# An Official Account's history is read: how do I then fetch only new articles each day? (2026) 1 call a day per account is usually enough: the article list comes newest first, so read the first page and stop at the first article you already have. At $0.0200 a call, 10 accounts cost $0.20 a day, plus $0.0200 for the full text of each new article you want. DataXAPI reads WeChat Official Accounts with 8 endpoints, from $0.0200 a call; a failed call is not charged, and the free trial covers up to 333 calls. Updated 2026-11-04 ## Reading the history first From real calls up to 2026-11-05, counting the 27 times an account was read for 20 pages or more: half stopped within 38 pages, about $0.76 for the list, and the longest ran 449 pages, $8.96. A page held about 20 articles on average. The cursor for the next page lasts 1 hour. Read one account to the end in one go; after a long pause, start that account again from the first page. ## Then each day | Step | How | | --- | --- | | Keep what you have | Save each article's `id`. It is made of the __biz, mid and idx of its long link, so it is the same each time | | Read from the top | Ask for the first page. Keep going to the next page only if every article on it is new | | Stop at the first known one | The list is newest first, so everything after it is already yours | | Fetch only what you need | Full text by the article's `url`, $0.0200; reads and likes, $0.0200 | ## What it comes to An example with round numbers: 10 accounts and 10 new articles a day, full text for each, is 10 list calls and 10 full texts, $0.40 a day. Change the numbers to yours; each call states what it cost. ## Why DataXAPI - Steady: endpoints were available 99.9% of the last 30 days, on a public status page you can check. - Fast: a paid call took 3.5 seconds at the median over the last 7 days (counted 2026-11-06). - Fewer tokens: across 8 endpoints on WeChat Official Accounts, one recorded real response each, the platform's own JSON comes to 21k tokens and what an AI reads through DataXAPI's MCP server to 4,494, 79% fewer; the JSON of a direct API call is 70% fewer too (counted 2026-11-06). Every platform answers in one shape: the author in `author`, counts in `metrics`, the next page in `page.next_cursor`, so another platform needs no new parser. - See before you pay: every endpoint's page shows a recorded real response, field by field. - Spending you control: a failed call is not charged; each key can have a limit, `X-Max-Price` caps one call, and the same `Idempotency-Key` within 24 hours is never charged twice. - Ready for AI: a remote MCP server listed in the official MCP registry as `com.dataxapi/mcp`, usable from Claude, Cursor and ChatGPT. - Free trial of up to 333 calls, no card. ## Endpoints - [WeChat Official Account articles](https://dataxapi.com/apis/wechat_mp/accounts/articles/list/) ($0.0200 / a call): Get a page of the articles a WeChat Official Account published, newest first: title, digest, link, time published. - [WeChat Official Account article detail](https://dataxapi.com/apis/wechat_mp/articles/get/) ($0.0200 / a call): Get one WeChat Official Account article by its link: title, text, time published, the account's name and IDs. - [WeChat Official Account article stats](https://dataxapi.com/apis/wechat_mp/articles/metrics/) ($0.0200 / a call): Get the current counts of a WeChat Official Account article by its long link: reads, likes, recommends, shares, saves, comments. ## How-to guides - [How to list a WeChat Official Account's past articles](https://dataxapi.com/guides/wechat-official-account-articles/) ## More about WeChat Official Accounts - [WeChat Official Accounts API](https://dataxapi.com/apis/wechat_mp/) - [Is there an API for WeChat Official Account articles?](https://dataxapi.com/answers/is-there-an-api-for-wechat-official-account-articles/) - [How do I get WeChat Channels data?](https://dataxapi.com/answers/how-to-get-wechat-channels-data/) - [What is __biz in a WeChat article link?](https://dataxapi.com/answers/wechat-official-account-biz/) - [What do mid, idx and sn mean in a WeChat article link?](https://dataxapi.com/answers/wechat-article-link-mid-idx-sn/) - [What is a WeChat Official Account's original ID (gh_)?](https://dataxapi.com/answers/wechat-official-account-original-id/) - [What is a WeChat Channels account ID (…@finder), and what is an export ID?](https://dataxapi.com/answers/wechat-channels-finder-id/) - [What WeChat data APIs are there? 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