WeChat Article Repost & Original Source Tracker

Find similar WeChat Official Account articles, group probable reposts, infer the earliest source visible in the collected sample, and reconstruct the publisher sequence with timestamps, similarity scores, and evidence links.

Unofficial tool. This Actor is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Tencent, WeChat, Weixin, Sogou, or any source platform.

What buyers receive

• similar-title and similar-content article clusters
• a likely-original article for each cluster
• explicit high, medium, or low original-source confidence
• publisher-by-publisher publication sequence
• time lag from the likely original to each possible repost
• title and available snippet/body similarity scores
• publisher propagation flows across multiple clusters
• unmatched articles for coverage auditing
• evidence URLs and data-quality warnings

This Actor does not call a similarity signal proof of authorship, plagiarism, copyright ownership, or unlawful copying. “Likely original” means the earliest timestamp visible inside the supplied or collected sample.

Data sources

1. Static preview — synthetic articles demonstrate two repost clusters without triggering the $2.99 custom report event.
2. Live public search — discover public articles through a separate Sogou WeChat search Actor.
3. Apify Datasets — analyze up to ten existing article datasets.
4. Uploaded records — paste up to 100 customer-owned article records.

Common article title, snippet, body, publisher, timestamp, article URL, Sogou URL, keyword, and rank aliases are normalized automatically.

Pricing

One successful live, Dataset, or uploaded-data report costs $2.99 and analyzes up to 100 unique articles. The built-in static preview does not trigger the custom report event; Apify may still show the small Actor-start or platform usage charge. Fewer than two usable articles do not create a paid report.

Live search invokes a separate public upstream Actor whose usage is billed separately by Apify. Uploaded and Dataset modes do not invoke a collector.

Important limits

• Search coverage is incomplete and can omit an earlier source.
• Equal or missing timestamps reduce original-source confidence.
• Snippet-only records are weaker evidence than full article text.
• Edited, translated, licensed, syndicated, or independently similar content can produce similarity signals.
• Review evidence before making legal, enforcement, or attribution decisions.

Example

{
  "mode": "liveSearch",
  "keywords": ["品牌发布会", "低糖早餐选购指南"],
  "maxResults": 100,
  "similarityThreshold": 0.58,
  "titleWeight": 0.65
}

Local validation

$python3 -m unittest discover -s tests -v