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

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 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 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

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.