Toutiao Auto Publisher

Problem

Publishing Toutiao posts manually requires repeatedly opening the logged-in publisher page, entering a title, pasting body text, selecting images, setting a cover, toggling declarations, and confirming publication. The steps are fragmented and easy to miss. Toutiao Auto Publisher is intended for users who are already logged into Toutiao in a browser and treats the publishing flow as a sequence of locatable, retryable page operations.

How It Works

The skill drives the publisher page through the OpenClaw Browser extension. It first runs browser snapshot to capture the current dynamic ref values, then enters the title, injects the article body with JavaScript, and dispatches an event sequence such as input and compositionend. It can insert Toutiao AI-recommended images, select a cover from the free licensed image library, toggle “Toutiao first publish” and “personal view,” and click “Preview and publish” followed by the confirmation button. The workflow supports micro posts and longer articles, with fallback handling for stale ref values, slow AI image loading, and publish-button lookup failures.

Boundaries

The skill requires an existing manual Toutiao login, a stable network connection, and the browser extension. Body images do not currently support local uploads, so AI-recommended images are preferred. Element ref values change dynamically and should not be hardcoded. It is useful for validating automated publishing flows, but it is not suitable as a backend API in non-browser environments or when no session exists.