wechat-search

What This Skill Does

The wechat-search skill for OpenClaw provides a specialized, compliant gateway to accessing WeChat Official Account (微信公众号) articles. WeChat articles are notoriously difficult to index via standard search engines due to the platform's walled-garden approach. This skill solves that by utilizing a sophisticated two-layer strategy: it first employs high-precision search filters (site:mp.weixin.qq.com) and, if necessary, gracefully transitions to respectful direct page fetching. The tool is engineered with a core focus on platform compliance, ensuring that every interaction respects robots.txt, follows rate-limiting protocols (with a mandatory 5000ms delay), and utilizes a transparent, identifiable User-Agent. Whether you are a researcher looking for industry trends, a developer tracking technical updates, or a content strategist monitoring competitors, this skill allows you to extract metadata from public WeChat posts without violating platform terms of service or overwhelming their servers.

Installation

To integrate this skill into your OpenClaw environment, ensure you have the necessary web tools enabled. Run the following command in your terminal:

clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/jixsonwang/wechat-search-release

After installation, you may optionally configure custom delays or caching behavior by creating the configuration file located at ~/.openclaw/wechat-search-config.json.

Use Cases

• Market Research: Quickly aggregate recent industry reports or brand-specific announcements published on WeChat to gauge market sentiment.
• Trend Analysis: Monitor specific keywords across the massive WeChat ecosystem to identify rising topics in Chinese tech, finance, or social sectors.
• Technical Documentation: Locate official developer updates or tutorials often hosted exclusively on company-owned WeChat channels.
• Content Curation: Automatically compile lists of articles for newsletter generation or team knowledge bases while maintaining compliance with web scraping best practices.

Example Prompts

1. "wechat-search '大模型技术动态' --max-results 5 --past-week"
2. "wechat-search '腾讯云开发指南' --from 2026-01-01 --to 2026-01-31 --output json"
3. "wechat-search '最新AI应用案例' --strategy web_fetch"

Tips & Limitations

To maximize the utility of this skill, utilize the date-filtering flags to reduce noise and narrow your results to relevant timeframes. Because this tool adheres to strict rate-limiting, searching for large volumes of data over a short period may result in longer wait times; always plan your queries accordingly. Note that this skill only accesses content that is marked as public by the account owners; it cannot bypass paywalls or access private, membership-gated articles. If a specific account has blocked crawler access in their robots.txt file, the skill will respect those restrictions to ensure you remain compliant with ethical web standards.