hotnews

CLI tool to fetch trending news and hot topics from 8 sources across Chinese platforms and GitHub. Returns structured news items with titles, URLs, and metadata. USE FOR: Fetching trending/hot news from Chinese and international platforms Monitoring hot topics across social media, tech, finance, and news sites Getting structured news data as JSON for further processing Listing available news sources Requires npm install.

hotnews CLI

Fetch trending news and hot topics from 8 sources. Returns news items with title, URL, hot metric, and rank.

Run hotnews --help for usage details.

Workflow

Follow this pattern:

1. List - Don't know what sources are available? List them first.
2. Fetch - Know the source? Fetch news directly.
3. JSON - Need structured data? Add --json for machine-readable output.

Need	Command	When
See all sources	hotnews list	Don't know source names
Get news	hotnews <source>	Know the source, want readable output
Get news as JSON	hotnews <source> --json	Need structured data for processing
Control item count	hotnews <source> --limit N	Want specific number of results (1-50, default 10)

Commands

list

List all available sources.

bash

hotnews list

Fetch a source

bash

hotnews baidu
hotnews baidu --json
hotnews weibo --limit 5
hotnews douyin -l 15 --json

Options

Flag	Short	Description
--json		Output as JSON
--limit N	-l N	Number of items to return (default: 10, max: 50)

Output fields (JSON mode):

• title - News headline
• url - Link to the article
• hot - Popularity metric, e.g. "871 stars today", "5.3k" (optional)
• rank - Position in the ranking (1-based)

Sources

8 source endpoints:

Platform	ID	Description
Baidu	baidu	Baidu real-time search trends
Weibo	weibo	Weibo real-time trending topics
Douyin	douyin	Douyin real-time trending
Hupu	hupu	Hupu street hot posts
36Kr	kr36	36Kr tech news flashes
Zhihu	zhihu	Zhihu trending questions
Juejin	juejin	Juejin developer community hot articles
GitHub	github	GitHub trending open source projects today

Source Selection Guide

Category	Recommended Sources
General News	baidu, weibo, toutiao
Social/Trending	weibo, douyin, zhihu
Tech/Developer	juejin, github, kr36
Sports/Lifestyle	hupu

Working with Results

bash

hotnews baidu --json | jq '.[].title'
hotnews baidu --json --limit 5
hotnews weibo --json | jq '.[] | "\(.rank). \(.title) \(.hot // "")"'
hotnews github --json | jq '.[] | "\(.title) - \(.hot)"'