Weibo Scraper

Extract public data from Weibo (微博), China's largest microblogging platform with more than 500 million monthly users. Weibo is where news breaks and where brands, celebrities and the public talk to each other in China.

Use it to track what is trending in China, to measure the reaction to a post or a campaign, to collect Chinese-language comments for sentiment analysis, or to check the reach of an influencer.

• Full comment threads. Collect the comments under any public post, with replies, likes and the region each comment was posted from.
• Hot search chart. The live ranking of trending topics with heat scores and categories.
• English field names. Output is clean JSON with names like likes, reposts and createdAt. Text content stays in Chinese.
• No login, no cookie and no proxy needed. Press Start and get data.
• Low price. $5 per 1,000 results.

What data can you get?

Mode	One result is	Main fields
Hot search chart	One trending topic	Rank, topic, heat score, category, label, time on chart
Trending posts	One post	Text, likes, comments, reposts, images, video, author, region
Post details	One post	The same fields for the posts you list, with the full text of long posts
Comments	One comment or reply	Text, likes, reply count, date, region, author, author followers
User profiles	One account	Followers, following, post count, total likes received, verification, bio, location, company, school

How to use it

1. Click Try for free.
2. Choose a mode in What to scrape.
3. For post details and comments, paste post URLs. For profiles, paste profile URLs, user ids or account names.
4. Click Start, then download the results as JSON, CSV or Excel.

Input examples

The hot search chart right now:

{
    "mode": "trends"
}

Comments and replies of a post:

{
    "mode": "comments",
    "postUrls": ["https://weibo.com/1669879400/RjCH5q8hs"],
    "includeReplies": true,
    "maxItems": 1000
}

Profiles of accounts:

{
    "mode": "profiles",
    "users": ["人民日报", "https://weibo.com/u/1669879400"]
}

Output examples

A trending topic:

{
    "type": "trend",
    "chart": "hotSearch",
    "rank": 1,
    "topic": "房贷贴息1个百分点",
    "heat": 3020516,
    "category": "财经",
    "label": "新",
    "onChartSince": "2026-09-29T10:20:21Z",
    "url": "https://s.weibo.com/weibo?q=%23%E6%88%BF%E8%B4%B7%E8%B4%B4%E6%81%AF1%E4%B8%AA%E7%99%BE%E5%88%86%E7%82%B9%23",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-09-29T11:20:05Z"
}

A comment:

{
    "type": "comment",
    "commentId": "5346770336090639",
    "postId": "5346769756228362",
    "postUrl": "https://weibo.com/1669879400/RjCH5q8hs",
    "isReply": false,
    "parentCommentId": null,
    "text": "迪迪抱抱[期待][期待]",
    "createdAt": "2026-09-24T12:27:29Z",
    "likes": 18810,
    "replyCount": 1474,
    "postedFrom": "江苏",
    "likedByPostAuthor": false,
    "authorId": "1787569845",
    "authorName": "护舒宝",
    "authorVerified": true,
    "authorVerifiedType": "company",
    "authorFollowers": 619498,
    "authorCity": "北京"
}

A user profile:

{
    "type": "user",
    "userId": "2803301701",
    "name": "人民日报",
    "url": "https://weibo.com/u/2803301701",
    "bio": "人民日报法人微博。参与、沟通、记录时代。",
    "location": "北京",
    "followers": 158011657,
    "following": 3096,
    "posts": 153707,
    "totalLikesReceived": 2527373228,
    "isVerified": true,
    "verifiedType": "media",
    "verifiedReason": "《人民日报》法人微博",
    "joinedAt": "2012-07-22 02:28:35"
}

Dates are in UTC, except joinedAt, which is in China Standard Time (UTC+8). Emoticons appear as codes in square brackets, for example [期待].

How much does it cost?

You pay per saved result: $5.00 per 1,000 results. There is no start fee and no monthly rental.

Run	Results	Cost
The hot search chart	about 50	$0.25
1,000 comments of a post	1,000	$5.00
100 user profiles	100	$0.50

Set a maximum charge per run in the run options and the Actor stops when it is reached.

Limits you should know

Weibo shows only part of its content to visitors who are not logged in. The Actor collects what a visitor can see:

• Keyword search is not included. Weibo requires login to search posts.
• A user's post history is not included. Weibo requires login to open the list of posts on a profile. You can still get any post when you have its URL.
• Repost lists are not included.
• Comments are not always complete on very large threads. Weibo stops serving more comments after some depth, which differs from post to post. The comments field of the post shows how many exist in total.
• Trending posts are a sample. The feed returns what Weibo recommends at that moment and changes on every run.

Tips

• Run the chart on a schedule. Scrape the hot search chart every 10 or 30 minutes to build a history of what trended and for how long.
• Combine modes. Run trending posts first, then feed the url values into comments mode.

FAQ

Is it legal? The Actor collects only data that Weibo shows publicly to every visitor. Results can contain personal data such as usernames. Make sure you have a legitimate reason to process it, as required by the GDPR and similar laws.

Does it download images and videos? No. It returns their URLs. Weibo media URLs can expire after some hours.

Something is broken or missing? Open a ticket in the Issues tab. Issues are usually answered within a day.