WeChat Articles Scraper: WeChat Official Account (微信公众号) articles with full text, no login

Search WeChat Official Account articles (微信公众号文章) for any words and get each article's title, account, author, publish time, cover, images and its full text, without a WeChat account. WeChat's articles are where Chinese companies, media and creators publish: this is China market research, PR monitoring and trend research in one table.

Add an AI summary and each article also gets its title translated and a 2-3 sentence summary in English or another language, so a team that reads no Chinese can follow what is said.

What you get

Field	What it holds
Article rows	title, account, accountId, author, publishedAt, digest, text (full text), characters, images, cover, url, accountBiz, articleMid, articleIdx, search, rank
AI summary (optional)	titleTranslated, summary, topics, summaryLanguage
SUMMARY	what each search returned, notes and what was charged

What people use it for

• China market research: what Chinese media and companies write about a market
• PR and brand monitoring: articles that mention your brand or a competitor
• Trend research: what WeChat writers cover this week
• Translation: Chinese articles summarised in English
• AI datasets: full Chinese texts with their source

How to use it

1. Enter your searches (Chinese words find the most).
2. Keep Full text on, and pick a language for the AI summary if you want one.
3. Click Start, then download the table (JSON, CSV, Excel).

Input

Field	Example	Notes
Searches	人工智能	One per line; brand and English names work too
Articles per search	20	Up to 100, in the search's own order
Full text	on	Off: title, snippet, account and date only
AI summary in	English	Or another language, or none

Output

Each result is one row in the run's dataset (download it as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or HTML, or read it through the API). An example row (values shortened):

{
  "search": "新能源汽车",
  "rank": 3,
  "title": "新能源车占比三分之二，原油进口降15%，中东土豪为啥坐不住了？",
  "account": "示例公众号",
  "publishedAt": "2026-10-17T09:43:17Z",
  "text": "中国的新能源车渗透速度非常惊人，或许正是因为如此，中东的产油国最近有些坐不住了。为了不让能源命门继续被别人捏着，中国在发展新能源这件事上可谓无所不用其极。早在多…",
  "characters": 1353,
  "images": [
    "https://mmbiz.qpic.cn/sz_mmbiz_jpg/ux3FlibjDV4uuHHfu7SGIvh7ibDcSBYYz17b0Hcwdib2icVibiaAglfATlZtibia1QxTROvWTRahufRJPmmx260yQ3MmRY2XoaJkJB1OQU3GTAbWCwY/640?from=appmsg"
  ],
  "titleTranslated": "NEVs Account for Two-Thirds, Crude Oil Imports Drop by 15%…",
  "summary": "China's rapid adoption of new energy vehicles, which now make up two-thirds of passenger car sales, has led to a significant 15.3% drop in crude oil imports…",
  "summaryLanguage": "English"
}

The example row is from runs on 17 October 2026 (account name replaced, text and summary shortened): a search for 新能源汽车 returned that day's articles with their full text; 6 articles with English summaries took 92 seconds. A record named SUMMARY in the run's key-value store says what each search returned, any notes and what was charged.

Pricing

• $0.004 per article ($4 per 1,000), with its full text and images
• $0.003 per AI summary (only when asked for; failed ones are free)
• Searches with no results cost nothing
• The AI model that writes the summary (Google's Gemini Flash) is billed by Apify at its exact cost: about $0.002 an article on paid Apify plans (measured 17 October 2026); Apify charges free-plan accounts 10 times that

What typical jobs cost at the list price:

Job	Cost
20 articles	$0.08
20 articles with English summaries	$0.14
5 searches, 20 articles each	$0.40
100 articles with summaries	$0.70

On Apify's Scale and Business plans the per-event prices are lower (Store discounts). Set Maximum cost per run and the Actor stops cleanly when it is reached: you never pay more than that.

Tips

• Search in Chinese: 人工智能 finds far more than "artificial intelligence".
• Run brand names in Chinese and in Latin letters: WeChat writers use both.
• Schedule a daily run to follow a topic.

Use it through the API

Python

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("zaiq/wechat-articles-scraper").call(run_input={"searches": ["人工智能"], "maxArticlesPerSearch": 20, "summaryLanguage": "English"})
for row in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(row)

JavaScript

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>' });
const run = await client.actor('zaiq/wechat-articles-scraper').call({"searches": ["人工智能"], "maxArticlesPerSearch": 20, "summaryLanguage": "English"});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();

HTTP (one call, results back)

curl -X POST 'https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/zaiq~wechat-articles-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"searches": ["人工智能"], "maxArticlesPerSearch": 20, "summaryLanguage": "English"}'

Integrations and schedules

• Schedules: run it every hour, day or week from the Apify Console (Schedules) and keep a history of results.
• Make, Zapier, n8n, Google Sheets, Slack, Airtable: connect it through Apify's integrations, or send each finished run to a webhook.
• Datasets: results stay in the run's dataset; export them or read them by API whenever you need them.

Use it with AI agents (MCP)

Add Apify's MCP server (https://mcp.apify.com) to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code or any MCP client. The agent can find this Actor and run it for you: ask it for "find this week's WeChat articles about electric cars and summarise them in English". AI agents can also pay for runs directly through Apify's agentic payments.

Limits

• Articles come from Sogou's WeChat search, which shows signed-out visitors about 10 pages (100 results) per search in its own order; its date filter needs a login, so publishedAt is on every row for you to filter.
• The link is Sogou's signed link to the article: WeChat may expire it after a while, so the account and article ids (accountBiz, articleMid, articleIdx) are on each row too.
• Read counts, likes and comments are not shown to signed-out visitors.
• Some posts are pictures or video only: they have little or no text.

FAQ

Do I need a WeChat account?

No. Everything comes from public search results and public article pages.

Can I get one account's articles?

Search for the account's name: its recent articles come up. A full archive of one account needs a WeChat login, which this Actor does not use.

Is the text translated?

The full text stays in Chinese; the AI summary gives a translated title and a short summary in the language you pick.

How fresh?

As fresh as Sogou's index, usually within hours.

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Support

Questions, a site that changed, or a field you need? Open an issue on this Actor's Issues tab: we answer there, usually within a day.

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