Search WeChat Channels (视频号) short-form videos by keyword and export clean datasets — video titles, direct video URLs, cover images, creators, publish dates, and engagement signals. No account or API key needed.
All notable changes to WeChat Channels Scraper will be documented in this file.
[2026-06-11]
🚀 3 new operations — the actor is now multi-op
The upstream data source brought more WeChat Channels endpoints online, so the actor grows from video-search-only to four operations:
👤 Account Search (searchAccount) — find creator accounts by display name (e.g. 央视新闻); returns verified profession, signature, avatar, and the creator's v2Name.
🎬 Account Videos (accountVideos) — list a creator's full video catalog by v2Name, with object IDs, media type, and engagement.
🔗 Resolve Export ID (convertExportId) — turn a Video Search result's exportId into its canonical object ID + creator.
Chain them: Video Search → Resolve Export ID → Account Videos, or Account Search → Account Videos.
Only endpoints that consistently return clean data are wired; intermittently-failing ones (comments, full metrics, downloads) are intentionally left out and will be added as they stabilize.
[2026-06-09]
🎉 WeChat Channels Scraper — Launch!
Keyword Video Search — Search WeChat Channels (视频号) for any term and export a clean dataset of matching short videos.
Direct Video & Cover URLs — Every result includes the playable CDN video link and cover image, not just a title.
Smart De-duplication — WeChat Channels recycles results across deep pages; we dedupe by video ID and never charge for the same video twice.
Target-driven Collection — Set how many unique videos you want; the actor paginates until it hits the target or the feed is exhausted.
Creator & Engagement Capture — Account name, avatar, publish dates, hot-content flag, and like counts where the source exposes them.
💎 User Benefits
Get WeChat Channels (视频号) video data without a WeChat account, phone, or API key.
Pay only for unique results — built-in de-duplication keeps your bill tied to real videos.
Clean camelCase fields plus the full raw payload, exportable as JSON, CSV, or Excel.
Two dataset views: a complete Overview and a curated Key-fields view.
🎯 Use Cases
Content teams discovering fresh 视频号 videos on a topic or hashtag.
Brand managers monitoring how a brand or campaign appears on WeChat Channels.
Strategists researching rising trends and creators on China's biggest in-app video feed.
Researchers collecting direct video URLs and covers for a keyword corpus.
