Background#
Recently, I was quite interested in playing with QQ bots and often integrated data with third-party APIs, using the oicq protocol library to implement some simple but meaningful functions, having fun with group friends.
A representative example is "Understand the World in 60 Seconds". Ten or so short hot news items are delivered daily. Although the function is simple, the content is meaningful, especially for kids like us who never read the news.
Why Do It Yourself#
Unfortunately, many website APIs are not stable enough, intermittently going down or directly shutting down. So I did a Google search and found that the data sources for most interfaces point to this Understand the World in 60 Seconds Zhihu column.
How It Was Done#
After some fierce operations (to put it simply, just a simple ), I found its column data interface:JSON GET request, no encryption, cross-origin, request header restrictions, etc., press F12 and the interface pops up
https://www.zhihu.com/api/v4/columns/c_1261258401923026944/items
Optional parameters for this API's URL:
limitNumber of data items to returnoffsetPagination parameter
After obtaining the data, in order to quickly create a high-performance, low-latency API with caching capabilities, I chose deno and deployed it using Deno Deploy, setting it to only return data for the current day on each request. Additionally, I set up request caching, meaning that only one request is sent to Zhihu per day. From the second request onwards, the cache is used directly, speeding up API response time and reducing the load on Zhihu servers.
How to Use This#
Here is a deployed API address that you can use directly:
=== Update July 2024 ===
Version 2 has been released, standardizing the JSON response. Feel free to use:
https://60s.viki.moe?v2=1
Check out the source code at vikiboss/60s - GitHub, feel free to deploy it yourself or star it~