Weibo Scraper

Scrape Weibo (微博, Sina Weibo) without a browser. Get keyword search results, a user's posts, fans and following lists, comments, the hot search list (热搜) and the hot feed.

Pick how to log in:

Login	Price per 1,000 items	What you get
Your own cookie	$4.49	Deep results through your account
No login	$4.49	First page of search, user posts, fans and following. Comments, hot search and the hot feed work in full
Our Weibo accounts	Coming soon	Deep results with nothing to set up

Posts, comments, users and hot-search topics all count as one item each.

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What you can get

	No login	With your cookie
Keyword search	First page (~20 newest posts)	Hundreds of posts per keyword
A user's posts	Latest ~10	Page after page, newest first
Fans / following	First 20	Hundreds
Comments on a post	✅ Deep, sorted by likes or newest	✅
User profile	✅	✅
Hot search (热搜), hot feed (热门)	✅	✅
Single posts, full text of long posts	✅	✅

Why the first page only without login? Since 2025, Weibo asks anonymous visitors to log in from page 2 onward, for search, user timelines and follower lists. Every Weibo scraper runs into this. Add your own cookie to get deep results at the same $4.49 per 1,000.

Monitoring doesn't need login. Page one of search and of a user's timeline is always the newest content. Turn on Only new items and schedule the Actor every 15–30 minutes, and you capture every new post for a keyword or account without logging in.

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Quick start

Monitor keywords (no login, run on a schedule):

{
  "searchKeywords": ["新能源汽车", "#比亚迪#"],
  "onlyNew": true,
  "maxCommentsPerFoundPost": 20
}

A brand account with its fans (without login you get the first page):

{
  "users": ["https://weibo.com/u/2803301701"],
  "maxPostsPerUser": 200,
  "maxFans": 500
}

The same with your own account (deep results):

{ "users": ["https://weibo.com/u/2803301701"], "maxPostsPerUser": 200, "accountMode": "own", "cookie": "SUB=...; SUBP=...; ..." }

All comments on a post:

{ "postUrls": ["https://weibo.com/2803301701/RjAABq8CG"], "maxCommentsPerPostUrl": 2000, "commentsSort": "latest" }

Trending now:

{ "hotSearch": true, "hotFeedPosts": 50 }

Output

Every item has a type:

post: id, bid, url, createdAt (ISO 8601 UTC), text (plain text, full text for long posts), likes, comments, reposts, source (device or app), region (IP location shown by Weibo), topics (#hashtags#), mentions, images, video (url, cover, title, durationSec), isPinned, repostOf (the original post if this is a repost), user (userId, name, verified, verifiedReason, followers, following, posts, gender, avatar, url), and keyword or sourceUserId for where it was found.

comment: id, postId, createdAt, text, likes, replies, region, floor, topReplies (up to 3 replies), user.

user: the profile fields above plus description, location, customUrl, memberLevel, verifiedType.

fan / following: user fields plus description, ofUserId, ofUserName (whose fan or following it is).

hotSearch: rank, word, heat, label (e.g. 新, 热, 沸), url.

How to copy your Weibo cookie (only for 'Your own cookie')

1. In Chrome, open https://m.weibo.cn and log in (you can scan the QR code with the Weibo app).
2. Press F12, open the Network tab and press F5.
3. Click the first request (m.weibo.cn), and under Request Headers copy the whole value of Cookie.
4. Set Login to Use my own cookie and paste it into the cookie field.

The field is encrypted by Apify. The cookie is only sent to Weibo.

Safe by design

• Logged-in requests keep one IP for the whole run and wait 0.8 s between requests (adjustable). That is about a quarter of the speed at which Weibo started limiting in our tests.
• If Weibo rate-limits the run, the Actor switches to a new IP once and slows down. If it happens again, the run stops right away. You pay only for items already delivered, and your account is not pushed further.
• If a login expires, the run continues without login and says so in the log.

Pricing

Item	Price
Any item, with your own cookie or no login	$4.49 per 1,000

Logging in with our accounts (no setup) is coming soon.

With Only new items on, you only pay for what's new since the last run.

Good to know

• Long posts are cut off with "...全文" in lists. With Full text of long posts on (default), the Actor fetches the complete text.
• Hidden fan lists and deleted posts return nothing.
• Weibo shows some counts rounded (e.g. "1.2万"). They are converted to numbers.

Questions

Found a bug or want a field added? Open an issue on the Issues tab.