WeChat Articles Scraper - Official Account Posts

Search WeChat Official Account (公众号) articles by keyword and export the title, account name, publish date, summary, cover image and article link. You can also add the full article text. No WeChat account or login needed.

What you get

• Title of every matching article
• Official account name that published it (e.g. 重庆发布, Wind万得)
• Publish date as an ISO timestamp, plus the raw Unix timestamp
• Summary snippet and cover image URL (original mmbiz.qpic.cn image)
• Article URL on mp.weixin.qq.com, plus a permanent article link whenever one can be found (see below)
• Search rank and the keyword that found it
• Optional full article text, word count, every image URL in the article, author byline, the account's gh_... ID and the article's biz / mid / idx identifiers
• Export to JSON, CSV, Excel or Google Sheets from the Apify console

Use cases

• China market research: track what Chinese brands, media and government accounts publish about a topic
• Competitor and brand monitoring: find every WeChat article that mentions your brand or a competitor
• Media monitoring and PR: collect press coverage on WeChat for a campaign or event
• Content research: study headlines, publishing times and article length for a niche
• Datasets for NLP and translation: build Chinese-language text corpora with full article bodies

How to use

1. Enter one or more Search keywords (Chinese or English), one per line
2. Optionally enter an Official account name to keep only that account's articles
3. Set Max articles per keyword (up to 100)
4. Turn on Include full article text if you need the article body
5. Run the actor. Results appear in the Dataset tab

Each keyword returns up to about 100 articles, which is the most the WeChat article search shows per query. To collect more, add more specific keywords (for example 新能源汽车 出口, 新能源汽车 电池, 新能源汽车 补贴).

Input example

{
  "keywords": ["人工智能", "新能源汽车"],
  "maxResultsPerKeyword": 50,
  "includeFullText": true
}

Output example

{
  "keyword": "跨境电商",
  "rank": 2,
  "title": "跨境电商面临“最不确定的三年”,这些企业为何超量备货",
  "accountName": "第一财经",
  "publishedAt": "2026-10-22T14:40:39.000Z",
  "publishedTimestamp": 1792680039,
  "summary": "2026.10.22本文字数:2938,阅读时长大约5分钟作者 | 第一财经 缪琦“今年是过去三年跨境电商最难的一年,但不确定会不会是未来...",
  "coverImageUrl": "https://mmbiz.qpic.cn/sz_mmbiz_jpg/1NNic30RcBCLjRx2WbSicJBF6iciarQLOfnfm0BKibuF1azTQY1ZfPibTZz2qo3C9VHIuByRzG5F3mTzCJW6KkAT2uMtk71AFI8JbqQVTx5QLakqQ/0?wx_fmt=jpeg",
  "url": "https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?src=11&timestamp=1792720470&ver=7043&signature=...&new=1",
  "permanentUrl": null,
  "originalArticleUrl": null,
  "author": "缪琦",
  "accountId": "gh_7fbf45a6a562",
  "biz": "MjM5MTM3NTMwNA==",
  "mid": "2661828030",
  "idx": "2",
  "fullText": "2026.10.22\n本文字数：2938，阅读时长大约5分钟\n作者 | 第一财经 缪琦\n“今年是过去三年跨境电商最难的一年，但不确定会不会是未来三年最好的一年。”...",
  "wordCount": 2570,
  "imageUrls": ["https://mmbiz.qpic.cn/mmbiz_png/1NNic30RcBCImfzrtspUBzHs73Pyjt4dRlYFGic4auBslJsutnHOibCoBOIGuicDCE36ia2tJROkiaJXQFSGY7oCn4xdXyWdiamE1wfjRPlw8ZZFv4/640?wx_fmt=png&from=appmsg"],
  "fullTextError": null,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-23T01:54:28.851Z"
}

permanentUrl, originalArticleUrl, author, accountId, biz, mid, idx, fullText, wordCount and imageUrls are only filled when Include full article text is on. author is null when the article has no byline, and accountId is null for some reposted articles.

Good to know

• url is a temporary link. WeChat search only hands out signed article links, and these stop working after a while (usually some hours). Open or archive the articles soon after the run, or turn on full text to save the content right away.
• permanentUrl (https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=…&mid=…&idx=…&sn=…) never expires. WeChat hides it from search visitors, so the actor can only recover it when the article belongs to one of the account's public collections (合集). In our tests that was about 10-20% of articles; for the rest it is null. Requires Include full article text.
• originalArticleUrl is the permanent link of the original article when the result is a "shared" post that only links to another account's article.
• biz + mid + idx always identify the article uniquely and are filled for every article when full text is on, so you can de-duplicate across runs even without a permanent link.
• Account filter is best effort. WeChat search has no "articles from this account" filter, so the actor adds the account name to each search and keeps only matching accounts. You get the account's articles that appear in search results, not its complete history.
• Search order is relevance, as shown by WeChat search. Date filters are not available without a WeChat login.
• Deleted or blocked articles still appear in search but the full text is empty, with the reason in fullTextError.

Pricing

Pay per result: one charge per article saved, plus one extra charge per article when full text is included. Free plan users can test up to 50 articles per run.

FAQ

Do I need a WeChat account? No. The actor only reads publicly searchable articles.

Can I search in English? Yes, but most Official Account content is in Chinese, so Chinese keywords return far more results.

Why did I get fewer than 100 articles for a keyword? The search shows about 10 pages per query and some pages contain duplicates, so 85-95 unique articles is typical. Rare keywords may return fewer.