Sogou WeChat Article Search Scraper

Sogou WeChat Article Search Scraper

Sogou WeChat Article Search Scraper searches Sogou WeChat search (搜狗微信搜索) for WeChat Official Account (微信公众号) articles by keyword or search URL and returns each result's title, snippet, account name, publish date, cover image and links. Export the results as JSON, CSV or Excel.

Track brands, topics, competitors and campaign phrases across WeChat Official Accounts in Chinese or English, with search page and position for every result, a stable result key for deduplication between runs, and optional mp.weixin.qq.com article links.

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Apify Actor: parsebird/sogou-wechat-search-scraper. Searches Sogou WeChat article search (weixin.sogou.com/weixin?type=2) and returns WeChat Official Account (微信公众号) article search results. Call via ApifyClient: client.actor("parsebird/sogou-wechat-search-scraper").call(run_input={"keywords": ["AI", "新能源汽车"], "maxItems": 20}). Inputs: keywords (array of strings, Chinese or English, one Sogou search each), searchUrls (array of weixin.sogou.com/weixin?...&query=... URLs; query and extra parameters kept, page sets the first page), maxItems (integer 1-10000, default 20, total across all queries, shared evenly between queries), maxPagesPerQuery (integer 1-50, default 10; Sogou shows at most 10 pages of about 10 results to logged-out visitors), resolveArticleUrls (boolean, default false: open each Sogou link and save the temporary mp.weixin.qq.com link), requestDelayMs (integer 0-10000, default 800), proxyConfiguration (object, default Apify Proxy). Output fields: resultKey (rk1_ + sha256 of account, title and timestamp), keyword, page, position, title, snippet, accountName, publishDateText (YYYY-MM-DD, China time), publishTimestamp (Unix seconds), sogouUrl, articleUrl (null unless resolveArticleUrls), coverImageUrl, sourceUrl, scrapedAt. Pricing: pay per article saved. Full API spec: https://apify.com/parsebird/sogou-wechat-search-scraper/api. Get your token: https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations.

What is Sogou WeChat Article Search Scraper?

WeChat Official Accounts are where Chinese media, brands, government bodies and independent writers publish their articles. WeChat has no public search API, but Sogou WeChat search at weixin.sogou.com indexes these articles and is the public web search over them.

Sogou WeChat Article Search Scraper turns that search into a clean dataset. Enter a keyword such as 新能源汽车, press Start, and get the same results you would see on Sogou, with the account name, publish date, snippet and cover image of every article. No WeChat account, Sogou login or API key is needed. It works as a Sogou WeChat API alternative for brand monitoring, media research and content discovery.

What can Sogou WeChat Article Search Scraper do?

• 🔎 Keyword search. Search any number of keywords in Chinese or English. Each keyword runs as its own Sogou WeChat article search.
• 🔗 Search URLs. Paste a weixin.sogou.com/weixin?... URL you already have. The query and its extra parameters are kept, and a page parameter sets the first page to read.
• 📍 Rank tracking. Every result has its search page and position, so you can see where an article ranks for a keyword.
• 🧬 Cross-run deduplication. resultKey is built from the account name, title and publish time, so the same article gets the same key in every run.
• 🔓 Optional article links. Turn on Resolve article URLs to also get the mp.weixin.qq.com link behind each Sogou result.
• 🛡️ Anti-spider handling. Sogou blocks IPs that send too many requests. The scraper paces its requests and moves to a new proxy IP when Sogou shows its anti-spider page.
• 📅 Scheduling and integrations. Run daily with Apify Schedules and send results to Google Sheets, Slack, Zapier, Make or a webhook with Apify integrations.
• 🔌 API access. Start runs and read results from your own code with the Apify API, in JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or HTML.

What data can you extract from Sogou WeChat search?

Field	Description
resultKey	Stable, versioned result key (rk1_ + SHA-256 of account name, title and publish time) for deduplication across runs
keyword	The keyword, or the query taken from a search URL
page	Sogou result page the article was found on
position	Position of the article on that page (1 = first)
title	Article title, without Sogou's highlight markup
snippet	Search result summary
accountName	WeChat Official Account name
publishDateText	Publish date as YYYY-MM-DD, in China time (UTC+8)
publishTimestamp	Publish time from Sogou as a Unix timestamp in seconds
sogouUrl	Sogou result link (weixin.sogou.com/link?url=...)
articleUrl	mp.weixin.qq.com article link when Resolve article URLs is on, otherwise null
coverImageUrl	Search result thumbnail
sourceUrl	The exact Sogou search page that was fetched
scrapedAt	Time the record was saved (ISO 8601, UTC)

How to scrape Sogou WeChat search

1. Open Sogou WeChat Article Search Scraper in Apify Console.
2. Enter one or more Keywords, such as AI or 新能源汽车, or paste Sogou WeChat search URLs.
3. Set Maximum articles. It is shared evenly between your keywords and URLs, and any share a query doesn't use goes to the next one.
4. Optionally lower Maximum pages per query, or turn on Resolve article URLs if you need mp.weixin.qq.com links.
5. Click Start and wait for the run to finish.
6. Download the results from the Output tab as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or HTML, or read them through the API.

Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
keywords	array	No*	—	Keywords to search, one Sogou WeChat article search each
searchUrls	array	No*	[]	Full weixin.sogou.com/weixin?... search URLs
maxItems	integer	No	20	Maximum articles to save across all keywords and URLs (1–10,000)
maxPagesPerQuery	integer	No	10	Maximum result pages to read per keyword or URL (1–50)
resolveArticleUrls	boolean	No	false	Open each Sogou link and save the mp.weixin.qq.com link
requestDelayMs	integer	No	800	Pause between requests to Sogou in milliseconds (0–10,000)
proxyConfiguration	object	No	Apify Proxy	Proxy used for Sogou requests

* Add at least one keyword or one search URL.

Example input:

{
    "keywords": ["AI", "新能源汽车"],
    "searchUrls": [],
    "maxItems": 20,
    "maxPagesPerQuery": 10,
    "requestDelayMs": 800,
    "resolveArticleUrls": false
}

Output example

[
    {
        "resultKey": "rk1_063e77d4ef36bf30ca19af657ae02de5df2136b867d331f17c1933947a973dcc",
        "keyword": "AI",
        "page": 1,
        "position": 1,
        "title": "AI 前沿认知周报 Vol.05",
        "snippet": "AI 正在改变公司的基本结构:当 Agent 的工作时间超过人类从 AI 使用差距、组织重构到就业变化:三项研究揭示企业智能化的新阶段...",
        "accountName": "DataArchitect",
        "publishDateText": "2026-10-25",
        "publishTimestamp": 1792914989,
        "sogouUrl": "https://weixin.sogou.com/link?url=dn9a_-gY295K0Rci_xozVXfdMkSQTLW6cwJThYulHEtVjXrGTiVgSzr7rqWYtfem...&type=2&query=AI&token=...",
        "articleUrl": null,
        "coverImageUrl": "https://img01.sogoucdn.com/v2/thumb?appid=201147&url=https%3A%2F%2Fmmbiz.qpic.cn%2F...&sign=...",
        "sourceUrl": "https://weixin.sogou.com/weixin?type=2&query=AI&ie=utf8&page=1",
        "scrapedAt": "2026-10-25T10:01:14.023Z"
    },
    {
        "resultKey": "rk1_50f22f2867beb7e6835540e1eb3def48c6c29e121f31a3d458cebc619983a162",
        "keyword": "瑞幸咖啡",
        "page": 1,
        "position": 1,
        "title": "替瑞幸咖啡“打广告”?",
        "snippet": "进入2019年,瑞幸咖啡频频登上百度热搜榜.以目前的体量,这家初创企业似乎配不上这样的“殊荣”. ofo上热榜,是因为顶峰时每...",
        "accountName": "虎嗅APP",
        "publishDateText": "2019-01-11",
        "publishTimestamp": 1547168118,
        "sogouUrl": "https://weixin.sogou.com/link?url=dn9a_-gY295K0Rci_xozVXfdMkSQTLW6cwJThYulHEtVjXrGTiVgSzr7rqWYtfem...&type=2&query=%E7%91%9E%E5%B9%B8%E5%92%96%E5%95%A1&token=...",
        "articleUrl": "https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?src=11&timestamp=1792922670&ver=7048&signature=0BpltYG0LIN2*LxSRXP-oBSvZ5r0z98q...&new=1",
        "coverImageUrl": "https://img01.sogoucdn.com/v2/thumb?appid=201147&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmmbiz.qpic.cn%2F...&sign=...",
        "sourceUrl": "https://weixin.sogou.com/weixin?type=2&query=%E7%91%9E%E5%B9%B8%E5%92%96%E5%95%A1&ie=utf8&page=1",
        "scrapedAt": "2026-10-25T10:04:38.311Z"
    }
]

The second record was saved with Resolve article URLs on.

Use cases

• Brand monitoring. Schedule a daily search for your brand and product names and see which Official Accounts write about them.
• Competitor tracking. Follow competitor names and campaign phrases across Chinese media and KOL accounts.
• Media and PR research. Find the accounts covering a topic before you pitch a story.
• Market research. Collect article titles and snippets on an industry, such as 新能源汽车 or 跨境电商, for trend analysis.
• Content discovery for AI pipelines. Build a list of relevant articles first, then fetch the full text with WeChat Official Accounts Scraper.

How it works

1. Each keyword, or the query of each search URL, is searched on Sogou WeChat article search (type=2).
2. Result pages are read in order, about 10 articles per page, until the page limit, the article limit or the last page.
3. Each result card is turned into a record. Duplicates within a query are dropped by resultKey.
4. With Resolve article URLs on, each Sogou link is opened on the same session that ran the search, and the mp.weixin.qq.com link it leads to is saved.
5. Requests are paced by Delay between requests. When Sogou returns its anti-spider page, the scraper switches to a new proxy IP and tries again.

How much does it cost to scrape Sogou WeChat search?

Sogou WeChat Article Search Scraper uses pay-per-event pricing. You pay for each article saved to the dataset. Compute and proxy usage are included in the event price and are not billed separately.

Event	Apify plan	Price per event	Price per 1,000
article	Free	$0.00199	$1.99
article	Bronze	$0.00189	$1.89
article	Silver	$0.00179	$1.79
article	Gold	$0.00169	$1.69

One event is one article result saved. For example, 1,000 results cost $1.99 on the Free plan, and the default run of 20 articles costs about $0.04. Apify's Free plan includes $5 of platform usage every month. Set a maximum cost per run in Console and the scraper stops when it is reached.

Use the scraper with Python and JavaScript

Python (pip install apify-client):

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("parsebird/sogou-wechat-search-scraper").call(run_input={
    "keywords": ["新能源汽车", "AI"],
    "maxItems": 100,
})

for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item["publishDateText"], item["accountName"], item["title"])

JavaScript (npm install apify-client):

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>' });
const run = await client.actor('parsebird/sogou-wechat-search-scraper').call({
    keywords: ['新能源汽车', 'AI'],
    maxItems: 100,
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => console.log(item.publishDateText, item.accountName, item.title));

See the API tab for every endpoint, or the Apify API client docs for more options.

Is it legal to scrape Sogou WeChat search?

Sogou WeChat Article Search Scraper collects only data that Sogou shows publicly to anyone who visits its search page, without logging in. It doesn't access private messages, accounts or any data behind a login. Results can still contain personal data, such as an author's name, which is protected by laws like the GDPR and China's Personal Information Protection Law. Scrape personal data only when you have a legitimate reason, and check Sogou's terms of service. If you are unsure, consult a lawyer. Read more in Apify's post Is web scraping legal?

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FAQ

How many results can I get per keyword? Sogou shows at most 10 result pages per query to visitors who are not logged in, with about 10 articles per page (some pages show fewer). That is up to about 100 articles per keyword. To collect more, add related keywords or longer phrases, such as 新能源汽车 电池 and 新能源汽车 销量.

Why does maxItems give each keyword a share? So that every keyword gets results. With 2 keywords and maxItems 20, each keyword gets up to 10 articles. When one keyword has fewer results, the rest goes to the next keyword.

Can I filter by date or sort by newest? Sogou's date filters only return results to logged-in users, so the scraper uses Sogou's default relevance order. Every record has publishDateText and publishTimestamp, so you can filter and sort the dataset by date afterwards.

Is articleUrl a permanent link? No. Sogou leads to a signed mp.weixin.qq.com/s?src=11&timestamp=...&signature=... link, which is temporary. Use it to open or fetch the article soon after the run. For full article text, use WeChat Official Accounts Scraper.

Why is Resolve article URLs off by default? It needs one extra request per article, and Sogou blocks IPs that send many requests. The scraper switches IP when that happens, but runs are slower. If a link still can't be resolved, its articleUrl is null.

Do sogouUrl links keep working? Sogou result links are tied to the search session that produced them, so they may not open later in another browser. Use resultKey, title and accountName to identify an article.

Sogou shows anti-spider pages. What can I do? Keep the default Apify Proxy and increase Delay between requests, for example to 2000 ms.

Can I schedule runs and send the results somewhere? Yes. Use Apify Schedules to run hourly, daily or weekly, and integrations to send results to Google Sheets, Slack, Zapier, Make, Airbyte or a webhook. Use resultKey to keep only new articles between runs.

Something doesn't work. Where do I report it? Open an issue in the Issues tab. We read every report.