Baidu Hot Search API
The live Baidu trending boards (百度热搜), read keyless from Baidu's public "top" board endpoint. Baidu is China's dominant search engine, and its hot-search board is the country's most-watched read on what people are searching for right now — the Chinese equivalent of Google Trends' real-time list, the pulse of the Chinese internet. The realtime endpoint returns the main national hot-search board ranked by heat: each entry with its rank, the trending word, Baidu's heat score (its own searches-driven ranking metric), whether it is rising, falling or steady, an editorial tag and a one-line description. The category endpoint returns one of Baidu's themed boards — film, TV drama, novels, games, cars or finance — the same way. This is the Baidu trending cut — distinct from the Western trends feeds (Google, Wikipedia, Reddit) and from the platform feeds in the catalogue: it is what China is searching for. Heat scores are Baidu's own ranking metric, not a raw search count; words and descriptions are in Chinese as Baidu publishes them. Counts are the real, live numbers Baidu shows; a short cache fronts the upstream. Keyless.
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