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Look back 10 minutes each time and return up to 15 results per section."},{"title":"Finance signal extraction from Chinese social media","prompt":"What finance topics are trending right now across Chinese social platforms? Check the China pulse with a 30-minute lookback and return up to 20 results so I can see what the market is paying attention to."},{"title":"Breaking topic detection for China news agent","prompt":"What new topics have entered the Chinese social media boards in the last 5 minutes across Weibo, Baidu, and Douyin? I want to catch anything breaking before it goes fully viral — return up to 10 new items per section."}],"resultDescription":"A structured JSON response containing: a 'consensus' array of phrases trending simultaneously on 2 or more of Weibo, Baidu, and Douyin (indicating genuine nationwide attention), a 'finance' slice of finance-specific trending topics, and a 'new_since' array of topics that first entered the hot boards within the requested lookback window. No article text — structured metadata only.","failureModes":["Invalid 'since' value outside 1-120 range returns a 400 error","Invalid 'limit' value outside 1-30 range returns a 400 error","Payment failure (x402 micropayment not processed) blocks the request","During low-activity periods the 'new_since' array may be empty if no new topics appeared","Stale data possible if upstream platform APIs are temporarily delayed","Rate limiting if polling too aggressively beyond the intended cadence"],"whenToPreferThis":"Choose this endpoint when you need to continuously monitor Chinese social media trends with low latency and low cost per poll. It is specifically designed for agent polling loops where detecting freshness (new_since) matters more than deep article content. Prefer this over full-text news APIs when you want structured, cross-platform consensus signals from Weibo, Baidu, and Douyin at $0.003 per call. Ideal for finance agents watching for China-originated market catalysts or social sentiment shifts in near real-time.","instructions":null,"reviewSummary":null,"reviewSummaryHighlights":null,"reviewSummaryConcerns":null,"reviewSummaryGeneratedAt":null,"activationCount":0,"lastUsedAt":null,"lastSuccessfullyRanAt":null,"lastHealthCheckAt":"2026-09-13T12:36:42.572Z","isFirstParty":false}