# Zhihu Scraper — Hot List, Q&A & Author Profiles

A social media tool your agent can run on one prepaid apifare key. Page: https://apifare.com/tools/blackfalcondata/zhihu-scraper

## What you need

An apifare key with credits (sign up: POST https://apifare.com/v1/signup {"email": "..."}; new accounts get 500 free credits). No other account or key.

## Inputs

- `operation` (string): Operation (e.g. "hotList")
- `limit` (integer): Hot List Size (e.g. 50)
- `startUrls` (array): Question / Profile URLs
- `includeAnswers` (boolean): Include Answers
- `maxAnswersPerQuestion` (integer): Max Answers Per Question
- `compact` (boolean): Compact Output

The most relevant fields; the search result's input_schema lists all of them.

## Price

5 credits reserved per run, settled to the run's true cost, never more than 20 credits (1 credit = $0.01). Failed runs are refunded. Exact numbers: https://apifare.com/capabilities

## Run it

1. Find it: MCP search_apis, or GET https://apifare.com/v1/search?q=Zhihu%20Scraper%20%E2%80%94%20Hot%20List%2C%20Q%26A%20%26%20Author%20Profiles with Authorization: Bearer <token>. Take the result named "Zhihu Scraper — Hot List, Q&A & Author Profiles"; it carries a proxy_route.
2. Run it: MCP proxy_call with that proxy_route and the input JSON (apifare-mcp over stdio), or POST the proxy_route over HTTP with the input JSON as the body and the same Authorization header.
3. On HTTP 402, relay the body's human_readable field to your human verbatim, wait, then retry the same call. Every other error and its fix: https://apifare.com/errors.md