Weibo Scraper (微博): Search, Hot Search, Posts & Comments

Extract public data from Weibo (微博), China's largest public social network, without logging in. No Chinese phone number, no cookies from you, no browser. Fast HTTP requests against Weibo's own web endpoints.

What you can scrape

Source	What you get
Keyword search (搜索)	About 100 recent and top posts per keyword, brand or hashtag, with an optional date range and an only new posts mode for hourly monitoring
Hot search (热搜榜)	The real-time top ~50 topics with rank, heat score, label (热/新/沸) and category
Hot posts (热门微博)	Posts from Weibo's public trending feed
Post URLs	Full post: text (including long posts), images, video, topics, reposts, comments and likes, publishing location
Comments	Hot or newest comments plus reply threads, with likes, author and the commenter's IP location (IP属地)
Users	Profile: followers, following, number of posts, verification, location, sign-up date, plus their latest posts

Use cases

• Trend monitoring: track what China is talking about, hour by hour, with the hot search list.
• Brand and crisis monitoring: search your brand every hour with Only new posts on, then collect the comments, with the region of each commenter.
• KOL research: compare follower counts and verification of Weibo accounts.
• Sentiment and NLP: build datasets of Chinese social media comments for analysis.

How to use

1. Add search keywords, turn on Hot search and/or Hot posts, or add post URLs or user URLs. With nothing selected you get the hot search list.
2. Turn on Scrape comments if you want comments (replies are included by default).
3. Run, then download the results as JSON, CSV or Excel, or use the API.

Accepted post inputs: https://weibo.com/7495781530/RkNNwhoQD, https://m.weibo.cn/detail/5349579864147095, RkNNwhoQD, 5349579864147095. Accepted user inputs: https://weibo.com/u/1669879400, https://weibo.com/n/央视新闻, 1669879400.

Example input

Brand monitoring (schedule it hourly):

{
  "searchQueries": ["比亚迪", "小米汽车"],
  "onlyNewPosts": true,
  "includeComments": true,
  "maxCommentsPerPost": 50
}

Trends and hot posts:

{
  "includeHotSearch": true,
  "includeHotTimeline": true,
  "maxHotTimelinePosts": 30,
  "includeComments": true,
  "maxCommentsPerPost": 100
}

Output

Every record has a type field: hotTopic, post, comment or user. Use the views in the dataset tab, or filter by type when exporting.

Hot topic

{
  "type": "hotTopic",
  "rank": 1,
  "word": "全世界都知道中国人放假了",
  "heat": 1764416,
  "label": "热",
  "category": "幽默",
  "url": "https://s.weibo.com/weibo?q=%23...%23"
}

Post

{
  "type": "post",
  "id": "5349579864147095",
  "url": "https://weibo.com/7495781530/RkNNwhoQD",
  "text": "...",
  "createdAt": "2026-10-02T06:31:33.000Z",
  "location": "重庆",
  "authorName": "...",
  "reposts": 1,
  "comments": 31,
  "likes": 659,
  "topics": ["那英在家失去意识30s"],
  "images": []
}

Comment

{
  "type": "comment",
  "postId": "5349579864147095",
  "text": "...",
  "likes": 86,
  "authorName": "...",
  "authorLocation": "重庆",
  "createdAt": "2026-10-02T06:31:58.000Z",
  "parentId": null
}

Pricing

Pay only for results:

Event	Price
Hot topic	$0.002
Post	$0.01
User profile	$0.01
Comment	$0.003

That is $10 per 1,000 posts and $3 per 1,000 comments. These prices apply from 14 November 2026. The run stops cleanly when it reaches the maximum cost you set.

Public access and your own cookie (optional)

Without any login, Weibo shows visitors the first page of each search tab and of each user's posts, so a run returns about 100 posts per keyword and a user's 10 latest posts. Scheduled runs with Only new posts build a continuous feed from that.

If you need more, paste the cookie of your own logged-in m.weibo.cn session into Your Weibo cookie (it needs SUB and SUBP). The Actor then follows search results and users' post lists beyond the first page, up to your limits. The cookie is stored as a secret input and used only in your run. Weibo may restrict accounts used for automated access, so a secondary account is safer. If Weibo doesn't accept the cookie, the run says so and continues with public access.

The Actor never asks for passwords and has no account of its own.

Notes

• If you run very large jobs and see 418 or 432 errors in the log, enable Apify Proxy (residential) in the Advanced section.
• Respect Weibo's terms and applicable law, and don't use personal data (names, comments) for spam or harassment.

Related

• China Consumer Complaints (黑猫投诉): complaints about any company
• China Trending Topics: 20+ Chinese hot lists in one run
• Douyin Hot Search: Douyin's top 50 and music chart

中文说明

抓取微博公开数据：关键词搜索（每个关键词约 100 条最新和热门微博，可按日期筛选，支持“只要新微博”定时监测；可选填自己账号的 cookie 获取更多页）、热搜榜、热门微博、指定微博、评论及 IP 属地、用户资料及其最新微博。输出为统一的 JSON 字段，无需登录。按结果计费，可在 Apify 上直接运行或通过 API 调用，也可设置定时任务。有问题或需要新字段，请在 Issues 页面留言（中文、英文均可）。

Feedback

Found a bug or need a field that's missing? Open an issue on the Issues tab and it will usually be fixed within a day or two.