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WeChat Mini Programs now support virtual payments for individual developers, adding a new monetization option beyond ads.

WeMM-Embedding is a family of universal multimodal embedding models developed by Tencent, achieving state-of-the-art performance in retrieval and recommendation tasks for WeChat applications, with variants in 2B, 4B, and 9B parameters released publicly.

CZ warns that he has not used WeChat for many years and reminds everyone to be vigilant against scams impersonating Binance or CZ.

It seems WeChat is about to add an AI summarization feature to official accounts on mobile, which could enhance the user reading experience.

The author criticizes WeChat's newly launched AI-assisted writing for Moments, AI comments, and AI summarization for official accounts, arguing that these AI features will weaken genuine emotional expression and social connections between people, and expresses concern that the creator ecosystem is being eroded by AI.

This article breaks down a case of monetizing via WeChat Official Account traffic monetization, introducing a method that uses original images for account testing in the first 5 days, then publishing original articles from day 6 onward, achieving over 7,000 yuan in ad revenue in 30 days. It also includes risk warnings and operational suggestions.

Xiaohongshu's creator platform supports binding to WeChat Official Accounts. Enter a link to automatically import and format long articles, making it convenient to publish content simultaneously across X, WeChat, and Xiaohongshu.

Introduces a WeChat Channels downloader: compact, easy to use, supports macOS and Windows, can be used via an online page or a self-hosted service.

This tweet introduces a video download tool for WeChat Channels based on a GitHub repository. Users can deploy their own dedicated downloader on Cloudflare and download videos by copying links in the WeChat built-in browser.

Fenng joked that WeChat's Xiaowei might support Markdown, calling Markdown the best file format.

WeChat finally natively supports .md (Markdown) files, a highly anticipated feature update.

Liu Cong has open-sourced a WeChat official account title optimization Skill repository, containing skills such as gzh-title-strategist, which can be used to generate and optimize WeChat official account titles.

The author solved the problem of Claude Code being unable to read WeChat public account articles by faking User-Agent and Referer to bypass WeChat verification, and using Python standard library to extract the title, author, and body text. He packaged this functionality into an open-source skill (rn-wechat-extract), supporting one-command extraction of full text, usable in Agent workflows.

Tencent's ima knowledge base can batch-read public account articles from WeChat favorites and supports deep integration with Agent products like WorkBuddy, Claude Code, and Codex, making AI processing convenient.

The author implemented a feature using OpenAI Codex that redirects external links to add friends on WeChat, reducing lead acquisition costs. Compared to similar products costing $99/month, the author only pays for certification and server costs.

Guizang-social-card-skill is a Claude Code skill that generates Xiaohongshu carousels and WeChat cover pairs from a single HTML file with 28 layouts and 10 themes, supporting editorial and Swiss design styles.

Introduces a new yichen-skills tool wechat-mp-batch-exporter that allows using Codex to automatically batch scrape WeChat official account articles, including text, likes, shares, comments, read counts, and other data, with login status maintained for 4 days.

A friend with over ten years of experience in the public security system warned that many people have weak privacy protection awareness on WeChat, similar to being naked. The author followed the advice and checked, only to discover shocking facts.

WeChat officially released a developer tool called Skill.

The author details how to crack the encryption system of WeChat Mac version through reverse engineering, using Frida dynamic instrumentation to capture the key generated by the system function CCKeyDerivationPBKDF, thereby decrypting 29 encrypted databases. The goal of automatically obtaining group chat records is achieved, and the project is planned to be open-sourced.