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Zhihu Scraper MCP Server

An MCP Server that provides MCP clients with the ability to read full Zhihu article text, complete comment trees, and categorized search.

It is a thin wrapper around the zhihu-toolkit CLI (the zhihu command): each tool calls the CLI's --json interface and returns the results in a streamlined structure, avoiding fields such as avatars, HTML, and redundant timestamps that could bloat the model context.

It focuses on three capabilities: full answer/article text, complete comment trees, and categorized precise search — suitable for scenarios requiring precise lists, full text extraction, and comment retrieval.

Capability Overview

Tool

Purpose

search_questions

Search questions by keyword (title/description/answer count/view count/follower count/URL)

search_articles

Search articles by keyword (columns)

search_users

Search users by keyword

search_topics

Search topics by keyword

get_fulltext

Pass in a URL, return the full text of the answer/article (Markdown); for question URLs, return the merged full text of all answers

get_comments

Return the complete comment tree for any content (including nested comments, likes, authors, timestamps)

Related MCP server: zhihu MCP Server

Environment Requirements

  • Python 3.12+

  • uv

  • A Zhihu login session (Cookie), imported via zhihu auth paste; this Server does not manage or store credentials.

Quick Start

See INSTALL.md (for Claude Code / Agent self-installation). For detailed tool parameters and usage recommendations, see USAGE.md.

One-liner version:

git clone https://github.com/luyanhexay/zhihu-scraper-mcp.git
cd zhihu-scraper-mcp
uv sync --locked
.venv/bin/zhihu auth paste     # 粘贴浏览器 DevTools 复制的 cURL，Ctrl+D 结束

Then register it in Claude Code (replace <ABS> with the absolute path to this repository):

claude mcp add zhihu-scraper -- <ABS>/.venv/bin/zhihu-scraper-mcp

Credentials and Privacy

  • Authentication information is stored by the zhihu CLI in ~/.zhihu-cli/, not in this repository.

  • This repository contains no cookies; .gitignore additionally blocks files such as cookies.json to prevent accidental submission.

  • Distributing this repository will not leak your Zhihu account. Users must import their own login session.

Known Issues

  • The HTML endpoint for a single answer is often blocked by Zhihu's risk control (__zse_ck). get_fulltext automatically falls back to the "pick the corresponding answer from the question API" path, so please try to pass the full answer URL containing /question/<id>/answer/<id>.

  • Search keywords should be concise (≤3 words); overly long queries tend to return empty results.

  • When risk control is triggered, first complete verification in the browser, then re-run zhihu auth paste to refresh the login session.

Acknowledgments

License

MIT

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