Social Media API
Weibo API
Read 微博 posts, profiles, comment threads, and the hot-search list that sets China's news agenda — as structured JSON.
- Three API series across the Weibo app and web surfaces
- The hot-search list that drives Chinese public attention every hour
- Real-time signal for opinion, news, and brand sentiment in China
$0.05 free credit on sign-up · no credit card · from $0.001/request
One request, structured JSON
1curl -X GET "https://api.tikhub.io/api/v1/weibo/app/fetch_user_info?uid=1234567890" \2 -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"1{2 "code": 200,3 "data": {4 "id": "1234567890",5 "screen_name": "用户昵称",6 "followers_count": 2400000,7 "friends_count": 312,8 "statuses_count": 18400,9 "verified": true,10 "verified_reason": "知名博主",11 "description": "示例简介"12 }13}Get your API key at user.tikhub.io/dashboard/api — or follow the getting-started guide.
What's in the Weibo API
TikHub's Weibo API gives you two series for 微博 — the closest thing China has to a public square. Extract posts with engagement data, user profiles and timelines, comment threads, reposts and likes, videos and articles, and the hot-search list that sets the Chinese news agenda every hour. Start with the App series, with Web V2 as a fallback.
Weibo App API (recommended)
Weibo Web V2 API (fallback)
China's hot-search list, in real time
Weibo (微博) is where Chinese public opinion forms and breaking news spreads, and its hourly hot-search list is a leading indicator markets and media watch. TikHub gives you that hot-search and trending data alongside posts, profiles, and comments — the closest read on the Chinese public square available outside China.
Weibo API endpoints
A reference of the most-used Weibo endpoints. Browse the full set in the API reference or the documentation.
Weibo App API (recommended)
The richest series — user detail and timelines, status detail with reposts/likes, videos/articles/audios, super topics, plus comprehensive, AI, and hot-search boards. Use it first, with Web V2 as a fallback.
Weibo Web V2 API (fallback)
Use Web V2 as a fallback — and for keyword, user, and video search while the App search endpoints are under maintenance.
Tips & troubleshooting
Hard-won operational notes for working with Weibo data in production.
The hot-search list is the headline signal
fetch_hot_search returns Weibo's hourly hot-search ranking — the single most-watched attention signal in China, driving news cycles and brand crises in real time. Poll it on a schedule and you have an early read on what's breaking; cross-reference rising topics with search to pull the posts driving them.
Posts, reposts, and the spread graph
Weibo is built for amplification. Beyond a post's own engagement, fetch_status_reposts exposes how it spreads through reposts, which is the data you need to study information diffusion — who amplified a message and how far it traveled — rather than just how many likes it got.
Recommended version — App first, Web V2 fallback
Use the Weibo App series first — it's richest for user and post detail (timelines, articles, audios, super topics) and the hot-search board (fetch_hot_search) — with Web V2 as a general fallback. One exception: the App search endpoints are currently under maintenance, so run keyword, user, and video search through the Web V2 series (fetch_advanced_search, fetch_user_search, fetch_video_search) instead.
Do I need a Weibo developer account?
No. Create a free TikHub account, generate an API key, and call REST endpoints directly — no Weibo developer application, app review, or OAuth.
What Weibo data can I extract?
Public posts with engagement metrics, user profiles, comment threads, hot-search and trending topics, and search results.
How much does the Weibo API cost?
Pay-as-you-go from $0.001 per request, with automatic daily volume discounts down to $0.0005 at 30,000+ requests/day. New accounts get $0.05 free credit (~50 requests) — no credit card required.
Is using a Weibo API like this legal?
TikHub only returns publicly available Weibo data — content any visitor can see without an account. It does not bypass authentication or access private information. Weibo is a Chinese platform, so the relevant constraints are its own Terms of Service and China's data and cross-border rules rather than US case law; automated access can lead to account or IP blocks, which TikHub's infrastructure absorbs for you. You remain responsible for how you store, process, and use the data — especially any personal data and any onward transfer across borders.
Weibo API: read China's public square in real time in 2026
TikHub's Weibo API reads public 微博 data — posts, profiles, comments, reposts, and the hot-search list that sets China's news agenda — through plain REST calls. Here's how it works, why the hot-search signal matters, and which option fits which job.
How does the Weibo API work?
What is the Weibo API?
The TikHub Weibo API is a RESTful interface that returns structured JSON for public content on 微博 — the closest thing China has to a public square, where opinion forms and breaking news spreads. You request posts, profiles, comments, reposts, search, and the hot-search ranking and get clean, typed data, with no Chinese developer registration.
Three series across the app and web surfaces cover both depth on a given account or post and the platform-level attention signals — the hourly hot-search list chief among them.
How do you access and use it?
Create a TikHub account, generate an API key, and make an HTTP GET request with the key in the Authorization header. A common monitoring loop is to poll the hot-search ranking, search the rising topics, and pull post detail, comments, and reposts for the ones that matter — turning Weibo into a near-real-time read on Chinese public attention.
What are the benefits of using the Weibo API?
Why is Weibo data valuable?
Weibo is where Chinese public opinion concentrates and where news, brand moments, and crises break first. Its hot-search list is a leading indicator that markets, media, and brands watch. Programmatic access turns that from something you check manually into a signal you can monitor, alert on, and feed into models — an edge for anyone tracking the Chinese market.
Who benefits, and what do they save?
Brand and comms teams monitor sentiment and catch crises early; analysts and researchers study public opinion and information spread; quant and AI teams feed the hot-search and discourse signals into models. As with the other Chinese platforms, TikHub absorbs the hard, Chinese-language scrape so teams get a stable, structured feed instead of an ongoing maintenance project.
What are common use cases and alternatives?
What are the common use cases?
Real-time brand-sentiment monitoring, hot-search opportunity and crisis detection, public-opinion and breaking-news research, and information-spread studies via the repost graph. AI and quant teams use the hot-search and post streams as Chinese-market signals for trend and trading models.
What are the alternatives, and which is best?
Weibo's official open platform is gated and limited; open-source scrapers exist but carry the usual reliability burden against a protected, Chinese-language target. For reliable, real-time access to posts and the hot-search signal without a Chinese entity or scraping infrastructure, a managed API like TikHub is the practical choice — one key, also covering Douyin, Zhihu, and 13 other platforms.
One key, every platform
The Weibo API shares its key and JSON format with 15 other platforms — adding Instagram or Douyin is a one-line change.