Zhihu User's Followed Columns (First 20)

omnial/zhihu-user-followed-columns

Returns the first page (up to 20) of Zhihu columns a user follows, given the user's profile URL token: each column's ID, title and introduction, update timestamp, article, item, follower and upvote counts, and the ID, URL token and display name of the account that writes it.

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Price

Up to $0.00205 per call; you pay what the call used

The price shown is the price you pay. No monthly minimum. Top-ups start at $5.

Data source

Zhihu

Data from Zhihu.

Use it

Five steps: search, inspect, learn, run, settle. No per-tool setup; your agent reaches this tool through the meta-tools it already has.

agent

// 1. search: find the tool
omnial_search({ query: "what you need" })

// 2. inspect: price and input schema
omnial_inspect({ tool: "omnial/zhihu-user-followed-columns" })

// 3. learn: read the usage guide at runtime
omnial_learn({ tool: "omnial/zhihu-user-followed-columns" })

// 4. run: price the exact call first, then run it
omnial_execute({ tool: "omnial/zhihu-user-followed-columns", input: { /* see input_schema */ }, dry_run: true })
omnial_execute({ tool: "omnial/zhihu-user-followed-columns", input: { /* ... */ } })

// 5. settle: the call is charged when it finishes, nothing to do

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Pricing

Every charge this tool can incur.

Charge	Price
Per call	$0.00205

Updated: Oct 14, 2026

Input and output schemas

Input schema

input_schema.json

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "user_url_token"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "limit": {
      "enum": [
        "20"
      ],
      "type": "string",
      "default": "20",
      "description": "Columns per call; fixed at 20."
    },
    "offset": {
      "enum": [
        "0"
      ],
      "type": "string",
      "default": "0",
      "description": "Start of the list; only the first page is offered."
    },
    "user_url_token": {
      "type": "string",
      "pattern": "^[A-Za-z0-9_-]+$",
      "description": "The Zhihu user's URL token, the part of their profile link after /people/."
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}

Output schema

output_schema.json

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "data": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
          "id": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "The column's ID (its link slug)."
          },
          "intro": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "The column's one-line introduction; empty when it has none."
          },
          "title": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "The column's title."
          },
          "author": {
            "type": "object",
            "properties": {
              "id": {
                "type": "string",
                "description": "The writer's account ID."
              },
              "name": {
                "type": "string",
                "description": "The writer's display name."
              },
              "url_token": {
                "type": "string",
                "description": "The writer's URL token (profile link slug)."
              }
            },
            "description": "The account that writes the column."
          },
          "updated": {
            "type": "number",
            "description": "An update time Zhihu reports for the column, as a Unix time in seconds; in testing every value fell in 2020, so it may not track the newest article."
          },
          "followers": {
            "type": "number",
            "description": "How many users follow the column."
          },
          "items_count": {
            "type": "number",
            "description": "How many items the column holds, as Zhihu counts them."
          },
          "voteup_count": {
            "type": "number",
            "description": "How many upvotes the column's content has drawn."
          },
          "articles_count": {
            "type": "number",
            "description": "How many articles the column holds."
          }
        }
      },
      "description": "One entry per followed column, in the order Zhihu lists them."
    }
  },
  "description": "The first page of the user's followed columns, as returned after shaping."
}