MCP: "rednote" assistant

MCP server which collects data from www.xiaohongshu.com social media

Acknowledgement

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Install

Cookies extraction tool

If you have Chromium-based browsers, please install J2TEAM cookies extension. Otherwise, you need to find an alternative extension to export, or manually copy cookies to local file.

[!NOTE]

If you don't use Chromium-based browsers or prefer another way to extract the cookies (alternative extension or manual process), the format of extracted cookies file is defined in JSON schema cookies_schema.json.

JSON schema editor can check whether the extracted cookies file (instance) fits cookies_schema.json (template).

Python program

Confirm you have a rednote account.

Visit https://www.xiaohongshu.com and log in your "rednote" account.

Export the cookies with J2TEAMS Cookies or alternatives to file $xiaohongshu_cookies_path.

Create and a Python 3.13 virtual environment and activate. Run the following command.

pip install -r requirements.txt
python cookies.py --input_path $xiaohongshu_cookies_path

Save the output before closing, because the output is MCP configuration information.

Update cookies

If MCP server fails to start, extract the new cookies to file $xiaohongshu_cookies_path.

Go to this program's folder, activate Python virtual environment.

Run the following command.

python cookies.py --input_path $xiaohongshu_cookies_path

MCP config

Let the root folder of this program be $base_dir.

MCP configuration:

Update version

Update source code of this MCP server.

Update cookies. Turn off and on this MCP server again.