# WeChat Article Scraper – 公众号 Search, Full Text & English (`tubetext/wechat-articles-scraper`) Actor

Get WeChat Official Account (公众号) articles from keywords or article links. Returns title, account, publish date, full text, Markdown and images; optional English title and AI summary. No login. $0.003 per article; failed links are free. · by TubeText

- **URL**: https://apify.com/tubetext/wechat-articles-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [TubeText Labs](https://apify.com/tubetext) (community)
- **Categories:** Social media, News, AI
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $2.20 / 1,000 articles

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

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

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

> **TubeText** · Social, apps & trends · Pay per result. No login. Ready for AI agents. [All tools](https://apify.com/tubetext)

### Quick start (no coding)

![WeChat Article Scraper quick start: click Try for free, paste your input, click Start, export to Excel](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/LMSlay/tubetext-assets/main/wechat-articles-quickstart.gif)

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](https://apify.com/tubetext/wechat-articles-scraper/issues) (we read every one). **Need a custom version?** Ask in an issue or [email us](mailto:tubettext@gmail.com) – 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:

```bash
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

```json
{
  "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):

```json
{
  "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 `articleId`s.
- **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](https://apify.com/tubetext/china-trending-topics), [Bilibili Scraper](https://apify.com/tubetext/bilibili-scraper) and [Taobao Scraper](https://apify.com/tubetext/taobao-tmall-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](https://apify.com/tubetext/wechat-articles-scraper/examples/wechat-articles-in-english)
- [WeChat Articles – English Summaries](https://apify.com/tubetext/wechat-articles-scraper/examples/wechat-articles-english-summary)

### TubeText Labs tools

**TubeText Labs** builds 29 pay-per-result Apify Actors for video, social and e-commerce data – no login, JSON/CSV/Excel output, and ready for ChatGPT and Claude (Apify MCP), n8n, Make and Zapier. All tools: [apify.com/tubetext](https://apify.com/tubetext)

**Transcripts**

- [YouTube Transcript Scraper](https://apify.com/tubetext/youtube-transcript-fast) – videos, Shorts, playlists and whole channels to text; Whisper AI when there are no captions
- [TikTok Transcript Scraper](https://apify.com/tubetext/tiktok-transcript) – TikTok captions plus Whisper AI, SRT and timestamps
- [Instagram Reels Transcript](https://apify.com/tubetext/instagram-reels-transcript) – reel links or @usernames to text with Whisper AI
- [Podcast & Video Transcript](https://apify.com/tubetext/any-video-podcast-transcript) – podcast RSS / Apple Podcasts, X, Facebook, Loom, Twitch and audio files to text
- [Facebook Video Transcript](https://apify.com/tubetext/facebook-video-transcript) – public Facebook videos and Reels to text with Whisper AI
- [X (Twitter) Video Transcript](https://apify.com/tubetext/twitter-x-video-transcript) – X/Twitter video posts to text with Whisper AI
- [Bilibili Video Transcript](https://apify.com/tubetext/bilibili-video-transcript) – Bilibili (B站) videos to text with Whisper AI, plus optional English summaries
- [Podcast Transcript](https://apify.com/tubetext/podcast-transcript) – podcast RSS feeds and Apple Podcasts episodes to text with Whisper AI

**Video & ad analysis**

- [Video Breakdown AI](https://apify.com/tubetext/video-breakdown-ai) – hook analysis, shot list, cut pacing, products shown and script of any TikTok, Reel or YouTube video
- [Video Ad Analyzer](https://apify.com/tubetext/video-ad-analyzer) – competitors' YouTube video ads by brand or domain (Google Ads Transparency), torn down by AI
- [Meta Ad Library Scraper](https://apify.com/tubetext/meta-ad-library-videos) – Facebook and Instagram ads by brand or keyword: video URLs, images, ad copy, CTA and landing page

**Social, apps & trends**

- [YouTube Channel Analytics](https://apify.com/tubetext/youtube-channel-analytics) – subscribers, recent video performance, Social Blade grade, ranks and estimated earnings
- [Bilibili Scraper](https://apify.com/tubetext/bilibili-scraper) – Bilibili (B站) keyword search, popular board, top-100 ranking, video stats, danmaku text and creator (UP主) followers – no login
- [China Trending Topics](https://apify.com/tubetext/china-trending-topics) – Douyin, Weibo, Baidu, Toutiao and Bilibili hot-search boards in one run, in English – plus an optional AI briefing on why topics trend
- [WeChat Article Scraper](https://apify.com/tubetext/wechat-articles-scraper) *(this tool)* – WeChat 公众号 articles by keyword or link: full text, English titles and optional English summaries
- [Google Play Reviews + AI Insights](https://apify.com/tubetext/google-play-reviews-ai) – Android app reviews by star rating, country and language, plus an AI report of complaints and praise
- [Steam Reviews Scraper + AI Insights](https://apify.com/tubetext/steam-reviews-scraper) – Steam game reviews with hours played and votes, review score and current players, plus an AI report of top complaints, praise and feature requests
- [Social Blade Scraper](https://apify.com/tubetext/socialblade-scraper) – Social Blade stats for YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and Twitch creators – grade, ranks, 2-week growth, daily history, earnings estimates and top-100 lists
- [Spotify Play Count Scraper](https://apify.com/tubetext/spotify-play-count-scraper) – play counts for every track of an album, artist or playlist (incl. Top 50 charts), plus monthly listeners, followers, world rank and top cities

**E-commerce & travel**

- [TikTok Shop Product Scraper](https://apify.com/tubetext/tiktok-shop-product-scraper) – US TikTok Shop prices, items sold, stock per SKU and shop stats
- [AliExpress Search Scraper](https://apify.com/tubetext/aliexpress-search-scraper) – AliExpress search results by keyword: price, items sold, rating, shipping, badges
- [Google Hotels Scraper](https://apify.com/tubetext/google-hotels-scraper) – hotel prices for any destination and dates, per booking site and as a 90-day price calendar
- [Taobao & Tmall Product Scraper](https://apify.com/tubetext/taobao-tmall-scraper) – Taobao/Tmall products by Chinese or English keyword, category or URL: CNY prices, shops and seller scores
- [Alibaba & Yiwu Supplier Finder by Image](https://apify.com/tubetext/alibaba-yiwu-image-search) – product photo in, similar Alibaba.com and Yiwu wholesale listings out: price, MOQ, supplier, country and rating
- [Amazon Product Search Scraper](https://apify.com/tubetext/amazon-product-search-scraper) – Amazon search results, Best Sellers lists and product pages: price, rating, reviews, monthly sales signal, badges and specs
- [Google Flights Scraper](https://apify.com/tubetext/google-flights-scraper) – flight prices for any route or multi-city trip, a cheapest-day calendar, price insights and booking options per site
- [Agoda & Booking.com Hotel Reviews + AI](https://apify.com/tubetext/agoda-reviews-scraper) – Agoda hotel reviews plus verified Booking.com reviews shown on Agoda, hotel scores and sub-scores, and an AI report of complaints, praise and action items
- [Gas Prices Scraper (US & Canada)](https://apify.com/tubetext/gas-prices-scraper) – live gas station prices by ZIP, city or coordinates – regular, premium, diesel, E85 – with an area summary of the cheapest stations
- [Idealo Price Scraper](https://apify.com/tubetext/idealo-price-scraper) – every shop offer for a product on idealo – price, shipping, delivery, shop rating – in Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Spain and the UK, with a summary per market

**Questions or problems?** [Open an issue](https://apify.com/tubetext/wechat-articles-scraper/issues) (we read every one). **Need a custom version?** Ask in an issue or [email us](mailto:tubettext@gmail.com) – we build it as a private Actor on Apify.

Found it useful? A short review on this page helps others find it.

Built by **TubeText Labs** · Pay per result. No login. Ready for AI agents.

### 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.

# Actor input Schema

## `keywords` (type: `array`):

One search per line. Chinese keywords work best (瑜伽, 新能源汽车, 跨境电商). Searches WeChat Official Account (公众号) articles through Sogou WeChat search.

## `maxArticlesPerKeyword` (type: `integer`):

Sogou shows up to 100 articles (10 pages) per keyword to visitors who are not logged in.

## `urls` (type: `array`):

WeChat article links (mp.weixin.qq.com/s/… or mp.weixin.qq.com/s?\_\_biz=…).

## `includeContent` (type: `boolean`):

Adds the article body as plain text and Markdown (with image links), plus word count and image URLs.

## `translateTitles` (type: `boolean`):

Adds titleEn, a machine translation of each title. Free.

## `englishSummary` (type: `boolean`):

Adds an English summary (3–5 sentences), key points and topic tags for each article, written by AI from the full text. $0.005 per article, charged only when a summary is delivered.

## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

How many articles are fetched at the same time.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "keywords": [
    "跨境电商"
  ],
  "maxArticlesPerKeyword": 20,
  "urls": [],
  "includeContent": true,
  "translateTitles": true,
  "englishSummary": false,
  "maxConcurrency": 5
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `articles` (type: `string`):

No description

# 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 = {
    "keywords": [
        "跨境电商"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("tubetext/wechat-articles-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 = { "keywords": ["跨境电商"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("tubetext/wechat-articles-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 '{
  "keywords": [
    "跨境电商"
  ]
}' |
apify call tubetext/wechat-articles-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,tubetext/wechat-articles-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/Jzb3r3BSph2BLNArP/builds/TZK3QdQgFO2chqJa2/openapi.json