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LinkDigest vs Just One API
Just One API returns raw JSON from about 36 platforms — RedNote, Douyin, Weibo, Zhihu, Kuaishou, WeChat, Bilibili, e-commerce — with search, comment pages and creator data, priced in its dashboard. LinkDigest reads one post into AI-ready text: transcript, on-screen text, every image read, checked quotes, public prices. Dated comparison.
Competitor rows from their public docs on 2026-09-12; tell us if something changed. Just One API rows from justoneapi.com/en, its FAQ, docs, PyPI package and MCP page, read 2026-10-29. Its per-call prices and free allowance are shown only after sign-in, so they are not quoted. LinkDigest rows are computed from the same constants as the pricing page and the coverage table. “—” means not stated in what we checked.
| Feature | LinkDigest | Just One API |
|---|---|---|
| What it returns | The post as text an LLM can use: transcript, on-screen text, every image described and read, caption, top comments, key points with checked quotes. | The platform's raw JSON per endpoint — "the full response is returned for you to parse" (its RedNote tutorial). |
| Xiaohongshu (RedNote) / Douyin | Yes — Xiaohongshu image and video notes; Douyin video and 图文 image notes. | Yes — posts, search, comments and creators, plus RedNote and Douyin e-commerce and their KOL platforms (Pugongying, Xingtu). |
| Weibo (微博) | Yes — one post at a time: text, photos, video, counts, topic tags and the post's top comments. | Yes — plus comment threads, creators and timelines. |
| Zhihu, Kuaishou | No. | Yes. |
| Other platforms | YouTube, TikTok, X, Instagram (reels and photo posts), Bilibili (since 2026-10-24), Weibo posts (since 2026-11-01), WeChat Official Account articles, 小宇宙 and Apple Podcasts episodes (since 2026-10-29), web pages. | About 36 in all, including WeChat Official Accounts and Channels, Bilibili, Douban, Toutiao, Taobao/Tmall, JD, 1688, Xianyu, Temu, Shopee, Amazon, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, X, Reddit. |
| Transcript (ASR) and OCR | Yes — native captions where a platform publishes them, otherwise OpenAI's gpt-4o-mini-transcribe, as sentences with estimated start times. Yes — every image described and read for on-screen text; frames sampled from video. | Not offered as a product; Bilibili captions where the platform has them. |
| Comments | The top comments a share page shows (Xiaohongshu, Weibo, 小宇宙). | Full comment threads and replies, paginated by cursor. |
| Search | search_links on Xiaohongshu, Douyin, YouTube, X and the web; digest: true reads what it found. | Search endpoints per platform. |
| MCP | Task tools: digest_url, search_links, compare_links, check_balance. | A remote MCP with generic tools to browse endpoints and call them. |
| SDK | REST + OpenAPI spec; MCP for agents. | Python SDK on PyPI. |
| Cookies or login from you | No login and no cookies on any platform: Xiaohongshu is read from its public pages, Douyin through its own embed player (since 2026-10-21), Weibo through its own guest visitor page (since 2026-11-01). You supply nothing. | No — hosted, one token. |
| Price | Public: 1 credit ≈ $0.018 ($9 for 500 credits a month); a 10-minute video 11 credits ≈ $0.198 (1 per started minute, plus the base credit). | Pay as you go; prices per endpoint shown in the dashboard after sign-in; balance never expires. |
| Failed and cached reads | Yes — a digest that read nothing is not charged. Yes — anything anyone already digested is free. | Not stated publicly. |
Where Just One API is better
- Breadth: Zhihu, Kuaishou, WeChat Channels, Douban and e-commerce platforms LinkDigest does not read at all — and Weibo at a scale we do not: its comment threads, creators and timelines.
- Raw data at scale: full comment threads, creator profiles and timelines, KOL rates, product SKUs and prices — the fields a data pipeline or a dashboard needs.
- A Python SDK, and one token for every platform.
Where LinkDigest is better
- What the post says, not its fields: the spoken transcript with times, the text in every image and on screen, key points each backed by a quote checked against the post, and a receipt of what was read.
- Ready for an LLM without a parsing step, in the same shape for every platform.
- Prices you can read before signing up, a keyless first look from the API or MCP, failed reads free, links anyone has read free.
- Use both: a raw data API to find and count posts, LinkDigest to read the ones that matter.
try the difference
One call, on a real link
curl -X POST https://linkdigest.dev/api/v1/digest \
-H "Authorization: Bearer ld_live_..." \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"url": "https://xhslink.cn/o/...", "format": "markdown"}'