Weibo Scraper

Scrape Weibo (微博) without logging in. Search posts by keyword, pull the hot-search board, and extract post details, comments (with replies), likers, and user profiles — all as clean, structured JSON. Built on Weibo's own mobile and desktop APIs, so it runs straight from Apify's servers with no proxy required.

Made for brand and social-listening teams, market researchers, and analysts who need Weibo data on a schedule.

What you can scrape

Mode	Returns
Keyword search	Recent and hot posts matching a keyword (across the "all", hot, latest, image and video tabs), de-duplicated
Hot search board (热搜)	The live 微博热搜 ranking with heat values
Post detail	A single post by link or ID, with full (long) text
Comments	All top-level comments of a post, hottest first — optionally with replies
Likers	Accounts that liked a post
User profile	Full profile: followers, bio, company, verified reason, lifetime engagement, and contacts parsed from the bio
User's recent posts	A user's newest posts

Output fields

Rows vary by mode; common fields:

Field	Description
mid / bid	Post ID (numeric / base62)
url	Canonical post URL
text	Post or comment text (plain)
created_at	ISO 8601 timestamp
likes_count, comments_count, reposts_count	Engagement (values ≥ 1,000,000 are reported as a floor, matching Weibo's "100万+")
topics	Hashtags in the post
region, source	Posting region and client
pics, video	Media URLs
user	Author: uid, screen_name, followers_count, verified_reason, …
scraped_at	When the row was collected

Comment rows add comment_id, likes_count, replies_count, level (comment/reply). Profile rows add description, company, location, labels, and a contacts object (emails / WeChat / QQ / phones found in the bio — treat these as hints).

Use cases

• Social listening & brand monitoring — schedule keyword search with Only new since last run to track a product, campaign or competitor on Weibo and only pay for new posts.
• Trend tracking — snapshot the hot-search board on a cron.
• Audience & sentiment research — pull every comment (and reply) on a viral post.
• Influencer research — profiles with follower counts, verification and bio contacts (see also the companion Weibo KOL Finder actor for keyword-based creator discovery).

Input

{
  "mode": "search",
  "keywords": ["小米汽车"],
  "maxItems": 50,
  "onlyNewSinceLastRun": false
}

For post/comments/likers use targets with post links or IDs; for profile/user_posts use targets with user links or IDs:

{ "mode": "comments", "targets": ["https://weibo.com/1669879400/Rkz6zoY6B"], "includeReplies": true, "maxItems": 200 }

Field	Type	Default	Notes
mode	string	search	search, hot_search, post, comments, likers, profile, user_posts
keywords	array	—	required for search
targets	array	—	post or user links/IDs for the other modes
includeReplies	boolean	false	comments mode: also fetch replies
maxItems	integer	50	charged per row
onlyNewSinceLastRun	boolean	false	monitor mode — skip rows seen in a previous run with the same input
proxyConfiguration	object	none	optional; works without a proxy

Limits (please read)

• Anonymous keyword search returns the first page per keyword (~80–90 posts across tabs) and a user's newest ~10 posts. Comments, likers and the hot feed paginate in full. For deeper search or full archives you'd need a logged-in Weibo cookie (an experimental cookie input exists but is unsupported).
• Data is public, logged-out Weibo content only. No private or follower-gated data.

Scheduling & webhooks

Run on a schedule with Only new since last run for monitoring, and attach a webhook to push new rows into your own systems.

Using from AI assistants / MCP

This actor runs over the Apify API and through the Apify MCP server, so AI agents (Claude, ChatGPT, etc.) can call it to fetch live Weibo data.

FAQ

Do I need a Weibo account or cookie? No. Everything above is scraped anonymously.

How fresh is the data? Live — each run hits Weibo's API in real time.

Why did my search stop at ~90 posts? That's Weibo's anonymous first-page limit (see Limits). Use the hot/latest tabs or schedule a monitor instead of expecting a deep archive.

Is this legal? You are responsible for how you use scraped data. This actor collects only public, logged-out content; respect Weibo's terms and applicable laws (including personal-data rules).