# WeChat Article Scraper — 公众号 Full Text + English (`neronbaez/wechat-article-scraper`) Actor

Search WeChat Official Account (微信公众号) articles by keyword and extract full article text, images, account and publish time. Or paste article URLs. Optional English translation. No login. Ideal for China market research and LLM datasets.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/neronbaez/wechat-article-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Ignacio Baez](https://apify.com/neronbaez) (community)
- **Categories:** Social media, News, AI
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $3.00 / 1,000 full articles

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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# README

### What does WeChat Article Scraper do?

It searches **WeChat Official Account (微信公众号) articles** by keyword and extracts the **full article text**: title, account, author, exact publish time, images, cover and the official account ID (`gh_...`) and `__biz`. You can also paste `mp.weixin.qq.com` article links directly.

WeChat is where Chinese companies, media and government publish long-form content, and it's closed to Google. This Actor gives you that content as clean JSON. **No login, no WeChat account needed.**

🇬🇧 **Don't read Chinese?** Turn on **Translate to English** to get `titleEn`, `summaryEn` and `descriptionEn`, and optionally the full text (`contentEn`).

### Use cases

- **China market & competitor research**: what brands, industry bodies and media publish
- **LLM / RAG datasets**: full-text Chinese articles with metadata
- **PR & media monitoring** on WeChat for any keyword
- **Find official accounts** in a niche (account name + ID + biz)

### Pricing

| Result | Price |
|---|---|
| Full article (full text, images, account ID, exact date) | $0.003 |
| Search result only (title, summary, account, date) | $0.001 |

🆓 **On Apify's Free plan you can try it practically free** (about $0.01 per 1,000 results). The prices above apply to paid plans.

For example, 1,000 full articles cost **$3**.

### Input example

```json
{ "searchQueries": ["人工智能", "新能源汽车"], "maxArticlesPerQuery": 50, "fetchFullArticle": true, "translateToEnglish": true }
```

### Output example

```json
{
  "type": "article",
  "title": "学院师资 | 14位AI名师加盟，助力人工智能学院智领未来",
  "summary": "New Faculty新加盟师资一览(*按学术领域及教授姓氏首字母顺序介绍)人工智能基础理论与技术AI Foundations语音与自然语言处理...",
  "accountName": "香港中文大学深圳人工智能学院",
  "publishedAt": "2026-10-16T09:44:33+00:00",
  "searchQuery": "人工智能",
  "author": "智启未来的",
  "accountId": "gh_46cac600fa27",
  "accountBiz": "Mzk2NDQ2MjcwMQ==",
  "description": "携手打造兼具国际影响力与学术创新力的国际一流AI教学与科研高地",
  "coverUrl": "https://mmbiz.qpic.cn/mmbiz_jpg/iaCjOtdsZkPCbIYibibRaDX5sWyGLhicibeawXAZ4sMprssj3GAiax9EfKhFicytfSv3wXbguwswibLgBbC6vbQkAJ2ibqWQ6ugpcWGcxiaTKkPrQZ2I0/0?wx_fmt=jpeg",
  "url": "https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?src=11&timestamp=1792144409&ver=7030&signature=6nu367Dyal8v*0cCxbd*dyO-LkB-9N2-DA*MpeMs77GNWiywaaOJuWEOfyewG4x0oMN8RwzW4XPmCDvjDpdBvWdwE5eZWu4en7SZcvYHu4n6muojj3p5tyvkHCFgag6F&new=1",
  "content": "New Faculty\n\n新加盟师资一览\n\n（*按学术领域及教授姓氏首字母顺序介绍）\n\n人工智能基础理论与技术\nAI Foundations\n\n语音与自然语言处理\nSpeech and Natural Language Processing\n\n具身智能与机器人\nEmbodied AI and Robotics\n\n人工智能赋能医学与健康\nAI for Medicine and Healthcare\n…",
  "wordCount": 190,
  "images": [
    "https://mmbiz.qpic.cn/sz_mmbiz_gif/iaCjOtdsZkPDOfWH259pk7PAmCmjr2btOYUJOBvlol4dhYqV1RVAPjMa66tcjibhBrzE8Rzu3zgEpBYAAmyO7qiawdLjnf8xibCMK91551Qfsas/640?wx_fmt=gif",
    "https://mmbiz.qpic.cn/mmbiz_jpg/iaCjOtdsZkPDc7QYmAcCu8ooibEp3eiahbONqFEEGkKfuBnjibGtduNV5YHNY49u2d5ULUttKiaNJARNLzFicJWYUiceBycpdLUYAsbgHbY42eIoJA/640?wx_fmt=jpeg"
  ],
  "titleEn": "College Teachers | 14 famous AI teachers have joined to help the College of Artificial Intelligence lead the future intelligently",
  "summaryEn": "New Faculty List of newly joined teachers (*Introduced in alphabetical order by academic field and professor's last name) Basic theories and technologies of artificial intelligence AI Foundations Speech and natural language processing...",
  "descriptionEn": "Work together to create a world-class AI teaching and research center with both international influence and academic innovation."
}
```

### Limits

- Search comes from Sogou WeChat search: up to 10 pages (about 100 articles) per keyword, sorted by relevance and recency.
- **Read and like counts are not available.** WeChat only shows them inside the app.

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All with English field names, pay-per-result pricing and optional English translation:

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- [Bilibili Creators UP主](https://apify.com/neronbaez/bilibili-creator-scraper)
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- [Weibo Hot Search 热搜](https://apify.com/neronbaez/weibo-hot-search-scraper)
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- [Baidu Hot Search](https://apify.com/neronbaez/baidu-hot-search-scraper)
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### Is it legal?

This Actor reads publicly accessible article pages. Respect copyright when republishing content.

### Feedback

Open an issue in the **Issues** tab. Requests usually ship within a few days.

# Actor input Schema

## `searchQueries` (type: `array`):

Find WeChat Official Account articles for these keywords (Chinese works best).

## `maxArticlesPerQuery` (type: `integer`):

Up to 100 (10 pages).

## `fetchFullArticle` (type: `boolean`):

Open each article for full text, images, account ID and exact publish time. Off = search results only (cheaper).

## `articleUrls` (type: `array`):

mp.weixin.qq.com/s/... links to extract directly.

## `translateToEnglish` (type: `boolean`):

Adds titleEn, summaryEn, descriptionEn. Free.

## `translateContent` (type: `boolean`):

Adds contentEn (slower). Requires Translate to English.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Recommended: rotates IPs when Sogou shows a captcha.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchQueries": [
    "人工智能"
  ],
  "maxArticlesPerQuery": 10,
  "fetchFullArticle": true,
  "translateToEnglish": false,
  "translateContent": false,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

All scraped items as JSON. Add ?format=csv or ?format=xlsx for other formats.

## `overview` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "searchQueries": [
        "人工智能"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("neronbaez/wechat-article-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "searchQueries": ["人工智能"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("neronbaez/wechat-article-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "searchQueries": [
    "人工智能"
  ]
}' |
apify call neronbaez/wechat-article-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,neronbaez/wechat-article-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/Tt49p7Ll94NsmaM6b/builds/z8xzk2ZCnG3hNGLsG/openapi.json