Weibo Post Scraper - 微博 Full Text, Stats & Media

Weibo Post Scraper gets Weibo (微博, Sina Weibo) posts by URL or ID. Give post links, and get each post's full text, publish time, likes, comments, reposts, full-size images, MP4 video, #topics#, IP region (发布于), author and repost source as structured data.

No Weibo account, login or cookies are needed. Download the data as JSON, CSV or Excel, use it like a Weibo post API from your own code, run it on a schedule, or ask an AI assistant such as Claude or ChatGPT to get Weibo posts for you.

What does Weibo Post Scraper do?

It opens each Weibo post that you give it and saves one row for each post. For each post you get:

• Post: numeric ID, short ID, link and publish time
• Full text: Weibo cuts long posts with a "展开" (show more) link. This Actor always gets the complete text
• Engagement: the counts of likes (赞), comments (评论) and reposts (转发)
• Images: links to the full-size images and GIFs
• Video: the link to the best-quality MP4, the cover image and the length in seconds
• Topics: the #hashtag# topics of the post
• IP region: the province or country that Weibo shows under the post (发布于, for example 浙江 or 中国香港)
• Source: the app or phone that Weibo shows, for example iPhone客户端 or vivo S60
• Author: user ID, name, profile link and verification
• Repost source: for a repost, the ID, link and text of the original post, and its author

Because it runs on the Apify platform, you also get API access, scheduling, integrations and run monitoring.

Why scrape Weibo posts?

Weibo is one of China's largest social networks. Brands, celebrities, media and government accounts publish there first. Weibo data shows what Chinese audiences see and how they react.

• Brand and campaign monitoring: track the likes, comments and reposts of a brand's posts, or of a competitor's posts, every day.
• Influencer (KOL) research: compare the engagement of posts from different key opinion leaders before a campaign.
• Celebrity and entertainment tracking: follow how fans react to the posts of stars, dramas and shows.
• News and media research: save the full text and media of important posts before they are edited or deleted.
• Content archiving: keep the images and videos of a post together with its text and stats.
• AI and NLP datasets: build dated, attributed collections of Chinese social media text with engagement numbers.

Input

The Actor has one input field. It is required.

Field	What it does	Example
Post URLs (postUrls)	Links to Weibo posts, or post IDs	["https://weibo.com/2731935637/RlGCjeiMC"]

All these forms of a post link work:

• Desktop links: https://weibo.com/{user ID}/{post ID} and https://weibo.com/detail/{post ID}
• Mobile links: https://m.weibo.cn/detail/{post ID} and https://m.weibo.cn/status/{post ID}
• Bare post IDs, short (RlGCjeiMC) or numeric (5351687113408798)
• The share text that you copy from the Weibo app, for example 【标题】 https://weibo.com/... 分享自微博

Each post is saved one time, also when two links in the list point to the same post. Links that are not Weibo post links, such as profile links, are skipped, and the log tells you which.

Example: one post

{
  "postUrls": ["https://weibo.com/2731935637/RlGCjeiMC"]
}

Example: many posts in different forms

{
  "postUrls": [
    "https://weibo.com/2731935637/RlGCjeiMC",
    "https://m.weibo.cn/detail/5350637122358655",
    "RlQ321ZpQ"
  ]
}

Output

You get one row for each post. Here is a row from a real run:

{
  "id": "5351687113408798",
  "mblogid": "RlGCjeiMC",
  "url": "https://weibo.com/2731935637/RlGCjeiMC",
  "text": "半幅车帷，双姝初见。同样的面容，却是两样的人生。往后谁能站稳脚跟？且看我们各凭本事。#嫁金钗#",
  "createdAt": "2026-10-08T10:05:00+08:00",
  "author": {
    "id": "2731935637",
    "name": "田曦薇",
    "url": "https://weibo.com/u/2731935637",
    "verified": true
  },
  "repostsCount": 189935,
  "commentsCount": 76949,
  "likesCount": 205083,
  "images": [
    "https://wx2.sinaimg.cn/large/a2d60795gy1ihu89nmojbj20u01hcduo.jpg"
  ],
  "videoUrl": null,
  "videoCoverUrl": null,
  "videoDurationSeconds": null,
  "topics": ["嫁金钗"],
  "location": "浙江",
  "source": "vivo S60",
  "isLongText": false,
  "repostOf": null,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-23T10:22:27+00:00"
}

A post with a video also has videoUrl (an .mp4 link), videoCoverUrl and videoDurationSeconds, for example 19.

The Output tab shows the posts in a table with the time, author, text, reposts, comments, likes, topics, video, IP region and post link. You can download the dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or HTML.

Data fields

Field	Description
id	Numeric post ID
mblogid	Short post ID, as in the post link
url	Link to the post
text	The full post text, also for long posts. Weibo emoji show as [name], for example [心]
createdAt	Publish time, ISO 8601, China time (UTC+8)
author	id, name, url, verified
repostsCount	Reposts (转发)
commentsCount	Comments (评论)
likesCount	Likes (赞)
images	Links to the full-size images and GIFs. Empty when the post has no images
videoUrl	Link to the best-quality MP4 file, or null
videoCoverUrl	The video's cover image, or null
videoDurationSeconds	The video's length in seconds, or null
topics	The #hashtag# topics, without the # marks
location	The IP region that Weibo shows (发布于): a Chinese province or a country. null when Weibo shows none
source	The app or phone that Weibo shows, or null
isLongText	true when Weibo shortens the post in the feed. The text field always has the full text
repostOf	For a repost: the original post's id, url, text, authorId and authorName. null for an original post. A long original can have a shortened text here; give its url to the Actor to get its full text
scrapedAt	When your run collected the row (UTC)

How to use Weibo Post Scraper

All the examples below get the same posts. Replace YOUR_API_TOKEN with your token from Settings → API & Integrations in Apify Console.

In Apify Console

1. Open a Weibo post in your browser or the Weibo app and copy its link.
2. On the Actor's page, paste one or more links into Post URLs on the Input tab.
3. Click Start and wait for the run to finish. The log shows each saved post.
4. Open the Output tab to see the posts, or export them as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or HTML.
5. Click Save as a new task to run the same setup again with one click. On the task, add a Schedule to track the stats of the same posts every day or week.

With the Apify API (HTTP)

Run the Actor and get its results in one request:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/hgservices~weibo-post-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_API_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"postUrls": ["https://weibo.com/2731935637/RlGCjeiMC", "https://m.weibo.cn/detail/5350637122358655"]}'

The response is a JSON array with one object for each post. Add &format=csv or &format=xlsx to the URL to get CSV or Excel instead.

This request waits up to 5 minutes. For long lists, start the run with POST https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/hgservices~weibo-post-scraper/runs, and then read the items of the run's default dataset when it finishes.

With the JavaScript client

Install the client with npm install apify-client, then run:

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_API_TOKEN' });

const run = await client.actor('hgservices/weibo-post-scraper').call({
    postUrls: [
        'https://weibo.com/2731935637/RlGCjeiMC',
        'https://m.weibo.cn/detail/5350637122358655',
    ],
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
for (const post of items) {
    console.log(post.createdAt, post.author?.name, post.likesCount, post.text);
}

With the Python client

Install the client with pip install apify-client (version 3.0 or later), then run:

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_API_TOKEN")

run = client.actor("hgservices/weibo-post-scraper").call(
    run_input={
        "postUrls": [
            "https://weibo.com/2731935637/RlGCjeiMC",
            "https://m.weibo.cn/detail/5350637122358655",
        ],
    }
)
if run is None:
    raise RuntimeError("The run was not found.")

for post in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(post["createdAt"], post["likesCount"], post["commentsCount"], post["text"])
    for image in post["images"]:
        print("    image:", image)

With Claude, ChatGPT and other AI assistants (MCP)

Connect your AI assistant to the Apify MCP server. The assistant can then run this Actor for you and answer from the results. To give the assistant this Actor as a tool, use this server URL:

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

• Claude (claude.ai or Claude Desktop): open Settings → Connectors, click Add custom connector and paste the URL.
• Claude Code: run claude mcp add --transport http apify "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=hgservices/weibo-post-scraper".
• ChatGPT: in Settings → Apps & Connectors, turn on developer mode, create a connector and paste the URL.
• Cursor, VS Code, Codex and other MCP clients: add the URL as a remote (HTTP) MCP server, or run apify mcp install cursor --tools hgservices/weibo-post-scraper with the Apify CLI (also vscode, codex and claude-code).

Sign in with your Apify account when asked. Then ask in plain language, for example:

• "Get the Weibo post https://weibo.com/2731935637/RlGCjeiMC and translate its full text into English."
• "Scrape these Weibo posts and make a table of their likes, comments and reposts."
• "Get these Weibo posts and list the hashtag topics and IP regions that they show."

With integrations

Send the results to Google Sheets, Slack, email, Zapier, Make, n8n, Airbyte or any webhook from the Actor's Integrations tab. For example, check the stats of a campaign's posts every day and add them to a Google Sheet.

Tips

• Paste any post link. Desktop links, mobile links, app share text and bare post IDs all work.
• Download videos soon. Each Weibo video link expires about one hour after the post is scraped. Save the files soon after the run.
• Find the posts first. Use Weibo Profile Scraper to get the newest posts of a user, or Weibo Video Scraper to get the video posts of a user. Use Weibo Hot Search Scraper to see what is trending, and open a topic's link to find posts about it.
• Get the comments too. Give the same links to Weibo Comments Scraper to get the comments and replies of each post.

Limits

• The Actor needs post links or IDs. Weibo shows keyword search only to logged-in users. This Actor never logs in.
• The IP region is what Weibo shows. It is the region of the poster's IP address, not a verified home address. Weibo does not show it for all posts.
• Deleted, private and unknown posts are skipped. The log tells you which posts were skipped.

Related Actors

• Weibo Comments Scraper gets the comments and replies of posts.
• Weibo Video Scraper finds a user's video posts, with MP4 links and stats.
• Weibo Profile Scraper gets the newest posts of users, with their followers, bios and verification.
• Weibo Hot Search Scraper gets the 微博热搜 trending topics.

FAQ, disclaimers and support

Do I need a Weibo account or cookies? No. The Actor reads only what Weibo shows to any visitor. It never logs in, so your account is never at risk.

Is this a Weibo API? It works like one. You send post links and get structured JSON back, from the Apify API, the API clients or an AI assistant. You do not need a Weibo developer account.

Do I need a proxy? No. You do not need to set up a proxy.

Why does the Weibo feed show a shorter text than the Actor? Weibo cuts long posts in the feed and shows a "展开" (show more) link. The Actor always saves the full text. The isLongText field tells you which posts Weibo cut.

Can it scrape all the posts of a user, or the results of a keyword search? Not with this Actor. It takes post links. Use Weibo Profile Scraper to get the newest posts of a user, and Weibo Video Scraper to get the video posts of a user. Weibo shows keyword search only to logged-in users.

Is it legal to scrape Weibo posts? The Actor collects only data that is publicly available. Posts can contain personal data, which is protected by laws such as the GDPR and China's PIPL. You are responsible for using the data in line with Weibo's terms of service and these laws. Scrape only what you have a legitimate reason to use.

I found a problem or need a feature. Open an issue on the Issues tab, and we will look into it. Custom solutions for Weibo and other Chinese websites are available on request.