Kuaishou live_room API

Kuaishou live_room data in one REST call — normalized to the stable JSON schema shared across every FetchPI platform.

1 documented endpoints
GET /v1/kuaishou/users/{username}/live

Contract summary (English): Get a Kuaishou user's live room info (capability kuaishou.live_room)

Normalized response entity: kuaishou/live_room
capability: kuaishou.live_room

Every response also carries freshness (cache / default / live) and billing metadata.

Use cases

Feed content-analysis pipelines with structured {{platform}} posts: text, metrics, timestamps and media references.
Power moderation, research and monitoring workflows that need the original content plus engagement counts.
Archive {{platform}} content as stable, normalized JSON instead of brittle page scraping.

Response fields

Kuaishou live room (normalized non-entity payload; USER-addressed)

Non-entity payload (type live_room) — the entity layer clean-skips it; served by the /v1/kuaishou surface.

Field	Type	Required	Description
id	string \| null	Required	—
title	string \| null	Optional	—
username	string \| null	Optional	—
display_name	string \| null	Optional	—
status	string \| null	Optional	—
viewer_count	integer	Optional	—
started_at	string \| null	Optional	—
cover_image_url	string	Optional	—
platform	"kuaishou"	Required	—
type	"live_room"	Required	—
fetched_at	string	Required	Normalization time (UTC).

Field notes are shown in the contract's original English.

Response meta

Field	Type	Required	Description
mode	cache \| default \| live	Required	Effective mode after merging param > max_age > source policy (D-004).
age_seconds	integer \| null	Optional	Age of served data; null when unknown.
source_layer	cache \| db \| upstream	Required	Which layer served the response (PRD §10).
stale	boolean	Optional	True when stale data was served under stale_if_error / SWR (D-004).
billing.amount_credits	integer	Required	Micro-USD (1e-6 USD) actually charged for this request.
billing.cache_hit	boolean	Required	—

Field notes are shown in the contract's original English.

Example request & response

GET/v1/kuaishou/users/{username}/live

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $MESHDATA_API_KEY" \
  "https://api.fetchpi.com/v1/kuaishou/users/newdev/live"

{
  "data": {
    "id": "8810000000000001001",
    "platform": "kuaishou",
    "type": "live_room",
    "title": "快手直播：数据开放夜",
    "username": "meshdata_ks",
    "display_name": "MeshData 快手号",
    "status": "LIVE",
    "viewer_count": 1234,
    "started_at": "2026-09-21T07:30:00Z",
    "cover_image_url": "https://cdn.example.com/cover/kuaishou-live.jpeg",
    "fetched_at": "2026-09-21T09:00:00Z"
  },
  "meta": {
    "request_id": "req_01HTXQ8Z9HTQ",
    "freshness": {
      "mode": "default",
      "age_seconds": 0,
      "source_layer": "upstream",
      "stale": false
    },
    "billing": {
      "amount_credits": 100,
      "cache_hit": false
    }
  }
}

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Frequently asked questions

Which content fields are included?

The normalized content entity — text, author, timestamps, engagement metrics and media references — as documented in the field table below, plus freshness and billing metadata.

Can I try this endpoint for free?

Yes — register an account, grab an API key and call it from the Playground in the console.

How is the live_room capability billed?

Data API calls are billed per request in credits, with different cache/live freshness multipliers. Current per-capability prices live on the pricing page.

Pricing

Per-request credit billing with cache/live freshness options — current prices live on the pricing page.

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