Zhihu MCP Server

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Zhihu runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 811 installs a week from pypi. Last commit 1 Nov 2026.

Zhihu CLI for AI agents: search, read, download, and publish from the terminal.

Installs per day peak 390 · avg 27

a month agotoday

811

Installs / week

pypi · zhihu-mcp

Stars

0 open issues

1 Nov 2026

Last commit

from GitHub

MIT

License

Python

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Zhihu every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add zhihu-mcp -- uvx zhihu-mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "zhihu-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "zhihu-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.zhihu-mcp]
command = "uvx"
args = ["zhihu-mcp"]

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "zhihu-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "zhihu-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "zhihu-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "zhihu-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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Zhihu — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Zhihu?

Zhihu runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the pypi package zhihu-mcp was installed 811 times last week.

How do I connect Zhihu?

Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls zhihu-mcp straight from pypi; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.

How many people use Zhihu?

The pypi package zhihu-mcp was installed 811 times in the last week. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.

Is Zhihu open source?

Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in Python and 29 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.