# WeChat Official Account Scraper 公众号 - Full Text, No Login (`benthepythondev/wechat-official-account-scraper`) Actor Returns WeChat Official Account (微信公众号) articles with full text, Markdown and HTML, images, author, publish time and the account's name, gh\_ id and WeChat ID. Search by keyword, read articles by link, or list an account's albums (合集) with permanent links. No WeChat login, cookies or browser. - **URL**: https://apify.com/benthepythondev/wechat-official-account-scraper.md - **Developed by:** [Ben](https://apify.com/benthepythondev) (community) - **Categories:** Social media, News, AI - **Stats:** 4 total users, 3 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks - **User rating**: No ratings yet ## Pricing from $1.20 / 1,000 articles This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events. Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have. Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event ## What's an Apify Actor? An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes. In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours, and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store. In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server. Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md. ## How to integrate an Actor? If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects. You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready. Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run. For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below. Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`). # README ## 📰 WeChat Official Account Scraper (微信公众号): Articles with Full Text, No Login Returns articles of WeChat Official Accounts (公众号) with their full text as plain text, Markdown and HTML, title, author, publish time, cover, images with sizes, and the account's name, `gh_` id, WeChat ID and description. Search articles by keyword, read articles by link, or list a whole album (合集) of an account with permanent links. It needs no WeChat account, no cookies and no browser. Export to JSON, CSV or Excel, run on a schedule, call via API, or connect to Make, Zapier or n8n. **Price per 1,000 articles with full text:** $4.00 on the Apify Free plan, $3.80 on Bronze, $3.50 on Silver, $3.30 from Gold up. **Per 1,000 list rows without it:** $1.50, $1.40, $1.30, $1.20. Not charged: a search without results, a link that leads to no article, an article its author deleted or hid, an album that does not exist. ### What other WeChat Actors state as their limits, and what this one does | Their documentation or issue tab says | This Actor | |---|---| | "Sogou hides the real article URL behind `/link?url=`, and that hop returns a captcha", so a search result is a card without link and without text | Follows the redirect of every result: 97 of 97 and 95 of 95 links in two searches read to the end. A search result comes with its full text | | Full text is an operation of its own at $29.99 per 1,000 articles, on top of $5.99 per 1,000 search results | $4.00 per 1,000 search results with full text, $1.50 without | | "Actor not working" and "The service is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later." (the two issues on the most-used Actor) | Reads Sogou's public index and WeChat's public article pages itself. When one of them turns an address away, the run goes on through the next route | | Free plan: 25 runs in total, one page of results each | The same on every plan, no run limit | | An account's archive: "No", or "articles available in the public index … not guaranteed to be a publisher's complete lifetime archive" | Whole albums (合集) of an account from the first to the last article, with permanent links: 1,000 of 1,000 and 115 of 115 in the tests. An account's complete list stays closed to visitors, see the limits | | "Residential proxy access is used" for the search | The run's own address and Apify's datacenter proxy first; residential addresses only when those are refused | | Nothing about it | A long article link without `chksm`, as other tools hand it out, answers every visitor with a captcha. This Actor reads it: 20 of 20 in a test | Sogou lists about 100 articles per keyword to a visitor, and that holds for every scraper of the public index. A run takes many keywords at once, and an article that several keywords find is saved, and charged, once. ### 🔎 What is the WeChat Official Account Scraper? WeChat Official Accounts are the publishing channel of media, companies and public bodies in China. Their articles live at `mp.weixin.qq.com`, WeChat has no public search for them, and the only public keyword index is Sogou's WeChat search. This Actor searches that index, follows each result to the article and reads the article page, where WeChat carries the whole record. It also reads any article by its link and any album by its link or id. #### What data does it extract? - **Article:** title, summary, author, publish time (Beijing time, Unix seconds and UTC), cover, link, WeChat's ids (`biz`, `mid`, `idx`, `sn`), the original mark (原创), publishing region, kind (article, image post, video post) - **Full text:** plain text with one line per paragraph, Markdown with headings, lists, quotes, tables, code blocks, links and images, and the HTML as WeChat stores it - **Media:** every image of the article with width and height, video ids - **Account:** name, `gh_` id, WeChat ID (alias), description, avatar - **Albums and topics:** the albums (合集) an article belongs to, each with id, title, size and link, and its #hashtags ### ⬇️ Input Fill in one or several of the first three fields. | Field | Type | Default | What it does | |---|---|---|---| | `keywords` | array | | Keywords to search articles for, Chinese or English | | `articleUrls` | array | | Article links: `https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/...`, the long form with `__biz`, `mid`, `idx`, `sn` (with or without `chksm`), or a signed link from a search | | `albums` | array | | Album links or album ids | | `maxResults` | integer | 10 | Articles per keyword and per album, up to 5,000. A keyword ends at about 100 | | `includeContent` | boolean | true | Opens every article of a search or album for its full record. Off: the list row only | | `publishedAfter` | string | | A day such as `2026-09-01` (UTC) or an age such as `1 day`; older articles are skipped unopened and uncharged | | `debug` | boolean | false | Writes every request with its size and time to the log, for support | #### Example input The newest articles on a topic with full text: ```json { "keywords": ["人形机器人", "具身智能"], "maxResults": 100 } ``` A daily brand watch that costs only what is new: ```json { "keywords": ["特斯拉 FSD"], "publishedAfter": "1 day", "maxResults": 100 } ``` Articles by link: ```json { "articleUrls": [ "https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/TSNQKkRpN1qbKsT7BvzqIw", "https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MzIzNjc1NzUzMw==&mid=2247779806&idx=1&sn=90e649a28eb85dec7311d6627d37e36d" ] } ``` Every article of an album, as a list with permanent links: ```json { "albums": ["https://mp.weixin.qq.com/mp/appmsgalbum?__biz=MzIzNjc1NzUzMw==&action=getalbum&album_id=1865468163396517889"], "maxResults": 500, "includeContent": false } ``` ### ⬆️ Output One row per article, the same columns for every row. A full row, from a run of October 6, 2026 (text, Markdown, HTML and the two lists shortened here): ```json { "articleId": "3236757533_2247780992_1", "title": "“老黄骗人”！5070首批评测：说好1/3价格赛4090，实际不如4070Ti", "digest": "博主：史上最差70系列", "author": "关注前沿科技", "accountName": "量子位", "accountUserName": "gh_114e76fd6e5d", "accountAlias": "QbitAI", "accountDescription": "追踪人工智能新趋势，关注科技行业新突破", "accountAvatar": "https://wx.qlogo.cn/mmhead/Q3auHgzwzM6PqxX9Yx8MibJ3nial8ialvVrRs3PxhCJm7eWgR7vFrowLA/0", "publishTime": "2025-03-05 12:22", "publishTimestamp": 1741148529, "publishedAt": "2025-03-05T04:22:09+00:00", "coverUrl": "https://mmbiz.qpic.cn/mmbiz_jpg/YicUhk5aAGtB8zqMsOsFEsStNXL6hpuYEEo7paXlpMMYk4vGbXsTSlicpz4ichWzMY4dmQbTRfIsoKl1mr5bPL2CA/0?wx_fmt=jpeg", "articleUrl": "https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/TSNQKkRpN1qbKsT7BvzqIw", "isTemporaryUrl": false, "shortLink": "https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/TSNQKkRpN1qbKsT7BvzqIw", "biz": "MzIzNjc1NzUzMw==", "mid": 2247780992, "idx": 1, "sn": "24a33e0bf7a46cd28911be93eff3b531", "contentText": "金磊 发自 凹非寺\n量子位 | 公众号 QbitAI\n一夜之间，RTX 5070被网友们喷成“史上最差的70系列”了。\n这咋回事呢？\n…", "contentMarkdown": "##### 金磊 发自 凹非寺\n量子位 | 公众号 QbitAI\n\n一夜之间，**RTX 5070**被网友们喷成**“史上最差的70系列”**了。\n\n![](https://mmbiz.qpic.cn/mmbiz_png/…/640?wx_fmt=png&from=appmsg)\n\n…", "contentHtml": "