Updates, guides, and deep dives from the team behind Wick.
April 21, 2026
Wick is Now Fully Open Source
The Free/Pro split is gone. CEF rendering, stealth patches, auto-CAPTCHA, residential tunneling — all free, MIT, in one binary with adaptive fallback.
announcement
April 2, 2026
Why CEF Beats CDP for Anti-Detection
Playwright, Puppeteer, and Browserbase all control Chrome via CDP — a debug protocol that sites can detect. Wick Pro uses CEF to embed Chrome's engine directly, with no automation artifacts to fingerprint.
deep dive
April 1, 2026
Wick is Now on Apify
Wick's Chrome TLS fingerprinting is now available on the Apify marketplace. Fetch, crawl, and map websites from Apify's cloud — with scheduling, integrations, and pipeline support.
announcement
March 26, 2026
Wick 0.7: Local HTTP API
One command gives every tool on your machine browser-grade web access. Python, LangChain, n8n, Jupyter, curl — anything that can make an HTTP request.
release
March 26, 2026
Wick 0.6: Site Crawling, 100% Anti-Bot Success, and How We Compare
New wick_crawl and wick_map tools. We tested against 25 protected sites and scored 100% — matching Bright Data without any cloud infrastructure. Full comparison to nine competing MCP servers.
release
March 25, 2026
Wick 0.5: Media Downloads, Analytics, and Self-Serve Pro
Download video from Reddit, YouTube, Twitter. Auto-detect media in fetched pages. Self-serve Pro at $20/month via Stripe.
release
March 24, 2026
How to Fix 403 Forbidden in Claude Code
Claude Code gets 403 Forbidden when fetching web pages. Here's why it happens (TLS fingerprinting) and how to fix it in 30 seconds with Wick.
guide
March 24, 2026
Why Your AI Agent Can't Read the Web
Anti-bot systems fingerprint TLS handshakes, not just headers. That's why your agent gets blocked and how browser-grade networking fixes it.
deep dive