--- title: "Super News Integration" description: "Super News is the TopHub Data API for trending content rankings across the Chinese internet, from Weibo and Zhihu to Douyin, Baidu, and GitHub. Agents list hot boards, read board history, search trending content, and react when a new item enters a ranking." url: https://flowrunner.ai/integrations/news date_modified: 2026-09-04T19:22:58-07:00 --- # Super News [Analytics & Data](https://flowrunner.ai/integrations/category/analytics-data) Super News is the TopHub Data API for trending content rankings across the Chinese internet, from Weibo and Zhihu to Douyin, Baidu, and GitHub. Agents list hot boards, read board history, search trending content, and react when a new item enters a ranking. [Verified](https://flowrunner.ai/integrations/verified "What does verified mean?") · 1 trigger · 5 actions · API key · available [Super News website](https://tophubdata.com/) · [Platform Documentation](https://tophubdata.com) · Capability data verified 2026-08-28 1. On New Trending Item fires when something the brand watch matches appears on a watched board 2. Get Board reads that board's full current ranking so the item's position is known in context 3. Search Trending Content looks for the same topic across the other boards to see whether it is spreading or isolated 4. Get Board History establishes when the item first appeared and how quickly it climbed 5. The item, its rank, the source site's own popularity figure and its spread post to the brand team 6. The market lead decides whether anything is said publicly, knowing the agent read rankings and not articles ## What This Integration Enables Super News is not a news API. It is a ranking API, and the distinction is the whole reason to use it. What it returns is what each platform's own algorithm decided to put in front of its users right now, on Weibo, Zhihu, Baidu, Douyin, Toutiao, V2EX, Tieba, Github and hundreds more, along with that site's own popularity figure for each item. That is attention data. It answers what a very large audience is currently looking at, which is a different and often more urgent question than what was published. For a brand operating in or selling into the Chinese market, it is the difference between reading coverage and watching a room. Read the boundary honestly, because it decides how a flow should be built. The vendor reads the board page and does not follow the link to fetch the underlying article, so an agent gets a title, a link, a description, a thumbnail and a popularity number, and not the argument being made. The API is also metered, and an exhausted balance stops calls rather than degrading them, which means a watch can go quiet without anything looking broken. FlowRunner's [connectors](https://flowrunner.ai/concepts/connectors) surface that as a raised error naming the balance rather than as an empty result, because a monitoring flow that silently returns nothing is worse than one that fails loudly. ### Without FlowRunner **Attention noticed late**: A topic is already several days old by the time someone outside the market mentions it **Hundreds of boards, checked by hand**: Knowing what is trending means opening Weibo, Zhihu, Douyin and Baidu one at a time **Rank without trajectory**: A screenshot shows something at position four and says nothing about whether it is rising or fading ### With FlowRunner **Attention noticed as it forms**: A new entry on a watched board reaches the team while the ranking is still moving **Every board in one call**: The hottest items across all boards, or a search across all of them, arrive as structured records **Rank with trajectory**: Board history supplies the moment an item first appeared, so climbing and fading look different ## Use Case Scenarios ### A brand watch across the whole Chinese internet Rather than walking hundreds of boards, the agent calls Search Trending Content with the brand, the product line and the executive names, which searches trending items across every board in one request. Hits are grouped by board and posted to the market channel in [Microsoft Teams](https://flowrunner.ai/integrations/microsoft-teams) with the rank, the source site's popularity figure and the link. Get Network Hot Content runs alongside it once a day for the general picture, returning the hottest items across every board at once, which is the single call that answers what is trending right now where listing every board would take hundreds. ### Trajectory, not a snapshot An item matters differently depending on whether it is arriving or leaving. When something the team cares about appears, the agent calls Get Board for the current ranking in full, in the order the source site presents it. Then it calls Get Board History for the previous days, which returns everything that reached that board on a past day, ordered by the moment each item first appeared. That per item timestamp is what turns a position into a story. The history route covers past days only and never today, so the current ranking and the trajectory are two calls by design. Both write to a tracking base in [Airtable](https://flowrunner.ai/integrations/airtable) so the team can see what climbed, what stalled and what fell off. ### A market briefing that assembles itself Every morning, the agent calls List Boards to keep its map of available boards current, pulls Get Network Hot Content for the top of the whole network, and runs Search Trending Content for the categories the business competes in. It drafts a short briefing page in [Notion](https://flowrunner.ai/integrations/notion) with each item's title, board, rank and link, grouped by theme, and posts the link to the team in [Slack](https://flowrunner.ai/integrations/slack). The briefing is a starting point for people who read the language and the market. It is not a summary of what the items say, because this API never opened them. ## Human-in-Loop Highlight The decision this data invites, and must not make on its own, is a public response. When a brand name climbs a board, the tempting next step is a statement, a paid amplification, a takedown request or an executive escalation, and every one of those is a move that cannot be taken back once it is in front of the same audience that is already looking. The agent is not equipped to make that call, and the reason is specific to this API rather than general caution. The vendor reads the board page and never follows the link, so the agent knows a title, a rank and a popularity figure, and does not know what the item actually argues, whether it is critical or complimentary, or whether it names the brand as the subject or in passing. Get Board History can say when it started climbing. Nothing here can say what it says. So the agent assembles the evidence and stops: "Your brand appears at position three on the Weibo hot list, first seen on that board this morning per Get Board History, and Search Trending Content finds the same phrase on two other boards. The item's title and the site's popularity figure are attached. No article text was read, because this API only reads the board. Do you want to respond publicly, monitor for another few hours, or escalate to the regional team?" The market lead reads the actual posts and decides. This is FlowRunner's [human-in-the-loop](https://flowrunner.ai/concepts/human-in-the-loop) design at its plainest. The agent can watch a room no team could watch by hand, and it stops before speaking in it. Agent processes routinely Detects exception requiring judgment Clear match Continues automatically Ambiguous Routes to human via preferred channel Human decides Agent resumes with decision ## Agent Capabilities 5 actions ### Boards 3 - **List Boards** Lists every trending board the platform aggregates, across sites such as Weibo, Zhihu, Baidu, Douyin, Toutiao, V2EX, Github and Tieba. It pages at one hundred records, so a flow keeps incrementing the page until a response comes back short. The hashid it returns is what every other operation takes, and it is case sensitive. - **Get Board** Returns one board's current ranking in full: every item in the order it appears on the source site, with its title, link, description, thumbnail and the site's own popularity figure. It returns everything in one response and does not page. - **Get Board History** Returns everything that reached a board on one past day, ordered by the moment each item first appeared, with a timestamp per item. It covers past days only and never today, so the current ranking is a separate call. The per item time is what makes this the right source for when something started trending rather than what is trending. ### Discovery 2 - **Search Trending Content** Searches trending items across every board, or within one board when a board is given. This is how a brand or a topic is monitored across the whole Chinese internet in one call rather than by walking hundreds of boards. It pages at fifty records, and the result carries the total page and total size so a flow knows how much is left. - **Get Network Hot Content** Returns the hottest items across every board at once, up to the top hundred for a given day. It is the single call that answers what is trending right now. Today's result moves in real time while a past date is fixed. This route is live and confirmed on the host but does not appear in the vendor's published reference, so its parameters follow the vendor's integration listing rather than a specification. ## Triggers 1 triggers ### Event Triggers 1 - **On New Trending Item** Fires when an item appears on a watched board that was not there before. The first poll records the board as it stands and emits nothing, so an established ranking does not flood the flow on connection. The vendor also offers a real time webhook that pushes a board the moment it updates, which is better than polling, but it is arranged directly with them and is not configurable through this API. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What can FlowRunner do with Super News? FlowRunner agents can run List Boards, Get Board, and Get Board History in Super News, plus 2 more actions. ### Does connecting Super News to FlowRunner require OAuth? No. Super News connects to FlowRunner with an API key, no OAuth flow required. ### Can Super News trigger a FlowRunner workflow automatically? Yes. Super News supports 1 trigger that can start a FlowRunner workflow automatically. **Work at Super News?** This integration exposes Super News to AI agents on every FlowRunner plan, including through MCP, at no cost to you. [See what FlowRunner offers integration partners](https://flowrunner.ai/integrations/partners), including how to keep this page current. --- Markdown version of https://flowrunner.ai/integrations/news. Site index: https://flowrunner.ai/llms.txt