WeChat Official Account Scraper & Competitor Report

Monitor public WeChat Official Account competitors without uploading a WeChat Cookie. Search public articles through Sogou or analyze article records already stored in your Apify Datasets.

Enter one brand, competitor, product, or category keyword on the first screen. The standard live-search path returns up to 100 article rows and one finished competitor-monitor report. It needs no WeChat login or Cookie.

Live public collection runs inside this Actor. It does not call another public Actor and does not require the customer's plan to run community Actors. Pricing is $0.0025 per delivered article row plus $0.99 per completed report. A 100-article run has a maximum custom-event charge of $1.24. No article or report event is charged when no usable articles return.

Unofficial tool. This Actor is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Tencent, WeChat, Weixin, Sogou, or any source platform.

What buyers receive

Every successful report includes up to 100 normalized article rows plus:

• competitor account share and estimated publishing cadence
• new-post detection when a prior snapshot is supplied
• topic coverage and topic-share changes versus the baseline
• common title formats, including list, question, guide, comparison, case, and announcement patterns
• topics covered by multiple competitors
• uncovered or weakly covered buyer-supplied topics
• evidence-linked content opportunities and source URLs
• explicit data-quality warnings and collection metadata

The analysis is deterministic and evidence linked. It does not claim to use AI and does not invent missing article or audience data.

Ready-made public tasks

Choose the task that matches the result you need. Each task opens with one visible input and a working example:

• Monitor WeChat Official Account competitors
• Find WeChat Official Account topic gaps
• Compare WeChat competitor article strategy
• Preview the WeChat competitor monitor for free

Four source options

1. Preview

Enter preview in the required source field. The Actor runs immediately with a built-in current sample and baseline so you can inspect the report structure. The preview does not charge the report event.

2. Live public Sogou WeChat search

Enter one brand, competitor, product, or category keyword in the required source field. The built-in collector searches the public Sogou WeChat article index, normalizes the returned discovery metadata, and creates the report in the same run.

No WeChat login or Cookie is requested. Live coverage can still be incomplete, delayed, blocked, or throttled by Sogou. Apify Proxy is enabled by default and can be changed under Advanced collection controls.

3. Apify Datasets

Enter dataset:YOUR_DATASET_ID in the required source field. Use priorDatasetId in Advanced source options for an earlier snapshot if you want new-post and topic-shift comparison.

4. Uploaded records

Enter uploaded in the required source field, then paste current article JSON into uploadedRecords under Advanced source options. An optional baselineRecords snapshot enables new-post and topic-shift comparison.

Example live search

{
  "source": "新能源汽车",
  "competitorAccounts": ["品牌甲", "品牌乙"],
  "topicKeywords": ["续航", "安全", "充电", "价格"],
  "lookbackDays": 90,
  "maxResults": 100
}

Example using your own datasets

{
  "source": "dataset:CURRENT_DATASET_ID",
  "priorDatasetId": "PRIOR_DATASET_ID",
  "competitorAccounts": ["竞品公众号A", "竞品公众号B"],
  "topicKeywords": ["用户案例", "价格", "常见问题"],
  "lookbackDays": 90,
  "maxResults": 100
}

Recognized article fields

Common English, Chinese, and Sogou scraper aliases are normalized, including articleId, title, articleTitle, snippet, summary, content, accountName, authorName, gzh_name, publishedAt, publishTimestamp, publishDateText, articleUrl, sogouUrl, coverImageUrl, keyword, position, and page.

At minimum, each usable record needs a title, snippet, or text field. Article URLs and account names improve deduplication and comparison quality.

Pricing

• $0.0025 per delivered article row
• $0.99 per completed competitor content report
• Maximum custom-event charge for 100 articles: $1.24

Empty or unusable input and the illustrative preview do not charge article or report events. There is no separate public Actor charge. Apify may show its small platform Actor Start event separately.

Important limits

• Results describe the collected or uploaded sample, not every WeChat article.
• New-post status and topic changes require an explicit prior Dataset or uploaded baseline.
• Public Sogou search can omit, delay, or reorder results.
• Publishing cadence is a sample-window estimate, not a complete account history.
• Topic and title-pattern labels use transparent cue rules and may miss context.
• The Actor does not access subscriber identities, private messages, backend analytics, private audience demographics, or WeChat credentials.
• Content opportunities are research signals, not guaranteed performance.

Responsible use

Only process data you are authorized to use. Follow source-platform terms, privacy, advertising, intellectual-property, and data-protection requirements.

Related WeChat research

Need to identify repost chains instead of comparing competitor coverage? Use WeChat Article Repost & Original Source Tracker.

Local validation

$python3 -m unittest discover -s tests -v