# How do I get a Weibo user's follower count and profile from their UID?

> Look up a public Weibo account by its numeric UID: followers, following, post count, verification, bio and IP location. Price per account, batch code, gotchas.

Canonical page: https://okdata.online/answers/weibo-user-profile-by-uid/

**Short answer: **Send the numeric UID to Weibo account profile (/v1/weibo/users/get) and you get followers, following, post count, verification, name and bio for $0.002 per account. Refreshing a list of 500 accounts costs $1.00; with view=full you also get the verification reason and the IP location shown on the profile.

An agency hands you a spreadsheet of 500 Weibo bloggers it worked with last year, with a UID for each, and the client wants current follower counts before renewing any deals. Opening 500 profiles by hand takes a day. With [Weibo account profile](/apis/weibo/users/get/) it is a loop that finishes in a few minutes and leaves you a clean CSV.

## What comes back

| Field | Meaning |
|---|---|
| `name`, `bio` | Display name and bio |
| `followers`, `following` | Follower and following counts as Weibo reports them |
| `posts` | Number of posts on the account |
| `verified` | Whether the account carries a verification badge |
| `ext.verified_reason` | The verification text, such as a job title or company (with `view=full`) |
| `ext.ip_location` | The IP location Weibo shows on the profile (with `view=full`) |
| `ext.location`, `ext.gender` | Location and gender as set on the profile (with `view=full`) |

Total likes received is not available and comes back null, listed in `meta.unavailable`.

## Finding the UID

The endpoint takes the numeric UID only, not a link or a nickname. On a profile URL like `weibo.com/u/1234567890` the number is the UID. Accounts with a custom address need one more step: search a post of theirs with [Weibo post search](/apis/weibo/posts/search/) and read `author.id`.

## Cost

| Accounts | Calls | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | $0.002 |
| 50 | 50 | $0.10 |
| 500, refreshed monthly for a year | 6,000 | $12.00 |

Deleted or banned accounts return `not_found` and are not charged.

## Batch lookup

```python
import csv, os, requests

URL = "https://api.okdata.online/v1/weibo/users/get"
KEY = os.environ["OKDATA_API_KEY"]
MONTH = "2026-11"

with open("uids.txt") as f, open("profiles.csv", "w", newline="", encoding="utf-8") as out:
    w = csv.writer(out)
    w.writerow(["uid", "name", "followers", "following", "posts", "verified", "reason", "ip"])
    for uid in (line.strip() for line in f if line.strip()):
        r = requests.get(URL, params={"id": uid, "view": "full"}, timeout=30, headers={
            "Authorization": f"Bearer {KEY}",
            "Idempotency-Key": f"wb-profile-{uid}-{MONTH}",
        }).json()
        if r["code"] != "ok":
            w.writerow([uid, r["code"]]); continue
        a = r["data"]["item"]
        w.writerow([uid, a["name"], a["followers"], a["following"], a["posts"],
                    a["verified"], a["ext"].get("verified_reason"), a["ext"].get("ip_location")])
```

The idempotency key includes the month, so rerunning the script after a crash replays finished accounts for free.

## Gotchas

- The catalog has no Weibo account timeline, so you cannot list a blogger's recent posts here. Posts that mention them, or that they wrote on a keyword, can be found through search.
- Follower counts include inactive and bought followers. Compare them with the likes and reposts on the blogger's posts before you pay for reach.
- Only public profile data is returned; nothing behind a login.

## Other options

Weibo's own advertising platform shows audience demographics for bloggers who take paid posts, which this endpoint cannot. Agency databases do the same for a subscription. For fewer than 20 accounts, opening the profiles is quicker than writing code. For the larger workflow of finding and vetting bloggers, see [creator discovery](/solutions/creator-discovery/).

## Endpoints used

- [Weibo account profile](https://okdata.online/apis/weibo/users/get/) `weibo.users.get`: $0.002 per call
- [Weibo post search](https://okdata.online/apis/weibo/posts/search/) `weibo.posts.search`: $0.002 per call · about 10 posts per page

Updated 2026-11-12