Xueqiu Scraper — Chinese Stock Discussion & Cashtag Sentiment

Chinese stock-discussion sentiment from Xueqiu (Snowball) — China's Stocktwits-style investor network with 20M+ registered users. Per-ticker cashtag indexing, follower-weighted signal, KOL identification. Covers A-share (SH/SZ), Hong Kong, and US-listed-Chinese tickers. No login for quotes and trending; your cookie unlocks per-ticker posts, profiles and search. No API key, no browser.

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Why Xueqiu matters for Chinese equity

Weibo is widely used for broad public sentiment, but Weibo is general-purpose chatter — only a small fraction is finance-grade signal. Xueqiu is purpose-built for stock discussion, which means:

• Cashtag-indexed posts — every post is tied to a stock symbol the same way Stocktwits tags $TSLA. You can pull every Xueqiu post that mentions SH600519 (Kweichow Moutai) in the last 24 hours and get a clean signal stream.
• A-share + HK + US-listed-Chinese coverage in one schema.
• KOLs are institutional analysts — many top accounts are verified sell-side analysts, hedge fund PMs, and financial-media editors. Follower-weighted sentiment is meaningful here in a way it isn't on Weibo.

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6 modes overview

Mode	What it returns	Anonymous	With cookieString
ticker_posts	Posts mentioning specific tickers	~ Only tickers currently in the live trending stream — illiquid tickers return 0	✓ Full per-symbol chronology — recommended
ticker_quote	Current price, change %, market cap, currency	✓ Full (SH/SZ/HK/US)	✓ Full
user_posts	All recent posts from specific user IDs	– (requires cookies)	✓ Full
user_profile	Follower count, bio, verification, post count	– (requires cookies)	✓ Full
trending	Currently trending recommended posts	✓ Full	✓ Full
post_search	Free-text search across posts	– (requires cookies)	✓ Full

The anonymous tier fully covers ticker quotes (all four markets) and trending discovery. ticker_posts works anonymously only for tickers that happen to be in the live trending stream (popular names like $TSLA); for reliable per-ticker chronology on any ticker — plus user posts/profiles and free-text search — paste a Xueqiu session cookie into cookieString (Xueqiu gates those timelines to logged-in sessions). Instructions are in the input schema. Cookies stay private to your run.

💡 Use the ticker or the Chinese company name — not the English brand. Xueqiu indexes by cashtag and Chinese name, so 比亚迪 or SZ002594 returns far more than "BYD", and 贵州茅台 / SH600519 far more than "Moutai". For post_search, the Chinese company name is the highest-recall query.

Example input for ticker_posts:

{
    "mode": "ticker_posts",
    "tickers": ["TSLA", "00700.HK", "SH600519"],
    "postsPerTicker": 50,
    "sort": "latest"
}

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Output schema

Post items (ticker_posts, user_posts, trending, post_search)

{
    "mode": "ticker_posts",
    "postId": "287634591",
    "tickerExtracted": "SH600519",
    "tickerSource": "$贵州茅台(SH600519)$",
    "tickersInPost": ["SH600519", "SZ000858"],
    "postText": "$贵州茅台(SH600519)$ Q3 earnings beat — margins expanding.",
    "postTextEn": null,
    "publishedAt": "2026-05-14T09:23:11+00:00",
    "source": "iPhone",
    "author": {
        "userId": "1234567890",
        "screenName": "价值投资者",
        "followerCount": 41200,
        "isVerified": true,
        "verificationLabel": "知名投资人"
    },
    "metrics": {
        "likeCount": 142,
        "commentCount": 23,
        "retweetCount": 8,
        "viewCount": null
    },
    "postUrl": "https://xueqiu.com/1234567890/287634591",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-05-14T10:00:00+00:00"
}

Ticker quote items (ticker_quote)

{
    "mode": "ticker_quote",
    "tickerCanonical": "SH600519",
    "tickerInput": "600519",
    "stockName": "贵州茅台",
    "stockNameEn": "Kweichow Moutai",
    "market": "SH",
    "currentPrice": 1612.50,
    "changePct": 0.84,
    "marketCap": 2025000000000.0,
    "marketCapUsd": 280000000000.0,
    "volume": 3142000,
    "currency": "CNY",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-05-14T10:00:00+00:00"
}

User profile items (user_profile)

{
    "mode": "user_profile",
    "userId": "1234567890",
    "screenName": "价值投资者",
    "bio": "10年A股研究，专注消费&医药。",
    "followerCount": 41200,
    "followingCount": 312,
    "postCount": 8420,
    "isVerified": true,
    "verificationLabel": "知名投资人",
    "profileUrl": "https://xueqiu.com/u/1234567890",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-05-14T10:00:00+00:00"
}

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Ticker normalization — the differentiator

The scraper accepts tickers in any common format and converts to a canonical form internally, so you don't have to clean your input list:

Input form	Canonical output
TSLA, $TSLA	TSLA
00700, 00700.HK, HK00700, 0700.HK	HK00700
600519, SH600519, 600519.SH, $600519	SH600519
000001, SZ000001, 000001.SZ	SZ000001
BABA, $BABA	BABA

Cashtag parser handles Xueqiu's native format $贵州茅台(SH600519)$ and extracts both the ticker and display name — including multiple cashtags per post. Every post in the output ships with tickerExtracted (primary) and tickersInPost (all mentioned).

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Pricing examples

Pay-Per-Event (PPE): $0.005/post, $0.002/ticker-quote, $0.005/user-profile.

Workflow	Volume	Cost
Daily monitoring, 20 tickers × 50 posts	1,000 posts/day	$5/day → $150/mo
AI training corpus	10,000 posts (one-time)	$50
Single-analyst, 5 tickers × 100 posts weekly	~2,000 posts/mo	~$10/mo
Daily KOL tracking, 30 users × 30 posts	900 posts/day	$4.50/day → $135/mo
Ticker resolution only	1,000 tickers	$2

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Use cases

1. Quant alt-data — Cashtag sentiment as a feature for A-share / HK alpha. Filter by author follower count for signal weighting.
2. AI training — Chinese-finance NLP corpus. Every post is implicitly tagged with the ticker(s) it discusses — high-quality labeled data for sentiment models.
3. KOL tracking — Identify and continuously monitor named institutional accounts. user_profile ranks them by reach; user_posts streams their daily output.
4. Cross-platform sentiment — Combine with the Weibo Scraper for full Chinese-investor signal coverage: Weibo for broad mood, Xueqiu for finance-specific dialogue.
5. Equity research — Track community reaction to earnings, regulatory news, and sector rotations across SH/SZ/HK simultaneously.

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Check the data quality first

A first check uses about $1 of credit (about 200 posts × $0.005) and needs a cookieString for reliable per-ticker results:

Run ticker_posts with tickers: ["$TSLA", "$00700.HK", "$600519"] and postsPerTicker: 67. Manually spot-check the tickerExtracted field against the post body. Every output row's tickerExtracted must match a cashtag visible in postText. If accuracy is >95%, you have a real product.

The bundled benchmark already validates 100% accuracy (201/201) on synthetic cashtag input — run python -m tests.test_ticker_normalizer from the Actor source to reproduce.

The ticker-extraction logic is the moat — if it ever drops below 95% on real data, that's a P0 bug. Open an issue on the Actor page.

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Compliance posture

• Without a cookie it reads public data; cookie modes read what your own logged-in session can see.
• No login bypass — the scraper does not attempt to extract authenticated-only premium content or paywalled posts.
• No personal data harvesting — only public author metadata that Xueqiu itself displays on every post.
• No private message access, no private follower lists, no email/phone enrichment.

Buyers using this for commercial workflows are responsible for downstream compliance with their own jurisdiction's data laws.

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Part of the Chinese Digital Intelligence Suite

This Actor is one of zhorex's Chinese-platform scrapers:

• 🆕 Chinese Brand Monitor — Cross-platform brand mention aggregator (Weibo + RedNote + Bilibili + Douban + Xueqiu in one normalized feed, sentiment + dedup, $0.06/mention)
• Weibo Scraper — broad public sentiment, hot search, KOL posts
• RedNote (Xiaohongshu) Scraper — lifestyle / consumer brand reviews
• RedNote Shop Scraper — e-commerce listings on RedNote's marketplace
• Douban Scraper — film/book/music reviews and ratings

Use them together for full Chinese-internet coverage. For cross-platform brand monitoring specifically, the Chinese Brand Monitor aggregator orchestrates all 5 platforms in one call.

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Feature requests or bugs? Open an Issue on this Actor's page.

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Support & feedback

Found a bug? Edge case in ticker extraction? Open an issue on the Actor page.

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