wechat-search

What This Skill Does

The wechat-search skill is a sophisticated tool designed to help OpenClaw agents retrieve high-quality content from WeChat Official Accounts (微信公众号). Unlike generic search tools, this skill employs a robust, three-layer search architecture specifically tuned for the WeChat ecosystem. It prioritizes efficiency and compliance by utilizing the Brave Search API as a primary engine, falling back to Tavily for AI-enhanced results, and finally utilizing direct web fetching as a last resort. It is built with a focus on ethical automation, ensuring that every request respects robots.txt directives and maintains safe browsing intervals. Whether you are conducting market research, tracking industry trends within the Chinese tech sphere, or curating newsletters, this skill provides a structured way to ingest data.

Installation

To integrate this skill into your environment, use the OpenClaw Command Line Interface. Run the following command in your terminal: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/jixsonwang/wechat-search Once installed, you can configure your API credentials and behavioral preferences by editing the file located at ~/.openclaw/wechat-search-config.json. Ensure your environment variables for Brave or Tavily keys are correctly set if you wish to bypass the manual fallback layers.

Use Cases

This skill is highly effective for professionals who need to monitor long-form content. Use it to:

1. Aggregating technical tutorials or documentation published by software engineering accounts.
2. Tracking news from specific industry leaders in China.
3. Building a custom database of sentiment analysis based on recent article titles and metadata.
4. Rapidly identifying trending topics on WeChat that might not be as easily indexed by Western-centric search engines.

Example Prompts

1. "Search for the latest technical articles regarding 'LLM inference optimization' published on WeChat in the last 7 days."
2. "Find 10 articles related to 'remote work trends' and output the results as a clean JSON format for my report."
3. "Look for recent updates on 'Autonomous Driving' from WeChat accounts, specifically focusing on developments since January 2026."

Tips & Limitations

To maximize the performance of wechat-search, always ensure your local configuration file is updated with an appropriate userAgent to prevent being blocked by rate-limiting filters. Note that while the tool is robust, WeChat's platform can occasionally restrict scrapers; if you face persistent issues, verify your network access and ensure you have valid API keys for the Brave or Tavily services. The skill is designed for public metadata; it does not support accessing private or subscriber-only content.