Scrape articles on sina.com.cn

About sina.com.cn

sina.com.cn describes itself as “Sina provides comprehensive and timely Chinese-language information to users worldwide 24 hours a day, covering domestic and international breaking news, sports events, entertainment and fashion, industry news and practical information”.

Its sitemaps list 102,197 URLs across 19 files (index, tags, auto, local, travel, digital). 101,123 of the 101,978 dated entries changed in the last 30 days, the newest on 6 Sep 2026.

Its robots.txt names 11 sitemaps.

Measured on Crawlbase

Success rate over every request from every account in August 2026: 99.7%. Patterns, countries and failures come from the request log since 14 Aug 2026; 2.4% of successful calls used the JavaScript token and the median answer took 3.1s.

Among the 74 news and media sites in the Cookbook, sina.com.cn ranks 22 of 74 by success rate; the category median is 98.9%. Its median answer of 3.1s is slower than the category median of 2.3s. 58 of the 74 accept the plain token, this one among them.

The call

Article pages are the shape the accounts fetch most here, with the country and token that succeed most often. Replace the placeholder path with a real article URL from the site.

curl "https://api.crawlbase.com/?token=YOUR_TOKEN&url=https%3A%2F%2Fweibo.com%2F2%2Fdetail%2F5340257097878368"

from crawlbase import CrawlingAPI
api = CrawlingAPI({'token': 'YOUR_TOKEN'})

r = api.get('https://weibo.com/2/detail/5340257097878368')
html = r['body']

const { CrawlingAPI } = require('crawlbase');
const api = new CrawlingAPI({ token: 'YOUR_TOKEN' });

const r = await api.get('https://weibo.com/2/detail/5340257097878368');

Parameters that matter

URL patterns accounts fetch

Fields you get

Structured data Crawlbase found on sina.com.cn, by page type. These are the schema.org types in the page, the fields your parser can read straight from the JSON-LD block:

• Article: BreadcrumbList, NewsArticle
• Other: Article

What breaks, and the fix

Of the failures since 14 Aug 2026, the site answered:

Run it on a schedule

News moves by the hour. Poll the section or the sitemap for new links, then push the article URLs to the Crawler with a callback so the fetches are paced. The median answer on this site is 3.1s.

Questions

Other pages on sina.com.cn

Pages sina.com.cn lists in its own sitemaps, fetched by Crawlbase on 6 Sep 2026 and verified in 2 consecutive runs. Each row is the cheapest call that returned the page with its content.