Pull your WeChat MP article and follower data

What you can build on WeChat MP

• Get published article statistics

  Build this

  Reads the statistics of the articles your 公众号 published in a date range: readers by source, shares, likes and comments.

  Takes

  Start date, end date

  Returns

  Article title, publish date, readers, readers by source, shares, 拇指赞 (likes), 爱心赞 (hearts), comments

• Get daily follower growth

  Build this

  Reads, for each day in a range, how many people followed and unfollowed your account, by channel.

  Takes

  Start date, end date

  Returns

  Date, channel, new followers, unfollows, net growth

• Read the comments on an article

  Build this

  Reads the 留言 (comments) under one published article, with whether each is 精选 (featured) and your reply if there is one.

  Takes

  Article title or publish date

  Returns

  Comment text, time, featured, your reply

• Reply to a comment

  Build this

  Posts your reply under one 留言 (comment) on a published article, and can mark the comment 精选 (featured).

  Takes

  Article title, comment text or time, reply text, mark as featured (yes or no)

  Returns

  Comment text, reply text, featured, replied at

Automate WeChat MP with a workflow

A workflow runs your methods as one process, with nobody at the screen. A schedule or a call from your own system starts it, the steps run in order, and the result arrives in your inbox or in the systems you already use.

• Yesterday's article numbers, every morning

  Build this

  Starts

  Every day at 8:30, Asia/Shanghai time

  Step 1

  Get the published article statistics for yesterday.

  Step 2

  Keep each article's title, readers by source, shares, likes, hearts and comments.

  Step 3

  Email you one line per article with readers, shares, likes and comments.

• Weekly follower report for your team

  Build this

  Starts

  Every Monday at 9:00, Asia/Shanghai time

  Step 1

  Get daily follower growth for the last 7 days.

  Step 2

  Have an AI step sum new followers and unfollows by channel and name the largest change.

  Step 3

  Post the totals and the summary to your Slack or reporting webhook.

• New comments on recent articles, to your team

  Build this

  Starts

  Every hour

  Step 1

  For each of the last 3 days, read the comments on the articles published that day.

  Step 2

  Keep the comments that were not there on the last run.

  Step 3

  Post each new comment, with its article title, to your Slack webhook.

You can run a workflow by hand on every plan, Free included. Schedules and webhook triggers come with the paid plans, from $29 a month.

Once built, one call from your code

Once you have built a method, it is one POST to /v1/runs from your backend, or a tool an AI agent calls over MCP. This is what “Get published article statistics” would look like.

curl https://api.fous.com/v1/runs \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FOUS_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "method": "mp.weixin.qq.com/get_article_statistics",
    "input": {
      "start_date": "2026-11-10",
      "end_date": "2026-11-11"
    }
  }'

{
  "status": "completed",
  "data": {
    "articles": [
      {
        "title": "Acme spring catalog: what is new",
        "publish_date": "2026-11-10",
        "readers": 4123,
        "readers_by_source": {
          "公众号消息": 2210,
          "聊天会话": 905,
          "朋友圈": 688
        },
        "shares": 366,
        "likes": 386,
        "hearts": 191,
        "comments": 33
      }
    ],
    "count": 1
  }
}

An example with invented data, not a ready-made endpoint. The method exists in your organization once you build it, and its name, inputs and fields follow your request.

WeChat MP’s own options

Tencent documents server interfaces for 公众号 (official accounts): data statistics, comments, publishing and messages. You call them from your own server with the account's AppID and AppSecret and a whitelisted IP. The statistics interfaces are for 认证 (verified) accounts, and since July 2025 personal and unverified accounts cannot call the publishing interfaces.

Read on November 12, 2026: 数据统计接口介绍 (data statistics interfaces), 发布能力 (publishing interfaces), 接口调用概述 (calling the interfaces).

Signing in to WeChat MP

WeChat MP's sign-in page offers two routes: scan its code with WeChat and choose the account, or 使用账号登录 (sign in with the account). With Fous you sign in once through WeChat MP's own sign-in with your own account. The login is sealed with AES-256, never returned by the API or written to logs, and code and AI agents never see it.

Worth knowing

Yesterday's data is ready after 8:00

Tencent asks you to query the previous day's account data after 8:00 in the morning. Statistics stored before 2014-12-01 are not reliable.

One group send a day, four a month

A 公众号 can send one group message a day, verified or not. A 服务号 can send four group messages per calendar month.

Five replies within 48 hours

When a follower writes to your account, you can send that person up to 5 customer service messages within the next 48 hours.

Group sends by tag or OpenID end 2027-01-18

Tencent announced that 分组通知 (sending to a group) in the web editor, sending by tag and sending to a list of OpenIDs go offline on 2027-01-18. Sending to all followers stays.

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