WeChat Channels Video Search Scraper
Pricing
$0.10 / actor start
🔎 WeChat Channels Video Search | Find trending 视频号 videos by keyword Drop one keyword, filter by duration (short / medium / long), sort by latest or hottest, and pull up to 50 ranked videos with engagement metrics, publisher profile, export ids and cover images.
LIMITED_PERMISSIONS — how Apify's automated QA and every API-triggered run
starts an Actor — opening the store is refused with HTTP 403
(KeyValueStoreCollectionClient.getOrCreate, path /v2/key-value-stores).
That call sat in a || fallback chain and was never inside a try/catch of
ours, so the throw ended the run with exit code 91 and a reported FAILED run
with zero items. Every store open now goes through a wrapper that returns a
no-op store instead of throwing, so the free-run counter and the run SUMMARY
degrade and the actual work proceeds./v2/key-value-stores; it used a fixed limit=50, which silently
stopped containing gate stores once the account passed 50 of them — and the
account creates a new default store on every run, so that list grows on its
own. The lookup now pages (100 per page, up to 20 pages).fetch_search_videos).all / short (<5 min) / medium (5-20 min) / long (20+ min).cursor + continue_flag opaque token replay; up to 5 pages per run (default 3 = ~30 videos).docId / exportId / hashDocId / feedNonceId / title / titleRaw / coverUrl / duration / pubTime / dateLabel / likeNum / source.name / source.iconUrl).APIFY_USER_IS_PAYING=1 bypass.AbortController + 3-attempt exponential backoff.maxPages clamped to 1-5 (each page costs $0.010 upstream); default 3 = $0.030 per run max.SUMMARY.nextCursor feeds the next run's cursor input.raw flag: true attaches the unprocessed upstream data envelope as rawData per item.keyword / duration / sort / publishTime / pagesFetched / requests / pushed / receivedFromSource / hasMoreInSource / nextCursor / startedAt / finishedAt / tier / runsToday.run() end-to-end against captured upstream fixtures).exportId is the durable handle: outlives a single search page; pass to upstream fetch_video_detail for media download.