China Social Listening: Weibo, Douyin, RedNote, WeChat, News

Search Chinese social media and news for any keyword in one run: Weibo, Douyin, RedNote (Xiaohongshu), Toutiao, WeChat official accounts, news sites, forums, video sites and news apps. Filter by date, platform, sentiment and content type, and get clean JSON. No accounts, cookies or proxies needed, and you only pay for results you get.

What you can get

One result is a post, article, video or comment that mentions your keyword:

Field	What it is
platform, site	where it was published (weibo, douyin, wechat, news, ...) and the site or account name
title, text, summary	the headline and the text
url	link to the original
published_at	publication time (ISO 8601, Beijing time)
type	original, repost or comment
sentiment	negative, neutral or positive
author	the publishing account
metrics	likes, comments, shares, views and saves where the platform shows them
media, repost_of	images and videos, and the original post for reposts
input	the keyword this result was found for

Each keyword's total number of hits and the count per platform go to the run's key-value store as record SUMMARY, free of charge: a quick way to measure how much a topic is discussed, and where, without paying for every result.

Use cases

• Brand and crisis monitoring in China: who is talking about you, where, and how negatively.
• Competitor and product research across platforms in one run.
• Market and trend research: compare topics by volume and by platform over the last 90 days.
• Feeding sentiment dashboards or AI agents (call this Actor as a tool through Apify's MCP server).

Input example

{
  "keywords": ["新能源 汽车", "电池 自燃"],
  "platforms": ["weibo", "douyin", "xiaohongshu", "news"],
  "lastDays": 7,
  "sentiment": ["negative"],
  "maxItems": 200
}

Separate words with spaces to require all of them. Chinese keywords match far more content than English ones. The window is the last N days, or a From/To date range of up to 90 days (Beijing time).

Output example

{
  "platform": "weibo",
  "site": "新浪微博",
  "title": "...",
  "text": "...",
  "url": "https://weibo.com/...",
  "published_at": "2026-10-23T18:42:10+08:00",
  "type": "original",
  "sentiment": "negative",
  "author": { "name": "..." },
  "metrics": { "likes": 312, "comments": 48, "shares": 17 },
  "input": { "keyword": "新能源 汽车" }
}

Pricing

Pay per result, nothing per run: $6.00 per 1,000 results. The SUMMARY totals are free.

Set a maximum cost for a run and the Actor stops there. Searches that find nothing are not charged. On Apify's free plan a run returns up to 10 results, enough to try the Actor; any paid Apify plan removes the limit.

Support

Something not working, or missing a source you need? Open an issue on this Actor's Issues tab and we'll look into it. When the data service is temporarily unavailable, the run says so in its status message, and failed searches are never charged.

FAQ

How many results per keyword? Up to 1,000 (the source's limit). Use date ranges and filters to split bigger topics.

Is this official? No. This Actor is not affiliated with any of the platforms. It returns publicly visible content; use it in line with the laws and rules that apply to you, especially for personal data.