china-news-crawler

China News Crawler Skill

Extract article content from major Chinese news platforms and output in JSON and Markdown formats.

Standalone and portable: This Skill contains all required code with no external dependencies and can be directly copied for use in other projects.

Supported Platforms

Platform	ID	URL Example
WeChat Official Accounts	wechat	`https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/xxxxx`
Toutiao	toutiao	`https://www.toutiao.com/article/123456/`
NetEase News	netease	`https://www.163.com/news/article/ABC123.html`
Sohu News	sohu	`https://www.sohu.com/a/123456_789`
Tencent News	tencent	`https://news.qq.com/rain/a/20251016A07W8J00`

Usage

Basic Usage

# 提取新闻，自动检测平台，输出 JSON + Markdown
uv run .claude/skills/china-news-crawler/scripts/extract_news.py "URL"

# 指定输出目录
uv run .claude/skills/china-news-crawler/scripts/extract_news.py "URL" --output ./output

# 仅输出 JSON
uv run .claude/skills/china-news-crawler/scripts/extract_news.py "URL" --format json

# 仅输出 Markdown
uv run .claude/skills/china-news-crawler/scripts/extract_news.py "URL" --format markdown

# 列出支持的平台
uv run .claude/skills/china-news-crawler/scripts/extract_news.py --list-platforms

Output Files

The script outputs two formats by default to the specified directory (default ./output）：

{news_id}.json - Structured JSON data
{news_id}.md - Markdown-formatted article

Workflow

Receive URL - User provides a news link
Platform Detection - Automatically identify the platform type
Content Extraction - Call the corresponding scraper to fetch and parse the content
Format Conversion - Generate JSON and Markdown
Output Files - Save to the specified directory

Output Format

JSON Structure

{
  "title": "文章标题",
  "news_url": "原始链接",
  "news_id": "文章ID",
  "meta_info": {
    "author_name": "作者/来源",
    "author_url": "",
    "publish_time": "2024-01-01 12:00"
  },
  "contents": [
    {"type": "text", "content": "段落文本", "desc": ""},
    {"type": "image", "content": "https://...", "desc": ""},
    {"type": "video", "content": "https://...", "desc": ""}
  ],
  "texts": ["段落1", "段落2"],
  "images": ["图片URL1", "图片URL2"],
  "videos": []
}

Markdown Structure

# 文章标题

## 文章信息
**作者**: xxx
**发布时间**: 2024-01-01 12:00
**原文链接**: [链接](URL)

---

## 正文内容

段落内容...

![图片](URL)

---

## 媒体资源
### 图片 (N)
1. URL1
2. URL2

Usage Examples

Extract a WeChat Official Account article

uv run .claude/skills/china-news-crawler/scripts/extract_news.py \
  "https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/ebMzDPu2zMT_mRgYgtL6eQ"

Output:

[INFO] Platform detected: wechat (微信公众号)
[INFO] Extracting content...
[INFO] Title: 文章标题
[INFO] Author: 公众号名称
[INFO] Text paragraphs: 15
[INFO] Images: 3
[SUCCESS] Saved: ./output/ebMzDPu2zMT_mRgYgtL6eQ.json
[SUCCESS] Saved: ./output/ebMzDPu2zMT_mRgYgtL6eQ.md

Extract a Toutiao article

uv run .claude/skills/china-news-crawler/scripts/extract_news.py \
  "https://www.toutiao.com/article/7434425099895210546/"

Dependency Requirements

This Skill requires the following Python packages (usually already installed in the main project):

parsel
pydantic
requests
curl-cffi
tenacity
demjson3

Error Handling

Error Type	Description	Solution
`无法识别该平台`	URL does not match any supported platform	Check whether the URL is correct
`平台不支持`	Non-Chinese site	This Skill only supports Chinese news sites
`提取失败`	Network error or page structure change	Retry or check URL validity

Notes

For educational and research purposes only
Do not perform large-scale crawling
Respect the target website's robots.txt and terms of service
WeChat Official Accounts may require a valid Cookie (the current default configuration usually works)

Directory Structure

china-news-crawler/
├── SKILL.md                      # [必需] Skill 定义文件
├── references/
│   └── platform-patterns.md      # 平台 URL 模式说明
└── scripts/
    ├── extract_news.py           # CLI 入口脚本
    ├── models.py                 # 数据模型
    ├── detector.py               # 平台检测
    ├── formatter.py              # Markdown 格式化
    └── crawlers/                 # 爬虫模块
        ├── __init__.py
        ├── base.py               # BaseNewsCrawler 基类
        ├── fetchers.py           # HTTP 获取策略
        ├── wechat.py             # 微信公众号
        ├── toutiao.py            # 今日头条
        ├── netease.py            # 网易新闻
        ├── sohu.py               # 搜狐新闻
        └── tencent.py            # 腾讯新闻

References

Platform URL Pattern Description