Weibo Scraper - Hot Search, Posts, Comments & Profiles (微博)

Scrape Weibo (新浪微博), China's biggest public social network, without login, cookies or an API key. Get the hot search board (微博热搜) with heat scores, the trending feed, posts for any keyword or #hashtag#, user profiles with their latest posts, and any post with its comments and replies - all in one run. Export to JSON, CSV or Excel, or call it as an API.

What you get

• Posts: full text (long posts expanded), time, author (id, name, verification, followers), likes, comments, reposts, region it was posted from, device, images, video, hashtag topics, original post for reposts, ad flag.
• Comments: text, likes, reply count, time, commenter IP region, author, and replies linked to their comment.
• Hot search: rank, topic, heat, category, label (热 / 新 / 沸 / 爆), time it entered the board, search link.
• Profiles: followers, following, posts, verification, bio, location, IP region, registration date, school, company, sunshine credit and the influence labels Weibo shows (influence index, readers, interactions).

Why this scraper

• No cookies needed - not even for user timelines, which other Weibo scrapers ask you to log in for.
• Everything in one run: hot search + hot feed + keywords + users + post links together, no "operation" per run.
• Deep comments: pages through the comments of a post (most popular first) and their replies.
• Low price per row (see Pricing); no browser, fast runs.

Use cases

• Social listening and brand monitoring in China; crisis and PR tracking.
• Daily trend tracking from the hot search board (schedule it every hour).
• KOL / influencer research: followers, verification, influence labels, latest posts and engagement.
• Comment datasets for sentiment analysis and AI training.

Input example

{
  "hotSearch": true,
  "maxHotFeedPosts": 50,
  "searchQueries": ["Tesla", "#人工智能#"],
  "users": ["https://weibo.com/u/1669879400"],
  "postUrls": ["https://weibo.com/1669879400/RkxApEnWy"],
  "maxCommentsPerPost": 100,
  "maxItems": 2000
}

Output example

[
  {
    "type": "post",
    "id": "5348956699625162",
    "mblogid": "RkxApEnWy",
    "url": "https://weibo.com/1669879400/RkxApEnWy",
    "text": "#迪奥二零二七夏季女装秀# 以时装为载体，呈现了一场关于经典艺术与浪漫诗意的时尚美学。很幸运能在现场沉浸式欣赏，感谢@DIOR迪奥 邀请。 ​​​",
    "createdAt": "2026-09-30T13:15:19Z",
    "authorId": "1669879400",
    "authorName": "Dear-迪丽热巴",
    "authorVerified": true,
    "authorVerifiedReason": null,
    "authorFollowers": null,
    "authorAvatarUrl": "https://tvax1.sinaimg.cn/crop.0.0.1080.1080.1024/63885668ly8geyrcrw0zjj20u00u0mz6.jpg?KID=imgbed,tva&Expires=1791521276&ssig=%2BojHGvz%2BZF",
    "repostsCount": 1000000,
    "commentsCount": 1000000,
    "likesCount": 14353371,
    "region": "法国",
    "device": null,
    "isLongText": false,
    "images": [
      "https://wx3.sinaimg.cn/large/001P0DUIgy1ihm06574scj642z53du1302.jpg"
    ],
    "videoUrl": null,
    "videoCoverUrl": null,
    "topics": [
      "迪奥二零二七夏季女装秀"
    ],
    "isRepost": false,
    "repostOfId": null,
    "repostOfText": null,
    "repostOfAuthor": null,
    "isAd": true,
    "rank": null,
    "source": "post",
    "input": "5348956699625162",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-09T01:47:56Z"
  },
  {
    "type": "comment",
    "commentId": "5348956962032799",
    "rootCommentId": "5348956831485333",
    "isReply": true,
    "text": "捞捞[给你小心心]",
    "likesCount": 22354,
    "repliesCount": null,
    "createdAt": "2026-09-30T13:16:21Z",
    "ipLocation": "浙江",
    "floor": 0,
    "authorId": "6734081324",
    "authorName": "草莓椰糕",
    "authorVerified": true,
    "authorVerifiedReason": "娱乐博主 超话粉丝钻咖（迪丽热巴超话）",
    "authorFollowers": 1394,
    "authorAvatarUrl": "https://tvax3.sinaimg.cn/crop.0.0.471.471.1024/007lJwaUly8ihetn6d79mj30d30d3wey.jpg?KID=imgbed,tva&Expires=1791521278&ssig=pc6Z%2F2P5OG",
    "postId": "5348956699625162",
    "postUrl": "https://weibo.com/1669879400/RkxApEnWy",
    "source": "comments",
    "input": "5348956699625162",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-09T01:47:58Z"
  },
  {
    "type": "hot-search",
    "rank": 1,
    "word": "新郎婚礼当天去医院看病后离世",
    "heat": 2398369,
    "category": "民生新闻",
    "label": "热",
    "onboardAt": "2026-10-08T23:23:19Z",
    "url": "https://s.weibo.com/weibo?q=%23%E6%96%B0%E9%83%8E%E5%A9%9A%E7%A4%BC%E5%BD%93%E5%A4%A9%E5%8E%BB%E5%8C%BB%E9%99%A2%E7%9C%8B%E7%97%85%E5%90%8E%E7%A6%BB%E4%B8%96%23",
    "source": "hot-search",
    "input": "hot-search",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-09T01:45:54Z"
  },
  {
    "type": "profile",
    "id": "1669879400",
    "name": "Dear-迪丽热巴",
    "url": "https://weibo.com/u/1669879400",
    "description": "一只喜欢默默表演的小透明。工作联系jaywalk@jaywalk.com.cn 🍒",
    "gender": "female",
    "location": "上海",
    "ipLocation": null,
    "followersCount": 82550717,
    "followingCount": 294,
    "postsCount": 1936,
    "verified": true,
    "verifiedReason": "嘉行传媒签约演员　",
    "verifiedType": 0,
    "memberRank": 9,
    "avatarUrl": "https://tvax1.sinaimg.cn/crop.0.0.1080.1080.1024/63885668ly8geyrcrw0zjj20u00u0mz6.jpg?KID=imgbed,tva&Expires=1791521387&ssig=jJ3FudmiCI",
    "registeredAt": "2010-07-02 13:19:58",
    "sunshineCredit": "阳光信用极好",
    "birthday": "双子座",
    "education": "上海戏剧学院",
    "company": "嘉行传媒",
    "labels": [
      "演员影响力指数 5043万",
      "V指数 文娱 93.44分",
      "昨日阅读人数100万+",
      "本月互动人数46万",
      "近30天视频播放量3355.5万",
      "超话 钻石2级",
      "星光公益项目代言人"
    ],
    "source": "profile",
    "input": "迪丽热巴",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-09T01:49:48Z"
  }
]

Every row has type (post, comment, profile or hot-search), source, the input that found it and scrapedAt. Dates are ISO 8601 in UTC.

Run it on a schedule and connect it to your tools

Schedule: in Apify Console open Schedules → Create, pick this actor and your input, and set it to run every Monday at 07:00 (your time zone) for a fresh dataset on a fixed day. Each run returns the full, current result set as a new dataset.

Integrations (Actor → Integrations tab, no code):

• Google Sheets — append every run's rows to a sheet.
• Make, Zapier, n8n — start the actor from a scenario/zap/workflow and use the rows in the next steps.
• Webhook — get a POST to your endpoint when a run succeeds, then download the dataset.
• Slack / email — notify your team when a scheduled run finishes.

AI agents (MCP) — Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code or any MCP client can run it as a tool: add the Apify MCP server https://mcp.apify.com?actors=kalilfagundes.w/weibo-scraper (sign in with your Apify account) and ask for the data in plain language. The agent fills the input from the input schema and reads the dataset back.

API — call it from your code (pip install apify-client / npm i apify-client):

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("kalilfagundes.w/weibo-scraper").call(run_input={
    "hotSearch": True,
    "maxHotFeedPosts": 25,
    "users": [
        "https://weibo.com/u/1669879400"
    ],
    "maxPostsPerUser": 20,
    "searchQueries": [
        "Tesla",
        "#人工智能#"
    ],
    "maxItems": 300
})
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>' });
const run = await client.actor('kalilfagundes.w/weibo-scraper').call({
  "hotSearch": true,
  "maxHotFeedPosts": 25,
  "users": [
    "https://weibo.com/u/1669879400"
  ],
  "maxPostsPerUser": 20,
  "searchQueries": [
    "Tesla",
    "#人工智能#"
  ],
  "maxItems": 300
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

Pricing

Pay only for the rows you get (launch offer, lower on higher Apify plans):

Row	Price
Post	$1.50 per 1,000
Comment	$0.50 per 1,000
Hot search row	$1 per 1,000 (the 50-topic board = $0.05)
User profile	$2 per 1,000
Run start	$0.002

Example: 1,000 posts with 20 comments each = $1.50 + $10 = $11.50. maxItems and the per-input limits cap every run.

Limits and FAQ

• Search and user timelines without login: Weibo shows guests the first page of each search tab (All, Latest, Popular - about 30 different posts per keyword) and the latest 10-20 posts of a user. Use more keywords or hashtags for more posts. Comments, the hot feed and the hot search board page through normally.
• Deleted, private or region-restricted posts are reported in the run's OUTPUT summary and skipped.
• Requests start without a proxy and switch to a fresh proxy IP when Weibo throttles a session.
• Only public data is collected. No login, cookies or CAPTCHA solving.

Questions or a missing field? Open an issue on the Issues tab - feedback is answered quickly.

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