What is wechat-article-exporter?

wechat-article-exporter is an online tool for bulk downloading articles from WeChat Official Accounts (the public subscription channels inside the WeChat app). If you follow a public account and want to save its articles locally, this tool lets you export them in bulk rather than opening each one by hand. The tool requires no local installation. You can use it through an online website, or run your own private instance using Docker or by deploying it to Cloudflare's infrastructure. Articles can be exported in several formats: HTML, JSON, Excel, plain text, Markdown, and DOCX. The HTML export is noted as being able to reproduce the original article layout and styling at 100 percent fidelity, because it bundles the images and style files together. Filtering options let you narrow downloads by author, article title, publish date, whether an article was original content, or which collection it belongs to. The tool also supports exporting engagement data such as view counts, forward counts, comments, and comment replies, though this feature requires an additional step to capture authentication credentials via packet inspection. The tool works by using a search function in the WeChat Official Account management backend as the access method for retrieving article lists. It caches fetched article lists locally to reduce repeated requests. The README is written in Chinese and points to a separate documentation site for usage instructions. The project is licensed under MIT.