Skill Attribution
Source: self-written for TikHub channel expansion task on 2026-04-19.
name: kuaishou description: Chinese short-video platform with lifestyle, humor, regional culture, and product demos, via TikHub. version: 1 languages: [zh, mixed] methods:
- id: via_tikhub
impl: methods/via_tikhub.py requires: [env:TIKHUB_API_KEY] rate_limit: {per_min: 60, per_hour: 1000} fallback_chain: [via_tikhub] when_to_use: query_languages: [zh, mixed] query_types: [short-video, lifestyle, regional-culture, product-demo] quality_hint: typical_yield: medium chinese_native: true layer: leaf domains: [chinese-ugc] scenarios: [chinese-native, short-video, lower-tier-market] model_tier: Fast experience_digest: experience.md
Overview
Kuaishou is a Chinese short-video platform with strong coverage of everyday lifestyle content, regional culture, humor, and product demonstration clips. It is useful when the query needs Chinese-native short-form video evidence outside the more trend-heavy Douyin lane.
When to Choose It
- Choose it for Chinese or mixed-language short-video searches with everyday or regional context.
- Choose it for lifestyle, humor, and product-demo coverage where creator clips are likely to surface first.
- Choose it when you want Chinese short-form signals that may differ from Weibo text chatter or Xiaohongshu notes.
- Avoid it for deep technical explanation or formal reporting.
How To Search
via_tikhub- Use TikHub's comprehensive Kuaishou search endpoint with first-page parameters fixed to broad keyword coverage.via_tikhub- Skip non-video cards, keep only feeds that expose a realphoto_id, and build canonical Kuaishou web URLs from that identifier.via_tikhub- Normalize captions into concise snippets and label results with the creator name when present.
Known Quirks
- TikHub access is billed per request, so this channel should not be used for wide exploratory fan-out.
- Search responses mix headers, ads, and other non-post cards, so extraction intentionally drops a lot of items.
- Captions can be terse, slang-heavy, or empty, which limits snippet quality.
Quality Bar
- Evidence items have non-empty title and url.
- No crash on empty or malformed API response.
- Source channel field matches the channel name.