WeChat Article Scraper – 公众号 Search, Full Text & English Summaries

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Quick start (no coding)

1. Click Try for free at the top of this page. A free Apify account is enough – it includes monthly credit.
2. In Search articles by keyword, paste keywords one per line – Chinese works best (like 跨境电商) – or paste mp.weixin.qq.com/s/… links in Or: article links.
3. Click Start. About a minute for 20 articles.
4. When it says Succeeded, open the Output tab and click Export → Excel (or CSV). One row per article: title, English title, account, date and the full text.

Cost: $0.003 per article – 20 articles ≈ $0.06. English AI summaries add $0.005 each.

Common mistakes

• English keywords find little → WeChat is Chinese; try a Chinese keyword.
• Want to read without Chinese → turn on English AI summary.
• Article links from the search expire → save the text, not just the link.

Questions or problems? Open an issue (we read every one). Need a custom version? Ask in an issue or email us – we build it as a private Actor on Apify.

Use from Claude, Cursor or any MCP client

Add https://mcp.apify.com?tools=tubetext/wechat-articles-scraper as a remote MCP server and sign in to Apify (Claude: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector). Claude Code:

$claude mcp add --transport http tubetext "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=tubetext/wechat-articles-scraper"

Then ask, for example: "Find recent WeChat articles about '新能源汽车' and summarize them in English." or "Get the full text of this WeChat article and translate the title: [link]"

🆓 Free to try: Apify's free plan includes $5 of usage every month, no credit card needed – enough for about 1,600 articles with this tool.

What you get – real output from a test run, shortened. One row per article (full text in more columns):

Account	Title	English title	Words
大冶湖高新区	我市召开跨境电商产业园建设现场办公会	Our city held an on-site office meeting for the c…	551
四川省跨境电子商务协会	跨境电商创新外贸晨报	Cross-border e-commerce innovation foreign trade…	2,619
CTO Plus	跨境电商企业资源管理系统（ERP）	Cross-border e-commerce enterprise resource manag…	3,061

Search WeChat Official Account (公众号) articles by keyword – or paste article links – and get the title, account, publish time, full text (plain text and Markdown), images and cover, plus an English title for every article and an optional English AI summary. WeChat is where Chinese brands, media, governments and industry experts publish; this Actor makes that content searchable and readable for China market research, brand and competitor monitoring, policy tracking and AI datasets. No login, no WeChat account. $3 per 1,000 articles.

What you get per article

• 📰 Title, account name and ID, author, publish time, digest
• 📄 Full text as plain text and Markdown with image links, word count, image URLs and cover image
• 🇬🇧 English title for every article (machine translation, free)
• 🧠 English AI summary (optional): 3–5 sentence summary, key points and topic tags written from the full text – read Chinese industry content without reading Chinese
• 🏷️ postType: article, image post or video post

Input example

{
  "keywords": ["新能源汽车", "跨境电商"],
  "maxArticlesPerKeyword": 20,
  "translateTitles": true,
  "englishSummary": false
}

Keywords work best in Chinese. You can also pass article links (mp.weixin.qq.com/s/…) in urls.

Output example

Real output (Oct 2026, shortened):

{
  "input": "新能源汽车",
  "rank": 1,
  "status": "ok",
  "title": "这一脚，踩在了中国新能源汽车最疼的地方…",
  "titleEn": "This foot has stepped on the most painful part of China's new energy vehicles...",
  "account": "魔都囡",
  "accountId": "gh_ae36af7e44bd",
  "publishedAt": "2026-10-10T02:43:38Z",
  "description": "无法想象的内幕！",
  "postType": "article",
  "wordCount": 11336,
  "content": "…full article text…",
  "contentMarkdown": "…full text with ![](image) links…",
  "images": ["https://mmbiz.qpic.cn/…"],
  "url": "https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?src=11&timestamp=…&signature=…",
  "urlIsTemporary": true,
  "articleId": "MzAxMzk5MDc2OQ==_2247747889_1"
}

With English AI summary on, rows also get summaryEn, keyPoints and topics. status is ok, skipped (article deleted, removed or its account migrated – free), no_results or error (free).

Pricing

Pay per event:

• $3.00 per 1,000 articles (cheaper on higher Apify plans: down to $2.20) – full text and English titles included.
• +$0.005 per English AI summary – only when you turn it on and a summary is delivered.
• Unavailable articles and failed searches are free.

Example: 5 keywords × 20 articles = 100 articles ≈ $0.30 (with English summaries ≈ $0.80).

Limits – read before you run

• Up to 100 articles per keyword: articles are found through Sogou WeChat search, which shows 10 pages to visitors who are not logged in. Use several related keywords for wider coverage.
• Links from search are temporary: WeChat only gives logged-out visitors a time-limited link, so save the text you need (it is in the dataset). articleId stays stable for de-duplication. Links you pass in yourself are returned unchanged.
• No read counts, likes or comments – WeChat shows them only to logged-in users.

Tips

• Monitoring: schedule a daily run for your brand, competitors or industry terms and keep only new articleIds.
• AI pipelines: contentMarkdown feeds straight into LLMs, RAG or translation workflows; use it from the API, n8n, Make, Zapier or AI agents via Apify's MCP server.
• More China data: see our China Trending Topics, Bilibili Scraper and Taobao Scraper.

中文说明

微信公众号文章爬虫：按关键词搜索公众号文章，或粘贴文章链接，获取标题、公众号名称、发布时间、正文全文（纯文本和 Markdown）、图片和封面，并为每篇文章附英文标题；可选英文 AI 摘要。适合行业研究、舆情监测和中国市场调研。无需登录，每篇文章 $0.003，英文摘要每篇 $0.005。

Ready-made examples

• WeChat Articles in English
• WeChat Articles – English Summaries

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Questions or problems? Open an issue (we read every one). Need a custom version? Ask in an issue or email us – we build it as a private Actor on Apify.

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FAQ

Do I need a WeChat account? No. The Actor uses public article pages and public Sogou WeChat search, without logging in.

How good is the English? Titles are machine-translated (fast, sometimes literal). The optional AI summary is written from the full text and reads naturally, but check details against the original before quoting.

Is this legal? The Actor only reads publicly accessible articles without logging in and collects no personal data of readers. Article content is copyrighted by its authors: you are responsible for how you use it.

Can I cap what a run costs? Yes – set Maximum cost per run in the run options. The run stops cleanly when the next article would go over it, and you are never charged more.