WeChat Official Account Scraper — Articles & Monitoring
Pricing
from $7.00 / 1,000 article search results
Scrape WeChat Official Account (公众号) articles and accounts from public sources, then track changes automatically. Keyword search, account search, full article text, new/edited detection, real mp.weixin.qq.com links, signed webhooks. Errors and empty results are never billed.
proxyConfiguration (standard Apify Proxy
editor) and proxyUrls (bring-your-own HTTP(S) proxies, rotated per request).
Routing goes through undici ProxyAgent dispatchers, one cached per proxy URL.
A China residential exit restores the source index's region-gated account
vertical; proxies also add anti-bot resilience for heavy runs.blocked outcome,
which stays free for the caller.articleId now comes from the source's
own document id (Sogou li[d], WeChat biz/mid/idx) instead of hashing the
URL. Sogou re-encrypts its /link redirect blobs per session, so URL-derived ids
changed every run and change tracking would have re-billed every article as new.resolveLinks input (default off). Replaces session-bound Sogou redirect
links with the real mp.weixin.qq.com article URL using Sogou's own k/h
anti-bot handshake and session cookies. One extra request per row.wx-{biz}-{mid}-{idx} identity even
for signed, expiring src=11 URLs.RUN_STATS.outputRows counts delivered rows again (owner/dev runs charge 0).$schema key from fields (Apify's schema
compiler cannot resolve the 2020-12 meta-schema and fails the build).articleSearch input now uses the demo keyword 科技 so
Apify's daily quality check can return real rows. A succeed-with-zero-rows
run is treated as a failure by the Store and can flag the Actor under
maintenance. Provided-but-unusable input still fails.fields is now descriptive, not restrictive: removed enum,
required, and numeric bounds that would kill a customer's run on upstream
HTML drift.actorSpecification (required to publish) and no
longer uses the old "OA Monitor" title.actor.json title shortened to the 63-character Store limit. categories
and defaultMemoryMbytes removed because they are not accepted actor.json
fields and can fail apify push.articleUrls, watchlist) no longer have schema
defaults, so they cannot be injected into unrelated operations.account / watchlist accept wxid and gh_ ids. Identifiers are resolved
through public account search; unknown ids fail instead of silently returning
an empty history.npm ci when a lockfile is present.<a class="account"> to <span class="all-time-y2">. The article parser now
accepts both and HTML-unescapes result hrefs. Account-directory search
(type=1) currently returns empty official-account pages for every public
query tested; accountSearch / monitorAccounts cannot pass a live kill
gate until that index returns cards again.src/store/kvStore.ts) so monitorAccounts retains history for every Store
user. Previously it required DATABASE_URL, which only the Actor owner could
set, making change tracking unusable for Store customers.StateStoreBusyError as an unbilled row rather than failing the run.RUN_STATS now records which stateBackend was used.wechat-official-account-scraper and rewrote the Store
title, description, categories and README for search visibility.Actor.pushData(item, eventName) delivery.src/main.ts. Actor.exit(1) is invalid because Actor.exit() accepts string | ExitOptions; it failed to compile against the real SDK types and would not have marked a crashed run as failed. Now uses Actor.fail({ exitCode: 1, statusMessage })..actor/input_schema.json for apify push validation: added the required description on operation, removed the contradictory required + default pairing, and added a keyword prefill so the Actor runs from the Store UI with no typing.qa/typestubs/modules.d.ts) so the Apify SDK and pg seams stay typechecked in offline environments.FAILED; upstream blocking remains intentionally fail-soft for scheduled monitoring.