Weibo Scraper – Search, Posts, Comments & Hot Search

Scrape Weibo (新浪微博) without login, cookies or an API key. Search any keyword or #hashtag with date ranges, get full post text (long posts are expanded), engagement counts (likes, comments, reposts), images and video links, topics and @mentions, the reposted post, comments and reply threads, user profiles (followers, following, verification, bio, location) and Weibo's hot-search board (热搜) with heat values.

Mix sources in one run: keywords, post links, profiles and trending together. Posts found twice are saved once. $8 per 1,000 posts, up to 9x cheaper than the most-used Weibo scrapers, with no monthly fee.

What you can use it for

• Brand and product monitoring in China: every public post that mentions your brand, product or competitor, newest first, with the author's region.
• Trend and crisis tracking: snapshot the hot-search board every hour and see how fast a topic grows.
• Sentiment and market research: Chinese posts and comments with clean text and engagement counts, ready for analysis.
• Influencer (KOL) research: find who posts about a niche, then pull their profile with followers and verification.
• AI / NLP datasets: posts and comments with a clean text and markdown field for RAG and training.
• Scheduled feeds: turn on Only new posts to get just the new posts for a keyword on every run.

How to scrape Weibo

1. Create a free Apify account (no credit card needed to start) and open this Actor.
2. Pick what you want in the input form. Add Search keywords (Chinese or English, or a #hashtag) for posts, Post URLs for single posts, Profile URLs or user IDs for profiles, or switch on Trending for the hot-search board. You can fill several at once.
3. Set the limits. Max posts per search is how many posts each keyword returns. Use Posted after / Posted before to focus on a period. Turn on Include comments if you want the discussion under each post.
4. Click Start. A search of 100 posts takes under a minute. Results appear in the Output tab while it runs.
5. Download or connect. Export as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML, or read the dataset through the API, Make, Zapier, n8n, Google Sheets or a webhook.
6. Automate it. Open Schedules, add a daily or hourly schedule, and switch on Only new posts so every run returns just what is new for your keywords.

Tips

• To follow a person, search their name or a hashtag they use. Weibo hides a logged-out visitor's view of anyone's own timeline.
• One keyword returns about 650 posts at most. To collect a whole month, run one search per week with Posted after / before.
• Keep Full text of long posts on. Weibo cuts long posts in search results, and this fetches the rest at no extra cost.
• The hot-search board changes every few minutes. Schedule it hourly and compare the rank and heat fields over time.

Output: post

{
  "type": "post",
  "id": "5354958493848038",
  "mblogId": "Rn3IJg938",
  "url": "https://weibo.com/7849268899/Rn3IJg938",
  "text": "#金玟庭[超话]#  我可以手把手教，我是iPhone",
  "publishedAt": "2026-10-17T02:44:18+00:00",
  "client": "iPhone客户端",
  "region": "云南",
  "authorName": "Jiiouo_w",
  "author": {
    "id": "7849268899",
    "name": "Jiiouo_w",
    "url": "https://weibo.com/u/7849268899",
    "avatarUrl": "https://tvax4.sinaimg.cn/crop.0.0.1080.1080.1024/008zcJphly8ie02tn0pf1j30u00u0jtz.jpg",
    "verified": false,
    "verifiedReason": null,
    "followers": null
  },
  "repostsCount": 0,
  "commentsCount": 0,
  "likesCount": 1,
  "topics": [
    "金玟庭[超话]"
  ],
  "mentions": [],
  "links": [
    {
      "title": "金玟庭超话",
      "url": "sinaweibo://pageinfo?containerid=10080868d76cea78912a2b2913655c36d2dd56&extparam=金玟庭&extension=%7B%22mblog_object_ref%22%3A%22content%22%7D"
    }
  ],
  "images": [
    "https://wx3.sinaimg.cn/large/008zcJphgy1ii55lkpi94j30dt0u0taf.jpg"
  ],
  "video": null,
  "isLongText": false,
  "isEdited": false,
  "repostOf": null,
  "source": "search",
  "searchQuery": "iPhone"
}

Output: comment or reply

{
  "type": "comment",
  "id": "5353269314455293",
  "postId": "5353269197276522",
  "postUrl": "https://weibo.com/3669102477/RmlM3uwXg",
  "isReply": true,
  "parentCommentId": "5353269221130661",
  "text": "欧尼呀",
  "publishedAt": "2026-10-12T10:52:06+00:00",
  "authorName": "介介歪的圆脑袋",
  "author": {
    "id": "7394158264",
    "name": "介介歪的圆脑袋",
    "url": "https://weibo.com/u/7394158264",
    "avatarUrl": "https://tvax2.sinaimg.cn/crop.0.0.1080.1080.1024/0084p8laly8ih88rb6ekuj30u00u0go0.jpg",
    "verified": true,
    "verifiedReason": "微博原创视频博主",
    "followers": 13566
  },
  "likesCount": 9544,
  "replyCount": null,
  "replyToUser": "雪再飘祎会儿",
  "region": "广东",
  "likedByAuthor": false,
  "images": []
}

Output: profile

{
  "type": "user",
  "id": "1669879400",
  "name": "Dear-迪丽热巴",
  "url": "https://weibo.com/u/1669879400",
  "avatarUrl": "https://tvax1.sinaimg.cn/crop.0.0.1080.1080.1024/63885668ly8geyrcrw0zjj20u00u0mz6.jpg",
  "verified": true,
  "verifiedReason": "嘉行传媒签约演员　",
  "followers": 82550518,
  "description": "一只喜欢默默表演的小透明。工作联系jaywalk@jaywalk.com.cn 🍒",
  "gender": "female",
  "location": "上海",
  "following": 294,
  "postsCount": 1937,
  "domain": null,
  "verifiedType": 0,
  "level": 9,
  "createdAt": "2010-07-02 13:19:58",
  "company": "嘉行传媒",
  "school": "上海戏剧学院",
  "birthday": "双子座",
  "ipLocation": null,
  "creditLevel": "阳光信用极好",
  "website": "http://blog.sina.com.cn/dillaba",
  "totalLikes": 3263418047,
  "totalComments": 1055183143,
  "totalReposts": 1897628766
}

Output: hot-search topic

{
  "type": "trend",
  "rank": 1,
  "word": "拿打工人血汗钱给女儿铺星路",
  "label": "新",
  "heat": 1124302,
  "isPinned": false,
  "url": "https://s.weibo.com/weibo?q=%23%E6%8B%BF%E6%89%93%E5%B7%A5%E4%BA%BA%E8%A1%80%E6%B1%97%E9%92%B1%E7%BB%99%E5%A5%B3%E5%84%BF%E9%93%BA%E6%98%9F%E8%B7%AF%23",
  "postUrl": null,
  "category": null
}

Input

{
  "searchQueries": ["小米", "#新能源汽车#"],
  "postedAfter": "2026-10-01",
  "postedBefore": "2026-10-15",
  "maxPostsPerSearch": 300,
  "users": ["https://weibo.com/u/1669879400"],
  "postUrls": ["https://weibo.com/3669102477/RmlM3uwXg"],
  "trending": "hotSearch",
  "includeComments": true,
  "maxCommentsPerPost": 20,
  "maxRepliesPerComment": 3
}

Leave the input empty to get a small sample.

Pricing

You pay per result, plus a tiny start fee. No monthly fee, and you are never charged for items that were not saved.

Result	Price per 1,000
Post	$8.00
Profile	$8.00
Comment or reply	$1.00
Hot-search topic	$1.00

Set the maximum cost per run in the run options and the Actor stops there. Example: 8 keywords × 300 posts (2,400 posts) plus 3,200 comments and replies is about $22.

Use with AI (LangChain / LlamaIndex / CrewAI)

Each post has a markdown field (text with links and hashtags kept) ready for LLMs. With LangChain (pip install langchain-apify):

from langchain_apify import ApifyWrapper
from langchain_core.documents import Document

apify = ApifyWrapper()  # reads APIFY_API_TOKEN
loader = apify.call_actor(
    actor_id="smoldesk/weibo-scraper",
    run_input={"searchQueries": ["新能源汽车"], "maxPostsPerSearch": 100},
    dataset_mapping_function=lambda v: Document(
        page_content=v.get("markdown") or v.get("text") or "",
        metadata={k: v.get(k) for k in ("type", "url", "postUrl", "authorName", "likesCount", "publishedAt")},
    ),
)
docs = loader.load()

Already have a run? Use ApifyDatasetLoader(dataset_id="<run's dataset ID>", dataset_mapping_function=...). LlamaIndex: ApifyActor from llama-index-readers-apify. CrewAI / Claude / MCP clients: add the Actor as a tool through the Apify MCP server: https://mcp.apify.com?actors=smoldesk/weibo-scraper.

Limitations

Weibo shows logged-out visitors less than logged-in users. This Actor never logs in, so:

• A user's own post timeline is not available (Weibo asks for a login). To collect what a person posts, search keywords or hashtags, or read single posts by link.
• Followers and following lists are not available (login required). Profiles show the counts.
• Weibo returns about 48 posts per page and roughly 14 pages (about 650 posts) per search. For more, split the period with Posted after / Posted before (for example one search per week).
• Search results are newest first. Weibo's own "hot" and "people" search tabs are not available.
• Weibo sometimes limits requests. The Actor retries with fresh sessions and switches to datacenter proxies on its own, so very large runs can take a few minutes.

FAQ

Does Weibo have a public API? Weibo's official API needs an approved app and mostly returns your own account's data. This Actor reads the same public endpoints the Weibo website loads for any visitor, and returns clean, English-named JSON.

Do I need a Weibo account, cookies or a Chinese phone number? No. Nothing to log in to, nothing to configure.

Do I need a proxy or VPN? No. It works from Apify's servers as is.

Can I search in English? Yes. Keywords and #hashtags work in Chinese and English.

How do I scrape Weibo comments? Turn on Include comments, choose how many comments per post and how many replies per comment. Comments come with their author, likes and the region Weibo shows.

How do I get only new posts? Turn on Only new posts and schedule the Actor. Each run returns posts that earlier runs with the same keyword and dates haven't seen.

Is it legal? It collects only data Weibo shows publicly to every visitor, with no login. Follow copyright and privacy laws (e.g. PIPL, GDPR) when you reuse it.

Feedback

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