# What is fakeid for a WeChat Official Account? (2026) As of 2026 fakeid is the ID that stands for an account in the Official Account back end's search and article list. The author of wechat-article-exporter treats it as the same value as __biz. DataXAPI does not take it: its account endpoints take the original ID, which you can find from a name at $0.0200, with no back end and no login. DataXAPI reads WeChat Official Accounts with 8 endpoints, from $0.0200 a call; a failed call is not charged. Updated 2026-11-04 ## Why you run into it Tutorials on exporting another account's articles start from it: log in to your own Official Account's back end, search for the account, and use its `fakeid`. Since 2026-07-30 tools on that route have reported `ret=200013` on the first page, and the author of a well-known one says the interface was closed. We found no announcement from WeChat, so that is his judgement. ## If you would rather not deal with it You need the original ID instead, and you can get it two ways. From a name: `wechat.accounts.search`, where each result's `id` is it. From an article link: `wechat_mp.articles.get`, where `author.id` is it. Then `wechat_mp.accounts.articles.list` gives a page of articles at $0.0200. A `__biz` value put there is refused before anything is charged. ## Endpoints - [WeChat Official Account live search](https://dataxapi.com/apis/wechat/accounts/search/) ($0.0200 / a call): Find WeChat Official Accounts and service accounts for search terms through WeChat Search, closest first, possibly followed by less related ones: original ID, WeChat ID, name, bio, avatar, whether verified, owner, number of original articles. Charged per call; no followers or reads, for estimates of those use wechat_mp.accounts.search. - [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. ## How-to guides - [How to list a WeChat Official Account's past articles](https://dataxapi.com/guides/wechat-official-account-articles/) ## Sources What this page says of other services is from their own pages and documents, read on 2026-11-04. Prices and features change: check the source before you decide. - [wechat-article-exporter issue 117: biz, or fakeid](https://github.com/wechat-article/wechat-article-exporter/issues/117) - [wechat-article-exporter issue 199: the 200013 report](https://github.com/wechat-article/wechat-article-exporter/issues/199) ## More about WeChat Official Accounts - [WeChat Search API](https://dataxapi.com/apis/wechat/) - [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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