📰 WeChat Articles Scraper

🚀 Export WeChat Official Account articles with the full text in seconds. Type a keyword, in Chinese or English, and get back every matching article as one row: title, account name and account ID, author, exact publish time, cover image, digest, the original-content flag, every image in the article and the complete article text. No login, no WeChat account, no API key, no browser.

WeChat Official Accounts (公众号) publish the articles that Chinese readers share, comment on and quote all day, and none of it is searchable from outside the app. Sogou runs the one public search index over those articles. This Actor searches that index for your keywords, follows each result to its article page on mp.weixin.qq.com the way a reader would, and returns the article itself, not just a headline. Everything lands in one fixed schema, ready for a spreadsheet, a database or a language model.

Every row carries 26 fields with article content on, or 12 in the faster search-only mode. A five-article run in the cloud finished in 20 seconds and the full-text rows averaged about 1,700 characters of body text. Sogou serves up to 100 articles per keyword, and the Actor tells you the size of the index behind each term so you know your coverage.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Market and consumer researchers	Read what Chinese accounts publish about a category, a brand or a policy, in full, on a schedule.
PR, brand and communications teams	Track every article that names your brand or your competitors, with the account and author behind it.
Journalists and analysts	Pull the source articles behind a breaking story instead of second-hand summaries.
AI and data teams	Build a Chinese-language corpus of real articles with clean text, dates and provenance.

📋 What the WeChat Articles Scraper does

💡 Why it matters: a search listing gives you a headline and a snippet. The article page holds the rest: the account's permanent ID, the author, the digest the account wrote, the cover image, whether the piece is original or a repost, and the full body text with its images. This Actor puts all of that on one row per article and collects those rows for every keyword you give it.

• 🔍 Keyword search. One or more search terms, Chinese or English. Sogou's WeChat index ranks by relevance and recency, and the Actor walks all 10 result pages per term.
• 📄 The whole article. content carries the complete body text with paragraphs preserved, and contentLength tells you how long it is.
• 🖼 Every image. The cover in imageUrl, and every inline image of the article in imageUrls, with imageCount.
• 🏷 Who published it. The account's display name, its permanent ID (gh_...), its avatar, and the article's named author when the account credits one.
• 📅 Exact timestamps. publishedAt is the article's own publish time in ISO 8601, not a rounded "3 days ago".
• ©️ Original or repost. isOriginal reads WeChat's own copyright flag.
• 🆔 WeChat identifiers. wechatBiz, wechatMid, wechatIdx and commentId, the values WeChat uses to address the article and its comment thread.
• 🔗 Two links per row. url is the resolved article address on mp.weixin.qq.com; sogouUrl is the stable search-result link.
• 🧭 Search context. searchTerm and position record which query found the article and where it ranked.
• ⚡ Search-only mode. Switch article content off to export title, account, snippet, date, thumbnail and links at 10 rows per request.
• 📦 One fixed schema. Columns never move, so your spreadsheet or database mapping never breaks.

🎬 Full Demo (🚧 Coming soon)

A short walkthrough video is in production and will land here.

📊 Output

One row per article, 26 fields, always in this order. With article content off the row stops after sogouUrl and carries 12 fields.

Field	Type	Description
🖼 imageUrl	string	Cover image of the article (the search thumbnail in search-only mode).
📌 title	string	Article title.
🔗 url	string	The article page on mp.weixin.qq.com, resolved from Sogou's redirect.
🆔 id	string	Sogou's document ID for the result, stable across runs.
🏷 accountName	string	Display name of the Official Account.
📅 publishedAt	string	Publish time, ISO 8601.
💬 snippet	string	Search-result excerpt around your keyword.
🔎 searchTerm	string	The keyword that found this article.
🔢 position	number	Rank of the article in the results for that keyword, 1 to 100.
🔗 sogouUrl	string	The Sogou search-result link.
🪪 accountId	string	Permanent account ID, e.g. gh_e8f92a085df7.
👤 accountAvatarUrl	string	Account avatar.
✍️ author	string	Named author, when the account credits one.
📝 digest	string	The one-line digest the account wrote for the article.
©️ isOriginal	string	Yes when WeChat marks the article as original content.
🆔 wechatBiz	string	The account's __biz identifier.
🆔 wechatMid	string	Message ID of the article.
🆔 wechatIdx	string	Position of the article inside its publication batch.
💬 commentId	string	ID of the article's comment thread.
📄 articleStatus	string	Available, or the reason the page could not be read (deleted, account migrated).
📃 content	string	Full article text, paragraphs preserved.
🔢 contentLength	number	Characters in content.
🖼 imageCount	number	Inline images in the article.
🖼 imageUrls	array	Every inline image URL.
🕒 scrapedAt	string	When this row was collected.
❌ error	string or null	Error message for rows that could not be collected, otherwise null.

Sample records

The content values are shortened here; the dataset carries the full text.

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  "title": "现在还说AI没法科研的人，应该只能分为两种。。。",
  "url": "https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?src=11&timestamp=1788798783&ver=6952&signature=LpK7*TZzwQDt7O7ycb4B7DKUHUVSMlSVwPCea8FGXOSaKGLezxGbIt58NMCbmPkjDk*eYr6ZidgI2oOjjUFZLZnuw3EyM3TfMcQoAgCkKx-BEtOXRqpvC4sM-Emrrp74&new=1",
  "id": "27e12653324fb913e1bfa7cf34da1f73",
  "accountName": "人工智能QA",
  "publishedAt": "2026-09-07T15:40:46.000Z",
  "snippet": "之后人工的核心任务就是消除“人机味儿”,因为LLM会习惯性出现宏大词汇、夸张修饰或学术口吻失真,所以把不科学的措辞打磨规...",
  "searchTerm": "人工智能",
  "position": 5,
  "sogouUrl": "https://weixin.sogou.com/link?url=dn9a_-gY295K0Rci_xozVXfdMkSQTLW6cwJThYulHEtVjXrGTiVgSwhtXwx_nmkITGGAyogJ8vkx3A6gnvBUrlqXa8Fplpd9G3Dvz5v1v593-ZS8KA17wFKEDLxczw-sSI8ETv9thwuTH93Gn7dwqvUjL8-3WGl6nEYsTHW39JUdb69qOY_38l08_RZY7U20IRFEDE4bOn9I-XtQLtAjSiWZJvky57nujgz2IKzcSKqb3z5yY3CijjRc8rhCCDCEbwi9y_5YTpT1AfaFW2DefQ..&type=2&query=%E4%BA%BA%E5%B7%A5%E6%99%BA%E8%83%BD&token=F0C9789A011EC1C571772B975D64114071AFCE5A6A9EE73F",
  "accountId": "gh_e8f92a085df7",
  "accountAvatarUrl": "http://mmbiz.qpic.cn/mmbiz_png/BEtyQAFaR4Wrwwfcbb86Hho1dPTLOF1BZdIU8CDTAjRxXJVAZOCZZadKf6B2amCbJGVewYAd7gajutqibfrsfPg/0?wx_fmt=png",
  "author": "人工智能QA",
  "digest": "Coding Agent全程接管我的毕业论文，唯一的人工是因为我比它便宜。。。",
  "isOriginal": "Yes",
  "wechatBiz": "Mzk0NjQ2NDE2Mg==",
  "wechatMid": "2247484831",
  "wechatIdx": "1",
  "commentId": "4684254854569967621",
  "articleStatus": "Available",
  "content": "由于前段时间一边实习，一边忙于秋招，还一边被导师催交毕业论文初稿，导致多边的严峻形态以及时间上的紧迫性，索性我就拿自己的课题做了一次实验：看看现阶段的 Coding Agent 到底能帮我完成多少科研工作？大家先猜一个比例，看看是否一致：3…",
  "contentLength": 1710,
  "imageCount": 2,
  "imageUrls": [
    "https://mmbiz.qpic.cn/sz_mmbiz_png/qGKI3L8jzm6j0cMtYUokUKxGiaLwy31XaQWZecD7TrcLpTXJXcM20OZsw8swPs0libXl69Q7jl4rpxFQ0XG7uZbBsXs5aKTA2lqandvsuI4lM/640?wx_fmt=png&from=appmsg",
    "https://mmbiz.qpic.cn/sz_mmbiz_png/qGKI3L8jzm6UzaqLNjNqYg7EHR0L828sDGKSNW8ibfDib7yfjkguB0A10eLvJ8X7eLToW0l3w5wRGmsLmG22EaWHCia1B2ODdBmib27h3RiaExQQ/640?wx_fmt=png&from=appmsg"
  ],
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-07T16:33:18.420Z",
  "error": null
}

{
  "imageUrl": "https://mmbiz.qpic.cn/sz_mmbiz_jpg/fBFW4vb5ZRsyj0pyajPLlicByLbeYxZHeibtW5s1G2BicDVdpIruhAicSUo19nXNADHFlIlK21j8yonzflRETsXbSA/0?wx_fmt=jpeg",
  "title": "文秋芳丨人工智能时代的外语教育会产生颠覆性革命吗?",
  "url": "https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?src=11&timestamp=1788798408&ver=6952&signature=kJnn4bogMw6VF0Ko748YOBf8*csZ6JxTZo8aaHN6tg5dizVklz01NzP9l4GiqdFrjtD5IyVm4OIPQRder9SftXPmiWyKQHz1eD9jI*x8JBANT*q9I0dDHmVND*Yp8F4h&new=1",
  "id": "0216e73bba5a4a475b373d5844f580db",
  "accountName": "蔡雷英语",
  "publishedAt": "2026-09-07T15:43:53.000Z",
  "snippet": "提要本文认为人工智能应继承教育优良传统,促进教育体系变革,而非导致颠覆性革命.文章首先探讨了技术变革的特点,指出每次工...",
  "searchTerm": "人工智能",
  "position": 5,
  "sogouUrl": "https://weixin.sogou.com/link?url=dn9a_-gY295K0Rci_xozVXfdMkSQTLW6cwJThYulHEtVjXrGTiVgSwhtXwx_nmkIpz9HQz3AsiAx3A6gnvBUrlqXa8Fplpd9ntoU4cXXnkDB0S6Ab7hAXv71q_NQb10uteinfLCD6NvusbhNuOvLt99wm-U-0Ut7Gyjgzugyfavd7CJ1-v8GB2tt8tHMsEXyP2_Adn7K8HaVsLQZ-sJYtX4XwbFwgOUqopiROLVyK46cI56KveoZKUa_yjpzpiVnodQJx4OmdEQ6Ebq8fk9diw..&type=2&query=%E4%BA%BA%E5%B7%A5%E6%99%BA%E8%83%BD&token=F0C16EC4DF9A7000989ECD7082290D8798413C4F6A9EE5C8",
  "accountId": "gh_9e02fef43685",
  "accountAvatarUrl": "http://mmbiz.qpic.cn/mmbiz_png/fBFW4vb5ZRs11WKqxhn8ANJicla0AbOHZSc5YefCPN5AZusYt8UjTau0c1YC3lXR7AfzJZbauNDYgeUYs84jbwg/0?wx_fmt=png",
  "author": "文秋芳",
  "digest": "“革命”和“改革”这两个词具有不同的本质属性。",
  "isOriginal": "No",
  "wechatBiz": "MzI0NjIyMzEyNQ==",
  "wechatMid": "2247620492",
  "wechatIdx": "5",
  "commentId": "4684257286276825088",
  "articleStatus": "Available",
  "content": "提要本文认为人工智能应继承教育优良传统，促进教育体系变革，而非导致颠覆性革命。文章首先探讨了技术变革的特点，指出每次工业革命都对经济和社会结构产生了深远影响，但这种影响在教育领域更多是促进了以人为本的发展，而非突破性的革命变化。教育具有延续…",
  "contentLength": 8406,
  "imageCount": 0,
  "imageUrls": [],
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-07T16:27:00.724Z",
  "error": null
}

{
  "imageUrl": "https://mmbiz.qpic.cn/sz_mmbiz_jpg/0OXp7MD43VtRia14icFCWOobrv8icjU4zicHUpJAS1ZyjYnQbiay9tNsHLsxvIsnvcjYS3tRaic5D5cTCdgl93KKe1iaTQb1oO9WrJA3w1pj5XNoJE/0?wx_fmt=jpeg",
  "title": "坚持发展和安全并重，涉人工智能司法裁判规则出台！",
  "url": "https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?src=11&timestamp=1788798783&ver=6952&signature=moycBNwe4PxY0Dm*rGKYDWPn2MlarecmVhv51Ti4-Y8SMWNTtGEyv62-i5jMWouM-DARonz5k4EqWpjupk3LkDbwIKS0KypLtdd-iUKCTC1Uu3zKczZnMk96FE72dyxM&new=1",
  "id": "e15679bd922b999188faeca9dd9b6951",
  "accountName": "人民法院报",
  "publishedAt": "2026-09-07T14:20:00.000Z",
  "snippet": "为促推人工智能在法治轨道上安全、健康、有序发展,《最高人民法院关于依法审理涉人工智能纠纷案件的意见》于2026年9月7日正...",
  "searchTerm": "人工智能",
  "position": 2,
  "sogouUrl": "https://weixin.sogou.com/link?url=dn9a_-gY295K0Rci_xozVXfdMkSQTLW6cwJThYulHEtVjXrGTiVgSwhtXwx_nmkITGGAyogJ8vkx3A6gnvBUrlqXa8Fplpd9Xw2Y2BtEv3LrGos1NnKXGlbEzRNuK08pKyEypqYcjqCFke_5Z6hVCKOmIOE1G0dlFRVAvYf7gDT6NAFOeWOSPIiQif98L2nLjK6DfIemrkbHRpDC-kJ41zms3O5CAu1i8_2dv2jxFdPwkZFmCDB-QZU6_oqheRbgOtZThVgePmphlgeRt7bSzA..&type=2&query=%E4%BA%BA%E5%B7%A5%E6%99%BA%E8%83%BD&token=F0C9789A011EC1C571772B975D64114071AFCE5A6A9EE73F",
  "accountId": "gh_06a7c11e78e7",
  "accountAvatarUrl": "http://mmbiz.qpic.cn/mmbiz_png/qrrm9dFnnpQqqHgTs7iaQibD3ds6fbibdp9c17UMWpJY5bbS19q2D7jSLibT1CbOTSUZxcPxmVLJLxmW5eYuDwRKjw/0?wx_fmt=png",
  "author": "Not Disclosed",
  "digest": "点击阅读",
  "isOriginal": "No",
  "wechatBiz": "MzA4MjQ0Njc5OQ==",
  "wechatMid": "2828390259",
  "wechatIdx": "1",
  "commentId": "4684163822553776133",
  "articleStatus": "Available",
  "content": "为促推人工智能在法治轨道上安全、健康、有序发展，《最高人民法院关于依法审理涉人工智能纠纷案件的意见》于2026年9月7日正式出台。有哪些重点、亮点？带你一图读懂！来源最高人民法院新闻局人民法院新闻传媒总社文案莫小雪制图张明翠责任编辑莫小雪",
  "contentLength": 119,
  "imageCount": 2,
  "imageUrls": [
    "https://mmbiz.qpic.cn/sz_mmbiz_png/ND5I25Qy2brmVicO0z5gJ0raYZ2CgPwLibZbzPo8DWFcsMHKWjlAAaHstiaP32VrRTiaqtGQPRnaHanFj3DSzqIKTa211CPvrWqxSsvrsRKw45w/640?wx_fmt=png&from=appmsg#imgIndex=0",
    "https://mmbiz.qpic.cn/mmbiz_jpg/XsJicO53WssLGkf06svDAfc0w7oCxA5K2eYsYbTElveP8RrxwUrBbCc8OWzicu1Mqfvwe5fxX31FrW0ucLoaz1dg/640?wx_fmt=jpeg&from=appmsg#imgIndex=1"
  ],
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-07T16:33:18.266Z",
  "error": null
}

✨ Why choose this Actor

	What you get
The article, not the listing	Full body text, every image, author, digest and the original-content flag on every row. Most WeChat search scrapers stop at the headline.
No login, no WeChat account	Reads the public Sogou index and the public article pages. Nothing to register, nothing that expires.
No browser	Plain HTTP requests, so runs are fast and cheap. A five-article run finishes in about 20 seconds.
Honest coverage	The log prints how many articles Sogou has indexed for each term, and the Actor never claims more than the 100 it can reach per keyword.
Chinese-first	Queries in 汉字 return the richest results; English brand names work too.
One fixed schema	26 columns in a fixed order, sentinels instead of blanks, an error column that is null on good rows.

📈 How it compares to alternatives

Feature	ParseForge WeChat Articles Scraper	WeChat Official Account Scraper by sian.agency	WeChat Official Account Scraper by zen-studio	Sogou WeChat Article Search Scraper by automation-lab
Keyword search for articles	Yes, 100 per keyword	Yes	Yes	Yes
Full article text on the search row	Yes, same row	Separate paid event per article	Separate paid event per article	No
Article images	Yes, all of them	Not listed	Not listed	No
Account ID, author, digest, original flag	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Read and like counts	No, WeChat only shows them inside the app	Yes	Yes	No
Comments	No	Yes	Yes	No
Account profile and history	No	Yes	Yes	No
Login or WeChat account needed	No	No	No	No

Pick sian.agency or zen-studio when you need engagement metrics, comments or an account's full publishing history. Pick this Actor when you want the articles themselves, in full, from a keyword.

🚀 How to use

1. Create a free Apify account with $5 in credit.
2. Open the WeChat Articles Scraper.
3. Enter one or more search terms, set maxItems, and click Start.
4. Export the results as CSV, Excel, JSON or XML from the Dataset tab.

A first run:

{
  "searchTerms": ["人工智能"],
  "maxItems": 10
}

A larger pull across several topics, with search-only rows:

{
  "searchTerms": ["新能源汽车", "比亚迪", "小米汽车"],
  "maxItems": 300,
  "includeArticleContent": false
}

Run it programmatically through the Apify API or the ApifyClient for JavaScript and Python.

💼 Business use cases

📊 Category and brand monitoring

A consumer-goods team runs the brand name and three competitor names every morning. Each article arrives with its account, author and full text, so the analyst reads the actual claims rather than a snippet.

🗞 Media and policy tracking

A public-affairs consultancy searches a new regulation's name and exports every Official Account article about it, with the publishing account and the exact publish time, to see who framed it first and how.

🧠 Corpus building for language models

A data team collects 100 articles for each of 200 topic keywords, keeps content, publishedAt and accountId, and fine-tunes a Chinese summarisation model on real editorial text with provenance.

🎯 Influencer and account discovery

A marketing agency searches its niche keywords, groups the rows by accountId, and builds a shortlist of the Official Accounts that publish original content (isOriginal = Yes) most often.

🔌 Automating WeChat Articles Scraper

• Make and Zapier. Trigger a run on a schedule and route new rows into Google Sheets, Airtable or a CRM.
• Slack. Post the title, account and link of every new article for a keyword into a channel.
• Airbyte. Sync the dataset into a warehouse and join it with your own brand-mention data.
• GitHub Actions. Run the Actor nightly and commit the JSON to a repository as a versioned corpus.
• Google Drive. Save each run's Excel export into a shared folder for the research team.

🌟 Beyond business use cases

• Research. Collect how a topic is discussed across hundreds of accounts with full text and exact dates for content analysis.
• Personal. Follow a niche interest across the accounts that write about it, without opening WeChat.
• Non-profit. Track public-health or environmental messaging by Chinese institutions and media accounts.
• Experimentation. Feed real Chinese long-form text into embedding, translation or summarisation pipelines.

🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper

Add the Actor to Claude, Cursor or any MCP client and ask for WeChat articles in plain language:

$claude mcp add --transport http apify "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=parseforge/wechat-articles-scraper"

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

🔢 How many articles can I get per keyword?

Sogou serves 10 pages of 10 results for any query, so 100 articles per search term. The log prints how many articles Sogou has indexed for the term (for example 611 for "Apify"), so you can see what share you are reaching. Add more specific keywords to reach further.

🔐 Do I need a WeChat account or an API key?

No. The Actor reads the public Sogou search index and the public article pages on mp.weixin.qq.com.

📅 Can I filter by date or by account?

Not on the input. Sogou's date and account filters are not available to automated requests. Filter the dataset on publishedAt and accountId after the run, or put the account name in the search term.

📃 Is the full article text really included?

Yes. content carries the whole body of the article as plain text with paragraphs preserved, and imageUrls carries every inline image. Turn includeArticleContent off if you only need the search rows.

👍 Do I get read counts, likes or comments?

No. WeChat shows those only inside the app. The Actor returns commentId so you can match the thread elsewhere, but not the counts.

⚠️ What does articleStatus mean?

Available means the article page was read in full. Otherwise it carries the reason the page could not be read, such as an account that has migrated or an article the publisher deleted. The row keeps the search-result fields and error stays null.

🔗 Why does url contain a timestamp and a signature?

Sogou hands out a signed link to the article. It opens the article directly, and sogouUrl is the stable link you can keep. The article's own identifiers are in wechatBiz, wechatMid and wechatIdx.

🌐 Do I need a proxy?

Keep Apify proxies on, which is the default. Sogou allows about 20 requests per IP address before it shows an anti-spider page, and the Actor rotates a fresh session for every result page.

🔤 Does it work with English keywords?

Yes. Chinese keywords return more results because most articles are written in Chinese, and a brand name in English usually works well.

🆓 Is there a free tier?

Free-plan runs return up to 10 articles as a preview. Upgrade your Apify plan to collect up to 1,000,000 rows per run.

🕒 How fresh are the results?

Sogou indexes new articles within minutes to hours of publication. Run the Actor on a schedule to catch new pieces as they appear.

🔌 Integrate with any app

Every run's dataset is available through the Apify API, webhooks and the Apify integrations for Make, Zapier, Slack, Airbyte, GitHub, Google Drive and more. Export to CSV, JSON, Excel or XML at any time.

🔗 Recommended Actors

• Sogou WeChat Search Articles Scraper for a lighter, search-only export of WeChat articles.
• WeChat Sogou Search Scraper to search Official Accounts as well as articles.
• Reddit Posts Scraper for the same keyword monitoring on Reddit.
• Truth Social Scraper for public profiles, timelines and posts on Truth Social.

💡 Pro Tip: browse the complete ParseForge collection for more scrapers.

🆘 Need Help? Open our contact form with your run ID, your input and what you expected.

⚠️ Disclaimer: this Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Tencent Holdings Ltd. or Sogou. It collects only publicly available data. You are responsible for using the collected data in compliance with the source's terms of service and applicable data-protection laws, including GDPR, CCPA and PIPL.