/wechat-article-to-markdown

name: wechat-article-to-markdown
description: Fetch WeChat Official Account (微信公众号) articles from mp.weixin.qq.com and convert to Markdown. 微信文章转 Markdown 工具。
author: jackwener
version: "1.0.0"
tags:
  - wechat
  - 微信
  - 微信文章
  - 公众号
  - mp.weixin.qq.com
  - markdown
  - article
  - converter
  - cli

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