Channels collection object
The Channels collection object has 6 fields and is returned by 1 endpoint on WeChat Channels. A call costs $0.0200. It is a preview structure and may still change.
A Channels collection is a group of videos a WeChat Channels (视频号) account has put under one name, with its description, cover, number of videos and when it was last updated. Only WeChat Channels has it.
An account's ID, the one that starts with v2_ and ends in @finder (a video's author.id), lists all its public collections. A collection's id lists its videos, which come back as Post in the collection's own order.
Fields
A field the platform cannot give is left out of the item and named in meta.unavailable. It is never filled with a guess or a zero.
The collection's ID; pass it unchanged to the endpoint that lists its videos
Name of the collection
What the collection says it is about; null when it says nothing
Address of the collection's cover image
When the collection was last updated
Collection counts
Videos in the collection
Endpoints that return Channels collection
The number beside each platform is how many of its endpoints return it.
Example
One item from wechat_channels.users.collections.list, as recorded 2026-10-13 03:26 UTC. Names, text, IDs and links are examples; the figures are as recorded.
{
"id": "14333950278518174787",
"name": "周末厨房",
"description": null,
"cover_url": "https://mmbiz.qpic.cn/mmbiz_jpg/7mFJa9ICgY3VTnOrojq32DWvk8rh3NMhae2Gogia/640",
"updated_at": "2026-10-12T03:59:02.000Z",
"metrics": { "videos": 42 }
}