LIHKG API: How to Get LIHKG and HKGolden Forum Data Without an Official API
LIHKG (連登) is where Hong Kong argues in public, but it has never published a developer API or documentation. Tools that read it rely on the same undocumented JSON endpoints its app uses, which can change without notice and throttle repeated requests.
If you need its threads, replies or keyword search results — for research, brand or crisis monitoring, or a Cantonese sentiment model — you can reverse-engineer those endpoints yourself, run a maintained scraper on Apify, or have the data delivered to you. The table lists the actors this site maintains for Hong Kong forums; the guides show what each one is good for.
The actors behind this topic
| Actor | Modes | Fields | From |
|---|---|---|---|
| lihkg-scraper-en | thread-list, thread, search | 12 | US$0.002 per item |
| hkgolden-scraper | channel, thread | 21 | US$0.002 per item |
Guides
- How to Use Jev for Social Listening: API Request, 7-Step Recipe and the Questions That Worked A practical guide to using TypeSafe's Jev API for sentiment, relevance and intent labels on forum posts: the HTTP request shape, a 7-step recipe with the measured evidence behind each step, the full question definitions we used, cost per 100,000 posts, rate limits and pitfalls.
- Jev vs Claude Haiku: An Independent Sentiment Benchmark on 405 Cantonese, Thai and Singlish Forum Posts We ran TypeSafe's Jev (jev-1.
- Cantonese Sentiment Analysis with LLMs: What Is Hard and What Accuracy to Expect Why Cantonese forum sentiment is hard (slang, sarcasm, quoted replies, bad news as negative, brand as scene), and the accuracy two current AI models reached on 150 held-out LIHKG posts, with the definitions to settle before you measure.
- Jev Pricing: What It Costs per Post, per 100k and per Million (Measured) TypeSafe's Jev costs $0.
- What Is Jev AI? TypeSafe's System One Model Explained, With What We Measured Jev is TypeSafe's System One model: it returns typed answers with probabilities instead of generating text.
- Jev vs OpenAI Decisions API: Accuracy, Cost and Speed on 266 Cantonese and Thai Forum Posts We ran TypeSafe's Jev (jev-1.
- LIHKG Scraper Has No Official Docs: Why Thread List, Search and Full-Thread Are 3 Different Builds, Not 1 LIHKG has never published developer API docs, so anyone building a lihkg scraper has to reverse-engineer its api_v2 endpoint from scratch.
- Farming Webshare Accounts for Free Residential IPs vs. Paying for Apify Residential Proxy An open-source tool called PETANIPROXY auto-creates Webshare accounts to farm free residential IPs for scraping.
- Build vs Buy: The Real Cost of DIY Social Listening for Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore Forums Taiwan's OpView publishes a standard-plan price of NT$39,800 (about US$1,250) a month, a one-year minimum contract, and a 3-month lookback window.
- LIHKG Search as an Early-Warning Net: Catch Complaint Threads at 10 Replies, Before They Reach the News Desk Plenty of Hong Kong complaint threads start with a dozen replies in a finance or workplace sub-forum, long before they reach a news-worthy sub-forum.
- Free GitHub Proxy Lists vs Apify Residential Proxy: Which One Survives a Scheduled Scraper? GitHub proxy-list repos like proxifly rack up thousands of stars and re-validate every few minutes — but a public list is public to everyone, including the IP-reputation databases anti-bot systems buy from.
- AI Deepfakes Impersonated Two Hong Kong Celebrities to Sell Stock Tips — Build a Public Evidence Timeline Before You Report It Hong Kong feng shui master Su Man Fung and 900,000-subscriber YouTuber Ming Zai were both hit by AI voice-and-face deepfakes pushing stock tips — and their platform complaints got nothing but auto-replies.
- Sushiro Apologized Same-Day, a Pop Star Responded Next-Day: A Fast Official Reply Doesn't Mean the Story Has Cooled — Track the Timeline with LIHKG-scraper Sushiro apologized in the comments the same day its conveyor-belt video went viral, and singer Chen Xiaodong publicly responded the day after a baseball team cancelled his appearance — both official reactions came fast, but a news headline is only one snapshot in time.
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FAQ
Does LIHKG have an official API?
No. LIHKG has not published a developer API or documentation. Third-party tools read the same undocumented JSON endpoints that its app uses.
Can I monitor LIHKG keywords automatically?
Yes. LIHKG-scraper's search mode runs a site-wide keyword search. Schedule it on Apify to rerun it as often as you need, or use the managed service to have new matches delivered.