Wire by Anakin.io

Wire by Anakin.io is a coding tool. Wire by Anakin.io offers pre-built, typed JSON actions for 952 websites via one REST API and an MCP tool. It replaces browser automation and scrapers for agents, with managed auth, proxies and parsing, plus a free read-only tier.

Wire by Anakin.io is a catalog of pre-built web actions that an AI agent or a developer can call over plain HTTP. Instead of driving a headless browser or maintaining scrapers, the caller picks an action such as a product search on a retail site, sends the parameters that action accepts, and receives structured JSON in a consistent shape. Authentication, proxies, page hydration, parsing and retries are handled on the provider's side, and the homepage states that sites are patched upstream when their layouts change. The catalog is the core of the product. It lists 952 sites and 5165 actions, spread across areas such as finance, marketplaces, research, shopping, government and legal, automotive, travel, news and developer tools. Each entry documents its parameters, return schema and per-call cost. When a site is missing, users can request it, and the site says most requests ship within days. Site owners can also claim their own listing. In practice the API is small: six endpoints cover browsing the catalog, inspecting a site, searching for an action, running a task, polling a job and managing credentials. Python and TypeScript examples are shown alongside curl. For sites that need a login, an account can be saved once as a named identity. The agent passes only the reference, and Wire injects the session at runtime from an encrypted vault, so the secret never reaches the model. Wire also ships inside the Anakin MCP server, which gives clients such as Claude, Cursor, Cline, Windsurf, Zed and VS Code a wire_action tool after a single setup command. The audience is developers building agents, data pipelines and automations that need reliable facts from the web without the cost and token overhead of browser automation. The homepage claims a per-call price of $0.001 against $0.47 for a browser agent. Read-only use needs no key or account, while write actions need a key. Compared with generic scraping APIs, Wire trades open-ended extraction for curated, schema-stable endpoints, which suits repeatable agent tasks better than one-off crawling of arbitrary pages.