WeChat Article to Markdown

Fetch a WeChat Official Account article and convert it to a clean Markdown file.

When to use

Use this skill when you need to save WeChat articles as Markdown for:

• Personal archive
• AI summarization input
• Knowledge base ingestion

Prerequisites

• Python 3.8+

# Install
uv tool install wechat-article-to-markdown
# Or: pipx install wechat-article-to-markdown

Usage

wechat-article-to-markdown "<WECHAT_ARTICLE_URL>"

Input URL format:

• https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/...

Output files:

• <cwd>/output/<article-title>/<article-title>.md
• <cwd>/output/<article-title>/images/*

Features

1. Anti-detection fetch with Camoufox
2. Metadata extraction (title, account name, publish time, source URL)
3. Image localization to local files
4. WeChat code-snippet extraction and fenced code block output
5. HTML to Markdown conversion via markdownify
6. Concurrent image downloading

Limitations

• Some code snippets are image/SVG rendered and cannot be extracted as source code
• Public mp.weixin.qq.com URL is required