/v1/search"platform": "wechat"WeChat Articles Search API
Find articles by keyword.
Search WeChat articles by keyword and get back text, author, likes and publish time, as JSON over HTTP or from your AI client over MCP. A call to the WeChat Articles Search API costs 12 credits ($0.024 to $0.04 depending on the pack), failed calls are free, and the response has the same format as every other call. Last tested 2026-11-05.
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limit: 100 and one call pages for you: at most 5 pages, 60 credits. It stops once it has them or the list ends; pages it does not use are not charged, and neither are pages that fail. Reading 1,000 items comes to about 600 credits, about $2.00.Daily watch: tell your AI “watch this daily” and this call runs by itself every day, sending only what is new: at most 372 credits a month, about $1.24. How to set it up
What you get from the WeChat Articles Search API.
From a recorded answer.
A recorded call returned 20 items; here is the first, field by field. Names and text are removed from the sample; the numbers are as recorded.
20 real calls in the last 7 days, 100% succeeded, median 2.8 s, usually 20 items (data to 2026-11-05).
Lighter for your AI: the same recorded data (20 items) is about 14,013 tokens as the platform's raw JSON and about 6,170 as this interface returns it, 55% fewer (measured 2026-11-06). How it was measured
| Field | In the recorded answer |
|---|---|
| url | null |
| format | video |
| title | null |
| text | removed from the sample |
| published_at | 2026-10-15T06:55:50.000Z |
| author.id | null: WeChat Articles cannot give it |
| author.username | null: WeChat Articles cannot give it |
| author.name | removed from the sample |
| author.verified | null: WeChat Articles cannot give it |
| author.followers | null: WeChat Articles cannot give it |
| metrics.likes | 1 |
| metrics.comments | null: WeChat Articles cannot give it |
| metrics.shares | null: WeChat Articles cannot give it |
| metrics.collects | 3 |
| metrics.views | null: WeChat Articles cannot give it |
| metrics.reposts | null: WeChat Articles cannot give it |
| images | null: WeChat Articles cannot give it |
| hashtags | null: WeChat Articles cannot give it |
| is_pinned | null: WeChat Articles cannot give it |
12 credits a call (≈ $0.024–$0.04): about 250 calls for $10.
WeChat Articles Search API: request and response
curl https://api.socialtoai.com/v1/search \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $SOCIALTOAI_API_KEY" \ -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "platform": "wechat", "query": "咖啡店开业" }'import osimport uuidimport requestsresponse = requests.post( "https://api.socialtoai.com/v1/search", headers={ "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['SOCIALTOAI_API_KEY']}", # A new key for each request; the same one again retries it without paying twice. "Idempotency-Key": str(uuid.uuid4()), }, json={ "platform": "wechat", "query": "咖啡店开业", },)print(response.json())# Connected over MCP? Ask in plain words.Search WeChat Articles for articles about "咖啡店开业".# Your AI calls the search tool with:{ "platform": "wechat", "query": "咖啡店开业"}valuesortpublished_within{ "platform": "wechat", "status": "ok", "items": [ { "platform": "wechat", "id": "…", "ref": "…", "approx": [], "type": "content", "url": null, "format": "video", "title": null, "text": "…", "published_at": "2026-10-15T06:55:50.000Z", "author": { "id": null, "username": null, "name": "…", "verified": null, "followers": null }, "metrics": { "likes": 1, "comments": null, "shares": null, "collects": 3, "views": null, "reposts": null }, "images": null, "hashtags": null, "is_pinned": null } ], "unavailable": ["author.id", "author.username", "author.verified", "author.followers", "metrics.comments", "metrics.shares", "metrics.views", "metrics.reposts", "images", "hashtags", "is_pinned"], "page": { "has_more": true, "cursor": "cur_…", "cursor_expires_at": "2026-10-17T10:46:20.000Z" }, "cost_credits": 12}nullshares nullcollects 3views nullNames and text were removed from the sample; the numbers are as recorded.
WeChat Articles Search API parameters.
6 parameters, 2 required.
Send them as a JSON body with POST. Your key goes in the Authorization header, never in the URL.
| Name | Type | Required | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| platform | string | Required | — | Always "wechat" on this page. |
| query | string | Required | — | Search terms |
| sort | string | Optional | "relevance" | By relevance, by time published (newest first) or by how hot"relevance""latest""popular" |
| published_within | string | Optional | — | Only those published in the last day, week or half year"day""week""half_year" |
| type | string | Optional | — | "user": accounts instead of posts (102 credits)."user" |
| cursor | string | Optional | — | Pass page.cursor from the last response to get the next page. |
WeChat Articles Search API response fields.
What WeChat Articles cannot give is marked.
| Field | Type | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| items[].url | string | A link that opens the item. |
| items[].format | string | video, image, text or article. |
| items[].title | string | The title. |
| items[].text | string | The body text or caption. |
| items[].published_at | string | When it was published, ISO 8601 in UTC. |
| items[].author.id | stringalways null | The author's account ID. |
| items[].author.username | stringalways null | The author's handle. |
| items[].author.name | string | The author's display name. |
| items[].author.verified | booleanalways null | Whether the author is verified. |
| items[].author.followers | integeralways null | The author's follower count. |
| items[].metrics.likes | integer | Likes. |
| items[].metrics.comments | integeralways null | Comments. |
| items[].metrics.shares | integeralways null | Shares. |
| items[].metrics.collects | integer | Saves. |
| items[].metrics.views | integeralways null | Views or plays. |
| items[].metrics.reposts | integeralways null | Reposts. |
| items[].images | string[]always null | Image addresses. |
| items[].hashtags | string[]always null | Hashtags, without the #. |
| items[].is_pinned | booleanalways null | Whether the author pinned it. |
nullFields WeChat Articles cannot giveRead null as “WeChat Articles did not give this”, not as zero. These are always null on this call:
author.idThe author's account ID.author.usernameThe author's handle.author.verifiedWhether the author is verified.author.followersThe author's follower count.metrics.commentsComments.metrics.sharesShares.metrics.viewsViews or plays.metrics.repostsReposts.imagesImage addresses.hashtagsHashtags, without the #.is_pinnedWhether the author pinned it.
Send the parameter and the call returns something else:
type=useraccounts instead of posts102 creditsCompared with the Zhihu Search API, this call does not give author followers or comments.
Every item also has platform, id, ref, approx and type; the response around the items is the same on every call. Response format
WeChat Articles Search API: paging and billing.
5 calls per second per key, 20 after a purchase; going over is not charged. Rate limits
A failed call costs 0 credits and is never retried on its own. Error codes
“Last tested” above is the last day a real call of this interface succeeded. Each call reads from the platform, and fetched_at in the answer is when it was read. The same request sent again with the same key within 5 minutes is a replay (replayed: true): 0 credits, and the answer as first read.
These numbers come from real calls only, worked out once a day, without our own accounts: a customer's same request on one day counts once, by how it last ended; something that does not exist or a wrong parameter is not a failure; an interface with fewer than 20 calls shows none.
Once connected over MCP, these questions use the WeChat Articles Search API.
Search WeChat Articles for articles about "咖啡店开业".
12 creditssearch {"platform":"wechat","query":"咖啡店开业"}Find WeChat Articles accounts about "咖啡".
102 creditssearch {"platform":"wechat","query":"咖啡","type":"user"}
Give this to your AI.
Copy it into Claude or ChatGPT.
How to connectUse the SocialToAI MCP server (https://mcp.socialtoai.com/mcp) for this: Search WeChat Articles for articles about "咖啡店开业".Call the search tool with {"platform":"wechat","query":"咖啡店开业"}. Needed: query; optional: sort (relevance, latest, popular), published_within (day, week, half_year).For many items pass limit (limit=100 is at most 5 pages) and one call pages for you; each page costs 12 credits and unused pages are not charged.Before you start, work out how many credits it will take in all and ask me; call it only after I agree.If SocialToAI is not connected yet, tell me how to connect it; never ask me to paste a key into the chat.Answer with a link to every item you used, and tell me how many credits it cost.Paste it into a chat once SocialToAI is connected over MCP. There is no key in it: Claude and ChatGPT sign in, other clients send a key in a header.
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