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Understand the world in 60 seconds a day API

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The article discusses the creation of a stable API service for the "Daily 60 Seconds to Understand the World" content sourced from a Zhihu column. The author, who previously enjoyed integrating third-party APIs with QQ bots, found that many existing APIs were unreliable. After discovering a simple JSON GET request to access the column's data, they built a high-performance API using Deno and Deno Deploy, implementing caching to reduce server load and improve response times. The API can be accessed at provided URLs, and updates have introduced a version 2 with enhanced features and documentation. Users are encouraged to migrate from the deprecated version 1, which will cease operations in June 2025. The source code is available on GitHub for others to deploy or contribute.

Background#

Recently, I was quite keen on playing with QQ bots and often looked for some third-party APIs to integrate data, using the oicq protocol library to implement some simple yet meaningful functions, just to have some fun with group friends.

A representative example is "Understand the World in 60 Seconds a Day." Every day, there are about ten short hot news articles; although the function is simple, the content is quite meaningful, especially for kids like us who never read the news.

Why Do It Myself#

Unfortunately, many websites' API services are not stable enough, sometimes going downor just disappearing. So I did a Google search and found that the vast majority of data sources for these interfaces point to this Understand the World in 60 Seconds a Day column on Zhihu.

How It Was Done#

After a series of vigorous operations (to put it simply, it was just a simple JSON GET request, with no encryption, cross-domain, or request header restrictions, just hit F12 and the interface pops up), I found its column data interface:

https://www.zhihu.com/api/v4/columns/c_1261258401923026944/items

The optional parameters for this API URL are:

  • limit Number of data items returned
  • offset Pagination parameter

After obtaining the data, to quickly create a high-performance, low-latency API with caching, I chose deno and deployed it using Deno Deploy, setting it to return only the day's data for each request. Additionally, I set up request caching, meaning that only one request is sent to Zhihu each day; starting from the second request, it directly uses the cache, speeding up the API response time while reducing the pressure on Zhihu's servers.

How to Use This Thing#

Here’s a deployed API address that you can use directly～

Update 2024.7#

The v2 format version has been released, standardizing the JSON return. Welcome to use:
https://60s.viki.moe?v2=1

The source code can be found at vikiboss/60s - GitHub, feel free to deploy it yourself or star～

Update 2025.2#

60s API V2 (https://60s-api.viki.moe) has been officially released.

  • Added more practical and interesting interfaces
  • Improved API documentation: Apifox
  • Supports deployment via Docker, Deno, Bun, Node.js, and more

Please note that the v1 version stopped updating on 2025/1/15, and is on the v1-legacy branch. Please migrate to the v2 version as soon as possible; the v1 version will completely stop service on 2025/6/31, at which point the domain will switch to the v2 version.

The source code can be found at vikiboss/60s - GitHub, feel free to star～

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