscription.

What the API returned
{
"id": "a1b2c3d4e5f6",
"userToken": "lin-yu-84-27",
"url": "https://www.zhihu.com/people/lin-yu-84-27",
"name": "林语",
"image": "https://pic1.zhimg.com/v2-8f3a2c9b1d0e4f5a6b7c8d9e0f1a2b3c_l.jpg",
"headline": "量化研究员 / 机器学习爱好者",
"gender": 1,
"followers": 48213,
... 4 more fields
}
Uptime
100.00%
30d · 5 calls
Requests
5
30d · weekly, last 12 wks
Response
0.9s
median · 30d

Pricing

Zhihu Profile API pricing

You pay
$12.00
$1.20/1k req, only for what you use. No monthly plan.
Your first 83 requests are free with the $0.10 starting balance.

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{
  "found": true,
  "data": {
    "id": "a1b2c3d4e5f6",
    "userToken": "lin-yu-84-27",
    "url": "https://www.zhihu.com/people/lin-yu-84-27",
    "name": "林语",
    "image": "https://pic1.zhimg.com/v2-8f3a2c9b1d0e4f5a6b7c8d9e0f1a2b3c_l.jpg",
    "headline": "量化研究员 / 机器学习爱好者",
    "gender": 1,
    "followers": 48213,
    "answers": 312,
    "articles": 47,
    "ipLocation": "上海",
    "organization": false
  }
}

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Reference

One request, one response shape.

Every field you send and every field you get back, each with a real example.

Last verified 2026-10-31 · uptime and latency measured over 30d

Request body

JSON, posted to this endpoint.

  • userTokenstring

    lin-yu-84-27

    Zhihu user URL token.

You send. A small JSON body. The values shown are examples to replace with your own.

Response

JSON, one example value per field.

datadata

Normalized profile data, or null when not found.

  • answersinteger

    312

    Published answer count.

  • articlesinteger

    47

    Published article count.

  • followersinteger

    48213

    Follower count.

  • genderinteger

    1

    Gender code reported by Zhihu.

  • headlinestring

    量化研究员 / 机器学习爱好者

    Profile headline. Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity.

  • idstring

    a1b2c3d4e5f6

    User identifier. Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity.

  • imagestring

    https://pic1.zhimg.com/v2-8f3a2c9b1d0e4f5a6b7c8d9e0f1a2b3c_l.jpg

    Profile image URL. Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity.

  • ipLocationstring

    上海

    IP location label reported by Zhihu.

  • namestring

    林语

    Display name. Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity.

  • organizationboolean

    false

    Whether this is an organization profile.

  • urlstring

    https://www.zhihu.com/people/lin-yu-84-27

    Canonical profile URL. Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity.

  • userTokenstring

    lin-yu-84-27

    User URL token. Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity.

top level
  • foundboolean

    true

    True when the profile was found.

  • reason"not_found"

    Present only when `found` is false, and says why there is no result. `not_found`: the source states the target does not exist, or returned nothing for it. A `found: false` answer is a successful call, not an error, and `costUsd` is what it actually cost.

You get back. Named, typed fields in the same shape whichever source answers.

FAQ

About the Zhihu Profile API

The AnyAPI Zhihu Profile API returns Zhihu profile data as normalized JSON from one POST call to /v1/run/zhihu.profile. Fetch a public Zhihu profile with normalized identity and audience data. AnyAPI returns one normalized schema whichever source serves it. It costs from $1.20 per 1,000 requests, in US dollars with no subscription and no monthly minimum. Over the last 30 days, 100.0% of Zhihu profile calls through AnyAPI succeeded, with a median response time of 0.9 seconds across 5 measured calls.

It costs from $1.20 per 1,000 requests, in US dollars with no subscription and no monthly minimum. You fund one USD wallet and each call draws it down. Some failed wallet-funded requests incur processing charges that we pass through at cost, with no markup; the error response shows the amount charged.

Fetch a public Zhihu profile with normalized identity and audience data. The response is normalized JSON with the same envelope every AnyAPI endpoint returns, so parsing a second endpoint is a change of URL and nothing else.

Over the last 30 days, 100.0% of Zhihu profile calls through AnyAPI succeeded, with a median response time of 0.9 seconds across 5 measured calls. These are AnyAPI's own measurements of traffic through the gateway, recomputed continuously, not a published service-level target.

Yes. A new AnyAPI account starts with $0.10 of free balance and no card required, which covers 83 Zhihu Profile calls at $0.0012 each.

Send a POST request to https://api.getanyapi.com/v1/run/zhihu.profile with your AnyAPI key in an "Authorization: Bearer" header and the input as a JSON body. The same key and the same wallet work on every AnyAPI endpoint.

No. You add US dollars to one prepaid AnyAPI balance and each request draws it down. There is no monthly plan and no minimum, and the same balance pays for every AnyAPI endpoint.

Yes. Install @getanyapi/sdk from npm for TypeScript or getanyapi from pip for Python. Both call every AnyAPI endpoint with the same key, and any HTTP client works too.

Yes. An agent can connect to the AnyAPI MCP server at https://api.getanyapi.com/mcp, or create its own free-trial key with one unauthenticated POST to https://api.getanyapi.com/agent/signup and call this endpoint over HTTP.
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