What is likeyun_rebang?

likeyun/likeyun_rebang — explained in plain English

Analysis updated 2026-07-18 · repo last pushed 2022-09-27

★ 3PHPAudience · pm founderComplexity · 2/5DormantSetup · moderate

Mindmap

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  root((repo))
    What it does
      Collects trending topics
      Five Chinese platforms
      Consolidated dashboard
    Platforms covered
      Baidu
      Zhihu
      Weibo
      Tencent News
      Toutiao
    Use cases
      Content creation
      Social media monitoring
      News editing
      Marketing research
    Audience
      Content creators
      Social media managers
      Journalists
      Marketers
    Tech stack
      PHP
      Web scraping
    Limitations
      Minimal documentation
      Source code reading needed

mindmap root((repo)) What it does Collects trending topics Five Chinese platforms Consolidated dashboard Platforms covered Baidu Zhihu Weibo Tencent News Toutiao Use cases Content creation Social media monitoring News editing Marketing research Audience Content creators Social media managers Journalists Marketers Tech stack PHP Web scraping Limitations Minimal documentation Source code reading needed

What do people build with it?

USE CASE 1

Scan trending topics across Baidu, Weibo, and Zhihu without checking each site separately.

USE CASE 2

A social media manager spots trending topics to create timely content across Chinese platforms.

USE CASE 3

A news editor monitors all five sources for breaking stories in one dashboard.

What is it built with?

PHP

How does it compare?

	likeyun/likeyun_rebang	bera65/frisay	florianbeer/shop
Stars	3	3	3
Language	PHP	PHP	PHP
Last pushed	2022-09-27	—	2025-08-11
Maintenance	Dormant	—	Quiet
Setup difficulty	moderate	moderate	moderate
Complexity	2/5	3/5	3/5
Audience	pm founder	developer	pm founder

Figures from each repo's GitHub metadata at analysis time.

How do you get it running?

Difficulty · moderate Time to first run · 30min

Minimal documentation, you'll need to read the PHP source code to figure out installation, configuration, and output format.

So what is it?

likeyun_rebang is a tool that collects trending topics and hot search lists from five major Chinese platforms: Baidu, Zhihu, Weibo, Tencent News, and Toutiao. Think of it as a dashboard that shows you what's buzzing across China's biggest social and news sites, all in one place. The project is written in PHP, and at a high level it works by visiting each platform's trending or hot search page, pulling down the current list of popular topics, and presenting them together. Rather than manually checking five different apps or websites to see what's trending, you get a consolidated view. This would be useful for content creators, social media managers, journalists, or marketers who need to stay on top of what's trending across Chinese internet platforms. For example, a news editor could quickly scan all five sources to find breaking stories, or a social media manager could spot trending topics to create timely content around. The README doesn't go into much detail beyond stating the core function. There's no documentation about how to install it, configure it, or whether it outputs the data as a web page, an API, or a file. If you're comfortable with PHP you could likely dig into the source code to figure out the specifics, but the project doesn't provide much guidance for newcomers. It's a straightforward utility with a narrow focus: gather hot lists from popular Chinese platforms and put them in one spot.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1

Set up likeyun_rebang on a PHP server and display trending topics from Baidu, Weibo, Zhihu, Tencent News, and Toutiao on a single page.

Prompt 2

Read the likeyun_rebang source code and explain how it scrapes hot search lists from each Chinese platform, then suggest improvements.

Prompt 3

Extend likeyun_rebang to add another Chinese platform's trending list and format the output as a JSON API.

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