Autosearch v2ex

Chinese developer community discussions on programming, tech, and career — useful for native-zh developer sentiment and niche technical troubleshooting.

install

source · Clone the upstream repo

git clone https://github.com/0xmariowu/Autosearch

Claude Code · Install into ~/.claude/skills/

T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/0xmariowu/Autosearch "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r "$T/autosearch/skills/channels/v2ex" ~/.claude/skills/0xmariowu-autosearch-v2ex && rm -rf "$T"

manifest: autosearch/skills/channels/v2ex/SKILL.md

source content

Overview

V2EX (www.v2ex.com) is a long-standing Chinese developer community centered on programming, career, products, and niche technical discussion. This channel queries sov2ex.com, a third-party ElasticSearch-style search index over V2EX threads.

When to Choose It

Choose it for Chinese developer-scene queries (programming opinions, framework tradeoffs, career discussions, niche troubleshooting).
Choose it when the query implies programmer-audience in Chinese discourse but zhihu is too broad and weibo is too noisy.
Avoid for academic, multimedia, or general consumer lifestyle queries.

How To Search

api_search

— Queries

https://www.sov2ex.com/api/search?q=<q>&size=10

. Extracts threads from

hits[*]._source

and constructs canonical thread URLs as

https://www.v2ex.com/t/{id}

Known Quirks

sov2ex.com is a third-party index, not V2EX's official search. Index freshness depends on that operator; thread titles/bodies are usually current but index lag can be hours.
V2EX itself has no public search API — the site relies on external indexes or Google site-search. This channel picks sov2ex as the most stable JSON option.
Developer community, so Chinese + English code snippets mix naturally in content. Language tag is
```
[zh, mixed]
```
.

Quality Bar

Evidence items have non-empty title and url.
No crash on empty or malformed API response.
Source channel field matches the channel name.