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WeChat

WeChat (Weixin) is Tencent's flagship super-app, combining messaging, social, payments, mini-apps, official-account publishing, video, enterprise collaboration, and cloud hosting under a single identity. Its developer surface spans the WeChat Open Platform (third-party app login and authorization), Mini Programs (client and server APIs), Mini Games, Official Accounts and Service Accounts, WeChat Pay (APIv3 for mainland China and Global v3 for cross-border merchants), WeChat Work / WeCom (Enterprise WeChat), WeChat Channels (Video Accounts), WeChat Shop, and WeChat Cloud Hosting — addressing over a billion monthly active users primarily in China and across the WeChat international footprint.

agent aware

Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles WeChat the way a machine reads it — 42 machine-readable artifacts across 1 API, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — WeChat scores 51.9/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 24/100 (agent aware). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance. Every facet and dimension name is a link: it opens that measurement's page on APIs.io, where the rating runs across the whole catalog — the exact checks that feed it, how every profiled provider distributes on it, and who is at the top of it.

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
WeChat Kin Score — API readiness rating by API Evangelist

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How we profile WeChat

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for WeChat. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 16

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

WeChat Mini Programs Server API

Backend HTTPS/JSON APIs that Mini Program operators call from their own servers to authenticate user sessions (code2Session), mint access tokens, send customer service and templ...

WeChat Mini Programs Client API

Client-side JavaScript API exposed inside the WeChat runtime to Mini Programs and Mini Games. Covers network (wx.request, wx.downloadFile, wx.uploadFile), storage, UI / navigati...

WeChat Pay APIv3 (Direct-Connect Merchant)

WeChat Pay's third-generation REST API for mainland-China direct-connect merchants. Authenticates with merchant API certificates and platform-key signed requests over HTTPS/JSON...

WeChat Pay APIv3 (Service Provider / Partner)

WeChat Pay's APIv3 in "service provider" mode, used by payment platforms and ISVs to onboard and operate sub-merchants. Adds combined-order JSAPI/Native/App payments, sub-mercha...

WeChat Pay Global v3 API

Cross-border WeChat Pay surface for international institutions and merchants accepting payments from WeChat users outside mainland China. Provides a "universal version for globa...

WeChat Open Platform — Mobile App Login (OAuth 2.0)

OAuth 2.0 authorization flow exposed by the WeChat Open Platform for native iOS, Android, and HarmonyOS apps. Apps redirect into WeChat to obtain an authorization code, then exc...

WeChat Open Platform — Website Login (QR OAuth)

Web-based OAuth 2.0 login that renders a WeChat QR code on third-party websites. End users scan the code in WeChat to authenticate; the website receives a code on its callback U...

WeChat Open Platform — Third-Party Platform API

API surface that lets authorized ISVs operate Official Accounts and Mini Programs on behalf of merchant clients ("代商家调用接口"). Covers merchant authorization onboarding, developing...

WeChat Official Accounts API

HTTPS/JSON APIs for WeChat Official Accounts (Subscription Accounts and Service Accounts) — the publishing surface used by media, brands, and businesses to reach WeChat follower...

WeChat Work (WeCom) API

Server API for Enterprise WeChat / WeCom — Tencent's enterprise collaboration suite. All calls are HTTPS/JSON, UTF-8 encoded, and require an access token. Covers Contacts manage...

WeChat Cloud Hosting API

WeChat Cloud Hosting (微信云托管) is Tencent's cloud-native, ops-free container deployment service tightly integrated into the WeChat ecosystem. Documented as "a cloud-native, operat...

WeChat Channels (Video Accounts) Developer Surface

WeChat Channels (视频号) is WeChat's short-video and livestreaming product. The developer surface — exposed through the Mini Programs platform and Channels merchant tools — covers ...

WeChat Shop (微信小店) API

WeChat Shop (微信小店) is WeChat's unified merchant storefront tying together Mini Programs, Channels livestreaming, Official Accounts, and WeChat Search. APIs cover product (SPU/SK...

WeChat Access Token API

Application-level access token management.

WeChat Login API

Mini Program login and session exchange.

WeChat User Information API

User identity (UnionID) lookups.

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Open Collections 5

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Features 17

The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

WeChat Mini Programs framework (WXML / WXSS / JS) with native-app-grade APIs
WeChat Mini Programs Server API on api.weixin.qq.com — code2Session, access tokens, subscribe / template / customer-service messages, content moderation, analytics, QR codes
WeChat Pay APIv3 for direct-connect merchants — JSAPI / Native / App / H5 / Mini Program payments, refunds, transfers, profit sharing, Pay Score
WeChat Pay APIv3 Service Provider mode for sub-merchant onboarding, combined orders, and partner-side profit sharing
WeChat Pay Global v3 API for cross-border / international institutions and merchants
WeChat Open Platform OAuth 2.0 login for native mobile (iOS, Android, HarmonyOS) — access tokens expire in 7200s, refresh tokens last 180 days
WeChat Open Platform QR Login for third-party websites
WeChat Open Platform Third-Party Platform API for ISVs operating Official Accounts and Mini Programs on behalf of merchants
WeChat Official Accounts API — user info, template messages, materials, custom menus, QR with scene, JS-SDK
WeChat Work / WeCom API on qyapi.weixin.qq.com — contacts, messaging, external contacts, OA, conversation archive, enterprise payments
WeChat Cloud Hosting — containerized backend (Node.js / Go / Python / Java) with built-in WeChat API access, serverless MySQL, COS, CDN, gray deploys, logs
WeChat Channels developer surface — livestream rooms, livestream commerce, Mini Program integration
WeChat Shop API — SPU/SKU, orders, logistics, after-sales for the unified WeChat commerce graph
Official Java / Go / PHP SDKs for WeChat Pay APIv3 under github.com/wechatpay-apiv3
Postman script and CertificateDownloader CLI for WeChat Pay APIv3 onboarding
74 repos under github.com/wechat-miniprogram including miniprogram-demo (7.2k stars), weui-miniprogram (2.4k), api-typings (798), threejs-miniprogram (781), glass-easel component framework
WeUI design library (github.com/Tencent/weui, 27.4k stars) — official UI components for WeChat web pages

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Event Specifications 1

Not every API is request/response. AsyncAPI describes the event-driven and streaming side — the webhooks and channels — so the asynchronous half of the interface is documented the same way the synchronous half is.

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

WeChat Webhooks (Official Accounts, WeChat Pay APIv3, WeCom)

AsyncAPI description of the publicly documented WeChat (Weixin) webhook surfaces. WeChat does not expose a public WebSocket / streaming endpoint for third-party developers — its...

ASYNCAPI

Spectral Rules 1

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

WeChat API Rules

9 rules · 1 errors · 7 warnings

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Wechat Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Wechat Agentic Access

3 operations

3 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for WeChat — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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Where this information came from

This is an independent, third-party profile of WeChat, published by API Evangelist. We do not operate, host, resell, or support these APIs, and we are not affiliated with or endorsed by the company unless stated above. Everything here is built from publicly available information — the company's own site, developer portal, documentation, public repositories, and the specifications it publishes for public use. Nothing is obtained by breaching a system, defeating an access control, or using credentials.

The Kin Score and Agent Readiness rating are independently calculated assessments of a company's public API artifacts, scored against a published rubric. They are not certifications, endorsements, security assessments, or audits.

Corrections, re-scores, and removal are free — no partnership or purchase required, and you do not need to justify the request. A removed company is recorded as unrated, never scored zero for having asked. Acknowledgement within one business day; removal within two.

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