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Your AI agent can't fetch behind logins. I built a <400kb fix in Zig.
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Your AI agent can't fetch behind logins. I built a <400kb fix in Zig.

via Dev.toAn Pham3h ago

Claude Code has WebFetch. Every AI coding agent has some way to grab a webpage. They all hit the same wall: auth. Try fetching a Medium article. A Facebook post. A private Substack. Anything behind Cloudflare. The agent gets a login page, a CAPTCHA, or nothing — and makes up the rest. What playpanda does playpanda https://medium.com/@someone/private-post You log in once. Cookies get saved. After that, fetching just works — from an agent, a script, or the terminal. The output is markdown with the junk stripped out. No nav bars, no cookie banners, no ads, no image CDN URLs. Just the content. How agents can use it Anything that can shell out can use it: # Replace WebFetch in Claude Code playpanda https://docs.example.com/private-api # Fetch multiple pages at once playpanda https://url1.com,https://url2.com,https://url3.com How fetching works It tries the fastest method first and escalates when something gets in the way: Method Speed When it kicks in HTTP fetch ~200ms Default, works for mo

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