littledivy

    littledivy/mimic

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

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    Python
    MIT
    2.9K stars
    344 forks
    2.9K GitHub watchers
    Updated Oct 26, 2026
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    Where it stands

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    The project lists 6 contributors on GitHub.

    Peaked at #94 in the weekly ranking the week of Oct 11, its best in the past year.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Intercepts app network traffic to generate Python clients that call the app's API like a native library.
    • Enables seamless API interaction by capturing real authenticated sessions and auto-generating client code without manual endpoint coding.
    • Use for automating interactions with mobile apps by replaying captured authenticated API calls in Python scripts.
    • Use for reverse engineering undocumented APIs by capturing and analyzing app traffic to generate usable client libraries.
    • Use for testing and scripting workflows on apps without official SDKs by replaying recorded sessions and requests.

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    License

    MIT

    Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.

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    From the README

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

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

    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.

    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).

    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.)

    Excerpt from the littledivy/mimic README on GitHub (MIT license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

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    Open issues

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