# Pull your WeChat MP article and follower data > Read each published article's 阅读人数 (readers), shares, likes and 留言 (comments), and your daily new and lost followers, from WeChat MP with one API call each. Or have a workflow send you yesterday's article numbers every morning once they are ready. Page: https://fous.com/automate/wechat-official-accounts-platform Updated: 2026-11-12 Works with your own 微信公众平台 account. Fous is an independent product. ## What you can build on WeChat MP ### Get published article statistics 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 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 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 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](/product/workflows) 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 Starts: Every day at 8:30, Asia/Shanghai time 1. Get the published article statistics for yesterday. 2. Keep each article's title, readers by source, shares, likes, hearts and comments. 3. Email you one line per article with readers, shares, likes and comments. ### Weekly follower report for your team Starts: Every Monday at 9:00, Asia/Shanghai time 1. Get daily follower growth for the last 7 days. 2. Have an AI step sum new followers and unfollows by channel and name the largest change. 3. Post the totals and the summary to your Slack or reporting webhook. ### New comments on recent articles, to your team Starts: Every hour 1. For each of the last 3 days, read the comments on the articles published that day. 2. Keep the comments that were not there on the last run. 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](/product/methods), 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. Example request: ``` 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" } }' ``` Example response: ``` { "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. | Option | What it covers | What it takes | | --- | --- | --- | | 数据统计 (data statistics) interfaces | Daily new and lost followers by source, article reads, shares and likes, message and interface data, from 2014-12-01 on. | A verified account, AppSecret and an IP whitelist. User data spans at most 7 days per call; article detail at most 30 days. | | Comments and publishing interfaces | Read, reply to, feature and delete comments; publish a draft, list published articles and delete one. | Comment permission on the account. Publishing needs a verified company account since July 2025. Daily call limits apply. | | WeChat MP by hand | Writing and publishing, comments, follower messages and the data analysis pages, in the browser. | A 公众号 or 服务号 and sign-in by scanning with WeChat or with the account. | Read on November 12, 2026: [数据统计接口介绍 (data statistics interfaces)](https://developers.weixin.qq.com/doc/subscription/guide/product/analysis_data/analysis_data.html), [发布能力 (publishing interfaces)](https://developers.weixin.qq.com/doc/subscription/guide/product/publish.html), [接口调用概述 (calling the interfaces)](https://developers.weixin.qq.com/doc/subscription/guide/dev/api/). ## 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. ## More in Advertising, leads and business software - [Meta Business Suite and Ads Manager](https://fous.com/automate/meta-business-suite-and-ads-manager.md) - [Trustpilot Business](https://fous.com/automate/trustpilot-business.md) - [Mindbody](https://fous.com/automate/mindbody.md) - [Justdial for Business](https://fous.com/automate/justdial-for-business.md) - [Yelp for Business](https://fous.com/automate/yelp-for-business.md) - [Zillow Premier Agent](https://fous.com/automate/zillow-premier-agent.md) - [Walmart Connect Ad Center](https://fous.com/automate/walmart-connect-ad-center.md) - [SALON BOARD](https://fous.com/automate/salon-board.md) - [Squarespace](https://fous.com/automate/squarespace.md) Other industries: [AutoZonePro](/automate/autozonepro), [GM GlobalConnect](/automate/gm-globalconnect), [Workday](/automate/workday), [LCPtracker](/automate/lcptracker), [Alibaba.com supplier back end](/automate/alibaba-com-supplier-back-end), [Etsy Shop Manager](/automate/etsy-shop-manager). ## Frequently asked questions ### Does 微信公众平台 (WeChat MP) have an API? Yes, server interfaces you call with your account's AppID, AppSecret and a whitelisted IP. The data statistics interfaces are for verified accounts. Since July 2025, personal accounts and unverified company accounts cannot call the publishing interfaces. Each interface has a daily call limit. ### When can I get yesterday's article and follower numbers? After 8:00 in the morning. Tencent says to query the previous day's data after 8:00, so a daily report scheduled a little later picks up the full day. ### How far back can one request go? Through Tencent's interfaces, one call covers at most 7 days of daily user growth and at most 30 days of article detail, so a longer report is built from several calls. Data from before 2014-12-01 is not reliable. ### Can I read the comments under my articles automatically? Yes. Tencent's comment interfaces list the comments on a published article and let you reply, mark one 精选 (featured) or delete it. With Fous, you build a method that reads the 留言 of an article with your own account and a workflow that sends you the new ones. ### Is Fous affiliated with Tencent? No. Fous is an independent product. You use it with your own WeChat MP account, and a method reads and does only what that account can. Fous is an independent product: it is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by the operator of 微信公众平台 (Tencent). The name is used only to say which system this page is about. Something here wrong or out of date? Write to legal@fous.com.