Google's NotebookLM is good. Upload documents, it generates podcasts, does deep Q&A, produces summaries. But it has a致命 limitation: you can only manually upload files.
WeChat articles? No. YouTube videos? No. Deep reporting behind paywalls? Even less so.
qiaomu (originally named anything-to-notebooklm) exists to tear down this wall.
What It Does
A Claude Code Skill that lets you tell the AI in plain language: "Turn this WeChat article into a podcast." "Make this YouTube video into a PPT." "Convert this podcast episode into a mind map."
AI auto-completes: content fetching → NotebookLM upload → target format generation. You just say one sentence in human language.
Content Source Coverage
The coverage range is wider than expected:
- WeChat Official Accounts (MCP browser simulation scraping)
- X/Twitter (tweets + full threads)
- YouTube (auto subtitle extraction)
- Podcasts (Xiaoyuzhou, Ximalaya, Bilibili)
- Paywalled news sites (300+, including NYT, WSJ, FT, Bloomberg, The Information)
- Any public webpage
- PDF (including scanned OCR), EPUB, Markdown, Word, Excel
- Images (auto OCR), audio (auto transcription)
Paywall Bypass
The狠 part of this project is the built-in paywall bypass. 6-level cascade strategy, from light to heavy:
- Proxy services (r.jina.ai / defuddle)
- Site-specific Bot UA (Googlebot covers ~50 sites, Bingbot ~4)
- Generic bypass (UA spoofing + X-Forwarded-For + Referer + AMP + EU IP)
- archive.today archive
- Google Cache
- agent-fetch local tool
Technical route borrowed from BPC (Bypass Paywalls Clean). NYT, WSJ, FT, The Economist, The Information... basically all tier-1 paywalled media are covered.
This isn't a small feature. For people who need to read大量 paywalled content, this capability alone is a product.
My Take
This project's value is in reducing the friction between content acquisition and knowledge processing to near zero.
Previously, turning a paywalled deep report into a podcast required: find a bypass method → copy content → manually upload to NotebookLM → wait. Now you just say one sentence to Claude Code.
A few notes:
- Paywall bypass exists in a legal and ethical gray area. The tool is open-source, but judge the use case yourself.
- NotebookLM is a Google closed-source service; you can't control the privacy policy after content upload.
- The project is young (11 commits, 4 months); stability and long-term maintenance need observation.
- Podcast transcription depends on a third-party API (Get笔记); there are cost and availability risks.
If you're a heavy NotebookLM user who frequently needs content from non-standard sources, qiaomu is currently the smoothest bridge. If you only occasionally use NotebookLM for local files, manual upload is sufficient.
2,347 stars in a week shows the demand is real. Worth watching.
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