A Free API for Chinese Web Novel Data: What You Can Build With It
DaoSearch has a free, read-only JSON API: books, search, rankings, booklists and tags from six Chinese web novel platforms. What it covers.
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What the genres and tags actually mean, how Qidian, Fanqie, JJWXC, Faloo, Qimao and Zongheng measure popularity, and how to find your next novel.
How to Find Hidden Gem Web Novels: Minimum Filters and Hide Dropped
Guide
7 min read
Put a floor under each platform's own numbers, hide novels that stopped updating, and sort past the famous ones. A way to find what no top ten lists.
How to Find the Raw of a Chinese Web Novel You Know in English
Guide
7 min read
You know the English name and want the original: its Chinese title, the platform that publishes it, and whether it finished. Here is the shortest route.
How to Find Danmei Novels in English: Filters, Boards and Booklists
Guide
6 min read
Where danmei lives, how to filter it by shou or gong lead, trope, length and free or paid, and which JJWXC boards and booklists are worth opening first.
How to Find Finished Classics and Novels That Are Still Updating
Guide
Updated 9 October 2026
5 min read
Ongoing rarely means updating. How to use the Updated filter and sorts to find long novels still being written, books that just ended, and old classics.
What Happens When You Report a Book or Booklist on DaoSearch
The Report link on every book and booklist goes to a real person. What to send, what we can fix, and how you hear back in your notifications.
Your Reading Desk: Profiles, Notifications and a Daily Shelf Digest
DaoSearch now sends one note a day when books on your Planned and Reading shelves get chapters, finish or climb a chart. Plus profiles and notifications.
How to Save Searches and Keep a Reading Shelf on DaoSearch
Save a filtered catalogue search, sort novels onto five shelves, follow booklists and download it all. How the DaoSearch account features work.
How to Search DaoSearch: Titles, Authors, Pasted Links and Filters
Guide
Updated 9 October 2026
6 min read
Search by English or Chinese title, find an author's other books, paste a source link, then filter and sort across all six platforms.
How to Find Chinese Web Novels Worth Reading (Without Speaking Chinese)
Guide
Updated 9 October 2026
7 min read
Seven concrete ways to find good Chinese web novels from English: ranking boards, trope filters, booklists and word counts, with the exact filters.
Chinese Web Novels: A Beginner's Guide to What They Are and How They Work
Guide
Updated 9 October 2026
9 min read
What Chinese web novels are, how the platforms work, why the chapters never stop, and how to find your first one without drowning in millions of books.