Weibo Profile Scraper — 微博 Followers, Posts, Verification, Bio and Contact Email

Scrape Weibo profiles without the Weibo API. Enter user IDs, profile links or nicknames and get each account's followers, post count, total likes, verification, bio, location, company and account age, plus any business email in the bio. No Weibo account, no cookies, no Chinese phone number. Pay per profile, no start fee.

⭐ Followers and total interactions · verification type and reason · bio with contact email extracted · company, school and account age · lookup by ID, link or nickname · duplicates removed · API and MCP ready

What does Weibo Profile Scraper do?

Weibo (微博) is China's largest public social network. This Actor reads the public profile of any Weibo account, whether a celebrity, a KOL, a brand or a media outlet, and returns it as one clean row.

You enter	You get
A user ID, such as 1669879400	That account's profile
A profile link, such as https://weibo.com/u/1669879400	The same
A nickname, such as 人民日报	The account with that exact nickname

Paste thousands in one run. Each account is returned once, even if you list it in several forms.

What data does it extract?

Identity

Field	Description
screenName, uid, url	Nickname, permanent user ID and profile link
bio	Profile description
email, emails	Email addresses found in the bio, which many KOLs and brands publish for business enquiries
website, avatar, cover	Linked website, profile picture and header image

Audience and activity

Field	Description
followers, following, posts	粉丝, 关注 and 微博 counts
totalLikes, totalComments, totalReposts, totalInteractions	Lifetime engagement totals shown on the profile

Verification and background

Field	Description
isVerified, verifiedType, verifiedReason	Verification status, type (personal, enterprise, media, government) and the stated reason
gender, location, ipLocation, birthday	Public attributes
company, school	Employer and education, when published
accountCreatedAt	Registration date
creditLevel, labels, memberLevel, isSvip	Weibo's credit rating, influence labels and membership

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. Its user endpoints return full data only for accounts that authorise your app.

This Actor is a Weibo API alternative for public profile 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
Whose data	Accounts that authorise your app	Any public profile
Maintenance	Cookies expire and must be renewed	None
Output	API objects	Flat rows: CSV, Excel, JSON

Why use this Weibo profile scraper

Lookup by ID, link or nickname

You do not need the numeric ID. A nickname is enough.

Contact emails pulled out for you

KOLs and brands often put a business address in the bio. It is extracted into email, ready for outreach.

Engagement totals, not just followers

Lifetime likes, comments and reposts show whether a large following is active.

No start fee, and failures are free

You pay per profile delivered. Wrong IDs and deleted accounts return a free error row.

How to scrape Weibo profiles

1. Open the Actor and paste user IDs, profile links or nicknames into Profiles, one per line.
2. Press Start.
3. Export as CSV, Excel, JSON or XML, or read the dataset through the API.

💡 A custom address such as weibo.com/somename does not contain the user ID. Use the nickname shown on the profile, or the weibo.com/u/<id> link.

Input example

{
  "profiles": [
    "人民日报",
    "https://weibo.com/u/1669879400"
  ]
}

Field	Type	Description
profiles	array	Required. Weibo user IDs (1669879400), profile links (https://weibo.com/u/1669879400) or exact nicknames (人民日报), one per line.
maxItems	integer	Hard cap on profiles for the whole run. 0 means no cap.

Output example

{
  "type": "profile",
  "uid": "2803301701",
  "screenName": "人民日报",
  "url": "https://weibo.com/u/2803301701",
  "bio": "人民日报法人微博。参与、沟通、记录时代。",
  "followers": 158028869,
  "following": 3096,
  "posts": 153785,
  "totalLikes": 2528324419,
  "totalComments": 276519264,
  "totalReposts": 1183092880,
  "isVerified": true,
  "verifiedType": "media",
  "verifiedReason": "《人民日报》法人微博",
  "location": "北京",
  "company": "人民日报社",
  "accountCreatedAt": "2012-07-22",
  "creditLevel": "阳光信用极好",
  "source": "人民日报"
}

Pricing

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

Event	Charged for	Price
profile-scraped	each profile delivered	$4.99 / 1,000
-	wrong IDs, deleted accounts and duplicates	free

You export	You pay
100 profiles	$0.50
1,000 profiles	$4.99
10,000 profiles	$49.90

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

KOL and influencer vetting for China campaigns

Check a shortlist of Weibo KOLs: audience size, lifetime engagement, verification and business contact.

Brand and competitor tracking

Follow the official accounts of competing brands and chart follower growth over time.

Media and PR lists

Build lists of media outlets and journalists with their verification details and contact addresses.

Creator databases

Keep follower counts and contact details current for every creator in your database with a weekly run.

Research

Study public accounts by type, region and reach. uid never changes, so snapshots join cleanly even when an account renames.

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 profile information that Weibo shows publicly to every visitor, and never logs in. Profiles are personal data under laws such as China's PIPL and the GDPR, and Weibo's terms restrict automated access. Collect only what you need, do not republish personal data, honour deletion requests, and ask a lawyer before building a commercial product on the data.

Does it return the account's posts? No. Weibo shows post lists only to logged-in users. This Actor returns the profile and its totals.

Does it return followers or following lists? No. Those lists need a login.

Can I search for accounts by keyword? No. Weibo's search needs a login. Lookup works by exact nickname, ID or link.

How often does a profile have an email? Only when the owner writes one in the bio. That is common for KOLs, studios and brands, and rare for ordinary users.

How fast is it? About 25 profiles a minute, or 1,500 an hour. Weibo limits how quickly a visitor can open profiles, so the Actor paces itself to keep every lookup reliable.

What happens with a deleted or non-existent account? You get a free error row.

Can I run it on a schedule? Yes. Daily or weekly runs over the same list give you growth history.

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.