Xiaohongshu Content Research

Xiaohongshu content research

This Skill composes the generic drissionpage-mcp tools for content research. The MCP host executes the tool calls; the Markdown Skill itself does not access the browser or network. It does not log in, bypass a captcha, defeat a safety page, or submit likes, comments, follows, messages, or purchases. Use it only for content that the operator is authorized to inspect.

Stop conditions

Stop before navigation when the target is not authorized or its robots policy does not permit the requested access. Stop when the site requests login, verification, captcha interaction, or an anti-bot challenge that is not an explicitly authorized test fixture. Do not retry a safety page or rotate identities, proxies, headers, or user agents to evade a restriction.

The public Xiaohongshu site may return a safety restriction page or error code 300012. Treat that as a product boundary, not as a selector or timeout bug. Use the local social-notes playground case for deterministic integration tests without contacting Xiaohongshu.

Bounded read-only sequence

1. Confirm the URL, authorization, robots policy, and a small request budget.
2. Call page_navigate once, then page_observe or page_snapshot.
3. If a search form is visibly available, use element_find and element_type; verify the input value with element_get_property before one explicit submit click. Do not submit more than the operator requested.
4. Use element_find_all for note cards and extract only bounded visible fields such as title, author label, link, and visible text excerpt.
5. Open at most the requested number of detail links with page_navigate or new_tab=true. Re-observe each page before reading it.
6. Verify each result with element_get_text, element_get_attribute, or page_snapshot. Record missing, gated, or truncated fields as unknown.
7. Close additional tabs and return a source URL, collection count, and the exact stop reason for any skipped item.

Local playground validation

Run the deterministic fixture from the repository root:

DP_HEADLESS=1 python playground/run_mcp_lab.py --case social-notes --json

The fixture validates a mobile feed, three note cards, a search control, and a detail route without public-site traffic. For MCP client testing, start the server from a built release package and pass its interpreter with --command.

Evidence and privacy

Keep collection bounded and avoid passwords, cookies, storage values, private messages, phone numbers, or other personal data. Do not place raw private content in logs or generated reports. Prefer title/author/link/excerpt fields, state the timestamp and URL, and preserve uncertainty when content is hidden or changed between observations.