When your agent tries to read a webpage, it gets blocked. Wick gives it the same access you have — running locally, from your own IP.
$ brew tap wickproject/wick && brew install wick && wick setup
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Modern websites fingerprint incoming connections at multiple layers. Your AI agent's HTTP requests look nothing like a real browser — different network signature, different protocol behavior, missing browser signals. The result: 403 errors, CAPTCHA walls, or degraded content. Your agent is left apologizing instead of helping.
Wick runs as a lightweight local service on your machine. When your agent needs to fetch a page, Wick handles the request using the same technology real browsers use — authentic, not mimicked. The request goes out from your own residential IP, with your own cookies. To the website, it looks like you browsing normally. Because it basically is.
Everything your agent needs to access the real web, nothing it doesn't.
Wick uses the same networking technology as real browsers. Not an imitation — the real thing. Websites can't tell the difference because there isn't one.
Everything happens on your machine. No cloud proxy, no third-party servers. Your data never leaves your network unless you're the one sending it.
Raw HTML is useless to an LLM. Wick strips boilerplate, navigation, and ads, returning clean, structured markdown your agent can actually use.
No pooled residential IPs. No sketchy proxy networks. Requests go out from your own connection — because you're the one making them, through your agent.
wick_crawl follows links and returns markdown from multiple pages. wick_map discovers all URLs on a site. Build RAG pipelines, scrape docs, index entire sites.
Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP client. Also runs as a local HTTP API — wick serve --api gives Python, LangChain, n8n, and anything else browser-grade access.
wick_search for web search. wick_download for video/audio from Reddit, YouTube, Twitter, and 1000+ sites. Six tools, one server.
Wick is MIT-licensed and costs nothing to run. Built by the creator of Lantern, with over a decade of experience in internet access technology.
For developers and individual agents
For power users and teams
For companies accessing high-value data
Run Wick on a cloud server but exit from your residential IP. Three commands, zero configuration files.
# Linux server:
curl -fsSL https://releases.getwick.dev/install-pro.sh -o /tmp/wp.sh && WICK_KEY=your_key sudo -E bash /tmp/wp.sh
# macOS:
WICK_KEY=your_key curl -fsSL https://releases.getwick.dev/install-pro-mac.sh | bash
We'll give you an API key when you sign up. One command, both platforms.
# On your server:
sudo wick-tunnel init # prints a token
# On your laptop:
sudo wick-tunnel join <token> # connects your IP
WireGuard tunnel routes server traffic through your residential IP. Survives wifi changes.
wick fetch https://any-site.com
Renders JavaScript, bypasses anti-bot systems, adapts to each site. Gets faster over time.
We tested Wick Pro against 25 sites spanning Cloudflare, Akamai, PerimeterX, AWS WAF, and custom anti-bot systems. Wikipedia, NYTimes, Amazon, LinkedIn, Bloomberg, Walmart, Glassdoor, Instagram, Twitter/X — every single one returned content.
| Wick Free | Wick Pro | Firecrawl | Bright Data MCP | Browserbase | Playwright MCP | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anti-bot success rate | 100% | 100% | 83% | ~100% | 90% | ✗ |
| JS rendering | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Runs locally | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Your residential IP | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | Pooled | Pooled | ✓ |
| Clean markdown | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Geo-restriction bypass | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | Paid | Paid | ✗ |
| Your data stays local | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| MCP native | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free tier | Forever | — | 500 pages | 5K requests | Trial | Free |
| Paid pricing | $0 | $20/mo flat | $19-599/mo | Usage-based | $20-99/mo | $0 |
brew tap wickproject/wick && brew install wick
Auto-detects Claude Code, Cursor, and other MCP clients.
wick setup
Your agent now has wick_fetch and wick_search. Search the web, read any page.
Free and open source for developers. Custom solutions for companies that need more.