An Official Account's history is read: how do I then fetch only new articles each day? (2026)

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

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.
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Endpoints

Each with its price; every page has the parameters, the fields and a recorded response.