# Weibo data API: posts, comments and trending (2026) Weibo Open Platform's read endpoints centre on the authorising user, and its comment endpoint returns that user's comments only; to search public posts and read any post's comments and likes, any account's posts and followers, and the hot search list, use a third-party data API. DataXAPI has 11 Weibo endpoints at $0.0020 a call. The free trial covers up to 333 calls; a failed call is not charged. Updated 2026-11-06 ## Does Weibo have an official API? Yes. `statuses/user_timeline` returns the authorising user's posts and `comments/show` says it returns that user's comments only; topic search is marked an advanced endpoint needing approval and is no longer in the main list. An unreviewed app can authorise 15 test accounts, and more than the standard limits goes through the commercial API. ## What do DataXAPI's Weibo endpoints return? A post ID is digits; with only a link or share text, paste it into `url`, desktop or phone link alike. A user ID (uid) is the digits after weibo.com/u/. | You want | Endpoint | Returns | | --- | --- | --- | | Posts by keyword | `weibo.posts.search` | Newest first: text, author and followers, likes, comments, reposts | | One post in full | `weibo.posts.get` | The whole text even of a long post, with views | | Comments, replies, likers | `weibo.posts.comments.list`, `weibo.comments.replies.list`, `weibo.posts.likers.list` | With IP location; about 50 likers a call | | An account, its posts, its followers | `weibo.users.get`, `weibo.users.posts.list`, `weibo.users.followers.list` | Followers 20 a page | | Hot search list | `weibo.trends.list` | 50 terms with rank and heat | ## What does monitoring cost? 10 brand terms searched 5 pages deep every day are 1,500 calls a month at $0.0020, $3. Comments under 200 of the posts add $0.40. A failed call is not charged. ## 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 1.6 seconds at the median over the last 7 days (counted 2026-11-06). - Fewer tokens: across 11 endpoints on Weibo, one recorded real response each, the platform's own JSON comes to 551k tokens and what an AI reads through DataXAPI's MCP server to 17k, 97% fewer; the JSON of a direct API call is 94% 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 - [Weibo realtime search](https://dataxapi.com/apis/weibo/posts/search/) ($0.0020 / a call): Get a page of Weibo posts for search terms, newest first: text (a long post is cut short here), author and follower count, likes, comments, reposts, pictures, topics. - [Weibo post detail](https://dataxapi.com/apis/weibo/posts/get/) ($0.0020 / a call): Get one Weibo post by ID: the whole text (of a long post too), author, likes, comments, reposts, reads, pictures, topics. - [Weibo post comments](https://dataxapi.com/apis/weibo/posts/comments/list/) ($0.0020 / a call): Get a page of comments on a Weibo post by post ID: text, commenter, likes, reply count, time posted, IP location. - [Weibo post likers](https://dataxapi.com/apis/weibo/posts/likers/list/) ($0.0020 / a call): Get the accounts that most recently liked a Weibo post by post ID, about 50 at a time: name, bio, avatar, verification, follower and following counts, number of posts. - [Weibo user profile](https://dataxapi.com/apis/weibo/users/get/) ($0.0020 / a call): Get a Weibo user's profile by user ID: name, bio, avatar, verification, follower and following counts, number of posts. - [Weibo user posts](https://dataxapi.com/apis/weibo/users/posts/list/) ($0.0020 / a call): Get a page of the posts on a Weibo user's profile (their own and their reposts) by user ID, newest first: text (a long post is cut short here), likes, comments, reposts, pictures, topics, whether pinned. - [Weibo hot search board](https://dataxapi.com/apis/weibo/trends/list/) ($0.0020 / a call): Get Weibo's current hot search list, 50 terms, with rank and heat. ## How-to guides - [Weibo API in Python: search posts and get comments (2026)](https://dataxapi.com/guides/weibo-api-python/) ## Sources What this page says of other services is from their own pages and documents, read on 2026-10-29. - [Weibo Open Platform: API list](https://open.weibo.com/wiki/%E5%BE%AE%E5%8D%9AAPI) - [Weibo Open Platform: comments/show](https://open.weibo.com/wiki/2/comments/show) - [Weibo Open Platform: call limits](https://open.weibo.com/wiki/%E6%8E%A5%E5%8F%A3%E8%AE%BF%E9%97%AE%E9%A2%91%E6%AC%A1%E6%9D%83%E9%99%90) ## More about Weibo - [Weibo API](https://dataxapi.com/apis/weibo/) - [My Weibo scraper got blocked: what now? 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(2026)](https://dataxapi.com/answers/weibo-mid-uid-bid/) - [Collecting Weibo comments and Xiaohongshu notes for a thesis, without coding (2026)](https://dataxapi.com/answers/social-media-data-for-thesis-research/) - [Weibo API for AI agents and LLMs: fewer tokens, called from Claude and Cursor (2026)](https://dataxapi.com/answers/weibo-api-for-ai-agents/) --- Catalog revision 9d3b7fa5a896745d. [HTML version](https://dataxapi.com/answers/weibo-data-apis/)