WeChat Official Accounts Scraper — Posts, Articles, Comments, Engagement, Search 📣

🎉 Five scrapers in one — WeChat user posts, article detail, comments, engagement metrics, and keyword search

Built for China-market researchers, social listening teams, brand monitors, and anyone who needs clean WeChat OA data without the setup headache

⚠️ Independent third-party tool. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Tencent, WeChat, or Weixin. All trademarks are property of their respective owners.

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📋 Overview

Tired of scraping WeChat Official Accounts by hand? This actor gives you reliable, structured data from any public WeChat OA — one clean run per task, one tidy dataset out.

Why thousands of China-market professionals choose SIÁN scrapers:

• ✅ Five operations, one actor: User posts, article detail, comments, engagement metrics, and keyword search — pick what you need
• ⚡ Fully structured output: Every response pre-flattened into a flat row — no parsing nested Chinese JSON
• 🌏 Comments with reader location: Province and country fields on every comment — geo-segment sentiment instantly
• 💰 Best price on the market: Pay-per-result — you only pay for data you actually receive
• 💎 No account, no API key, no setup: Just paste a wxid or article URL and run — works out of the box
• 🔁 Automatic retry on transient errors: WeChat's data layer occasionally rate-limits — we retry with exponential backoff so your run completes

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✨ Features

• 📣 User Posts: Full post history for a WeChat Official Account by wxid — titles, cover images, article URLs, publish timestamps
• 📄 Article Detail: Complete article content — title, full body text, author, publish time, account nickname
• 💬 Article Comments: Reader comments with text, like counts, country, province (geo!), top-comment flag, and reply threads
• 📊 Article Engagement: Read count, like count, watch count, share count, and comment count for any article
• 🔍 Keyword Search: Search WeChat by query across 13 content types — articles, accounts, channels, mini-programs, news, moments, live streams, books, music, and more
• 🌏 Chinese-native + English keywords: Mixed-language search supported (e.g. 双十一, iPhone 15, electric vehicles)
• 📍 Reader geolocation: Every comment carries province and country — segment sentiment by region
• 🔗 Article URL chaining: Run User Posts first to harvest URLs, then feed them into Detail / Comments / Engagement
• 📄 Paginated keyword search: Set maxPages to control scope (1–50 pages, ~20 results/page)
• 🔁 Resilient by default: Transient 503 / FAILED, RETRY upstream errors auto-retry with exponential backoff

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🎬 Quick Start

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/sian.agency~wechat-official-accounts-scraper/runs?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"operation": "userPosts", "wxid": "rmrbwx"}'

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🎯 Which Operation Should I Use?

I want to...	Use this
Pull a competitor's full post history	User Posts with their wxid
Find the wxid of an account by display name	Keyword Search → searchType: accounts
Read an article's full body text	Article Detail with the article URL
Get reader sentiment with location data	Article Comments → filter by province
Measure a viral post's true reach	Article Engagement → readNum, shareNum
Find trending articles on a topic	Keyword Search → searchType: articles + sortType: _4 (hot)
Discover rising Official Accounts in a niche	Keyword Search → searchType: accounts
Chain content + engagement in one pipeline	User Posts → loop URLs into Article Engagement

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🚀 Getting Started (3 Simple Steps)

Step 1: Pick an Operation

Choose one of five modes: 📣 User Posts, 📄 Article Detail, 💬 Article Comments, 📊 Article Engagement, or 🔍 Keyword Search.

Step 2: Provide the Key Input

• User Posts → a wxid (e.g. rmrbwx for People's Daily, Apple for Apple official China)
• Article Detail / Comments / Engagement → an articleUrl (the mp.weixin.qq.com/s?... link)
• Keyword Search → any keyword (Chinese, English, or mixed)

Step 3: Run It

Click Start. Paginated operations (Keyword Search) respect maxPages (default 3, max 50).

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📥 Input Configuration

Field	Type	Required	Description
operation	enum	✅	userPosts | articleDetail | articleComments | articleFeedback | keywordSearch
wxid	string	for userPosts	WeChat Official Account ID (e.g. rmrbwx)
articleUrl	string	for articleDetail / Comments / Feedback	Full mp.weixin.qq.com/s?... URL
keyword	string	for keywordSearch	Search query (Chinese, English, mixed)
searchType	enum	—	articles (default) | accounts | all | channels | mini_programs | news | moments | live_streams | books | music | emoji | encyclopedia | weixin_index
sortType	enum	—	_0 (default) | _4 (hot) | _2 (recency) | _3 (relevance)
maxPages	integer	—	Pages to fetch for paginated ops (1–50, default 3)

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📤 Output Schema

Every row is annotated with metadata for filtering:

Metadata field	What it tells you
_operation	Which operation produced the row (userPosts, articleDetail, etc.)
_fetchedAt	ISO timestamp the row was scraped
_page	Page number (1 for non-paginated ops)
_sourceWxid	Original input wxid (User Posts)
_sourceArticleUrl	Original input URL (Article ops)
_sourceKeyword	Original input keyword (Keyword Search)
status	success or error
errorMessage	Human-readable error if status: error

Per-operation key fields:

• User Posts → title, cover, url, postTime, postDate, articleSeqInPost
• Article Detail → title, content (full body), publishTime, author, accountNickname
• Article Comments → commentNickname, commentContent, likeCount, country, province, commentDate, replyCount, replies[]
• Article Engagement → readNum, likeNum, watchNum, shareNum, commentCount, commentsEnabled
• Keyword Search (articles) → title, desc, articleUrl, publishDate, relativeDate, accountTitle, cover
• Keyword Search (accounts) → wxid, accountName, accountDesc, signature, headImgUrl, verifyFlag, verifySource

All upstream fields are also passed through as-is — power users get the full payload alongside our curated aliases.

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💰 Pricing

Transparent pay-per-result pricing. You only pay for successful rows.

Event	Price
Actor run start	$0.001
User Posts row	$0.013
Article Detail row	$0.130
Article Comments row	$0.017
Article Engagement row	$0.050
Keyword Search row	$0.007

Error rows are never charged.

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🆚 Which WeChat / China Social Scraper Is Right For You?

Use case	Best fit
WeChat Official Accounts (公众号) deep data	This actor ✅
Weibo posts and trending topics	A dedicated Weibo scraper
Douyin / TikTok China videos	A dedicated Douyin scraper
Xiaohongshu / RedNote posts	A dedicated Xiaohongshu scraper
Zhihu Q&A	A dedicated Zhihu scraper
Taobao / Tmall product data	Taobao & Tmall Product Scraper

Vocabulary translation for adjacent China-platform terms:

WeChat term	Approximate equivalent
gongzhonghao / 公众号	Official Account (a brand's WeChat publication)
wxid / aliasName	Account short ID (like @handle on Twitter)
mp.weixin.qq.com	The article hosting domain (like Medium)
小程序 (mini program)	Embedded mini-app inside WeChat
视频号 (Channels)	Short-form video feed (similar to Douyin)
朋友圈 (Moments)	Friend-of-friend post feed (similar to FB feed)

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⚠️ Trademark & Legal Notice

This is an independent third-party scraping tool. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Tencent Holdings Limited, WeChat, or Weixin.

• "WeChat" and "Weixin" are trademarks of Tencent Holdings Limited.
• This actor only retrieves data that is publicly accessible from WeChat Official Accounts.
• Users are responsible for complying with applicable terms of service, copyright, and privacy laws when using the scraped data.

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🛠️ Need Help?

• 🐛 Bug reports: Use the Issues tab in Apify Console for this actor
• 💡 Feature requests: Same place — we ship community-requested features regularly
• 📧 Direct contact: apify@sian-agency.online
• ⭐ Love this tool? Leave a 5-star review — it helps the next person find it

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