# How do I get WeChat Channels data?

Call DataXAPI's WeChat Channels (视频号) endpoints with a video's or an account's ID: a video's likes, comments, forwards and saves, the comments under it, an account's profile and videos, the videos in its collections, and a keyword search of Channels videos through WeChat Search. DataXAPI reads WeChat Channels with 7 endpoints, from $0.0200 a call; a failed call is not charged.

## What there is

By a video's ID, a string of digits: its description, author, time, and like, comment, forward and save counts, and its top-level comments with the commenter's name, likes, time and IP location. By an account's ID (`v2_…@finder`): its name, signature, avatar, IP location and number of videos, its videos newest first, 15 a page, and all its public collections. By a collection's ID: the videos in it, 20 a page. By search terms, through WeChat Search: videos with their description, the account's name, likes and saves, length and cover.

Not here: play counts and follower counts. A video found by search comes with the search result's encrypted ID and its account's name only: that ID is not one the video detail and comments take, and may differ in a later search.

## Where the IDs come from

A video's `author.id` is the account's ID. A WeChat Official Account (公众号) profile names its linked Channels account in `ext.channels_id`, so an Official Account's original ID leads to its Channels account.

From the account, its video list gives the video IDs that the video detail and the comments take; so does a collection's video list, whose IDs come from the collection list.

## Endpoints

- [WeChat Channels video detail](https://dataxapi.com/apis/wechat_channels/videos/get/) ($0.0200 / a call): Get one WeChat Channels video by its ID: description, author, time published, likes, comments, forwards, saves.
- [WeChat Channels video comments](https://dataxapi.com/apis/wechat_channels/videos/comments/list/) ($0.0200 / a call): Get a page of top-level comments on a WeChat Channels video by its ID: text, commenter, likes, time posted, IP location.
- [WeChat Channels account profile](https://dataxapi.com/apis/wechat_channels/users/get/) ($0.0200 / a call): Get a WeChat Channels account by its ID: name, signature, avatar, IP location, number of videos.
- [WeChat Channels account videos](https://dataxapi.com/apis/wechat_channels/users/videos/list/) ($0.0200 / a call): Get a page of the videos a WeChat Channels account published, newest first, by the account's ID: description, time published, likes, comments, forwards, saves.
- [WeChat Channels account collections](https://dataxapi.com/apis/wechat_channels/users/collections/list/) ($0.0200 / a call): Get every public collection of a WeChat Channels account by the account's ID: name, description, cover, number of videos, when it was last updated. A collection's ID is what the endpoint that lists its videos takes.
- [WeChat Channels collection videos](https://dataxapi.com/apis/wechat_channels/collections/videos/list/) ($0.0200 / a call): Get a page of the videos in a WeChat Channels collection by the collection's ID, in the collection's own order (oldest first), 20 a page: description, author, time published, likes, comments, forwards, saves.
- [WeChat Channels video search](https://dataxapi.com/apis/wechat_channels/videos/search/) ($0.0200 / a call): Get a page of WeChat Channels videos for search terms through WeChat Search, by relevance, newest or hottest, filtered by time posted: description, the account's name and avatar, time published, likes and saves, length, cover. WeChat Search gives no account ID, and a video's ID is the encrypted one of the search result, which the Channels video endpoint does not take.

## How-to guides

- [How to get WeChat Channels video comments](https://dataxapi.com/guides/wechat-channels-video-comments/)

## More about WeChat Channels

- [WeChat Channels API](https://dataxapi.com/apis/wechat_channels/)
- [Is there an API for WeChat Official Account articles?](https://dataxapi.com/answers/is-there-an-api-for-wechat-official-account-articles/)
- [How to list a WeChat Official Account's past articles](https://dataxapi.com/guides/wechat-official-account-articles/)
- [How to get WeChat Official Account article reads and likes](https://dataxapi.com/guides/wechat-article-reads-and-likes/)

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