Weibo Scraper

Search Weibo, read an account's latest posts, pull the comments under a post, or take the real-time hot search list: one row per post, comment or hot topic, with the text, the author and their follower count, likes, comments, reposts, pictures, video links and the place Weibo says it was posted from.

Weibo shows people who aren't signed in one page of results per search tab and an account's latest few dozen posts, and this actor doesn't sign in. So a search brings back 50 to 90 posts and an account about 30, however many exist. Comments don't have that limit: one test run took 2,000 from a single post in under two minutes.

🔍 What Weibo Scraper does

Four jobs, and one run can do all of them. Each runs only when you fill in its field.

• Search. Each term is looked up across Weibo's five result tabs (top, latest, hot, video, pictures), and a post found on two tabs is kept once.
• Accounts. An account's latest posts, newest first. Only its own, reposts it made included.
• Comments. The comments under a post, newest first or in Weibo's hot order, with their replies if you want them.
• Hot search list. The ranked list as it stands when the run reads it: about 50 topics with Weibo's heat figure.

Weibo cuts long posts short in its lists, so the whole text is fetched for each one. Every row is checked against what you asked before it goes in. A search post has to be a result of that search, an account's post has to be that account's, a comment has to belong to that post. Anything else is left out and not charged.

📋 What data you get from each Weibo post

▶️ How to scrape Weibo

1. Open Weibo Scraper and click Try for free. 2. Type words into Search terms, accounts into Accounts, post links into Posts for comments, or tick Hot search list. Any mix works. 3. Lower Posts per search, Posts per account or Comments per post while you're testing. 4. Click Start. 5. Download the rows as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read them through the Apify API.

Start it with every field empty to see the row shape first: one labelled sample post, not charged.

💰 How much does it cost to scrape Weibo?

$1.85 per 1,000 posts, $4.60 per 1,000 comments and $4.60 per 1,000 hot topics. Flat on every Apify plan, no volume tiers. A reply counts as a comment. On the free plan, the $5 Apify gives you each month covers about 2,700 posts, or about 1,050 comments.

You pay for rows that come back. The sample row and every note row are free, and so are posts the checks left out, repeats, and the promoted slot in the hot list. If you set a maximum charge for the run, it stops before the first row it couldn't pay for.

📥 What you give it

{
  "searchTerms": ["咖啡", "华为 手机"],
  "users": ["1749127163", "https://weibo.com/rmrb"],
  "postUrls": ["https://weibo.com/2803301701/RkyFjzhSX"],
  "maxCommentsPerPost": 200,
  "hotList": true
}

Two entries naming one account, an id and a screen name say, are read once. A setting outside its range stops the run before anything is fetched. An entry that isn't a Weibo link or id is skipped with a note, and the rest go ahead.

📤 What you get back

A real post from a search for 华为 手机 on 3 October 2026:

{
  "recordType": "post",
  "id": "5350042053381127",
  "bid": "RkZOZebAj",
  "url": "https://weibo.com/1278131290/RkZOZebAj",
  "createdAt": "2026-10-03T13:08:07.000Z",
  "text": "刚刷到一家华为门店在Mate90首销日卖了231台手机[哆啦A梦吃惊][哆啦A梦吃惊]",
  "textIsComplete": true,
  "authorId": "1278131290",
  "authorName": "搞机大师兄",
  "authorUrl": "https://weibo.com/u/1278131290",
  "authorVerified": true,
  "authorVerifiedReason": "数码博主",
  "authorFollowers": 448000,
  "authorFollowersText": "44.8万",
  "reposts": 0,
  "comments": 27,
  "likes": 55,
  "countsRounded": false,
  "topics": [],
  "mentions": [],
  "links": [],
  "images": ["https://wx3.sinaimg.cn/mw2000/4c2ebc5aly1ihpgye4uzlj210o274h0k.jpg"],
  "imageCount": 1,
  "videoUrl": null,
  "videoCoverUrl": null,
  "videoDurationSeconds": null,
  "videoPlays": null,
  "isRepost": false,
  "repostOf": null,
  "isPinned": false,
  "postedFrom": "山东",
  "sourceLabel": "数码博主",
  "editCount": 0,
  "source": "search",
  "searchTerm": "华为 手机",
  "searchTab": "top",
  "accountInput": null,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-03T15:08:27.798Z"
}

A comment and a hot topic from the same afternoon:

{
  "recordType": "comment",
  "id": "5350030405013535",
  "postId": "5348998178410235",
  "postUrl": "https://weibo.com/2803301701/RkyFjzhSX",
  "parentCommentId": null,
  "replyToName": null,
  "createdAt": "2026-10-03T12:21:50.000Z",
  "text": "祝祖国繁荣昌盛，国泰民安！",
  "likes": 1,
  "replies": 0,
  "authorId": "7911007775",
  "authorName": "无尽夏-Cecily",
  "authorUrl": "https://weibo.com/u/7911007775",
  "authorVerified": true,
  "authorFollowers": 2753,
  "authorLocation": "北京",
  "postedFrom": "江苏",
  "imageUrl": null,
  "commentsOrder": "newest",
  "postInput": "https://weibo.com/2803301701/RkyFjzhSX",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-03T15:11:40.918Z"
}

{
  "recordType": "hotTopic",
  "rank": 1,
  "topic": "爬珠峰的人都堵了",
  "heat": 1686010,
  "category": "幽默",
  "label": "热",
  "isPinned": false,
  "enteredListAt": "2026-10-03T12:48:21.000Z",
  "searchUrl": "https://s.weibo.com/weibo?q=%23%E7%88%AC%E7%8F%A0%E5%B3%B0%E7%9A%84%E4%BA%BA%E9%83%BD%E5%A0%B5%E4%BA%86%23",
  "postUrl": null,
  "listReadAt": "2026-10-03T15:07:58.138Z",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-03T15:07:58.138Z"
}

🧾 Reading the output

To keep only the data, filter on recordType being post, comment or hotTopic. RUN_REPORT in the run's key-value store lists every entry with its status and how many rows it gave.

💡 What people use it for

• Hearing what Chinese buyers say about a brand. Schedule a daily search for its name and keep the post ids you haven't seen.
• Following newspapers, officials or creators without the app: their latest posts with likes and comments, newest first.
• Reading the reaction under one post, a launch or a public apology, 2,000 comments deep.
• Watching what trends. Read the hot list every hour and you have each topic's rank and heat across the day.

From a trending topic to what people say about it, in three runs:

1. Tick Hot search list and pick topics from the topic column. 2. Put them into Search terms and sort the posts on comments. 3. Put the url of the posts you want into Posts for comments.

🚧 What it does not do

• No full history. An account gives its latest 30 or so posts and a search 50 to 90, because that's what Weibo shows without signing in. It doesn't sign in.
• No date range on searches. Weibo's own advanced search asks you to sign in. Filter on createdAt afterwards.
• No follower lists, no lists of who liked or reposted.
• Nothing hidden from the public. Posts limited to friends or fans stay hidden.
• Weibo's hot order ends near 300 comments. Newest first goes through all of them.
• About 100 replies per comment at most, as many as Weibo lists.

🧭 Which Chinese social media scraper do you need?

❓ Questions people ask

Do I need a Weibo account to scrape Weibo?

No. It reads what Weibo shows anyone who isn't signed in, and needs no login, cookie or API key from you.

Why do I get fewer posts than I see in the Weibo app?

The app is signed in and keeps loading as you scroll. Someone who isn't signed in gets one page per search tab and an account's latest few dozen posts. Open m.weibo.cn in a private browser window: what you see there is what this actor can read. Counts keep moving too, so compare against scrapedAt.

Why are some follower counts round numbers?

Weibo writes big accounts as 44.8万 or 1.6亿 in its lists. authorFollowers turns that into a number with the same rounding, and authorFollowersText keeps Weibo's own text.

Can I call it from code or connect it to an AI assistant?

Yes. The API tab has code for Python, JavaScript and the command line. For Claude, ChatGPT or another MCP client, connect https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,dami_studio/weibo-scraper. Either way it runs on your Apify account at the same price.

Is scraping Weibo legal?

It reads public posts, public comments and the public hot list. Names and comments are still personal data under laws such as GDPR and China's PIPL, and Weibo has its own terms of use, so have a reason and read them. Apify's write-up on scraping and the law is a starting point; we are not lawyers.

🆘 If something breaks

Open the Issues tab on the actor page and send the run ID with the entries you used. The status message and RUN_REPORT say which entry fell short.