WeChat Articles Scraper

WeChat Articles Scraper searches WeChat Official Account articles (微信公众号文章) by keyword and returns one row per article: title, summary, official account, publish time, cover image and a working link to the article on mp.weixin.qq.com. Switch on one option and every row also carries the full article text, the account id (gh_…), the author, the exact publish time and the article's images.

$0.003 per article, +$0.005 for the full text. No WeChat account, no phone number, no login, no start fee. Searches that fail and deleted articles are free.

What is WeChat Articles Scraper?

WeChat is where Chinese brands, media and analysts publish — and it is closed to the outside web. This Actor reads Sogou Weixin search, the public index of WeChat articles, follows each result to the article itself and hands you clean rows. It is built for brand and competitor monitoring in China, market research, media analysis, and feeding Chinese-language content to AI pipelines.

Type keywords in Chinese for the best results — brand names (比亚迪, 小米), topics (人工智能, 跨境电商), people or products. English brand names work too.

What is in every row

Field	Meaning
title, summary, accountName, publishedAt	From the search result
coverUrl, articleUrl	Cover image and a working link to the article on mp.weixin.qq.com
keyword, page, position	Which search, which page, which slot
contentText, contentLength, imageUrls	With Add the full article text on: the article body as plain text and its images
accountId, accountBiz, accountNameOnPage, author, publishedAtExact, postFormat	Account ids and author read from the article page; postFormat tells a normal article from an image post
deleted	The publisher removed the article (such rows are not charged for text)

How much does it cost?

Event	Price
Article row	$0.003
Full text (optional)	$0.005 per article that has text

• Keywords the search refuses after retries: $0 (error row with the reason).
• Deleted articles and articles without text: no text charge.

Bulk export: what 50,000 rows actually cost

This Actor is built for bulk jobs — hundreds of keywords in one run, or a daily schedule. There is no fee per run, no fee per page and no proxy charge: you pay for the article rows you keep.

Job	This Actor	Most-used Actor in this category
50,000 articles across 100 runs	$150	$300 + start fees
50,000 articles with full text	$400	$1,800 + start fees

Checked on the Apify Store on 23 September 2026 against the Actor with the most monthly users in this category ($0.006 per search result and $0.03 per article detail, plus a fee per run). Some Actors here ask less per row — this table compares against the one buyers actually use most.

How to use it in three steps

1. Type keywords into 🔍 Keywords, one per line — 比亚迪, 人工智能.
2. Set Articles per keyword (up to 100) and switch on 📝 Add the full article text if you need the body.
3. Press Start, then download JSON, CSV or Excel — or call the run from the API, n8n, Make, Zapier or an AI agent.

⬇️ Input

{
  "keywords": ["比亚迪", "固态电池"],
  "maxArticlesPerKeyword": 50,
  "includeContent": true
}

⬆️ Output

{
  "type": "article",
  "keyword": "比亚迪",
  "position": 1,
  "title": "比亚迪第2000座闪充高速站落成!",
  "summary": "比亚迪第2000座闪充高速站在江苏扬州宝应服务区落成,9 月 24 日,比亚迪会举办一个仪式庆祝…",
  "accountName": "迪信",
  "publishedAt": "2026-09-23T03:51:03.000Z",
  "coverUrl": "https://mmbiz.qpic.cn/sz_mmbiz_jpg/…",
  "articleUrl": "https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?src=11&timestamp=1790150431&ver=6983&signature=…",
  "postFormat": "article",
  "accountId": "gh_314b0cf4e841",
  "contentText": "比亚迪第2000座闪充高速站在江苏扬州宝应服务区落成，9 月 24 日，比亚迪会举办一个仪式庆祝…",
  "contentLength": 73,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-23T08:00:32.392Z"
}

Use cases

Brand monitoring in China

Your brand and competitors' names, daily — every new WeChat article with the account that wrote it.

Market and policy research

Topic keywords across hundreds of accounts, full text for analysis or translation.

KOL discovery

Which official accounts write about your category most often — accountName and accountId on every row.

AI and RAG

Chinese-language articles as clean text through the Apify MCP server or API.

Integrations

Every run is available through the Apify API, and the Actor works out of the box with n8n, Make, Zapier, Google Sheets, LangChain and the Apify MCP server.

FAQ

Do I need a WeChat account? No. Nothing is logged in.

How long does articleUrl work? It is a signed link issued by the search; open or store the page soon after the run. With full text on, the content is saved in the row, so the link expiring does not matter.

Can I get read counts and likes? No — WeChat shows those only inside the WeChat app.

Can I list every article of one account? The Actor searches by keyword; use the account's name as the keyword to get its recent articles.

Is this legal? The Actor reads a public search index and public article pages. Respect copyright when republishing text, and use the data in line with local law.