0xmariowu/autosearch/kuaishou

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 real photo_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.