REST API

Timeline API

• statuses/public_timeline Return the latest public weibos.
• statuses/friends_timeline Return the authenticating user’s and his friends’ latest weibos ( Alias: statues/home_timeline)
• statuses/user_timeline Return the authenticating user’s latest weibos.
• statuses/mentions Return the authenticating user’s mentions
• statuses/comments_timeline Return comments of the authenticating user made and received
• statuses/comments_by_me Return comments made by the authenticating user
• statuses/comments_to_me Return comments the authenticating user received
• statuses/comments Return the weibo’s comment list by the weibo ID
• statuses/counts Return the comment counts and repost counts of a list of weibos
• statuses/repost_timeline Return the latest of repost weibos of a original weibo. New!
• statuses/repost_by_me Return the latest repost weibos of authenticating user New!
• statuses/unread Return the authenticating user’s unread weibo count
• statuses/reset_count Reset unread weibo count
• emotions Emotion Iinterface, return the emotion list

Weibo Access API

• statuses/show Return the single weibo’s content by its ID
• user/statuses/id Jump to the content page of weibo by its ID and user ID.
• statuses/update Post a weibo Updated!
• statuses/upload Post a weibo with picture.
• statuses/destroy Delete a weibo
• statuses/repost Repost a weibo Updated!
• statuses/comment Post a comment to a weibo
• statuses/comment_destroy/:id Delete the authenticating user’s weibo
• statuses/comment/destroy_batch Delete a batch of comments of authenticating user's weibo
• statuses/reply Replay a weibo comment

User API

• users/show Return user profile by user ID (autheriszed user)

• statuses/friends Return the user’s following list and the latest weibo of each following user
• statuses/followers Return the user’s follower list and the latest weibo of each follower
• users/hot Return system recommended users
• user/friends/update_remark Update remarks of authenticating user's followingNew!
• users/suggestions Return the user that authenticating user may be interesting inBeta!

Direct message API

• direct_messages Return the authenticating user’s latest direct message list
• direct_messages/sent Return latest direct message list sent by the authenticating user
• direct_messages/new Send a direct message
• direct_messages/destroy/:id Delete a specific direct message
• direct_messages/destroy_batch Delete a batch of direct messages

Friendships API

• friendships/create Follow a user
• friendships/destroy Unfollow a user
• friendships/exists Check if already follow a user (Recommend to use friendships/show instead)
• friendships/show Return relationship of two users.

Trends API Beta!

• trends Returns trends of a user.
• trends/statuses Returns the weibos belong to the trends
• trends/follow Follow a trends
• trends/destroy Unfollow a trends
• trends/hourly Hot trends by hour
• trends/daily Return trends by date.
• trends/weekly Return trends by week.

Social Graph API

• friends/ids Return user’s following list
• followers/ids Return user’s follower list

Privacy API [NEW]

• account/update_privacy Set privacy parameters
• account/get_privacy Return current user’s privacy settings

Block API [NEW]

• blocks/create Block a user
• blocks/destroy Unblock a user
• blocks/exists Check whether a user is in blocked
• blocks/blocking Return the blocked users list with detail
• blocks/blocking/ids Return the user IDs of blocking list in pages

Tags API [NEW]

• tags Return the tag list by user ID
• tags/create Create a tag for current user
• tags/suggestions Return the recommended tags for the current user
• tags/destroy Delete a tag
• tags/destroy_batch Delete a batch of tags

Account API

• account/verify_credentials Check if the user is authenticated
• account/rate_limit_status Return the authenticating user’s API access rate limitation
• account/end_session End the session of authenticating user
• account/update_profile_image Update profile image
• account/update_profile Update profile
• account/register Register a Sina Weibo account
• account/activate Activate a weibo account

Favorites API

• favorites Return authenticating user’s favorites list
• favorites/create Add a weibo as favorite
• favorites/destroy Delete a weibo from favorite list of the authenticating user
• favorites/destroy_batch Delete a batch of weibos from favorite list

OAuth API

• oauth about OAuth
• oauth/request_token Return unauthorized Request Token
• oauth/authorize Request Authorization Token.n
• oauth/access_token Get the Access Token by Request Token

*xAuth about xAuth

Search API

Note: The Search API currently is not available for all the developers. please contact @微博开放平台 or email us at weibo_app@vip.sina.com for more info.

User search

• users/search Search for weibo users Updated!

Weibo Search API

• search Search for weibo content
• statuses/search Search for weibo contents by multi-conditions

Geo API

Geo API is not available for all developers. Any questions, please contact @地理信息开放平台, or email us at weibo_app@vip.sina.com for more info.

Geo search API

• location/route Search for car driving route
• location/bus Search for bus interchange info

Geo transformation API

• location/ip2xy Return the coordinated longitude and langtitude by IP address
• location/addr2xy Return the coordinated longitude and langtitude by the street address
• location/get_addr Return the street address of the specific longitude and langtitude

Test API

• help/test Test API

Appendix

Rest API Field Description

• status weibo content area
• user user profile area
• comment comment of a weibo
• direct_message direct message
• Province and city code table
• Metadata metadata New!

Geo field description

• location/citycode City code table
• location/citycode_bus City code table that has bus information
• location/category Category table