How to Get Weibo Posts and User Data Through an API

To get Weibo posts and user data programmatically, use Scavio's Weibo API. POST /api/v1/weibo/hot-search returns the live trending board, /search/advanced finds posts on any keyword, /post returns one post with its repost, comment and like counts, /post/comments its comment thread, and /user/info and /user/posts any public account's profile and timeline. Every call costs 1 credit, about $0.002 on the Growth plan billed yearly, and none needs a Weibo account.

Weibo's own Open Platform API works for the user who authorized your app, and its timeline endpoint returns at most their latest 5 posts, so it is the wrong tool for reading other accounts, comments or trends. Every response below was captured on October 27, 2026; Chinese text is shown as returned, with an English gloss.

Step 1: Read the hot-search board

curl -s https://api.scavio.dev/api/v1/weibo/hot-search \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SCAVIO_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{}'

The board came back with 52 entries in 1.3 seconds. The first two, as captured:

{
  "trending": [
    { "word": "外交部回应姆巴佩涉华不当言论", "note": "外交部回应姆巴佩涉华不当言论", "hot": 10511404, "rank": 0, "category": null, "label": "爆" },
    { "word": "大唐辟珠记编剧", "note": "大唐辟珠记编剧", "hot": 1973463, "rank": 1, "category": null, "label": "新" }
  ]
}

The top entry reads "Foreign Ministry responds to Mbappé's remarks about China", with a hot value of 10,511,404 and the label 爆 ("explosive"). rank counts from 0, and a few inserted entries, such as one labelled 上新 ("new launch"), share the rank of the row above, so use the array order as the board position. 10 of the 52 entries were about Mbappé that day; the best Weibo APIs charts them. For a category on every row, call /rankings/social, /rankings/entertainment or /rankings/life, which return 50 entries each.

Step 2: Search posts on the topic

curl -s https://api.scavio.dev/api/v1/weibo/search/advanced \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SCAVIO_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"q": "姆巴佩", "search_type": "hot"}'

This returned 10 posts. The first, trimmed to the fields you will use (tracking parameters removed from URLs):

{
  "id": "5358643302369086",
  "text": "【央视已经全面叫停涉及姆巴佩的赛事和广告播出】...",
  "created_at": "今天14:46",
  "post_url": "https://weibo.com/5044281310/RoBzY9Wj4",
  "source": "微博网页版",
  "weibo_type": "original",
  "user": { "name": "澎湃新闻", "url": "https://weibo.com/5044281310" },
  "media": { "images": ["https://wx2.sinaimg.cn/large/005vnhZYgy1iigwqzi9yzj60xc0irn1a02.jpg"], "videos": [] }
}

That is The Paper (澎湃新闻) reporting that CCTV has halted all Mbappé matches and ads. Search rows give you the id, author, time, device and media but no usable engagement counts, so keep the ids you care about for step 3. /search/realtime returns the newest posts instead (8 posts, the latest 3 seconds old, in our test), and /search/topics returns hashtags with their reads: #姆巴佩# had 2,420,000,000 reads and 876,000 discussions.

Step 3: Get the post with its counts

curl -s https://api.scavio.dev/api/v1/weibo/post \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SCAVIO_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"id": "5358643302369086"}'

{
  "id": "5358643302369086",
  "mid": "5358643302369086",
  "mblogid": "RoBzY9Wj4",
  "created_at": "Tue Oct 27 14:46:25 +0800 2026",
  "source": "微博网页版",
  "reposts_count": 290,
  "comments_count": 374,
  "attitudes_count": 2358,
  "pic_num": 1,
  "video": null,
  "is_long_text": false
}

attitudes_count is likes. The full response adds the text, every image with its size, a video block (title, cover, MP4 URL and duration) when there is one, and the author. Passing the short id from the URL, {"id": "RoBzY9Wj4"}, returns the same post.

Step 4: Read the comments

curl -s https://api.scavio.dev/api/v1/weibo/post/comments \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SCAVIO_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"id": "5358643302369086"}'

The first page held 19 of the post's 374 comments, with a max_id cursor for the next page. The most-liked, trimmed:

{
  "id": "5358643491114131",
  "text": "直接把西甲的转播停了",
  "created_at": "Tue Oct 27 14:47:10 +0800 2026",
  "like_count": 218,
  "reply_count": 21,
  "floor_number": 2,
  "user": { "uid": "6734924766", "nickname": "E_d_w_a_r_d", "followers_count": 190, "verified": false, "gender": "m" }
}

The text reads "Just stop broadcasting La Liga altogether". Its 21 replies come from /post/sub-comments with the comment id, and /post/likes and /post/reposts list who liked and reposted the post.

Step 5: Profile the author

curl -s https://api.scavio.dev/api/v1/weibo/user/info \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SCAVIO_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"uid": "5044281310"}'

{
  "user": {
    "uid": "5044281310",
    "nickname": "澎湃新闻",
    "description": "有内涵的时政新媒体",
    "followers_count": 32732059,
    "following_count": 661,
    "statuses_count": 193610,
    "verified": true,
    "verified_reason": "澎湃新闻官方微博",
    "gender": "m",
    "location": "上海 静安区",
    "profile_url": "/u/5044281310"
  }
}

The verification reason reads "The Paper's official Weibo". You can pass a custom handle as custom instead of uid.

Step 6: Walk the timeline

curl -s https://api.scavio.dev/api/v1/weibo/user/posts \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SCAVIO_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"uid": "5044281310", "page": 2}'

Each page holds up to 20 posts in the same shape as step 3, counts included. On the first page, the Mbappé post's 2,359 likes were more than three times the 742 likes of the other 19 posts combined. Pages run back about 100 deep, which for The Paper reached September 9, 2026. For anything older, /user/search-posts takes starttime and endtime as Unix seconds and returns that window's posts; how to scrape an entire Weibo account uses it to reach 2016.

All 30 endpoints

For a side-by-side of every option, see the best Weibo APIs for posts and user data.

Getting started

1. Sign up at dashboard.scavio.dev/sign-up: 50 free credits, no card required.
2. Copy your API key from the dashboard.
3. Send a POST with an empty body to /api/v1/weibo/hot-search with your key in the Authorization header.

Try the Weibo API free in the playground first, or call it from Claude and other agents through the MCP server.

Reference: Weibo API overview · hot search · advanced search · post · comments · user info · user posts