Weibo Hot Search Scraper — 微博热搜榜 Trending Topics in Real Time

Scrape the Weibo hot search list without the Weibo API. Get the live 微博热搜榜 (top 50 trending topics) plus the entertainment, life, society and sports boards, each with rank, heat value, category and label. No Weibo account, no cookies, no Chinese phone number. Pay per topic, no start fee.

⭐ 微博热搜 top 50 · 文娱榜 · 生活榜 · 社会榜 · 体育榜 · heat values · new, hot and exploding labels · links to each topic · built for hourly schedules · API and MCP ready

What does Weibo Hot Search Scraper do?

Weibo (微博) is China's largest public social network, and its hot search list is the country's real-time agenda. This Actor exports that list, and four category boards, as clean rows.

Board	Chinese name	What it shows
hot	微博热搜榜	The main hot search list: top 50 plus the pinned topic
entertainment	文娱榜	Celebrities, films, music and shows
life	生活榜	Lifestyle, consumer and everyday topics
social	社会榜	News and social issues
sports	体育榜	Sport

Every run is a snapshot. Schedule it hourly and you have a time series of what China is talking about.

What data does it extract?

Field	Description
word	The trending topic, as shown on Weibo
hashtag	The topic as a hashtag, such as #topic#
rank	Position on the board, 1 to 50. The pinned topic has rank 0
board, boardName	Which board the row comes from, in English and Chinese
hotValue	Weibo's heat number for the topic
category	Weibo's topic category, such as 体育 or 影视
label, labelRaw	new 新, hot 热, exploding 爆, boiling 沸, and the original character
isNew, isAd, isPinned	Flags for new entries, paid placements and the editorially pinned topic
onBoardSince	When the topic entered the board, ISO 8601 (UTC)
url	Link to the topic's search page on Weibo

A Weibo API alternative

Weibo's Open Platform API requires a registered application, real-name verification with a Chinese ID or business licence, and approval for each data scope. Browser-based tools need a logged-in cookie that expires.

This Actor is a Weibo API alternative for trend data. It works without the Weibo API: no developer account, no cookie, no login, no API pricing to negotiate.

	Weibo Open Platform or cookie-based tools	This Actor
Access	Chinese real-name or business verification	Anyone
Maintenance	Cookies expire and must be renewed	None
Boards	Varies	Five boards
Output	API objects	Flat rows: CSV, Excel, JSON

Why use this Weibo trends scraper

Five boards in one run

Main hot search, entertainment, life, society and sports: about 250 topics in a few seconds.

Built for scheduling

There is no start fee, so an hourly schedule costs the same per topic as a single run.

Ads filtered out

Weibo sells positions in the hot list. Paid placements are removed by default, so your trend data is organic.

No account, no cookies

Nothing to log in to and nothing that expires.

How to scrape Weibo hot search

1. Open the Actor and choose the Boards you want. The main hot search list is selected by default.
2. Optionally lower Max topics per board.
3. Press Start. The run finishes in seconds.
4. Export as CSV, Excel, JSON or XML, or read the dataset through the API.
5. To track trends, add a schedule and keep appending to the same dataset.

Input example

{
  "boards": [
    "hot",
    "entertainment",
    "life",
    "social",
    "sports"
  ],
  "maxItemsPerBoard": 50,
  "excludeAds": true
}

Field	Type	Description
boards	array	Which trend boards to scrape. Each holds up to 50 topics. Default ["hot"].
maxItemsPerBoard	integer	Top N topics of each board. The pinned topic on the main board is returned in addition. Default 50.
excludeAds	boolean	Drop topics marked as paid placements, so the list is organic. Default true.
maxItems	integer	Hard cap on topics for the whole run. 0 means no cap.

Output example

{
  "type": "hot_topic",
  "board": "hot",
  "boardName": "微博热搜榜",
  "rank": 1,
  "word": "国庆假期第一天",
  "hashtag": "#国庆假期第一天#",
  "hotValue": 1144237,
  "category": "社会",
  "label": "new",
  "labelRaw": "新",
  "isNew": true,
  "isAd": false,
  "isPinned": false,
  "onBoardSince": "2026-10-01T07:58:19Z",
  "url": "https://s.weibo.com/weibo?q=%23%E5%9B%BD%E5%BA%86%E5%81%87%E6%9C%9F%E7%AC%AC%E4%B8%80%E5%A4%A9%23"
}

Pricing

Pay per result. No start fee, no monthly rental, no minimum.

Event	Charged for	Price
hot-topic-scraped	each trending topic delivered	$4.99 / 1,000

You export	You pay
The main hot search list (51 topics)	$0.25
All five boards (about 250 topics)	$1.25
The main list every hour for a month (about 36,700 topics)	$183

You are charged right after each batch lands in your dataset, so a run you stop early costs only what it delivered. Proxies, when needed, are included.

Use cases

China social listening and PR

See what the Chinese public is discussing today, and whether your brand, sector or spokesperson is on the list.

News and media monitoring

Log the main board every hour and measure how long each story stays in the top 50 and how hot it gets.

Entertainment and celebrity tracking

The entertainment board shows which films, shows and stars are trending, with heat values to compare them.

Market research and trend forecasting

Combine the life and society boards to follow consumer sentiment and emerging concerns.

Content planning

Find the topics with rising heat before they peak, and plan posts around them.

Datasets for research and AI

Build a dated dataset of Chinese trending topics for forecasting, academic study or LLM pipelines.

FAQ

Do I need a Weibo account, cookie or API key? No. It works without the Weibo API and without logging in.

Is scraping Weibo legal? This is general information, not legal advice. The Actor collects only trending topics that Weibo shows publicly to every visitor, and never logs in. The boards contain topic names and aggregate numbers, not personal data. Whether your use is lawful depends on where you are and what you do with the data, and Weibo's terms restrict automated access. Use the data for research and monitoring, and ask a lawyer before building a commercial product on it.

How often does the hot search list change? Weibo refreshes it about every minute.

How many topics do I get? Up to 51 on the main board (50 ranked plus one pinned) and 50 on each other board: about 250 rows for all five.

Are the topics in Chinese? Yes. Topics are returned exactly as Weibo shows them. Pass word to a translation step if you need English.

Does it return the posts under each topic? No. Weibo shows posts and search results only to logged-in users. You get the topic, its numbers and a link.

What is rank 0? The topic Weibo pins above the list. It has no heat value. Filter on isPinned to drop it.

Can I run it on a schedule? Yes, and that is the intended use.

Integrations

• Apify API - start runs and fetch datasets from Python, Node.js, cURL or any HTTP client.
• MCP server - call this Actor as a tool from Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT agents and any MCP client.
• No-code - Make, Zapier, n8n, Google Sheets, Airtable, Slack, webhooks.
• Schedules - run hourly or daily and append to the same dataset to build history.
• Exports - JSON, JSONL, CSV, Excel (XLSX), XML, HTML table.

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Not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Weibo or Sina. This Actor reads only what Weibo shows publicly to a logged-out visitor and does not log in. You are responsible for using the data in line with applicable laws and Weibo's terms.