Wick

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Your AI agent gets blocked on the web. Wick fixes that.

Wick is an MCP server that uses Chrome's actual network stack so the TLS fingerprint is identical to a real browser. It runs locally from your own IP, and returns clean markdown. We tested it against 25 anti-bot-protected sites — Cloudflare, Akamai, PerimeterX, AWS WAF — and scored 100%.

Built by the creator of Lantern, a censorship circumvention tool used by 150M+ people in Iran, China, and Russia. The same TLS evasion techniques that bypass government censors, applied to anti-bot walls.

Agent: I'll fetch that page for you.
       [uses wick_fetch]

Result: 200 OK

# The New York Times - Breaking News
Led by the freshman forward Cameron Boozer,
the No. 1 overall seed faces a tough test...

Install

macOS (Homebrew):

brew tap wickproject/wick && brew install wick
wick setup

Linux (apt):

curl -fsSL https://wickproject.github.io/wick/apt/install.sh | bash
wick setup

npm (any platform):

npm install -g wick-mcp
wick setup

wick setup auto-detects your MCP clients (Claude Code, Cursor, etc.) and configures them.

Tools

wick_fetch

Fetch any URL and get clean, LLM-friendly markdown. Sites that block standard HTTP clients return full content because Wick uses Chrome's actual TLS fingerprint.

wick fetch https://www.nytimes.com

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
url	string	required	The URL to fetch
format	string	"markdown"	Output: markdown, html, or text
respect_robots	bool	true	Whether to respect robots.txt

wick_crawl

Crawl a website starting from a URL. Follows same-domain links, fetches each page through Chrome's TLS pipeline, and returns markdown for every page.

wick crawl https://docs.example.com --depth 2 --max-pages 10

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
url	string	required	Starting URL
max_depth	number	2	How many links deep to follow (max 5)
max_pages	number	10	Pages to fetch (max 50)
path_filter	string	none	Only crawl paths starting with this prefix
respect_robots	bool	true	Whether to respect robots.txt

wick_map

Discover all URLs on a site. Checks sitemap.xml first, then follows links.

wick map https://example.com --limit 100

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
url	string	required	Starting URL
limit	number	100	Max URLs to discover (max 5000)
use_sitemap	bool	true	Check sitemap.xml first
path_filter	string	none	Only include paths with this prefix

wick_search

Search the web. Use wick_fetch to read any result in full.

wick search "rust async runtime"

wick_download

Download video and audio from Reddit, YouTube, Twitter, and 1000+ other sites. Powered by yt-dlp.

wick download "https://v.redd.it/4uofpbxa97rg1" -o ./archive

wick_session

Clear cookies and session data to start fresh.

wick session clear

HTTP API

Wick also runs as a local HTTP API server, making it accessible to any tool — Python, LangChain, n8n, curl, custom agents.

wick serve --api
# Wick 0.7.0 + Pro API server running at http://127.0.0.1:8090

# Fetch a page
curl "http://localhost:8090/v1/fetch?url=https://nytimes.com"

# Crawl a site
curl "http://localhost:8090/v1/crawl?url=https://docs.example.com&max_pages=5"

# Discover URLs
curl "http://localhost:8090/v1/map?url=https://example.com"

# Search
curl "http://localhost:8090/v1/search?q=rust+async"

import requests
r = requests.get("http://localhost:8090/v1/fetch", params={"url": "https://

... [View full README on GitHub](https://github.com/wickproject/wick#readme)