🔴 Weibo Scraper — Comments, Trends & KOL Profiles

Collect public Weibo conversations and creator data without manually copying Chinese social-media pages. Export clean comments, audience signals, hot-search rankings, post engagement, and public KOL profiles to JSON, CSV, Excel, or your existing Apify workflow.

Turn public Weibo conversations into actionable audience data. Collect comment text and the public profile signals behind each voice—not just an unstructured wall of replies.

✨ What you can collect

Dataset	Best for	Key fields
💬 Post comments	Sentiment, audience research, consumer feedback	Comment text, likes, replies, location, commenter ID, name, profile, followers
🔥 Hot trends	Real-time China trend monitoring	Rank, topic, heat value, label, category, search URL
👤 User profiles	KOL discovery and creator enrichment	Bio, verification, followers, following, posts, location, avatar
📣 Post details	Campaign and content-performance analysis	Text, media URLs, topics, likes, comments, reposts, author data

The default input is ready to run and returns up to 50 public comment rows in well under five minutes.

💎 Why users choose this Actor

• Audience data, not only text: comment rows include public commenter profile and reach signals whenever Weibo returns them.
• High-volume friendly: add multiple post links and set one result limit for a deduplicated dataset.
• Fast and inexpensive: pure HTTP collection, no browser startup, and a 512 MB default memory allocation.
• No developer key: public data collection does not require a Weibo developer application.
• Automation ready: use schedules, webhooks, REST API, Python, JavaScript, Make, Zapier, n8n, or MCP.

🚀 Get results in 3 steps

1. Choose comments, trends, profiles, or post details.
2. Paste public Weibo links and choose the result limit.
3. Click Start, then download the Dataset as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

💡 Try it instantly: the prefilled example is ready to run and requests 50 public comment rows—no setup or developer key required.

💬 Collect comments from several posts

{
    "operation": "postComments",
    "startUrls": [
        { "url": "https://m.weibo.cn/detail/5285773987283226" },
        { "url": "https://weibo.com/1699432410/Rbmxfkfpt" }
    ],
    "maxItems": 500,
    "commentSort": "hot",
    "includeReplies": true
}

🔥 Get the current hot-search board

{
    "operation": "hotTrends",
    "maxItems": 50
}

👤 Enrich public creator profiles

{
    "operation": "userProfiles",
    "userIds": ["1699432410", "2803301701"],
    "maxItems": 10
}

🎯 Popular use cases

❤️ Brand and product sentiment

Collect public replies to campaign, launch, review, or crisis posts. Feed the original Chinese text and engagement counts into your preferred sentiment or topic-classification pipeline.

👥 Commenter and audience research

Turn public conversation threads into a structured audience dataset. Compare commenter locations, verified status, follower reach, posting activity, and engagement without opening each profile manually.

⭐ KOL and creator discovery

Start with creators found in comments or trend discussions, then enrich their public profiles. Use follower counts, verification reasons, bios, and locations to shortlist relevant accounts.

📈 China trend monitoring

Schedule the hot-trends mode hourly or daily. Store rank and heat-value snapshots in a warehouse or spreadsheet to identify topics gaining visibility.

🥊 Campaign and competitor analysis

Extract public post details and comments for your brand and competitors. Compare likes, reposts, comment volume, topics, media, and audience reactions in one normalized format.

🔬 Academic and market research

Build reproducible datasets of public discussion with stable IDs, timestamps, source URLs, and collection timestamps for downstream analysis.

📦 Clean, analysis-ready output

Every result is stored as a flat Dataset row. Missing public values are omitted instead of being replaced with misleading placeholders.

💬 Comment and audience row

{
    "recordType": "comment",
    "commentId": "5327109888149771",
    "postId": "5327082374825799",
    "text": "就是，弹就完了[加油]",
    "createdAt": "2026-08-01T06:23:53.000Z",
    "likesCount": 12,
    "location": "来自浙江",
    "authorId": "3899688796",
    "authorName": "做人真烦1977",
    "authorProfileUrl": "https://weibo.com/u/3899688796",
    "authorFollowersCount": 428,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-08-01T09:45:00.000Z"
}

🔥 Hot-trend row

{
    "recordType": "hot-trend",
    "rank": 1,
    "title": "花儿与少年8",
    "hotValue": 1071206,
    "category": "综艺",
    "label": "新",
    "isNew": true,
    "url": "https://s.weibo.com/weibo?q=花儿与少年8"
}

👤 KOL profile row

{
    "recordType": "user-profile",
    "userId": "1699432410",
    "userName": "新华社",
    "verified": true,
    "verifiedReason": "新华社法人微博",
    "followersCount": 100000000,
    "location": "北京",
    "profileUrl": "https://weibo.com/u/1699432410"
}

🔌 Connect it to your workflow

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/YOUR_ACTOR_ID/runs?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"operation":"hotTrends","maxItems":50}'

Every successful run writes flat, analysis-ready rows to the default Apify Dataset. Dataset items can be read through the Apify API or exported as JSON, JSONL, CSV, Excel, XML, RSS, and HTML.

⚙️ Simple input guide

Field	Purpose	Default
operation	Select comments, trends, profiles, or post details	postComments
startUrls	Public post or profile links	Ready-to-run example
postIds	Numeric post IDs for automated workflows	Empty
userIds	Numeric user IDs for profile mode	Empty
maxItems	Maximum unique rows across the run	500
commentSort	Popular or latest comments	hot
includeReplies	Save visible reply previews	true
proxyConfiguration	Apify connection configuration	Cost-efficient proxy

⚡ Built for speed and cost control

• Pure HTTP collection avoids expensive browser startup.
• The Actor uses only 512 MB by default; cloud testing peaked near 68 MB.
• Results are deduplicated before reaching the Dataset.
• One limit controls the complete run across multiple source links.
• The 150-result cloud test completed in 2 minutes 39 seconds for approximately $0.0074 in platform resources.

ℹ️ Good to know

• Only publicly accessible Weibo data is collected.
• Deleted, restricted, private, or region-limited content cannot be returned.
• Public comment pagination and profile fields depend on what Weibo exposes for each post or account.
• Trend mode is a real-time snapshot; use Apify Schedules to build historical series.
• Result availability can change as conversations are moderated or older content is archived.

❓ Frequently asked questions

Do I need a Weibo developer key?

No. The Actor works with publicly accessible Weibo data and does not require an official developer application.

Can I use mobile and desktop URLs?

Yes. Paste public m.weibo.cn detail links or regular weibo.com post and profile links. Numeric post and user IDs are also supported.

Can I collect replies as separate rows?

Yes. Keep Include visible replies enabled. Reply rows include their parent comment ID so conversations remain traceable.

Why do some posts return fewer comments than requested?

The result limit is a maximum. Deleted, moderated, restricted, or unavailable comments cannot be returned, and public pagination depth differs by post.

Are images and videos downloaded?

No. Public media URLs are exported when available, which keeps the run faster and less expensive.

✅ Legal and responsible use

Use this Actor only for lawful purposes and respect applicable privacy, intellectual-property, platform, and data-protection requirements. Do not use the output for harassment, spam, sensitive-person profiling, or decisions that materially affect individuals.

Weibo and Sina Weibo are trademarks of their respective owners. This independent Actor is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Weibo.

🛟 Support

If a public URL produces unexpected output, open an Actor issue and include the run ID, selected operation, and a public example URL. Never include account passwords or private authentication cookies.