WeChat Articles Scraper 微信公众号文章 — Search & Full Text

Scrape articles of WeChat Official Accounts (微信公众号) without a WeChat account, without logging in and without cookies.

• 🔎 Keyword search: up to 100 articles per keyword through Sogou WeChat search (搜狗微信搜索, weixin.sogou.com).
• 📄 Full article text: clean text with line breaks, all image URLs, author, account name and ID (gh_…), exact publish time, IP location (IP属地), cover and summary. Optionally the article HTML.
• 🔗 Article URLs: paste article links (https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/…) and get the same data.
• 👤 Account filter: keep only articles from the accounts you choose.
• 🖼️ Picture posts (图片消息): their text and every picture.

Typical uses: media monitoring and PR in China, brand and competitor tracking, market research, sentiment analysis, building datasets for AI/LLM training and RAG.

How to use

1. Add search keywords and/or article URLs.
2. Optionally choose accounts to keep, or turn off Include article text for a faster and cheaper list of results.
3. Click Start, then download the results as JSON, CSV, Excel or via the API.

Input examples

Search with full text:

{
    "searchQueries": ["人工智能", "新能源汽车"],
    "maxResultsPerQuery": 50
}

Only articles from chosen accounts:

{
    "searchQueries": ["咖啡", "露营"],
    "maxResultsPerQuery": 20,
    "onlyFromAccounts": ["人民日报", "新周刊"]
}

Specific articles:

{
    "articleUrls": ["https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/RfesuMcgOibBGtDfIY2VYA"]
}

Search results only (title, link, summary, account, date), without opening the articles:

{
    "searchQueries": ["咖啡"],
    "maxResultsPerQuery": 100,
    "includeContent": false
}

Output

Each article is one row. The Articles tab of the dataset shows them as a table and the Full text tab shows the text.

Article row (from a real run, text and image list shortened):

{
    "type": "article",
    "title": "“咖啡”也“逆行”",
    "url": "https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?src=11&timestamp=1793563430&ver=7062&signature=4XO4zPcfXZhGYIR2Erg0a05-bt9d*xRecyWGNqQ4bdNN9hatayNlq6BnMWW*W4mhYj9r5-tpKHxZN067toSslNmQxr8YB3D8FlOBx6zjUSH-V8tdRXz3gjmUKFSJxvmA&new=1",
    "urlIsTemporary": true,
    "accountName": "人民日报",
    "listedAccountName": "人民日报",
    "accountId": "gh_363b924965e9",
    "accountBiz": "MjM5MjAxNDM4MA==",
    "author": null,
    "publishedAt": "2020-02-16T11:18:39Z",
    "ipLocation": "北京",
    "summary": "武汉光谷Wakanda轻饮咖啡店本已放假歇业但是为了一群特殊的客户店里7位年轻咖啡师做了一个大胆的决定让咖啡也“逆行”湖北省...",
    "coverUrl": "https://mmbiz.qpic.cn/mmbiz_jpg/xrFYciaHL08DibUojib7BD2VUYtRah7Forn6dht0AIqXXeFWm4HiceoW2JgDxwZqd8XtceXTjCzNAooXd5hAyBmFew/0?wx_fmt=jpeg",
    "content": "武汉光谷Wakanda轻饮咖啡店\n本已放假歇业\n但是\n为了一群特殊的客户\n店里7位年轻咖啡师\n做了一个大胆的决定\n让咖啡也“逆行”\n…",
    "images": [
        "https://mmbiz.qpic.cn/mmbiz_jpg/azXQmS1HA7mTKs1p0QHicERjXxhzK7hjqvh0Uz55Z78GwRNAc9E0n0KMFRAZpwfgfZEnyuPqptUxjYn9rvaOt7w/640?wx_fmt=jpeg"
    ],
    "contentLength": 819,
    "itemShowType": 0,
    "mid": "2666297462",
    "idx": 1,
    "source": "search:咖啡",
    "keyword": "咖啡",
    "rank": 2,
    "error": null,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-11-01T20:03:56Z"
}

• accountName is the account shown on the article page. listedAccountName is the account name in the Sogou search result; the two sometimes differ.
• publishedAt is in UTC. With article text on it is the exact time from the article page; with it off, it is the time Sogou shows, which can differ.
• rank is the position in the Sogou results for keyword. source is search:<keyword> or url.
• urlIsTemporary is true for the signed links (?src=11&timestamp=…&signature=…) that Sogou search results point to. accountBiz, mid and idx together identify an article.
• itemShowType: 0 article, 8 picture post, 5 video post. Video posts have no text: you get the title, account, date and cover, with a note in error.
• error explains why a row has no text, for example when WeChat says the account has moved (该公众号已迁移) or does not show the article.

Which fields are filled depends on the input:

Field	Search, text on	Search, text off	Article URL
title, url, accountName, publishedAt, summary, coverUrl	✅	✅	✅
content, images, author, accountId, accountBiz, ipLocation, mid, idx, itemShowType	✅	—	✅
keyword, rank, listedAccountName	✅	✅	—

Pricing

Pay only for what you get — no monthly rental:

What	Price
Article with text	$3.00 per 1,000 articles ($0.003 each)
Result without article text	$1.00 per 1,000 results ($0.001 each)

A row costs the lower price when it has no article text: with Include article text off, for video posts, and when WeChat does not show the article. Articles skipped by the account filter are not charged.

Set a maximum cost per run in the run options; the actor stops cleanly when it is reached and keeps everything scraped so far.

Tips and limits

• Speed: about 30 articles per minute with text; faster with text off.
• 100 results per keyword: Sogou shows at most 10 pages of 10 results. Use several related keywords to collect more.
• Order: Sogou's own order. Visitors who are not logged in cannot filter by date on Sogou, so neither can this actor.
• Account filter: Sogou only finds articles that match your keywords, so use keywords the chosen accounts write about. Searching for an account's name mostly finds other accounts' articles that mention it. With article text on, every result is opened to check its account, so filtered runs take longer.
• Long links (https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=…&sn=…) fail: WeChat shows a captcha for them to visitors who are not logged in. Use short links (https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/…).
• Not included: read counts (阅读数), likes, "在看" and comments.
• Proxy: not needed for small runs. Sogou limits how many searches one IP can make; for many keywords, turn on Apify Proxy in the input.

中文说明

免登录、免 Cookie、无需微信号，采集微信公众号文章：按关键词搜索（通过搜狗微信搜索，每个词最多 100 篇），获取全文（保留换行）、全部图片、作者、公众号名称和原始 ID（gh_…）、精确发布时间、IP 属地、封面和摘要；也可以直接粘贴文章短链接（mp.weixin.qq.com/s/…）。可只保留指定公众号的文章（未保留的不收费）。按条计费：带全文的文章 $3/千篇，不带全文的结果 $1/千条，可设置单次运行费用上限。不包含阅读数、点赞、在看和留言。

Is it legal?

The actor only collects articles that WeChat and Sogou show publicly to visitors who are not logged in. It does not collect readers' data or comments. Make sure your use of the data complies with the laws that apply to you and with the terms of WeChat and Sogou.