mimic

Intercept any app, then call it from Python like a library.

from hinge_client import Hinge

acc = Hinge()                 # reuses your captured session
recs = acc.get_recommendations()
acc.like(subject_id, comment="hi lol")

You don't write hinge_client.py. mimic captures your own app traffic and an AI generates the client from it.

How it works

Most apps authenticate every request with the same bundle of values: a bearer token, some device ids, a session id, cookies. They're stable across calls. Capture them once from a real request you made, and you can replay them on new requests to the same API.

capture traffic   ->   extract auth   ->   generate client
  (mitmproxy)         (mimic.Session)      (claude reads the
                                            captured endpoints)

The generated client is plain Python on top of mimic.App, and you edit it like any other file. It gives you named methods, body templates, and the multi-step call chaining mobile APIs tend to need (fetch a token in one call, spend it in the next).

Install

sh install.sh

Installs uv if you don't have it, then mimic in an isolated tool env. mitmproxy isn't a separate install; mimic launches it via uvx on first record. (Manual: uv tool install mimic-client.)

mimic doctor                    # confirm proxy + claude are ready

Use it (iPhone)

mimic record                    # starts the proxy, prints the iPhone steps

record fills in your Mac's LAN IP and walks you through it:

1. iPhone -> Wi-Fi -> Configure Proxy -> Manual -> :8080
2. Safari -> http://mitm.it -> install the Apple profile
3. Settings -> General -> About -> Certificate Trust Settings -> turn on full trust for mitmproxy. This step is easy to miss and nothing works without it.
4. open the app, use it normally

Then:

mimic hosts                     # list captured hosts; pick your API host
mimic learn  prod-api.hingeaws.net    # see the endpoints mimic saw
mimic gen    prod-api.hingeaws.net    # generate hinge_client.py

Then from hinge_client import Hinge; Hinge().get_recommendations().

The library

Three ways to build a session by hand, if you don't want codegen:

from mimic import Session

Session.from_mitm("prod-api.hingeaws.net")        # pull auth from mitmweb
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