Skill Attribution

Source: self-written, plan autosearch-0418-channels-and-skills.md § F002c.

name: weibo description: Chinese microblog platform for real-time opinion, trending topics, and event-level commentary in Chinese discourse, 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: [real-time, trending, public-opinion, event] avoid_for: [academic, tutorial, deep-technical] quality_hint: typical_yield: medium chinese_native: true layer: leaf domains: [chinese-ugc] scenarios: [chinese-native, social-trending, public-opinion] model_tier: Fast experience_digest: experience.md

Overview

Weibo is a Chinese real-time social platform oriented around trends, public reaction, and event-level commentary. It is useful when the query needs live Chinese discourse, viral narratives, or fast-moving reaction around a person, brand, release, or public event.

For autosearch coverage, this channel gives strong Chinese social recency that blog and Q&A sources cannot provide. It matters because many Chinese public-opinion signals appear on Weibo first, especially around launches, controversies, and trending hashtags.

When to Choose It

• Choose it for Chinese real-time or trending-topic queries.
• Choose it when event-level commentary and public reaction matter more than depth.
• Choose it for launch buzz, controversy tracking, or fast sentiment checks in Chinese discourse.
• Prefer it over slower Q&A channels when recency is the main routing signal.
• Avoid it for academic lookup, tutorials, or deep technical explanation.

How To Search

• via_tikhub - Query TikHub's /api/v1/weibo/web/fetch_search for public Weibo search results using a BYOK TIKHUB_API_KEY.
• via_tikhub - Extract only post cards from the heterogeneous card list, including direct card_type=9 results and nested post cards inside card_type=11 layout groups.
• via_tikhub - Normalize author handle, cleaned post text, and canonical web or mobile detail URLs into evidence records.

Known Quirks

• TikHub access is billed per request at roughly $0.0036/request, so broad exploratory use still needs budgeting discipline.
• TikHub generates the visitor session and cookie server-side for this route, so no local Weibo cookies or login state are required.
• The search payload is a heterogeneous card list, and evidence extraction keeps only direct post cards plus nested post cards inside layout groups.
• Trending content is noisy and can include spam, repost farms, or thin commentary.
• Entity ambiguity is common because nicknames, hashtags, and shorthand terms dominate conversation.

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.