# My Weibo scraper got blocked: what now? (2026)

2 routes need no scraper: Weibo's own business data API, for companies and partly paid, or a per-call data API such as weibo.posts.search, about 10 posts a page at $0.0020. On the second, weibo.posts.comments.list gives about 20 comments a page at the same price, with one key and no account or cookie of yours. DataXAPI reads Weibo with 11 endpoints, from $0.0020 a call; a failed call is not charged.

Updated 2026-11-04

## What Weibo itself offers

Its ordinary API list is built around a signed-in user: `statuses/user_timeline` reads the authorised user's own posts, and `comments/show` a post's comments. We saw no keyword search in that list.

Its business data API is described as for companies offering analysis, opinion monitoring and the like. Its REST list has `search/statuses/limited` for posts containing a keyword, `search/statuses/historical/create` for searching past data, and `comments/show/all` for all of a post's comments. It says part of it is paid; the pages we read on 2026-11-04 gave no price, and two of them were last updated in May 2025. The search below has no date parameter, so it does not give all of a past period.

## Which endpoint does what your scraper did

Each call is $0.0020. With `view=full`, search and comments add `ext.ip_location`, and search adds `ext.text_truncated`, which says whether a post was cut short.

| Job | Endpoint | What comes back |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Keyword search, newest first | `weibo.posts.search` | About 10 posts a page: text, author and followers, likes, comments, reposts, pictures, topics |
| A long post in full, with reads | `weibo.posts.get` | One post by ID or link; `metrics.views` is null on a post that shows no read count |
| Comments | `weibo.posts.comments.list` | About 20 a page: text, commenter, likes, replies, time |
| Replies under a comment | `weibo.comments.replies.list` | About 20 a page, by the comment's `id` |
| An account's posts | `weibo.users.posts.list` | About 20 a page, newest first, by its user ID |
| The hot search list | `weibo.trends.list` | 50 terms with rank and heat |

## What a job comes to

On the command line: `dataxapi call weibo.posts.comments.list url=POST_LINK --pages 5 --max-spend 0.01 --out comments.json`. Or tell your AI: “Search Weibo for these words every hour and keep the new posts in a table.”

| Job | Calls | Comes to |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 10 keywords once an hour, for a month | 7,200 × $0.0020 | $14.40 |
| 5 pages of comments under 50 posts: about 5,000 comments | 250 × $0.0020 | $0.50 |
| The hot search list once an hour, for a month | 720 × $0.0020 | $1.44 |

## Good to know

Search takes only `query`: newest first, with no date or sort. To keep a record, run it on a schedule and store each post by its `id`. Long posts are cut short in search and in an account's list, and neither has read counts: use `weibo.posts.get` for the ones that matter. A cursor is good for an hour, and a failed call is not charged. It reads public data only and cannot post. How to keep a scraper from being blocked is not something this page covers.

## 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 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 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 comment replies](https://dataxapi.com/apis/weibo/comments/replies/list/) ($0.0020 / a call): Get a page of replies to a Weibo comment by comment ID: text, replier, likes, what it answers, time posted, IP location.
- [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.

## 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.

- [Weibo open platform: API list](https://open.weibo.com/wiki/API)
- [Weibo open platform: business data API](https://open.weibo.com/wiki/%E5%95%86%E4%B8%9A%E6%95%B0%E6%8D%AEAPI)
- [Weibo open platform: business REST API list](https://open.weibo.com/wiki/Business_API%E6%96%87%E6%A1%A3)

## More about Weibo

- [Weibo API](https://dataxapi.com/apis/weibo/)
- [What does status 432 mean on Weibo? (2026)](https://dataxapi.com/answers/weibo-432-client-error/)

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