All notable changes to the WeChat Official Account Data Scraper will be documented in this file.
[2026-06-20]
🧯 Graceful gateway-error handling. Temporary upstream error pages are now retried and routed cleanly instead of surfacing as confusing parsing failures.
[2026-06-09]
🎉 WeChat Official Account Data Scraper — Launch!
16 Operations In One — search, accounts, articles, comments, engagement, and trends from a single WeChat Official Account (微信公众号) actor.
wxid-Native Account Resolution — paste a short wxid (rmrbwx), a ghid (gh_363b924965e9), or an account URL; the actor resolves the rest automatically.
Article Search & Hot Article Search — find WeChat articles by keyword or surface viral articles within any date range.
Account Intelligence — account search, basic profile, principal/registration info, original-article count, today's articles, and full historical articles.
Engagement Metrics & Comment Threads — read, like, looking, share, and collect counts plus top-level comments and nested replies.
Trend & Discovery Tools — WeChat Index keyword-trend timeseries, search autocomplete suggestions, and mini-program search.
💎 User Benefits
Turn WeChat Official Accounts into clean, structured datasets with no login, cookies, or API key.
One operation per run, one tidy dataset out — exportable as JSON, CSV, or Excel.
Pay only for real results: empty WeChat responses are never billed.
Built on WeChat's relaunched June 2026 data catalog for improved coverage and stability.
🎯 Use Cases
Marketing teams monitoring brand and competitor content across WeChat Official Accounts.
Business development teams running account and KOL due diligence with registration intelligence.
Content strategists measuring article engagement and reader sentiment.
Market researchers mapping rising topics with WeChat Index trend signals.
Data scientists building Chinese-language content corpora for downstream NLP.
