Read a WeChat official account's recent articles

Opens a WeChat official account you follow and reads its article history: each article's title and publication date. Official accounts are the publishing layer of the Chinese internet and have no web presence a scraper can reach; the phone reads them from the app you are signed into.

Nothing is sent, followed, or shared.

Inputs

Run it

One call. Substitute the inputs.

run_task({
  "phases": [{
    "launch": "com.tencent.mm",
    "goal": "In WeChat, tap the search icon at the top, type '<account>', and open the official account named <account> from the results, the one marked as an Official Account or 公众号. On the account's page, open its message history or article list, then keep scrolling the articles. Do not follow, unfollow, send a message or open an article.",
    "steps": [
      "The official account <account> is open",
      "A list of articles from <account> with titles is showing"
    ],
    "typeTexts": [
      "<account>"
    ],
    "findTexts": [
      "<account>"
    ],
    "maxSteps": 18,
    "collect": {
      "record": "one article in the account's history",
      "fields": {
        "title": "the article title",
        "date": "the publication date or time, if shown",
        "summary": "the summary line under the title, if shown"
      },
      "where": "articles published by <account> with titles are showing",
      "count": <count>
    }
  }]
})

Poll get_task_status(task_id, wait_seconds: 30) until the status is done.

What comes back

result.collected holds one record per article, newest first. Article bodies open in WeChat's built-in browser, which the phone tools do not read; this workflow stops at the list.

Notes

• You must already follow the account, or the search result must be public. Following is a write the gate refuses.
• WeChat has no app playbook on the server yet, and its accessibility tree is sparser than most apps'. Expect this one to need tuning after its first runs.