Weibo Timeline Monitor for Openclaw

Automates the monitoring and archiving of the Weibo Latest Posts timeline into organized, deduplicated Markdown files.

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v0.1.4
Mar 2, 2026
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Install & Download

1. ClawHub CLI

The fastest way to install a skill directly from the registry.

npx clawhub@latest install weibo-fresh-posts

2. Manual Installation

Copy the skill folder to one of these locations

Global
~/.openclaw/skills/
Workspace
<project>/skills/

Priority: Workspace > Local > Bundled

3. Prompt Installation

Copy this prompt to OpenClaw to install it automatically.

Help me install weibo-fresh-posts using Clawhub. If Clawhub is not installed, install it first (npm i -g clawhub).

Prefer to download?

Get the raw skill files in a ZIP archive.

What is Weibo Timeline Monitor?

The Weibo Timeline Monitor is a specialized automation tool designed to ensure you never miss critical updates from your Weibo following. Unlike standard feeds that use recommendation algorithms, this skill force-switches to the Latest Weibo timeline to capture posts chronologically.

By leveraging Openclaw Skills, it bridges the gap between social media noise and organized personal knowledge management. It extracts raw post content, generates concise summaries, and exports everything into clean, daily Markdown logs, making your social media consumption more intentional and searchable.

Weibo Timeline Monitor Use Cases

  • Tracking industry news or key influencer updates in real-time without algorithmic interference.
  • Archiving social media posts for long-term personal knowledge management (PKM).
  • Monitoring specific accounts to ensure critical information is never overlooked.
  • Generating automated daily digests of Weibo activity in a developer-friendly format.

How Weibo Timeline Monitor Works

  1. Navigates to the Weibo homepage using a pre-authenticated browser profile enabled in your configuration.
  2. Force-activates the Latest Weibo filter on the sidebar to bypass the default recommendation stream.
  3. Scrapes new posts within a rolling time window, extracting original timestamps and full-text content.
  4. Deduplicates entries based on the unique post URL to prevent redundant records in your daily logs.
  5. Summarizes content into brief snippets of 30 words or less for quick scanning.
  6. Appends the processed data to a daily Markdown file following a strict technical schema.

Weibo Timeline Monitor Setup

To get started with this skill, follow these steps to integrate it with your environment:

  1. Ensure your browser profile is logged into Weibo before execution.
  2. Review the scraping logic and parsing rules in references/workflow.md.
  3. Create a periodic task using the provided installation script:
/bin/bash scripts/install_cron.sh
  1. Verify the output directory is correctly mapped for your Openclaw Skills daily reports.

Weibo Timeline Monitor Data Schema & Taxonomy

The skill organizes captured data into Markdown tables using the following taxonomy:

Field Description
Posting Time The original timestamp of the post (mandatory)
Post Content The full, original text of the Weibo post
Summary A concise summary of the content (max 30 words)
Source Link The unique URL used for file-wide deduplication
Execution Status Summary of skipped items or parsing errors

Weibo Timeline Monitor Advanced Features

  • Rolling Window Scraping: Implements a look-back period during scrapes to significantly reduce the probability of missing posts during high-activity periods.
  • Automatic Deduplication: Uses the full original link as a unique identifier to maintain a clean database across multiple runs.
  • Cron Integration: Native support for scheduled tasks using Openclaw Skills cron setup for hands-free background monitoring.
  • Graceful Error Handling: Skips unparseable timestamps and provides a readable summary of failures rather than silent errors.

SKILL.md


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