Weibo Scraper: hot search, posts, users and comments (微博)

Scrape Weibo (weibo.com, 新浪微博) without logging in:

• the hot search ranking (热搜榜)
• the trending feed
• keyword search
• user profiles and their latest posts
• full post details, including the complete text of long posts
• comments with inline replies

Export to JSON, CSV or Excel, or call it from your code, n8n, Make, Zapier or an AI agent (MCP).

It talks to Weibo's own JSON endpoints with plain HTTP requests (no browser), so runs are fast and cheap. Weibo's visitor cookies, pacing and rate-limit backoff are all handled for you.

What you can scrape

Source	Input	You get
🔥 Hot search	toggle on	About 50 trending topics with rank, heat score and label (热/新/沸/爆). Schedule it to track trends hour by hour.
📈 Trending posts	number of posts	Posts from Weibo's trending feed (热门微博), with full stats.
🔎 Keyword search	原神, #话题#, iPhone...	Posts ranked as Top (综合) or Latest (实时).
👤 Users	weibo.com/u/1669879400, user ID or screen name	Profile (followers, following, post count, verification) plus their latest posts.
📝 Post URLs	weibo.com/<uid>/<mblogid>, m.weibo.cn/detail/<id>, IDs	Full post details.
💬 Comments	toggle on	Hot comments and their inline replies: text, likes, reply count, time, author.

Why this scraper

• About 40% cheaper than the most-used Weibo scrapers on the Store (see Pricing).
• No login needed for any mode.
• 16-digit IDs kept as strings, so JavaScript, Excel and Google Sheets never round them.
• Full text of long posts. Weibo truncates them in lists; the scraper fetches the rest automatically.
• Clean output: plain text with emoji kept as [doge], hashtags extracted, times in ISO 8601 UTC.
• Privacy-minded: no gender, birthday, avatar or IP-location ("发布于/来自 …") fields are collected.
• Built to keep working: global backoff when Weibo rate-limits, automatic switch to Apify Proxy if the IP gets blocked, daily automated health test.

Good to know: guest limits

Weibo shows logged-out visitors only the first page of each list:

• about 10–20 posts per search keyword
• about 10 latest posts per user
• about 20 hot comments per post

Everything that is fetched item by item has no such limit: hot search, the trending feed, profiles and post URLs.

To go deeper, paste the Cookie header of your own logged-in m.weibo.cn session into Weibo cookie (optional). It is stored encrypted and only sent to weibo.cn.

How to use it

1. Click Try for free.
2. Turn on Hot search, or add keywords, users or post URLs.
3. Optionally turn on Include comments.
4. Click Start and download the results from the Output tab, which has Posts, Hot search, Users and Comments views.

Input example

{
    "hotSearch": true,
    "searchQueries": ["原神", "#国庆#"],
    "searchType": "latest",
    "users": ["https://weibo.com/u/1669879400"],
    "hotPosts": 50,
    "maxResults": 20,
    "includeComments": true,
    "maxCommentsPerPost": 20
}

Output

Every record has a type field: post, user, comment or hotTopic.

Post

{
    "type": "post",
    "id": "5349541735302178",
    "mblogid": "RkMO1mfl0",
    "url": "https://weibo.com/6593199887/RkMO1mfl0",
    "text": "原神 #原神# #原神逐月节# \n\n《原神》剧情PV-「燕归来」...",
    "isLongText": false,
    "textTruncated": false,
    "hashtags": ["原神", "原神逐月节"],
    "createdAt": "2026-10-02T04:00:02Z",
    "reposts": 412,
    "comments": 148,
    "likes": 2229,
    "pictureUrls": [],
    "mediaType": "video",
    "mediaTitle": "原神的微博视频",
    "isRepost": false,
    "repostOfId": null,
    "authorId": "6593199887",
    "authorName": "原神",
    "authorFollowers": 11518000,
    "authorVerified": true,
    "authorVerifiedReason": "原神官方微博",
    "source": "search",
    "searchQuery": "原神",
    "position": 2,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-03T13:51:06Z"
}

Hot search topic

{
    "type": "hotTopic",
    "rank": 2,
    "topic": "克罗地亚0比7英格兰",
    "heat": 188232,
    "label": null,
    "searchUrl": "https://s.weibo.com/weibo?q=%23%E5%85%8B%E7%BD%97%E5%9C%B0%E4%BA%9A0%E6%AF%947%E8%8B%B1%E6%A0%BC%E5%85%B0%23",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-03T13:51:05Z"
}

User

{
    "type": "user",
    "id": "1669879400",
    "url": "https://weibo.com/u/1669879400",
    "name": "Dear-迪丽热巴",
    "description": "一只喜欢默默表演的小透明。...",
    "followers": 82552000,
    "following": 294,
    "posts": 1936,
    "verified": true,
    "verifiedType": 0,
    "verifiedReason": "嘉行传媒签约演员",
    "memberRank": 9,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-03T13:51:10Z"
}

Comment

{
    "type": "comment",
    "postId": "5348998560880374",
    "commentId": "5349330078925787",
    "rootId": null,
    "isReply": false,
    "text": "单身",
    "likes": 0,
    "replyCount": 0,
    "createdAt": "2026-10-01T13:58:58Z",
    "authorId": "7949203148",
    "authorName": "第二仙人",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-03T13:51:07Z"
}

Pricing

Pay per result, no subscription. You are only charged for records that land in your dataset.

Record	Event	Price
Post	post	$15.00 per 1,000
User profile	user	$15.00 per 1,000
Comment or reply	comment	$20.00 per 1,000
Hot search topic	hot-topic	$20.00 per 1,000

The exact current prices are always shown on the Pricing tab. Set Maximum cost per run in the run options and the scraper stops cleanly when it is reached. A full hot-search snapshot (~50 topics) costs about $1.00.

FAQ

Why do I only get about 10 posts per keyword? Weibo shows logged-out visitors only the first page of search results and timelines. Use several related keywords, choose Latest to catch new posts on a schedule, or add your own Weibo cookie for deeper pages.

Can I track the hot search over time? Yes. Create a task with Hot search on and schedule it, for example hourly. Each run gives a timestamped snapshot with rank and heat.

Do I need a proxy? No. The scraper paces itself, and on the Apify platform it automatically switches to Apify Proxy if Weibo blocks its IP. If Weibo still blocks for more than 5 minutes, the run stops early and keeps everything it already scraped.

Is scraping Weibo legal? This Actor collects only publicly visible data and leaves out personal details such as gender, birthday and location. You are responsible for how you use the data; check Weibo's terms and the data protection laws that apply to you (GDPR, PIPL...).

Feedback

Found a bug or need another field? Open an issue on the Issues tab, it is usually fixed within a few days.