Wire

Wire is a managed API platform designed to provide structured endpoints for websites and services that do not offer official APIs. It addresses the challenge of accessing web data by replacing browser-based scraping and manual extraction with a unified API layer, enabling users to interact with web content in a more reliable and scalable manner. The platform is positioned as a tool for AI agents and automation, offering structured JSON responses instead of raw HTML, and aims to minimize the need for reverse engineering or brittle scraping techniques.

Key features of Wire include the ability to scrape any URL and receive data in Markdown, JSON, or HTML formats. It supports authenticated scraping through persistent browser sessions and offers a managed browser API, allowing users to control browsers via API without managing their own infrastructure. Wire also provides tools for discovering all URLs on a website, crawling entire sites to extract content at scale, and monitoring websites for changes with alerting capabilities. Its search API enables web search with full content extraction, and an agentic search feature supports multi-stage AI research pipelines.

The service is designed for integration with AI agents and automation platforms, and can be used with tools such as Claude, Cursor, Cline, Windsurf, Zed, and VS Code, as well as any MCP client. Wire ships as part of the Anakin MCP server, allowing agents to access a wide catalog of maintained APIs for over 100 sites, including Amazon, GitHub, Reddit, Shopify, and Zillow, through a single API key. No SDK or additional glue code is required for integration.

Wire is promoted as a managed solution that aims to be up to 1000 times cheaper than traditional scraping approaches, with the promise of maintained, never-breaking APIs.