@klarkxy/dsh-zhihu

Hand Zhihu to the agent as a research source: in-site search, global web search, the hot list, 直答 AI answers and public knowledge bases, plus question discovery, creator statistics and usage tracking. Every call uses your own Zhihu Access Secret, and what comes back is reference material for the agent, not a settled verdict.

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Requires Node.js ≥22 and DSH 0.1.7-rc.2. No repository build is needed.

Install

npm install @klarkxy/dsh-zhihu

Then load it:

dsh plugin --profile web add @klarkxy/dsh-zhihu

Restart DSH Web, open Plugins → @klarkxy/dsh-zhihu, and enter your Access Secret (DSH credential ZHIHU_ACCESS_TOKEN). Use the full scoped name; the unscoped dsh-zhihu package belongs to another maintainer.

Use

Plugins → @klarkxy/dsh-zhihu holds the settings, Statistics, Official usage, the knowledge bases and Test. Test uses one function selector and shows the parameters and the result of whichever function you pick, covering search and question/creator queries: question recommendations, answer excerpts, your published content and comments, and account or per-content statistics. Statistics shows the daily calls, failures and returned results recorded on this machine. The separate Official usage tab fetches every official quota category when it opens and when you refresh it, drawing metric charts and values rather than showing raw JSON. Totals or used amounts that Zhihu does not return are never inferred, and separate API categories are not summed. Test holds business queries only, each of which needs an explicit click. No request is automatically retried or paginated. Existing agent tools and RPC endpoints remain available.

Agent tools

To enable the agent tools, add this entry to the plugin list in the agent.cordis.yml you use:

- name: '@klarkxy/dsh-zhihu/tools'

Twelve tools are available once that entry is enabled. The five existing tools are unchanged:

• zhihu_search: search within Zhihu for community evidence; results are community/reader feedback only, never canon, and never written into project files.
• zhihu_global_search: search the wider web beyond Zhihu through the open platform's global search; reference only.
• zhihu_hot_list: pull the Zhihu hot list to see current community trends; reference for topics and hotspots only.
• zhihu_ask: ask Zhihu 直答, an OpenAI-compatible AI answer service grounded in Zhihu community content; suited for research and background investigation.
• zhihu_knowledge_search: retrieve RAG fragments from Zhihu knowledge bases — public bases by default, with personal and subscription recall scopes available after you upload material on Zhihu's web side.

Question discovery and creator data

Aligned with zhihu-search PR #4 and upstream main at 62fd3ce5c5761dd217094280390b394e4eb77ed2 (2026-09-28). All seven additions use only the current Access Secret. They neither accept an OAuth identity switch nor expose credentials as tool parameters.

| Agent tool | RPC endpoint on /zhihu | Parameters | Official quota | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | zhihu_question_recommendations | question.recommendations | Optional query; count 1–20, default 5 | creator | | zhihu_question_answers | question.answers | questionUrl; offset, limit | question_answers | | zhihu_user_content_detail | content.detail | contentUrl | creator | | zhihu_user_content_comments | content.comments | contentUrl; offset, limit; order: score (default), reverse, ascending | creator | | zhihu_creator_account_stats | creator.account.stats | contentType: all (default), answer, article, pin, zvideo; paired dates | creator | | zhihu_creator_content_stats | creator.content.stats | contentUrl; paired dates | creator | | zhihu_quota | quota | Optional apiIds array; omit or [] for all | None |

The service also accepts upstream-style underscore aliases such as question_recommendations, question_answers, content_detail, content_comments, creator_account_stats, and creator_content_stats (plus user_content_detail / user_content_comments). Parameter names remain camelCase as shown above.

Omit query to get profile-based recommendations. An explicitly empty or whitespace-only theme is rejected. Recommendations do not paginate. questionUrl must be an HTTPS www.zhihu.com/question/{id} link. contentUrl must be a Zhihu answer, column article, pin, or video link; creator endpoints apply only to content published by the current account. Video details contain associated text, not video files.

Paged tools accept offset as a non-negative Int64 decimal string, default "0"; RPC also accepts safe JavaScript integers. limit is an integer from 1 to 50, default 20. Every call fetches one page. Only continue when paging.canContinue is true, using its nextOffset verbatim. A short or empty page is not the end; a missing, invalid, non-advancing, or unsafe numeric NextOffset stops pagination with a warning. Never derive the next offset from item counts. Totals may include filtered answers; Summary is an upstream excerpt, not full text or a newly generated AI summary. Attached comment Children may be incomplete.

Both statistics tools require startDate and endDate together, as valid YYYY-MM-DD calendar dates with end ≥ start. Omit both for the upstream default range; no range is invented locally. Missing metrics stay missing and ratios are not converted to percentages. New results contain version, operation, data, optional quotaId, and optional safe paging. Structured data retains the original upstream fields and HTML; tool rendering strips HTML and displays inert fenced text. Empty/missing Body is not presented as full text.

Official quota versus local usage

zhihu_quota calls GET /api/v1/quota; it is the only source of official remaining quota. Its apiIds allowlist is global_search, zhihu_search, hot_list, question_answers, zhida_openai, tools, knowledge, user_data, and creator. Duplicate IDs are removed in first-seen order. Quota reads do not emit business-usage events, even on failure. No remaining-quota prediction, reset countdown, or automatic retry is added.

Local usage is still tracked as daily counters of calls, failures, and returned results; usage views default to the last 30 days and accept at most 90. New business operations emit one event per tool/RPC call, with their quota category; local counters are not a billing ledger or official balance. Existing storage identifiers are unchanged. Knowledge-base uploads remain limited to 20 MB per file.

Business errors retain their upstream message and code, including on HTTP error responses. RPC error.details may contain status, upstreamCode, retryAfter (seconds), and retryable. 30001 / 30002 are rate/quota limits; 30003 is risk-control rejection, not an ordinary rate limit and tells callers not to retry immediately. No request is automatically retried. Timeouts and cancellation cover response-body reads as well as the initial request.

Works with the web search manager

When @klarkxy/dsh-web-search-manager is also installed in the same profile, this plugin registers Zhihu global search as a provider in its web search settings. Enable that provider to use Zhihu's global search through the standard web search tool with the Access Secret from Zhihu settings. The dedicated Zhihu tools work independently.

Boundaries and limits

• Search covers Zhihu in-site search, the wider web, the hot list, Zhihu 直答 AI answers, and public knowledge bases.
• Uploaded reference files are stored in Zhihu's cloud; do not upload unpublished manuscripts.
• This sync does not cover all upstream CLI/MCP features, such as OAuth identity management or PDF/PPT tasks.
• The client accepts structural host controls and has native HTML fallbacks. Building or using this package does not require application-private UI packages.
• Existing agent tools, credentials, RPC contracts and storage identifiers are preserved; the additions above are additive.

Development

Read contracts, tools, and open-platform client for the API. The seven additions cover the six question/creator endpoints plus official quota.

pnpm --filter @klarkxy/dsh-zhihu typecheck
pnpm --filter @klarkxy/dsh-zhihu test
pnpm --filter @klarkxy/dsh-zhihu build

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