CRITICAL FIX: update.md was telling agents to uninstall bird CLI,
which broke users who had working bird installations. Now:
- twitter.py: prefers twitter-cli, falls back to bird/birdx if installed
- update.md: removed "clean up deprecated tools" step entirely
- Added explicit rule: "Never uninstall any existing tools the user already has"
- Tests cover twitter-cli primary + bird fallback + preference order
78 tests passing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Based on investigation of public-clis/twitter-cli 47 issues:
- search may 404 when Twitter changes GraphQL endpoints
- followers command has account ban risk on datacenter IPs
- Cookie auto-extraction fragile (macOS Keychain, Windows DPAPI)
- Recommend Cookie-Editor export + env vars over auto-extraction
- Ensure v0.8.5+ for Windows pipe fix
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Based on upstream issue investigation:
- Reddit (rdt-cli): ensure v0.4.2+, note login-required features
- B站: 412 is overseas-IP + no-cookie, add bili-cli commands
- YouTube: --write-comments is best-effort, auto-subs may duplicate
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Based on investigation of jackwener/xiaohongshu-cli issues:
- xsec_token: can't read by bare note_id, must search/feed first
- Rate limiting: high-freq requests trigger CAPTCHA
- v0.6.4: user/user-posts/favorites may return API error
- POST operations: may 406 due to signature issues in v0.6.x
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- WebChannel.read(): reads any URL via Jina Reader (r.jina.ai), returns Markdown
- _install_skill(): add fallback from importlib.resources to Path(__file__) for editable installs
- Explicit UTF-8 encoding on all file read/write operations
Inspired by PR #215, implemented correctly (Jina instead of raw requests).
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Base install now only sets up lightweight zero-config channels (Web, YouTube,
GitHub, RSS, Exa, V2EX, Bilibili basic). Optional channels (Twitter, Weibo,
WeChat, Xiaoyuzhou, XiaoHongShu, Reddit, Bilibili full, Douyin, LinkedIn)
are installed on demand via --channels flag.
- Add --channels param to install subcommand
- Extract twitter/xhs/reddit/bili into independent install functions
- Remove heavy deps (weibo/xiaoyuzhou/wechat/twitter-cli/xhs-cli) from
default _install_system_deps() and _install_mcporter()
- Cookie import only triggers when cookie-needing channels are selected
- Doctor output: inactive optional channels summarized in one line
- install.md: two-step flow (basics → ask user which channels)
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Reddit: Exa crawling had chronic CRAWL_LIVECRAWL_TIMEOUT issues.
rdt-cli (304 stars, public-clis) works without login — search, read
full posts, and comments all verified. Massive improvement.
Bilibili: add bili-cli (590 stars) as optional enhanced backend for
hot/rank/search/feed. yt-dlp remains for video metadata + subtitles.
Also fix UA string (was "agent-reach/1.0", now proper browser UA).
75 tests passing.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Discord only returns server metadata (no messages without Bot Token),
not useful enough. Toutiao search was fragile (HTML scraping). Both
can be revisited when better upstream tools appear.
75 tests passing.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
miku_ai (Sogou WeChat search) has been unmaintained for 20 months.
Exa can search AND read WeChat articles via mp.weixin.qq.com domain
filtering — verified: search returns articles, crawling returns full text.
Jina Reader fails on WeChat (CAPTCHA block).
- wechat.py: check() now detects Exa (primary) + Camoufox (optional)
- tier downgraded from 2 to 0 (Exa is zero-config)
- skill/references/web.md: updated WeChat commands to use Exa
- 104 tests passing
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
browser_cookie3 has been unmaintained for 15+ months and breaks with
newer browser versions. rookiepy (Rust-based, 345 stars, updated 2026-01)
is now the preferred cookie extraction backend.
- xueqiu.py: try rookiepy first, fallback to browser_cookie3
- cookie_extract.py: same priority order, compatible API wrapper
- Remove bird CLI credential sync (bird repo deleted)
- 104 tests passing
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Zero-config channel (tier=0). Uses Discord Invite API to read public
server info (no auth), and Exa via mcporter for content search.
Tested: discord.gg/python returns 419K members, description, channel.
104 tests passing.
Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Zero-config channel (tier=0). Searches so.toutiao.com by scraping
embedded JSON from script tags. Fixes URL extraction order from PR #207
(article_url is the primary field, not display.info.url). Adds read()
via Jina Reader. 89 tests passing.
Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Clarify that localhost:18060 root may return 404 (MCP is at /mcp)
- Recommend Cookie-Editor export over QR scan login
- Note that Docker container QR login is unreliable and cookies
don't auto-share to MCP service
Fixes#220
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Reddit blocks nearly all non-browser access at IP level (including ISP proxies).
Switch Reddit channel to use Exa exclusively:
- Search: web_search_exa with includeDomains: ["reddit.com"]
- Read: crawling_exa for full post + comments
- check() now verifies Exa availability instead of probing Reddit API
- tier changed from 1 (needs config) to 0 (zero config)
- Removed reddit_proxy from config, CLI, and setup guide
- Updated all docs (README, README_en, install.md, SKILL.md, references)
- Fixed xreach→bird references in references/social.md
Fixes#218, Fixes#222, Fixes#221
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The Xueqiu stock API requires a login session token (xq_a_token) that
is generated by Xueqiu's frontend JavaScript and cannot be obtained by
simply visiting the homepage. This caused persistent HTTP 400 (error
code 400016) for all users.
Changes:
- _ensure_cookies(): add three-level priority — config file (saved by
--from-browser) → live Chrome cookies via browser_cookie3 → homepage
fallback. The homepage-only approach only ever got acw_tc (anti-DDoS
token), never xq_a_token.
- _get_json(): switch User-Agent from "agent-reach/1.0" to a real Chrome
UA, and add Referer: https://xueqiu.com/ to all API requests.
- get_hot_posts(): replace the defunct /statuses/hot/listV3.json endpoint
(returns empty body) with the v4 public timeline endpoint; correctly
parse item.data as a JSON string to extract author, text, and likes.
- cookie_extract.py: add Xueqiu to PLATFORM_SPECS and configure_from_browser
so that `agent-reach configure --from-browser chrome` now also saves
Xueqiu cookies (only when xq_a_token is present).
- check(): improve error message to direct users to --from-browser instead
of suggesting a proxy.
- Fix urllib.parse.quote usage (was using urllib.request.quote).
- Update tier and backends description to reflect cookie requirement.
- Add 2 new tests: cookie loading from config, Referer/UA header verification.
- Update docs: README, install guide, troubleshooting, SKILL.md, CHANGELOG.
- Add 'agent-reach skill --install/--uninstall' command for explicit skill management
- Make 'agent-reach doctor' auto-install skill if not present (fixes#154)
- Add format_xhs_result() to strip bloated XHS JSON to essential fields (fixes#134)
- Add 'agent-reach format xhs' CLI command (pipe mcporter output to clean it)
- Update SKILL.md with XHS formatter usage tip
- Add tests for both features (11 new tests, 73/73 total pass)
Co-authored-by: Panniantong <panniantong@users.noreply.github.com>
* feat: add Xueqiu (雪球) channel for stock quotes and community posts
Add a Tier 0 (zero-config) channel for Xueqiu, China's popular stock
market and investment community platform. Uses auto-generated session
cookies via http.cookiejar — no login required.
Supported methods:
- get_stock_quote(symbol) — real-time quotes (A/HK/US markets)
- search_stock(query) — search by name or code
- get_hot_posts(limit) — trending community posts
- get_hot_stocks(limit, stock_type) — popular stocks leaderboard
Inspired by https://github.com/jackwener/opencli xueqiu implementation.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix: add Xueqiu to README platform tables, remove stale Instagram ref
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Co-authored-by: fernando_jacob <f.jacob1996@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat: use rich text formatting for doctor UI
* fix: remove unrelated cli formatting changes
* fix: keep cli diff focused on doctor rich output
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Co-authored-by: Yuki9814 <Yuki9814@users.noreply.github.com>
miku_ai is installed inside the agent-reach Python environment (pipx venv
or user venv). Using bare 'python3' fails when agent-reach was installed
via pipx, because system python3 cannot import miku_ai.
Fix: detect the correct interpreter at runtime via:
$(python3 -c "import agent_reach, sys; print(sys.executable)")
This resolves the interpreter transparently for pipx, venv, and plain pip
installs without hardcoding paths.
Closes#187
Co-authored-by: Panniantong <panniantong@users.noreply.github.com>
- Add 10 mcporter command examples for Weibo channel
- Cover: trending, search (users/content/topics), profile, feeds, comments, fans/followers
- Note: zero config, no login needed, uses mobile API with auto visitor cookies
- Completes documentation for mcp-server-weibo integration
Co-authored-by: Panniantong <panniantong@users.noreply.github.com>
- Replace xreach CLI with bird (@steipete/bird) as Twitter/X backend
- bird uses AUTH_TOKEN/CT0 env vars (simpler than xreach's session.json)
- Accept both 'bird' and 'birdx' binary names
- Remove version detection logic (bird v0.8.0 is the baseline)
- Write credentials.env to ~/.config/bird/ for easy sourcing
- Keep xfetch session.json sync for backward compatibility
- Update SKILL.md commands: bird search/read/user-tweets/thread
- Update install/uninstall to use npm @steipete/bird
- All 52 tests pass
- Change fallback cookie path from relative 'cookies.json' to absolute
'/app/cookies.json' so docker cp works correctly when COOKIES_PATH env
var is not set in older container images
- Also fix except branch to use the same absolute fallback
- Auto-restart container after writing cookies so the upstream MCP
reloads them from disk without requiring manual intervention
Fixes#175
Reddit API requires a non-empty User-Agent header per its API rules.
Without it, the JSON endpoint returns 403 even when Reddit is reachable,
causing doctor to falsely report the channel as unavailable.
Changes:
- Add _reddit_reachable() helper that probes Reddit JSON API with UA
- doctor check() now distinguishes 'actually unreachable' from 'no proxy'
- Users on home IPs get 'ok' when Reddit is reachable; warn only on real failure
Fixes#168
The description field was 1204 characters, exceeding the 1024-character
maximum enforced by Codex and other MCP clients. This caused
'invalid description: exceeds maximum length of 1024 characters'
errors that prevented the skill from loading.
Changes:
- Removed star count (changes frequently, not essential for matching)
- Removed Chinese aliases in parentheses (redundant with trigger list)
- Consolidated 'Use when' into a single concise sentence
- Deduplicated trigger keywords (kept most distinctive ones)
New length: 661 chars (well within 1024 limit).
- Replace brittle '"status": "ok"' string match with proper JSON parsing
in _mcporter_status_ok(). Handles Windows BOM, CRLF line endings, and
whitespace variations that caused false negatives on Windows + mcporter 0.7.3.
- Fallback to normalised string matching for backward compatibility.
- Extend config-get timeout to 15 s and list timeout to 30 s on Windows
(unchanged on Linux/macOS: 5 s / 10 s).
Fixes#159
* feat(channels): add V2EX support via public API
V2EX provides a public JSON API that requires no authentication.
This PR adds:
- agent_reach/channels/v2ex.py: V2EXChannel (tier=0, zero-config)
- can_handle() matches v2ex.com URLs
- check() verifies API reachability via urllib (no extra deps)
- Register V2EXChannel in channels/__init__.py
- SKILL.md: add V2EX section with curl examples for hot topics,
node browsing, topic detail, replies, and user info
- tests/test_channels.py: URL matching + mocked ok/warn check tests
V2EX API endpoints used:
GET /api/v2/topics/hot — hot topics
GET /api/topics/show.json — node topics / topic detail
GET /api/replies/show.json — topic replies
GET /api/members/show.json — user info
* feat(channels): expand V2EX channel with data-fetching methods
Add get_hot_topics, get_node_topics, get_topic, get_user, and search
methods to V2EXChannel using stdlib urllib only (no new dependencies).
Update unit tests and SKILL.md with Python call examples.
* feat(v2ex): add data fetching methods to V2EXChannel
Upstream bzd6661/wechat-article-for-ai has a bug where Tag.new_tag
is None in BS4 4.12+. Our fork fixes this.
Co-authored-by: Panniantong <panniantong@users.noreply.github.com>
Config class writes YAML (config.yaml), but xiaoyuzhou.py, cli.py, and
transcribe.sh were hardcoded to read config.json (JSON format). Users who
configured groq-key via 'agent-reach configure' would not have their key
detected because the wrong file was being read.
Fixes#128 (related to config loading)
Co-authored-by: Panniantong <panniantong@users.noreply.github.com>
Yuhao Chen