Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method for acquiring content, the method is applied in a content routing node which has both functions of IP routing function and content routing function; a content routing node group is composed by the content routing node and other one or more content routing nodes which have same functions with the content routing node, and popular content is stored in the content routing node group, the method comprising: acquiring a content request from a client; judging whether content requested by the content request is popular content, if yes, acquiring the content requested by the content request in the content routing node group; if not, reorienting the content request to a content server in the IP network to acquire the content request by the content request.