Zhihu

Warriors interested in this project should recognize that Zhihu appends your IP address in the HTML, which may appear in the Wayback Machine.

Zhihu.com
URL	https://www.zhihu.com
Status	Online!
Archiving status	Not saved yet
Archiving type	Unknown
Project source	zhihu-grab
Project tracker	zhihu
IRC channel	#archiveteam-bs (on hackint)

Zhihu (知乎) is one of the biggest Q&A sites in China, founded in 2011

Archiving tools

• ZhiArchive

Concerns

Since sometime in September 2022, Zhihu blocked access from the Wayback Machine, you will see this:

{"error":{"message":"您当前请求存在异常，暂时限制本次访问","code":40362}}

Zhihu Circles (知乎圈子) were terminating access to the circle's homepage on 2023-01-31.

In July 2023, the anonymity feature was removed.

Website structure

Entities

Question (问题)/Answer (回答)

https://www.zhihu.com/question/{question_id}
https://www.zhihu.com/question/{question_id}/answer/{answer_id}
 

User (用户)

Account registration requires a mobile phone number.

https://www.zhihu.com/people/{id} (redirects to https://www.zhihu.com/people/{url_token})
https://www.zhihu.com/people/{url_token}
https://www.zhihu.com/people/{url_token}/answers (回答)
https://www.zhihu.com/people/{url_token}/zvideos (视频)
https://www.zhihu.com/people/{url_token}/asks (提问)
https://www.zhihu.com/people/{url_token}/posts (文章)
https://www.zhihu.com/people/{url_token}/columns (专栏)
https://www.zhihu.com/people/{url_token}/pins (想法)
https://www.zhihu.com/people/{url_token}/collections (收藏)
 

For example: https://www.zhihu.com/people/3d198a56310c02c4a83efb9f4a4c027e → https://www.zhihu.com/people/zhihuadmin