Weibo Scraper

Scrape Weibo (weibo.com), China's biggest public social network, and get clean, flat JSON: keyword search, post details, public comments, user profiles with recent posts, and the live trending list. No Chinese-language skills, proxies, cookies or login needed. Pay-per-event pricing: a small start fee per run plus a fee per item returned.

What can it do?

Mode	Give it	You get
search	a keyword	posts: text, author, likes, comments, reposts, publish time, link
post	post links or IDs	the same post fields for each post
comments	post links or IDs	comment text, likes, reply count, time, public nickname
user	UIDs or profile links	profile (nickname, bio, verification, followers, post count) plus recent posts
hot	nothing	the current trending list: rank, keyword, heat, label, link

Use cases

• Brand and PR monitoring: track mentions of your brand, product or competitors and read what people say in the comments.
• Trend spotting: pull the trending list on a schedule and see which topics rise and fall.
• Influencer research: compare followers and post engagement of accounts in your niche.
• AI and NLP datasets: collect Chinese social posts and comments for sentiment analysis or retrieval.

Input

{ "mode": "search", "keyword": "原神", "maxResults": 50 }

{ "mode": "comments", "posts": ["https://weibo.com/6593199887/Rlf5vlWRz"], "maxResults": 200 }

{ "mode": "hot", "maxResults": 50 }

maxResults is the total number of items for the whole run. The run stops as soon as it is reached, or when the spending limit you set in the run options is used up.

Output

Every item has a type (post, comment, user or hot). Example post item:

{
  "type": "post",
  "postId": "5350628895231161",
  "mblogid": "Rlf5vlWRz",
  "url": "https://weibo.com/6593199887/Rlf5vlWRz",
  "text": "Example post text",
  "authorName": "ExampleAccount",
  "authorId": 6593199887,
  "authorUrl": "https://weibo.com/u/6593199887",
  "publishedAt": "2026-10-05T04:00:01Z",
  "reposts": 51,
  "comments": 26,
  "likes": 612,
  "imageCount": 0,
  "isPinned": false
}

Comment items contain text, likes, replyCount, publishedAt and the public authorName only. The full field list is in the dataset schema; export as JSON, CSV, Excel or via API.

Pricing

Event	What it covers	Price
Run start	charged once per run	see store page
Result	one post, comment or trending entry	see store page
Profile	one user profile	see store page

The start fee is charged once at the beginning of every run, even if a run returns few or no items. Items are charged only when they are actually returned. Set a maximum cost per run in the run options and the Actor stops when it is reached.

FAQ

Do I need a Weibo account or cookies? No.

Does it collect personal data? No. It returns public content and statistics. Authors and commenters appear by public nickname (and, for post authors, public user ID) only. Phone numbers, real names, locations and private messages are never collected.

How do I get more than one page of results? Raise maxResults; pagination is handled for you.

Can I use it through the API or on a schedule? Yes, like any Apify Actor: API, schedules, webhooks, and integrations with Zapier, Make, Google Sheets and more. It also works with AI agents through the Apify MCP server.

Are results in Chinese? Post text and comments are returned in the original language. Chinese keywords give the best search results.

Search shows fewer posts than weibo.com. Search returns the posts Weibo ranks for the keyword; the number per page varies.

Something looks wrong or a field is empty. Open an issue on the Actor page with the run link; the Actor is monitored daily and fixed quickly.

Is scraping legal? The Actor only returns publicly visible information. You are responsible for using the data in line with applicable laws and Weibo's terms.