# Weibo Scraper — Posts, Hot Search, Users & Comments (`neronbaez/weibo-scraper`) Actor

Scrape Weibo (微博) without login: hot search (热搜) ranking, trending posts, latest posts by keyword or user, user profiles and comments. Clean English JSON. Ideal for daily China social listening and KOL monitoring.

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

## Pricing

from $2.00 / 1,000 posts

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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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

### What does Weibo Scraper do?

It extracts public data from **Weibo (微博)**, China's biggest public social network, **without login, cookies or an API key**:

- 🔥 **Hot search ranking (热搜榜)**: the real-time top ~50 keywords with heat scores
- 📈 **Trending posts (热门微博)** from Weibo's discover feed
- 🔎 **Latest and top posts for any keyword**
- 👤 **User profiles**: followers, posts, verification. Find KOLs by keyword.
- 📝 **A user's latest posts** with full text, images, video, likes, reposts and comments
- 💬 **Top comments** with likes and the commenter's IP location (province)

All counts are clean integers (`8255.1万` → `82551000`), dates are ISO 8601 and field names are in English.

### 🇬🇧 Built-in English translation

Don't read Chinese? Turn on **Translate to English** and every text gets an English version next to the original, at **no extra cost**:

```json
{ "keyword": "日本误报9.9级地震", "keywordEn": "Japan falsely reports a 9.9 magnitude earthquake" }
```

### Use cases

- **Daily China social listening**: schedule it every morning for hot search + your brand keywords
- **KOL / celebrity monitoring**: track the latest posts and engagement of any account
- **Trend research & news**: know what Chinese users are talking about right now
- **Sentiment analysis & AI datasets**: posts and comments with location and timestamps

### What you get without login (please read)

Weibo shows **guests only the first page** of most lists. Without a cookie this Actor returns:

| Source | Results without cookie |
|

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\---|

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| Hot search | full list (~50) |
| Keyword search | ~30 posts per keyword (top + real-time + hot tabs) |
| User posts | latest ~10 posts per user |
| Comments | top ~20 per post |
| Trending feed | up to 50 posts |

That's ideal for **monitoring**: run it daily and you never miss a post. For deep historical scraping, paste your own Weibo cookie in *Advanced*.

### Pricing

You pay only for results:

| Result | Price |
|

### Related Actors

- [Google Maps Scraper](https://apify.com/neronbaez/google-maps-scraper) — Local business leads with emails
- [Instagram & TikTok Scraper](https://apify.com/neronbaez/instagram-tiktok-scraper) — Social media profiles
- [LinkedIn Profile Scraper](https://apify.com/neronbaez/linkedin-profile-scraper) — B2B profiles with emails
- [Facebook Ads Library Scraper](https://apify.com/neronbaez/facebook-ads-library-scraper) — Competitor ad intelligence

\---|

### Related Actors

- [Google Maps Scraper](https://apify.com/neronbaez/google-maps-scraper) — Local business leads with emails
- [Instagram & TikTok Scraper](https://apify.com/neronbaez/instagram-tiktok-scraper) — Social media profiles
- [LinkedIn Profile Scraper](https://apify.com/neronbaez/linkedin-profile-scraper) — B2B profiles with emails
- [Facebook Ads Library Scraper](https://apify.com/neronbaez/facebook-ads-library-scraper) — Competitor ad intelligence

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| Post | $0.002 |
| User profile | $0.002 |
| Comment | $0.0005 |
| Hot search keyword | $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, the full hot search list plus 100 posts costs about **$0.25**.

### Input example

```json
{
  "includeHotSearch": true,
  "searchQueries": [
    "人工智能",
    "iPhone"
  ],
  "userUrls": [
    "https://weibo.com/u/1669879400"
  ],
  "maxPostsPerUser": 10,
  "includeComments": true,
  "maxCommentsPerPost": 20
}
```

### Output examples

Every item has a `type`: `hotSearch`, `post`, `user` or `comment`.

**Hot search**

```json
{
  "type": "hotSearch",
  "rank": 1,
  "keyword": "日本误报9.9级地震",
  "heat": 1105838,
  "label": null,
  "category": null,
  "url": "https://s.weibo.com/weibo?q=%23日本误报9.9级地震%23"
}
```

**Post**

```json
{
  "type": "post",
  "id": "5354414472169572",
  "bid": "RmPzh96p6",
  "url": "https://weibo.com/5654075673/RmPzh96p6",
  "text": "牢法，你专辑好好的 ​",
  "createdAt": "2026-10-15T22:42:33+08:00",
  "reposts": 2596,
  "comments": 2722,
  "likes": 50583,
  "location": "四川",
  "device": "iPhone 17 Pro Max",
  "images": [
    "https://wx2.sinaimg.cn/large/006aDVmVgy1ii3f2wjjl6j310d0vd77e.jpg"
  ],
  "isLongText": false,
  "isRepost": false,
  "source": "trending",
  "userId": 5654075673,
  "userName": "杨和苏KeyNG",
  "userUrl": "https://weibo.com/u/5654075673",
  "userVerified": true
}
```

**User**

```json
{
  "type": "user",
  "userId": 1669879400,
  "userName": "Dear-迪丽热巴",
  "userUrl": "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",
  "followers": 82551000,
  "following": 294,
  "posts": 1937,
  "verified": true,
  "verifiedReason": "嘉行传媒签约演员　",
  "avatar": "https://wx1.sinaimg.cn/orj480/63885668ly8geyrcrw0zjj20u00u0mz6.jpg",
  "isVip": true
}
```

**Comment**

```json
{
  "type": "comment",
  "postId": "5354598965707384",
  "commentId": "5354620060963275",
  "text": "日乒协给你打电话了？",
  "createdAt": "2026-10-16T12:19:29+08:00",
  "likes": 48,
  "replies": 1,
  "location": "山西",
  "userId": 3211637234,
  "userName": "爱吃草莓的榴莲酱",
  "userUrl": "https://weibo.com/u/3211637234",
  "userFollowers": 75,
  "userVerified": false
}
```

### More China data scrapers

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

- [Bilibili Scraper (all-in-one)](https://apify.com/neronbaez/bilibili-scraper)
- [Bilibili Comments](https://apify.com/neronbaez/bilibili-comments-scraper)
- [Bilibili Danmaku 弹幕](https://apify.com/neronbaez/bilibili-danmaku-scraper)
- [Bilibili Creators UP主](https://apify.com/neronbaez/bilibili-creator-scraper)
- [Bilibili Search](https://apify.com/neronbaez/bilibili-search-scraper)
- [Bilibili Trending](https://apify.com/neronbaez/bilibili-trending-scraper)
- [Bilibili Live 直播](https://apify.com/neronbaez/bilibili-live-scraper)
- [Bilibili Hot Search 热搜](https://apify.com/neronbaez/bilibili-hot-search-scraper)
- [Weibo Search](https://apify.com/neronbaez/weibo-search-scraper)
- [Weibo User Posts](https://apify.com/neronbaez/weibo-user-posts-scraper)
- [Weibo Comments](https://apify.com/neronbaez/weibo-comments-scraper)
- [Weibo Hot Search 热搜](https://apify.com/neronbaez/weibo-hot-search-scraper)
- [WeChat Articles 公众号](https://apify.com/neronbaez/wechat-article-scraper)
- [China Trending Topics (6 platforms)](https://apify.com/neronbaez/china-trending-scraper)
- [Douyin Hot Search 抖音热榜](https://apify.com/neronbaez/douyin-hot-search-scraper)
- [Baidu Hot Search](https://apify.com/neronbaez/baidu-hot-search-scraper)
- [Zhihu Hot List](https://apify.com/neronbaez/zhihu-hot-list-scraper)

### Is it legal?

This Actor only reads data that Weibo shows publicly to any visitor. Personal data is protected by laws like PIPL and GDPR, so only scrape it with a legitimate purpose.

### Feedback

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

# Actor input Schema

## `includeHotSearch` (type: `boolean`):

Real-time top ~50 hot search keywords with heat score.

## `includeTrendingPosts` (type: `boolean`):

Posts from Weibo's trending feed.

## `maxTrendingPosts` (type: `integer`):

Up to 50.

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

Find the latest and top posts for these keywords (Chinese or English).

## `searchType` (type: `string`):

Posts or user accounts.

## `searchSort` (type: `string`):

Which result tabs to collect.

## `maxPostsPerQuery` (type: `integer`):

Without a cookie Weibo returns up to ~30 posts per keyword.

## `userUrls` (type: `array`):

weibo.com/u/1669879400 links or numeric user IDs.

## `maxPostsPerUser` (type: `integer`):

0 = profile only. Without a cookie Weibo returns the latest ~10 posts.

## `postUrls` (type: `array`):

weibo.com/<uid>/<bid> or m.weibo.cn/detail/<id> links.

## `includeComments` (type: `boolean`):

Top comments for each post (~20 without cookie).

## `maxCommentsPerPost` (type: `integer`):

Max comments per post.

## `fetchLongText` (type: `boolean`):

Fetch the full text of long posts (全文).

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

Adds English translations next to the Chinese text (textEn, titleEn, keywordEn...). Free.

## `maxTotalItems` (type: `integer`):

Caps your spend.

## `cookie` (type: `string`):

Optional. Your m.weibo.cn cookie (SUB=...) to go beyond the first page of results.

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

Usually not needed.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "includeHotSearch": true,
  "includeTrendingPosts": false,
  "maxTrendingPosts": 20,
  "searchQueries": [
    "人工智能"
  ],
  "searchType": "posts",
  "searchSort": "all",
  "maxPostsPerQuery": 30,
  "maxPostsPerUser": 10,
  "includeComments": false,
  "maxCommentsPerPost": 20,
  "fetchLongText": true,
  "translateToEnglish": false,
  "maxTotalItems": 0,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# 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/weibo-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/weibo-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/weibo-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,neronbaez/weibo-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/KHhEKQpMJaHbL8zoY/builds/XomiadD0DdKYLSxis/openapi.json