WeChat Official Account Articles Scraper (微信公众号文章)

Search public WeChat Official Account articles (微信公众号文章) by keyword and export titles, summaries, account names, publish times, cover images and, optionally, the full article text. Results are relevance-ranked, about 100 articles per keyword — not a date-sorted archive of one account. publishedAfter drops older rows after that fetch; it does not ask the source for a date range. No WeChat account, login, or cookie.

Use the rows for brand monitoring or RAG. From $2 per 1,000 search results. Full articles cost $5 per 1,000.

中文简介：按关键词采集微信公众号文章，无需微信账号、无需登录。支持关键词搜索（每个关键词最多约 100 条），可选抓取文章全文、图片、作者、公众号 ID（gh_）、微信号、是否原创。按条计费：搜索结果每 1000 条 2 美元，全文每 1000 篇 5 美元。

Looking for a WeChat article API? WeChat has no public article search API. This actor turns public Official Account articles into structured data you can export or feed to AI.

For AI agents

Call this actor through the Apify MCP server. maxChargeUsd is this actor's cap. MCP callOptions.maxTotalChargeUsd is a separate platform cap; set both before a paid call. Do not use mode: "selftest".

Search is relevance-ranked public search, about 100 hits per keyword, not an exhaustive or date-sorted account history. publishedAfter (YYYY-MM-DD) filters rows already fetched. Articles that never appear in those results are not returned, and skipped rows are not billed.

List prices (unchanged): run start $0.001, search row $0.002, full article $0.005. Five search rows are about $0.011. Five full articles are about $0.026.

outputFormat: "compact" also writes key OUTPUT_COMPACT (columnar-v1: columns, missing, rows). A cell equal to missing was absent. The dataset is the row fallback. Same rows, same price.

Search:

{ "mode": "search", "searchQueries": ["人工智能"], "maxResults": 5, "maxChargeUsd": 1 }

Fields: type article, detail search, title, summary, accountName, publishedAt, coverUrl, sogouUrl.

Search, then keep rows on or after a date (still relevance-ranked, then filtered):

{ "mode": "search", "searchQueries": ["新能源汽车"], "maxResults": 5, "publishedAfter": "2026-01-01", "fetchFullArticle": true, "maxChargeUsd": 1 }

Full fields add contentText, charCount, author, url, accountId, isOriginal.

One known article:

{ "mode": "article", "articleUrls": ["https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/example"], "maxChargeUsd": 1 }

One full-article row at $0.005 plus the $0.001 run start.

Try it in one click

The input form on this page is already prefilled with the example below — press Start and it runs as-is.

{ "mode": "search", "searchQueries": ["人工智能"], "maxResults": 10, "maxChargeUsd": 0.5 }

What you get:

• Up to 10 "人工智能" (AI) WeChat Official Account articles with title, summary, account name, publish time and cover image.
• About 10 rows for roughly $0.02 at the listed pricing (run-start $0.001 + $0.002/row).
• Turn on fetchFullArticle for the full text, images and author, at $0.005/row instead.

Keep it running. For brand or topic monitoring, save this input as a Task and add a daily Schedule. publishedAfter only drops older rows from the relevance-ranked results already fetched — it does not page an account by date. Details under Run it on a schedule.

Why WeChat article data matters

• Scale: Weixin and WeChat had 1,439 million combined monthly active users on June 30, 2026 (Tencent Q2 2026 results).
• What it's used for: Official Accounts (公众号) are where Chinese brands, media, government bodies and analysts publish long-form content. It's China's main publishing layer, and most of it sits inside the app.
• For brands and PR teams: see how your brand and competitors are covered, and which accounts write about your category.
• For market and policy researchers: collect industry commentary, announcements and analysis by keyword.
• For AI / LLM teams: clean, long-form Chinese articles with titles, authors and dates, well suited to RAG, summarisation and training-data curation.

What WeChat article data you get

Option	Row content	Price
Search (default)	title, summary, account name, publish time, cover, search link	$0.002 per row
fetchFullArticle: true	the above plus full text (contentText), image URLs, author, accountId (gh_…), accountAlias (WeChat ID), isOriginal, article URL, biz/mid/idx	$0.005 per row
article mode	full article for each mp.weixin.qq.com/s/... link you give	$0.005 per row

Each article is billed once, at one of the two prices. If an article can't be opened (deleted, removed or expired), you get it as a search row at the search price and a contentError field. There's also a $0.001 run-start fee. maxChargeUsd (default $5) stops the run before it goes over.

Works on Apify’s Free plan — $5/mo platform usage, no credit card required to try. Search and full-article prices above are unchanged.

Input examples

{ "mode": "search", "searchQueries": ["新能源汽车", "跨境电商"], "maxResults": 50 }

{ "mode": "search", "searchQueries": ["咖啡"], "maxResults": 20, "fetchFullArticle": true, "publishedAfter": "2026-01-01" }

{ "mode": "article", "articleUrls": ["https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/your-article-id"] }

Output example (real row, 2026-10-18, text shortened)

{
  "type": "article", "detail": "full",
  "title": "咖啡自由后，我们离“瑰夏自由”还有多远？",
  "summary": "咖啡豆品种的天花板是什么?“瑰夏”是最没有争议的答案之一.2004年,一支瑰夏品种咖啡豆凭借迷人的花香、柑橘和莓果风味,...",
  "accountName": "中国新闻周刊", "accountId": "gh_a7bbb71d655c", "accountAlias": "chinanewsweekly",
  "author": "肖皖璇", "publishedAt": "2023-06-13T14:00:00+00:00", "isOriginal": false,
  "coverUrl": "https://mmbiz.qpic.cn/sz_mmbiz_jpg/Zibeuu43K6ejPZPkszJtrgWb6yaDTGNpvNJSTrYUicgk0VZoHrLy1VBuX2dpoLDnures4wmozuqrc2NhIGZPApOQ/0?wx_fmt=jpeg",
  "url": "https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?src=11&timestamp=1792340947&ver=7034&signature=…&new=1",
  "biz": "MjM5MDU1Mzg3Mw==", "mid": "2651512831", "idx": "1",
  "contentText": "咖啡豆品种的天花板是什么？“瑰夏”是最没有争议的答案之一。\n\n2004年，一支瑰夏品种咖啡豆凭借迷人的花香、柑橘和莓果风味，爆冷夺得巴拿马生豆竞赛冠军。…",
  "charCount": 3091,
  "imageUrls": ["https://mmbiz.qpic.cn/sz_mmbiz_jpg/Zibeuu43K6eiaJufhBdnDQQWITN60ZKIqgnNGGdbIxUUHVQxnvLVMFfSHxyfNz7NcB88R1MEqL4MzMuRCaa5oLgg/640?wx_fmt=jpeg"],
  "searchQuery": "咖啡", "page": 1, "position": 3
}

Compact output for AI agents

Set Output format to compact and the run still pushes the same rows to the dataset at the same price — nothing about billing changes. It additionally writes OUTPUT_COMPACT to the run's key-value store: our token-optimized, lossless encoding of the same rows, built to be cheaper to hand to an LLM than the plain dataset JSON.

Measured on a real 77-row export of this actor's full-article rows:

Tokenizer	Pretty JSON	Minified JSON	Compact	vs Pretty	vs Minified
cl100k_base (GPT-4/3.5)	46,035	43,053	40,484	12.1% smaller	6.0% smaller
o200k_base (GPT-4o)	42,044	39,061	36,645	12.8% smaller	6.2% smaller

Need regular row objects in your own code? The normal dataset is always there, unchanged, alongside the compact copy.

Good to know

• Up to about 100 results per keyword. Without login, public search shows about 100 results. Use several related keywords to collect more.
• Results are sorted by relevance, not date. Search-side date filtering needs login. publishedAfter filters the results it does return, and skipped rows aren't billed.
• Article URLs from search are temporary. Search results link to temporary article URLs that expire after a while. Save the text in your dataset; biz/mid/idx identify the article permanently.
• No read or like counts. WeChat shows them only inside the WeChat app.
• Anti-spider. The search side rate-limits fast clients and issues challenges. The actor handles them for you and is maintained against site changes. If every request is blocked, the run fails instead of ending green with 0 rows.

Reliability

A self-test runs every day to catch search or WeChat site changes early.

Run it on a schedule

Suggested frequency: daily for brand or industry monitoring, weekly for research digests. Add a published-after date so each run picks up only recent articles.

To set it up: save your input as a Task in Apify Console, then add a Schedule. Send results where you work with Apify integrations: Google Sheets, Slack or email notifications, webhooks, Make / Zapier / n8n, or straight into an AI agent through the Apify MCP server. A run that can't get data is marked failed, so your alerts fire.

FAQ

Is there an official WeChat article API? Not for searching other accounts' public articles. The official platform covers accounts you manage. This actor finds public Official Account (微信公众号) articles by keyword and can fetch full text — no WeChat login.

Do I need a WeChat account or cookie? No account, login or cookie.

Can I get the full article text? Yes. Turn on full articles to get complete text, images, author and account ids (billed as the full-article event). Off: search rows with title, summary, account, time and cover.

How do I monitor a brand or topic over time? Run search mode on a schedule (daily for monitoring, weekly for research digests). Set “published on or after” so each run keeps only recent articles. Optional account-name filter focuses on named Official Accounts.

What does a run cost? Pay per event: search rows and full-article rows have separate prices (see Pricing). Run-start is $0.001. Set maxChargeUsd (default $5) to cap spend. Error rows are not billed as content.

Can I use it with AI agents / MCP? Yes, through the Apify MCP server. Compact output keeps token use low for RAG and summarization pipelines.

What can I use WeChat article data for? Brand and PR monitoring, industry/policy research, translation and localization, and AI summaries of Chinese-language coverage.

Is there an alternative to scraping WeChat myself? Building a custom Sogou/WeChat pipeline means handling search limits and page changes yourself. This actor returns structured rows (JSON/CSV/Excel) and is maintained against site changes; failed total blocks mark the run failed so schedules alert.

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