Weibo Scraper: Hot Search, Posts, Comments & Users (微博)

Extract public data from Weibo (微博), China's largest public social network, without logging in. No Chinese phone number, no cookies from you, no browser. Fast HTTP requests against Weibo's own web endpoints.

What you can scrape

Source	What you get
Hot search (热搜榜)	The real-time top ~50 topics with rank, heat score, label (热/新/沸) and category
Hot posts (热门微博)	Posts from Weibo's public trending feed
Post URLs	Full post: text (including long posts), images, video, topics, reposts, comments and likes, publishing location
Comments	Hot or newest comments plus reply threads, with likes, author and the commenter's IP location (IP属地)
Users	Profile: followers, following, number of posts, verification, location, sign-up date

Use cases

• Trend monitoring: track what China is talking about, hour by hour, with the hot search list.
• Brand and crisis monitoring: collect comments on posts about your brand, with the region of each commenter.
• KOL research: compare follower counts and verification of Weibo accounts.
• Sentiment and NLP: build datasets of Chinese social media comments for analysis.

How to use

1. Turn on Hot search and/or Hot posts, or add post URLs or user URLs.
2. Turn on Scrape comments if you want comments (replies are included by default).
3. Run, then download the results as JSON, CSV or Excel, or use the API.

Accepted post inputs: https://weibo.com/7495781530/RkNNwhoQD, https://m.weibo.cn/detail/5349579864147095, RkNNwhoQD, 5349579864147095. Accepted user inputs: https://weibo.com/u/1669879400, https://weibo.com/n/央视新闻, 1669879400.

Example input

{
  "includeHotSearch": true,
  "includeHotTimeline": true,
  "maxHotTimelinePosts": 30,
  "includeComments": true,
  "maxCommentsPerPost": 100
}

Output

Every record has a type field: hotTopic, post, comment or user. Use the views in the dataset tab, or filter by type when exporting.

Hot topic

{
  "type": "hotTopic",
  "rank": 1,
  "word": "全世界都知道中国人放假了",
  "heat": 1764416,
  "label": "热",
  "category": "幽默",
  "url": "https://s.weibo.com/weibo?q=%23...%23"
}

Post

{
  "type": "post",
  "id": "5349579864147095",
  "url": "https://weibo.com/7495781530/RkNNwhoQD",
  "text": "...",
  "createdAt": "2026-10-02T06:31:33.000Z",
  "location": "重庆",
  "authorName": "...",
  "reposts": 1,
  "comments": 31,
  "likes": 659,
  "topics": ["那英在家失去意识30s"],
  "images": []
}

Comment

{
  "type": "comment",
  "postId": "5349579864147095",
  "text": "...",
  "likes": 86,
  "authorName": "...",
  "authorLocation": "重庆",
  "createdAt": "2026-10-02T06:31:58.000Z",
  "parentId": null
}

Pricing

Pay only for results:

Event	Price
Hot topic	$0.001
Post	$0.003
User profile	$0.003
Comment	$0.001

The run stops cleanly when it reaches the maximum cost you set.

Not included (needs a logged-in account)

Weibo only shows these to logged-in users, so this Actor does not offer them:

• Keyword search of posts (s.weibo.com)
• A user's full list of posts (their timeline)
• The IP location shown on a user's profile page

Everything above is limited to what a logged-out visitor can see.

Notes

• If you run very large jobs and see 418 or 432 errors in the log, enable Apify Proxy (residential) in the Advanced section.
• Respect Weibo's terms and applicable law, and don't use personal data (names, comments) for spam or harassment.

Feedback

Found a bug or need a field that's missing? Open an issue on the Issues tab and it will usually be fixed within a day or two.