Weibo Scraper (微博 / Sina Weibo)

Weibo Scraper extracts public data from Weibo (微博 / Sina Weibo), China's largest microblogging platform, with no browser, no proxy setup and no Weibo account of your own. Get the realtime Weibo hot search (微博热搜) trending topics with rank and hot value, and public Weibo user profiles with followers, posts count, bio and verification. Add your own Weibo cookie to also pull keyword post search results and user post timelines. Export clean JSON, CSV or Excel, or call it as a Weibo API.

Use it for China social listening, trend tracking, brand monitoring, KOL / influencer research, news monitoring, and AI/LLM pipelines that need Chinese social data.

• 🔥 Weibo hot search / trending board (微博热搜) — ~50 realtime trending topics, with rank and hot value.
• 👤 Weibo user profiles — followers, following, post count, bio, verification status, location.
• 📝 Weibo post search & user timelines — keyword post results and a user's recent posts, unlocked when you paste your own Weibo cookie.

What data can you scrape from Weibo?

Feature	Needs a cookie?	Output dataset
Hot-search / trending board	No	trending
Public user profile	No	default
Keyword post search (beta)	Yes (your own)	default
User post timeline (beta)	Yes (your own)	default

The guest features work with no login at all. The two cookie features exist because Weibo serves post search and timelines only to logged-in sessions. You paste the cookie from your own browser session — the actor never logs in for you and never uses shared accounts.

Beta: the two cookie features are new. If post search or timelines return nothing with a fresh cookie, please open an issue on the actor page and it will be fixed quickly. Trending and profiles are stable.

How much does it cost to scrape Weibo?

Pay per result — no monthly fee, no proxy to configure.

Event	Price (FREE/BRONZE)	Lower on paid plans
Post or profile	$0.004 / result	down to $0.003
Hot-search item	$0.001 / item	down to $0.0006
Actor start	$0.00005 / run	—
AI tags (optional)	$0.002 / tagged item	down to $0.0015

You are charged only for results actually saved. A full hot-search board (~50 topics) costs about $0.05; 1,000 posts cost about $4.

AI tags: sentiment, topics and an English summary (optional)

Turn on AI tags (aiEnrichment) and every post and hot-search topic gets an ai field: sentiment (positive, neutral, negative or mixed) with a score from -1 to 1, topic labels, named entities, and a one-sentence English summary. It's useful for monitoring, research and dashboards when your team doesn't read Chinese. It's off by default and costs nothing unless enabled. Free-plan runs include a 3-item AI trial; the rest of the results are saved without AI fields.

Real output (a hot-search topic, 14 October 2026):

{
 "type": "trending",
 "rank": 2,
 "keyword": "老人凌晨下地干活被气枪击中身亡",
 "hotValue": 250768,
 "label": "热",
 "ai": {
  "sentiment": "negative",
  "sentimentScore": -1,
  "topics": [
   "Crime",
   "Tragedy"
  ],
  "entities": [],
  "summaryEn": "An elderly person was fatally shot by an air gun while working in the fields early in the morning."
 }
}

How fast is it?

A run that fetches the full hot-search board plus one user profile finishes in about 30 seconds on the default 256 MB memory.

How to scrape Weibo

1. Click Try for free and keep the example input: it fetches the hot-search board and one public profile.
2. Add more profile URLs or UIDs to userUrls.
3. For post search or timelines, paste your own weiboCookie (see below) and fill searchQueries or turn on includeUserPosts.
4. Download results as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read them through the API.

Input example

{
  "includeTrending": true,
  "userUrls": ["https://weibo.com/u/1749127163"],
  "includeProfile": true,
  "includeUserPosts": false,
  "searchQueries": [],
  "weiboCookie": ""
}

Field	Meaning
includeTrending	Fetch the realtime hot-search board.
userUrls	Profile URLs (https://weibo.com/u/<uid>) or numeric UIDs.
includeProfile	Save each user's profile (guest).
includeUserPosts	Also scrape each user's recent posts (needs weiboCookie).
searchQueries	Keywords to search posts for (needs weiboCookie).
maxSearchPages / maxTimelinePages	Depth per keyword / per user.
weiboCookie	Your own logged-in cookie (optional, secret).

Output examples

A post:

{
  "type": "post", "postId": "5012...", "url": "https://weibo.com/1749127163/Ab...",
  "text": "…", "publishedAt": "2026-10-08T04:00:00+00:00",
  "reposts": 120, "comments": 340, "likes": 5600, "picCount": 2,
  "authorId": "1749127163", "authorName": "雷军", "origin": "search:小米"
}

A profile:

{
  "type": "user", "userId": "1749127163", "name": "雷军",
  "followers": 27337088, "following": 1647, "postsCount": 22143,
  "verified": true, "verifiedReason": "小米创办人…", "location": "北京 海淀区"
}

A trending item:

{ "type": "trending", "rank": 1, "keyword": "…", "hotValue": 1537781, "label": "热",
  "url": "https://s.weibo.com/weibo?q=…" }

Use Weibo Scraper with AI agents (MCP)

This actor is available over the Apify MCP server, so assistants that support MCP can call it as a tool:

https://mcp.apify.com?tools=bossless/weibo-scraper

Ask your agent to "get the current Weibo hot search" or "scrape the Weibo profile at

Use the Weibo API from code

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/bossless~weibo-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"includeTrending": true}'

from apify_client import ApifyClient
client = ApifyClient("YOUR_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("bossless/weibo-scraper").call(run_input={"includeTrending": True})
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

The trending dataset holds the hot-search items; the default dataset holds posts and profiles.

How to get your Weibo cookie (for post search / timelines)

1. Log in to weibo.com in your browser.
2. Open DevTools → Network, reload, click any weibo.com request.
3. Copy the full Cookie: request header and paste it into weiboCookie.

Your cookie is stored as secret input. Keep in mind Weibo rate-limits heavy use of a single account.

FAQ

Do I need a proxy? No. A China residential proxy is built in.

Is a cookie required? Only for post search and user timelines. Trending and profiles need nothing.

Why might post search return nothing? You either left weiboCookie empty (it's then skipped with a warning) or the cookie expired — refresh it.

Can I schedule it to track Weibo trends over time? Yes. Use an Apify schedule (for example hourly) with includeTrending on, and each run saves a timestamped snapshot of the hot-search board.

Is this legal? It collects publicly visible data and, for the cookie features, data your own account can already see. You are responsible for complying with Weibo's terms and applicable law.

Is this an official Weibo product? No. This is an independent tool and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Weibo or Sina.

Ready-made Weibo tasks

One-click presets for common jobs. Open one, change the input if you like, and run it:

• Weibo Hot Search (微博热搜) Sentiment in English: every trend with AI sentiment, topics and an English summary.
• Weibo Hot Search Tracker (微博热搜): the realtime hot search board, ready to schedule.
• Weibo User Profile Scraper: followers, bio, verification and location.

More China data scrapers

• Bilibili Scraper (B站 / 哔哩哔哩) — videos, danmaku, comments, trending and creators.
• Zhihu Scraper (知乎) — Zhihu hot list (知乎热榜), hot searches, column articles with full text, answers and search.
• Chinese Video Transcriber — Bilibili videos to text, English subtitles and SRT with AI.
• China Hot Search in English — Weibo, Douyin, Baidu, Zhihu and Bilibili trending topics with English summaries.

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微博数据采集器（微博爬虫 / 微博热搜 API）

无需登录即可抓取微博热搜榜和公开用户资料（粉丝数、简介、认证、地区）。粘贴你自己的微博 Cookie 后，还可抓取关键词微博搜索结果和用户微博时间线。结果可导出为 JSON、CSV 或 Excel，按条计费。