Agent skill

Wechat Article Search API Skill

by browser-act in browser-act/skills

This skill helps users extract full article contents from WeChat using the BrowserAct API.

MITAuto-check passedProductivity & Automation

Install Wechat Article Search API Skill

skills CLI
$ npx skills add browser-act/skills --skill wechat-article-search-api-skill -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install browser-act/skills wechat-article-search-api-skill --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/browser-act/skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/solutions/social-listening/wechat-article-search-api-skill .claude/skills/wechat-article-search-api-skill && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
wechat-article-search-api-skill
GitHub stars
6.1k
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~1.4k tokens
SKILL.md length
645 words
Files
2 (incl. scripts)
Skills in repo
87
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

This skill helps users extract full article contents from WeChat using the BrowserAct API.

  • Works in 5 steps: No hallucinations, ensuring stable and… → No CAPTCHA issues: No need to handle… → No IP restrictions or geo-blocking: No… → …
  • Tasks that involve Messaging and chat bots
  • SKILL.md covers 📖 Introduction, ✨ Features, 🔑 API Key Guidance Flow and 🛠️ Input Parameters, plus 4 more sections
  • Runs Python scripts from its folder; calls python; needs BROWSERACT_API_KEY

What it does

Wechat Article Search API Skill is an agent skill from browser-act/skills. This skill helps users extract full article contents from WeChat using the BrowserAct API. The Agent should proactively apply this skill when users express needs like finding full WeChat articles for specific keywords, tracking WeChat public accounts for industry trends, extracting WeChat article contents for media research, monitoring public relations on WeChat platforms, collecting competitor updates from WeChat, getting full article body from WeChat links, monitoring brand exposure on WeChat articles…

Its SKILL.md is about 1.4k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files, including scripts (for example `scripts/wechat_article_search_api.py`).

It sits in Productivity & Automation, covering Messaging and chat bots and Web scraping. It works with WeChat. The repository describes itself as: Browser automation CLI built for AI agents. Break through anti-bot walls, hand off to humans across platforms when stuck. Parallel multi-task execution, independent multi-session… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve Messaging and chat bots
  • Tasks that involve Web scraping

Example prompts

  • “/wechat-article-search-api-skill”

Requirements

  • Python 3
  • A credential in BROWSERACT_API_KEY

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. No hallucinations, ensuring stable and precise data extraction: Pre-configured workflows avoid AI-generated hallucinations.
  2. No CAPTCHA issues: No need to handle reCAPTCHA or other verification challenges.
  3. No IP restrictions or geo-blocking: No need to handle regional IP limitations.
  4. Faster execution: Task execution is faster compared to pure AI-driven browser automation solutions.
  5. Extremely high cost-effectiveness: Significantly reduces data acquisition costs compared to AI solutions that consume a large number of…

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 11c057b. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    Ships 1 file in scripts/ (Python), which the agent can run.

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • python

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):

    • browseract.com

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names these keys or tokens, usually read from environment variables:

    • BROWSERACT_API_KEY

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Wechat Article Search API Skill loads about 1.4k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 188 tokens; SKILL.md has 645 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~188
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.4k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); the scripts in this folder are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from browser-act/skills at commit 11c057b, republished under its MIT licence (© browser-act). 645 words, ~1,434 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/wechat-article-search-api-skill/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
wechat-article-search-api-skill
description
This skill helps users extract full article contents from WeChat using the BrowserAct API. The Agent should proactively apply this skill when users express needs like finding full WeChat articles for specific keywords, tracking WeChat public accounts for industry trends, extracting WeChat article contents for media research, monitoring public relations on WeChat platforms, collecting competitor updates from WeChat, getting full article body from WeChat links, monitoring brand exposure on WeChat articles, retrieving structured WeChat data for sentiment analysis, summarizing daily news from WeChat, getting author and publication date for WeChat articles, or automating WeChat content extraction without scraping.

WeChat Article Search API

📖 Introduction

This skill provides users with automated WeChat article extraction through the BrowserAct WeChat Article Search API template. It allows for the direct extraction of full-content, structured WeChat articles based on keyword searches. Simply provide search keywords and optional date filters, and you can obtain comprehensive article data including the full body text.

✨ Features

  1. No hallucinations, ensuring stable and precise data extraction: Pre-configured workflows avoid AI-generated hallucinations.
  2. No CAPTCHA issues: No need to handle reCAPTCHA or other verification challenges.
  3. No IP restrictions or geo-blocking: No need to handle regional IP limitations.
  4. Faster execution: Task execution is faster compared to pure AI-driven browser automation solutions.
  5. Extremely high cost-effectiveness: Significantly reduces data acquisition costs compared to AI solutions that consume a large number of tokens.

🔑 API Key Guidance Flow

Before running, check the BROWSERACT_API_KEY environment variable. If not set, do not take other actions; request and wait for the user to provide it. The Agent must inform the user:

"Since you have not configured the BrowserAct API Key, please go to the BrowserAct Console to get your Key."

🛠️ Input Parameters

When invoking the script, the Agent should flexibly configure the following parameters based on user needs:

  1. keywords (Search Keywords)

    • Type: string
    • Description: Search keywords used to find WeChat articles. Can be an industry term, topic, or specific phrase.
    • Example: openclaw, AI agent, browser automation
  2. Date_limit (Extraction Limit)

    • Type: number
    • Description: Maximum number of articles to extract. For the first run, a smaller default value is recommended.
    • Default Value: 10
    • Suggestions: Use 5 to 10 for quick testing, larger numbers for batch research.
  3. publication_date (Publication Date Filter)

    • Type: string
    • Description: Filter articles by their publication date.
    • Example: 3月11日, March 10, 2026-03-11

🚀 Invocation Method

The Agent should execute the following independent script to achieve "one command, direct results":

bash
# Example invocation
python -u ./scripts/wechat_article_search_api.py "keywords" limit "publication_date"
⏳ Run Status Monitoring

Because this task involves automated browser operations, it may take a long time (several minutes). While running, the script will continuously output timestamped status logs (e.g., [14:30:05] Task Status: running). Agent Instructions:

  • Keep monitoring the terminal output while waiting for the script to return results.
  • As long as the terminal continues to output new status logs, it means the task is running normally; do not misjudge it as deadlocked or unresponsive.
  • Only consider triggering the retry mechanism if the status remains unchanged for a long time, or the script stops outputting without returning results.
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📊 Output Data Explanation

Upon successful execution, the script will parse and print the results directly from the API response. The results include:

  • url_link: Original article URL
  • publication_date: Article publication date
  • author: Article author or publishing account name
  • image_url: Main image URL or article cover image URL
  • body_content: Full body content of the article
  • title: Full article title

⚠️ Error Handling & Retry

During script execution, if an error occurs (such as network fluctuation or task failure), the Agent should follow this logic:

  1. Check the output content:

    • If the output contains "Invalid authorization", it means the API Key is invalid or expired. In this case, do not retry; guide the user to re-check and provide the correct API Key.
    • If the output does not contain "Invalid authorization" but the task fails (e.g., output starts with Error: or returns an empty result), the Agent should automatically try to execute the script one more time.
  2. Retry limit:

    • Automatic retry is limited to once. If the second attempt still fails, stop retrying and report the specific error message to the user.

🌟 Typical Use Cases

  1. Content Monitoring: Track mentions of specific brands or topics across WeChat articles.
  2. Media Research: Analyze full text of articles published by top WeChat accounts.
  3. Trend Tracking: Collect articles about rising industry trends (e.g., AI agents) for comprehensive reading.
  4. Knowledge Base Building: Extract deep-dive articles into an internal repository.
  5. Competitor Analysis: Review full-length posts released by competitor accounts.

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Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file (scripts) in solutions/social-listening/wechat-article-search-api-skill of browser-act/skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • scripts/wechat_article_search_api.py

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 11c057b

Used in 1 other repository

We found 1 copy of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 1 other GitHub owner. This page covers the copy in browser-act/skills, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

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Works with

Questions about Wechat Article Search API Skill

What does Wechat Article Search API Skill do?

This skill helps users extract full article contents from WeChat using the BrowserAct API. Wechat Article Search API Skill is an agent skill from browser-act/skills. This skill helps users extract full article contents from WeChat using the BrowserAct API.

When should I use Wechat Article Search API Skill?

Wechat Article Search API Skill fits situations like: tasks that involve Messaging and chat bots; tasks that involve Web scraping.

How do I install Wechat Article Search API Skill in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add browser-act/skills --skill wechat-article-search-api-skill -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (solutions/social-listening/wechat-article-search-api-skill in browser-act/skills) into .claude/skills/wechat-article-search-api-skill in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Wechat Article Search API Skill in Codex?

Run `npx skills add browser-act/skills --skill wechat-article-search-api-skill -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (solutions/social-listening/wechat-article-search-api-skill in browser-act/skills) into .agents/skills/wechat-article-search-api-skill in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Wechat Article Search API Skill in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add browser-act/skills --skill wechat-article-search-api-skill -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/wechat-article-search-api-skill, .gemini/skills/wechat-article-search-api-skill, .github/skills/wechat-article-search-api-skill and .opencode/skills/wechat-article-search-api-skill in your project.

What does Wechat Article Search API Skill need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Wechat Article Search API Skill needs Python for the scripts in its folder, the command-line tools its instructions call (python) and credentials named BROWSERACT_API_KEY. Our summary lists: Python 3; A credential in BROWSERACT_API_KEY.

Does Wechat Article Search API Skill access the network?

SKILL.md names 1 domain. As links in the text: browseract.com. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Wechat Article Search API Skill safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. The check reads SKILL.md only: the scripts in the folder are not scanned, so read them before running anything.

What licence does Wechat Article Search API Skill use?

Wechat Article Search API Skill is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Wechat Article Search API Skill use?

About 1.4k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.7k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Wechat Article Search API Skill?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Wechat Article Search API Skill: She Love Me (863401402/she-love-me, 914 stars), Wechat Article Extractor (freestylefly/wechat-article-extractor-skill, 136 stars), Wechat Miniprogram Builder (chenjin-cmd/wechat-miniprogram-builder, 355 stars) and Skill Wechat Publisher (ZJU-REAL/Easel, 3.2k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Wechat Article Search API Skill?

browser-act (a GitHub organization) maintains it in browser-act/skills, which has 6,108 GitHub stars. The repository holds 87 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on August 24, 2026.

Source: browser-act/skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.