# 🧪 Weibo Profile Scraper (`thenetaji/weibo-profile-scraper`) Actor

Retrieve a Weibo account profile from its numeric ID or profile link, including identity, location, verification, avatars, and account counts.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/thenetaji/weibo-profile-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [The Netaji](https://apify.com/thenetaji) (community)
- **Categories:** Social media, For creators, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $2.55 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
- **JavaScript/TypeScript projects** — the official [JS/TS client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md): `npm install apify-client`.
- **Python projects** — the official [Python client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md): `pip install apify-client`.
- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## Weibo Profile Scraper

The Actor looks up one Weibo account and returns it as a single row: who it says it is, how many people follow it, and what Weibo has verified about it.

```json
{
  "uid": "https://weibo.com/u/1749127163"
}
```

### Accepted input

`uid` is required and takes either the account's numeric user ID or a link to the profile. Links in the shapes `weibo.com/u/<uid>` and `m.weibo.cn/u/<uid>` have the ID pulled out of them for you.

Weibo addresses an account by that number, not by its screen name, so a screen name alone will not open a profile. If you have one and not the other, the [Weibo User Search Scraper](https://apify.com/thenetaji/weibo-user-search-scraper) is what turns a name into candidate accounts.

### Result fields

`uid` is the numeric user ID the row is keyed by, as a string — Weibo IDs run past what a JSON number holds exactly, and a rounded ID joins to nothing.

`screen_name` is the display name and `description` the bio. `location` and `gender` are as recorded on the profile. `profile_image_url` and `avatar_hd` are the avatar at two sizes.

`verified` says whether Weibo has verified the account. `verified_type` is Weibo's own numeric code for which kind of verification, and `verified_reason` is the sentence it gives for it — usually the person's role or the organisation's name, which is often the most useful single field on the row.

`followers_count`, `friends_count` and `statuses_count` are followers, accounts followed, and posts published. `status_total_counter` is Weibo's own bundle of totals for the account, as it returns them.

### Accounts that are not there

A user ID nobody holds, or an account that has been closed, comes back empty rather than as an error. The run succeeds with no rows and nothing is charged.

A run that could not reach the backend fails loudly instead, and so does a response in a shape this Actor does not recognise. An empty dataset always means "there is no such account" — it never stands in for a request that went wrong.

### Related Actors

For the videos that account has posted, use the [Weibo User Videos Scraper](https://apify.com/thenetaji/weibo-user-videos-scraper). To find accounts by name in the first place, use the [Weibo User Search Scraper](https://apify.com/thenetaji/weibo-user-search-scraper). For all of these behind one mode selector, use the [All-in-One Weibo Scraper](https://apify.com/thenetaji/weibo-all-in-one-scraper).

# Actor input Schema

## `uid` (type: `string`):

A Weibo numeric user ID, or a link to the profile — weibo.com/u/<uid> or m.weibo.cn/u/<uid>. Weibo addresses accounts by this number, not by the screen name.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "uid": "1749127163"
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `dataset` (type: `string`):

All records scraped by this run

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "uid": "1749127163"
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("thenetaji/weibo-profile-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "uid": "1749127163" }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("thenetaji/weibo-profile-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "uid": "1749127163"
}' |
apify call thenetaji/weibo-profile-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,thenetaji/weibo-profile-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/abzqWCTT9a6KlWqUL/builds/DiCz5aSTPf5R7ts5W/openapi.json