# How do I save WeChat Official Account articles to Obsidian automatically? (2026)

1 article is $0.0200: read its title and text with wechat_mp.articles.get, write them to a .md file in your vault's folder, and Obsidian picks it up by itself. 10 accounts checked once a day, with 60 new articles a month, come to $7.20 a month. The text comes without images or headings. DataXAPI reads WeChat Official Accounts with 8 endpoints, from $0.0200 a call; a failed call is not charged.

Updated 2026-11-04

## Why no plugin is needed

Obsidian's help says it stores notes as Markdown plain text files in a vault, that a vault is a folder on your local file system, and that it refreshes the vault automatically to keep up with changes made outside it. So any script or AI client that can write a file to that folder can add a note. Its sync, through Obsidian Sync, iCloud, Dropbox, Git and others, then carries it like any other note.

## Which field goes where

`text` is the article without its markup, so what lands in the file is plain words in a Markdown file, not the laid-out article: no images, no headings, no bold. Keep the link at the top, to get back to the original.

| In the note | From the answer |
| --- | --- |
| File name and first heading | `title`, without the characters file names cannot hold |
| The link at the top | `url` |
| Date and account | `published_at`, `author.name` |
| The body | `text` |

## Running it every day

Find each account's original ID once with `wechat.accounts.search`. Then, on a schedule, call `wechat_mp.accounts.articles.list` for each account, about 10 articles a page, and compare each item's `id` with those you stored. For each new one, pass its `url` to `wechat_mp.articles.get` and write the file. cron or launchd can run it, on a machine that can reach the vault's folder.

Or tell an AI client that has DataXAPI connected and can write files: “Every morning take the new articles of these accounts, and save each one as Markdown in ~/Notes/WeChat, named by date and title, with the original link at the top.” Keep it out of the `.obsidian` folder, which holds the vault's settings.

| A month, 10 accounts once a day | Calls | Comes to |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Checking for new articles | 300 × $0.0200 | $6 |
| The text of 60 new articles | 60 × $0.0200 | $1.20 |

## Endpoints

- [WeChat Official Account article detail](https://dataxapi.com/apis/wechat_mp/articles/get/) ($0.0200 / a call): Get one WeChat Official Account article by its link: title, text, time published, the account's name and IDs.
- [WeChat Official Account articles](https://dataxapi.com/apis/wechat_mp/accounts/articles/list/) ($0.0200 / a call): Get a page of the articles a WeChat Official Account published, newest first: title, digest, link, time published.
- [WeChat Official Account live search](https://dataxapi.com/apis/wechat/accounts/search/) ($0.0200 / a call): Find WeChat Official Accounts and service accounts for search terms through WeChat Search, closest first, possibly followed by less related ones: original ID, WeChat ID, name, bio, avatar, whether verified, owner, number of original articles. Charged per call; no followers or reads, for estimates of those use wechat_mp.accounts.search.

## How-to guides

- [How to list a WeChat Official Account's past articles](https://dataxapi.com/guides/wechat-official-account-articles/)

## Sources

What this page says of other services is from their own pages and documents, read on 2026-11-04. Prices and features change: check the source before you decide.

- [Obsidian Help: how Obsidian stores data](https://help.obsidian.md/data-storage)

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