wxq — 微信本地聊天记录查询工具

WeChat local chat history query — CLI + MCP server for AI agents 微信聊天记录 · 本地数据库解密 · 命令行查询 · MCP 服务

wxq reads the encrypted WeChat SQLite databases on your machine, decrypts them locally, and exposes messages, contacts, sessions, and statistics through a clean CLI and a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. Nothing leaves your machine.

Python-native by design: pip install-able, import-able, and typed — so it can be embedded directly into Python agent frameworks rather than shelled out to as a binary.

Features

• SQLCipher 4 decryption — AES-256-CBC with HMAC-SHA512 verification, WAL support

• Automatic key extraction — scan WeChat process memory on macOS, Windows, and Linux

• CLI with 11 subcommands — sessions, history, search, contacts, stats, export, and more

• MCP server mode — expose WeChat data as 8 read-only tools for AI agents (Claude, etc.)

• Incremental message tracking — new-messages shows only what's arrived since last check

• Time range filtering — query by date/datetime across all commands

• Message type filtering — filter by text, image, video, voice, file, link, sticker, system

• Group chat support — member lists, per-sender stats, hourly activity breakdown

• zstd decompression — handles WCDB compressed content transparently

• Mtime-based DB cache — decrypted databases are cached and refreshed only when the source changes

• Typed — ships py.typed; mypy --strict passes clean

Related MCP server: wechat-mcp-server

Requirements

• Python 3.10+

• WeChat desktop app (macOS, Windows, or Linux)

• WeChat must have been logged in at least once (so the local databases exist)

Installation

From source (works today):

git clone https://github.com/vpcoderli/wxq.git
cd wxq
pip install -e ".[mcp]"

Once published to PyPI:

pip install wxq          # core
pip install "wxq[mcp]"   # with MCP server support

For development, see Testing below.

Quick Start

1. Extract encryption keys

wxq init

This scans the running WeChat process memory to extract database encryption keys and writes them to ~/.wxq/. On macOS and Linux this may require sudo.

2. Query your data

# Recent chat sessions
wxq sessions

# Unread messages
wxq unread

# Chat history with a contact
wxq history "Alice" --limit 50

# Search messages globally
wxq search "meeting notes"

# Search within a specific chat
wxq search "project" --chat "Work Group"

# Time-filtered history
wxq history "Alice" --start-time "2024-01-01" --end-time "2024-06-30"

# Contact list
wxq contacts --query "Li"

# Contact details
wxq contact-detail "Alice"

# Group members
wxq members "Work Group"

# Chat statistics
wxq stats "Work Group"

# Export chat to file
wxq export "Alice" -o alice_chat.txt

# Incremental new messages (since last check)
wxq new-messages

# Favorites
wxq favorites

3. Output format

All commands return JSON by default; pass --format text for human-readable output:

wxq sessions --format json
wxq history "Alice" --format text --limit 100

Exit codes: 1 = target not found / no data, 2 = invalid arguments, 3 = decryption failure.

MCP Server

The MCP server exposes WeChat data as read-only tools, allowing AI agents to query your messages and contacts.

Setup with Claude Desktop

Add to your Claude Desktop claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "wxq": {
      "command": "wxq-mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available MCP Tools

Architecture

src/wxq/
  cli.py              # Click CLI entry point
  exceptions.py       # Exception hierarchy
  core/
    config.py          # Configuration loading
    context.py         # AppContext — shared application state
    crypto.py          # SQLCipher 4 decryption (AES-256-CBC + HMAC-SHA512)
    db_cache.py        # Mtime-based decrypted DB cache
    contacts.py        # ContactStore — name resolution and contact queries
    key_utils.py       # Key file parsing and path safety
  keys/
    common.py          # Cross-platform key scanning interface
    scanner_macos.py   # macOS: task_for_pid / mach_vm_read
    scanner_windows.py # Windows: kernel32.ReadProcessMemory
    scanner_linux.py   # Linux: /proc/pid/mem
  models/
    contact.py         # Contact, ContactDetail, GroupInfo dataclasses
    message.py         # Message, ChatContext, ChatStats, type enums
    config.py          # Configuration model
    session.py         # Session model
    keys.py            # Key metadata model
  services/
    message_service.py # Message querying, pagination, stats aggregation
    message_parser.py  # zstd decompression, type splitting, content parsing
  commands/            # CLI subcommand implementations
  mcp/
    server.py          # MCP server with 8 tools
  output/
    formatter.py       # JSON / text output formatting

The CLI and the MCP server are two thin front ends over the same service layer (services/message_service.py), so both surfaces always expose identical behavior.

How Decryption Works

WeChat stores its data in SQLCipher 4 encrypted SQLite databases. The decryption process:

1. Key extraction — The encryption key is stored in WeChat's process memory. wxq init scans the process to find and verify the 32-byte key using HMAC-SHA512 page authentication.

2. Page-level decryption — Each 4096-byte page is decrypted independently with AES-256-CBC. The first 16 bytes of the 80-byte reserve area are the IV; the remaining 64 bytes are the HMAC-SHA512 signature.

3. WAL handling — Write-Ahead Log frames are decrypted and patched back into the main database for a consistent view.

4. Caching — Decrypted databases are cached in a temp directory, keyed by MD5 of the relative path. The cache is invalidated when the source file's mtime changes.

Configuration

State lives in ~/.wxq/ — config.json, all_keys.json, and last_check.json. It is created automatically by wxq init. Set WXQ_CONFIG (or pass --config) to override the config path.

Upgrading from wechat-query? If ~/.wechat-cli/config.json exists and ~/.wxq/ does not, wxq keeps reading the old location, so existing installs work without re-running init. Nothing is moved or deleted. The WECHAT_QUERY_CONFIG environment variable is still honored as a fallback. To migrate for real, just mv ~/.wechat-cli ~/.wxq.

Testing

This project uses a src/ layout, so an editable install is required before the tests can import the package:

pip install -e ".[dev,mcp]"     # required first — a bare pytest will fail to import wxq
pytest                          # run the suite
pytest tests/test_crypto.py     # a single file
pytest tests/test_crypto.py::TestFullDecrypt::test_single_page_roundtrip   # a single test
pytest --cov=wxq                # with coverage
mypy src/wxq --strict           # static type check (passes clean)

248 tests covering decryption (including corrupt/truncated/wrong-key cases), the SQLCipher key-length guard, contacts, XML app-message and media parsing, the XXE safety guard, SQL-injection-safe table handling, path-traversal rejection, the DB cache's mtime invalidation, config loading, every CLI command end-to-end, and the MCP server handlers. The type checker runs in --strict mode with no errors.

Uncovered code is concentrated in the platform-specific process-memory scanners (keys/), which require a live WeChat process and OS-level memory access and so cannot run in CI.

CI runs the suite on Python 3.10–3.13 (Linux) plus one job each on macOS and Windows, then mypy --strict, then a wheel build that asserts py.typed and the bin/ scanner are packaged.

License

MIT

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