lyricat/wechat-format

wechat-format is a browser-based formatting tool built for writers who publish articles on WeChat Official Accounts. WeChat Official Accounts is the platform built into the WeChat messaging app that businesses, journalists, and creators in China use to distribute articles directly to subscribers. Writing articles there is done through WeChat's own web editor, which accepts HTML but strips out many standard CSS styles when you paste content in. The tool works by taking Markdown, a plain-text writing format that uses symbols like asterisks and hashes to indicate formatting, and converting it into HTML with styles carefully designed to survive WeChat's editor without being overwritten. Standard Markdown-to-HTML converters produce output that looks fine in browsers but breaks inside WeChat because the editor resets styles on certain elements. Three specific problems motivated the project. Standard list rendering broke in WeChat because the editor reset the CSS on unordered and ordered list elements. The tool applied inline styles to fix that. Hyperlinks were also a problem: WeChat does not allow clickable external links in article bodies, so the tool converted links into numbered footnote references and printed the actual URLs at the bottom of the article. And the overall layout was designed to match what WeChat readers expect, rather than generic browser defaults. The README is short and does not describe setup steps or configuration options in detail. It does note that the project is no longer actively maintained. The author points readers to a replacement tool called Quaily Markdown Tools for the same conversion task.