Anakin

Scrape the sites others can’t. Fast, low-cost APIs with enterprise-grade reliability.

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The web was built to be open.

Over time, it became hostile.

CAPTCHAs. Device fingerprinting. TLS fingerprinting. Bot detection systems built by entire engineering teams whose only job is to keep you out.

And yet, you still need the data - to feed your LLM, to track competitors, to build agents that work on the web.

So you go find a scraping API. 🧵

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Grok 4.3 is $1.25 per million output tokens.

Most people are modeling inference cost. Fewer are modeling the data side.

Browser scraping runs ~ $0.40 per page call.
Wire's network-layer calls are $0.001.

For 10,000 lookups a day that's $4,000 vs $10.

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GTA V peaked at 364,548 concurrent players on Steam. GTA VI drops November 19 and will definitely break it.

SteamCharts on Wire gives you live and peak concurrent counts. Steam gives you pricing and game details. Both update in real time.

Build your resale pricing agent, with live data from the release - Anakin has been watching the data!

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Fable 5 launched June 9. Government order June 12. Pulled in 72 hours.

Anthropic is processing refunds for a model that was free for Pro subscribers through June 22. Pricing, access, and API availability all changed overnight.

Changes like this show up in the data before the announcement hits your inbox. Anakin watches pricing pages and access status across AI platforms.

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A narrative tracking agent watching how Hormuz coverage shifts across outlets.

A geopolitical risk copilot pulling full-text OPEC coverage to brief a fund.

A RAG pipeline that needs the Global South perspective Reuters doesn't lead with.

Build all this and more - https://t.co/2tGoGv2Rw7

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Iran sanctions news breaks on Al Jazeera. By the time Reuters aggregates it, Brent's already moved.

Al Jazeera is one of the primary sources for specific categories of high-signal events. Most news pipelines treat it as optional.

Wire's Al Jazeera catalog: latest headlines as JSON, full text, topic search. Same key as the rest of Wire's 800+ site catalog!

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Good eye! From your side it's a single call that returns the full top-story list as clean JSON - title, score, comment count, author, url.

Assembling that into one response (and keeping it reliable when you're pulling frequently) is the part we abstract away for you, so you're not stitching together ID lookups or babysitting throttling on your end.

What you can tune - feed type, limit, offset.
But the fetching and rate-handling are on us.

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HN's Firebase API returns a list of story IDs. Getting titles and scores for the top 30 means 30 separate item calls.

We wrapped it. One call, full top story list back as JSON: title, score, comment count, author, url.

Watch out for competitor posts on Show HN and starts moving before it hits Twitter.

https://t.co/hKEn20I3Es

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Knicks just won their first title since 1973.

Championship gear repricing started within minutes - jerseys, collectibles, limited bundles on Amazon and eBay.

Use Anakin's Universal Scraper to pick up pricing data across mutliple platforms, compare, and make sure you have the best prices locked in!

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@toni_wys Sure. Shoot us a DM!

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MiniMax M3: 1M context, 1/20th the compute. Open weights.

Glassdoor job page to read salary ranges: 3 fields in their API.
arXiv listing to pull title and abstract: 2 fields
HN post to get points and comments: 3 fields

All JSON before the HTML renders.

https://t.co/2tGoGv2jGz

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Register here: https://t.co/VomNgYUE8U

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Most hackathons give you 48 hours. Anakin Blitz gives you 6.

June 20, 12–6 PM IST.

Wire API + Universal Scraper. Virtual, open to anyone.

1st: Keychron keyboard.
2nd + 3rd: 2,000 Anakin credits each.

Link in first comment!

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Spot up 40%. Funding rate down.

Not a leveraged pump. Longs aren't following spot.

cg_coin_markets → spot, 24h vol, market cap change
cg_derivatives → funding rate, open interest, basis
cg_trending → search-driven or manufactured?

All 14 CoinGecko endpoints in the Wire catalog. Same key.

https://t.co/hKEn20IBu0

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Gemini CLI dies tomorrow.

If your agent was pulling web data through it, that part of your stack is now tied to the model. Swap models later and you're rebuilding it.

Wire endpoints work the same from any model. All 800+ sites.

https://t.co/ST9ohFxAGR

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Wire has lab supply sites in the catalog. Abcam alone has 7 actions. Search antibodies, ELISA kits, or proteins and get back structured pricing and stock status as JSON.

If you're building a procurement agent for research or biotech, check the catalog before writing a scraper.

https://t.co/hKEn20IBu0

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ESPN got roasted for AI-generating a Tony Parker image during the Finals. Wrong era, wrong jersey, extra finger.

The actual finals data was structured and live the whole time: scores, player stats, series results, odds.

Wire has ESPN (15 actions), Kalshi, and Polymarket all in the catalog. Build your fantasy dashboard, complete with live stats and scores!

https://t.co/hKEn20I3Es

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The Anakin Build-a-thon just proved something, 700+ async builders can absolutely go crazy.

The builds were strong, the workflows were sharp, and the ideas were bold. Narrowing it down to three winners was no joke. But here are the winners:

🥇ClarityRx - @MonNoob74029
🥈ZeroOne - @HardikHinduja
🥉Edge - @11_ojha

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Anthropic launched Fable 5 on June 9. The US Commerce Department ordered it offline on June 12. ~72 hours.

If you built agent pipelines on Fable 5, the model layer just evaporated. The data problem is still there.

Wire is the data layer. It doesn't change when the LLM stack does.

https://t.co/hKEn20IBu0

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Brunson dropped 45. 13-0 run in Q4 to close it. Knicks win their first title since 1973.

All series, Kalshi had live contracts on Wembanyama's stats per game. When that run happened tonight, those contracts repriced in real time.

Wire has both Kalshi and ESPN in the catalog. An agent watching live stats against prediction market odds would have caught that move as it happened.

https://t.co/hKEn20I3Es