WeChat Article Scraper 公众号文章 — Search + Full Text Markdown

What does WeChat Article Scraper do?

WeChat Article Scraper searches WeChat Official Account (微信公众号) articles by keyword and returns the full article text as clean Markdown — plus title, account, author, publish time, images and word count. One run, one dataset, ready for your LLM, RAG pipeline, spreadsheet or BI tool.

• 🔎 Search by keyword: any topic, brand, company or person (中文 keywords work best)
• 📄 Full text, not snippets: Markdown + plain text + every image URL, including picture-style posts (图片消息)
• 🔗 Or paste article URLs: extract full text from mp.weixin.qq.com links you already have
• 🗓️ Date filter: last 24 hours / week / month / year
• 🚫 No login, no cookies, no WeChat account needed
• 💸 $5 per 1,000 full-text articles: pay only for articles delivered

WeChat is where Chinese companies, analysts, regulators and KOLs publish first. Most of it never reaches Google. This Actor makes it searchable and machine-readable.

Who uses it?

• AI / RAG teams: build a Chinese-language knowledge base of fresh industry articles in Markdown
• China market research: track what's being written about an industry (新能源汽车, 大模型, 跨境电商, …)
• Brand & competitor monitoring: find every article mentioning your brand or competitors this week
• Investors & analysts: follow companies, funding news and policy commentary in the source language
• Journalists & academics: collect a corpus of articles on a topic with publish dates and sources

How to use it

1. Enter one or more Search keywords (e.g. 大模型, 比亚迪 出海, 跨境电商 关税).
2. Pick Max articles per keyword (up to 100) and optionally a Published within window.
3. Click Start. Download results as JSON, CSV, Excel or Markdown-ready JSON, or pull them through the Apify API.

Only need titles and summaries? Turn off Fetch full article text for a faster, cheaper run.

Input example

{
  "queries": ["大模型", "新能源汽车 出海"],
  "maxArticlesPerQuery": 20,
  "timeRange": "week",
  "includeContent": true
}

Or extract specific articles:

{
  "articleUrls": ["https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/XXXXXXXXXXXX"]
}

Output example

{
  "query": "大模型",
  "rank": 4,
  "title": "大模型驱动车云协同：智能网联规模化下半场的必备能力",
  "accountName": "汽车规划与鬼画",
  "accountId": "gh_2d60e8065fb0",
  "author": "吴淞1995",
  "publishedAt": "2026-09-22T23:39:37+00:00",
  "ipLocation": "上海",
  "summary": "…",
  "wordCount": 295,
  "contentMarkdown": "报告核心就一句：智能网联车走向规模化后，车云协同得从“保连接”切到“用智能”。…\n\n![](https://mmbiz.qpic.cn/...)",
  "contentText": "报告核心就一句：…",
  "images": ["https://mmbiz.qpic.cn/..."],
  "coverImage": "https://mmbiz.qpic.cn/...",
  "articleId": "Mzg2NjEwMjExNw==_2247530632_2",
  "biz": "Mzg2NjEwMjExNw==",
  "url": "https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?src=11&timestamp=...",
  "source": "search",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-23T02:05:11+00:00"
}

Field	Description
title, summary	Article title and the author's summary
accountName, accountId	Official Account display name and gh_ ID
author	Byline, when the article has one
publishedAt	Publish time (ISO 8601, UTC)
ipLocation	Publisher's IP province, as shown by WeChat
contentMarkdown / contentText	Full article body as Markdown / plain text
images	All image URLs in the article
articleId	Stable ID (biz_mid_idx) for deduplication across runs
url	Article link (links found via search are temporary WeChat links: store articleId for dedup)

Pricing

Event	Price
Article with full text	$0.005 ($5 / 1,000)
Search result without full text (includeContent: false)	$0.0015 ($1.50 / 1,000)

Example: monitoring 10 keywords × 20 new articles every day costs about $1 per day. Set Maximum cost per run in the run options and the Actor stops cleanly when it's reached.

Tips & limits

• Sogou (the WeChat search index) shows at most 100 results per keyword. For more coverage, use more specific keywords (大模型 医疗, 大模型 融资, …).
• The date filter is applied to those top results, so a narrow window (e.g. 24 hours) on a broad keyword may return fewer articles than requested.
• Results are in the original language (Chinese). Pipe contentMarkdown into any LLM to translate or summarize.
• Read/like counts and comments are not included (they require a logged-in WeChat client).
• Keep Apify Proxy enabled for large runs.

Is it legal?

This Actor only collects publicly available articles that anyone can open in a browser without logging in. It does not access private accounts or personal messages. You are responsible for how you use the data. Respect copyright and local law (including China's PIPL and the GDPR) when storing or republishing content.

Integrations & API

Use it from Python, JavaScript, Make, Zapier, n8n, LangChain, or as an MCP tool for AI agents via Apify MCP server. Schedule it daily in Apify to build a continuously updated feed.

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