I/Claude reverse-engineered Figma's binary WebSocket protocol
Disclaimer: this is vibe-coded — ( what i see in the exported html 3. It helps me help our designer to produce an actual "resizable" figma, so that they finally understand the pain of "ok it works when you click play on the iphone 17 frame you put, but what about an iphone12 ?" (I was always able to say that, but before I wasn't able to point out what was wrong, now I can) How it works: When you open a Figma file in the browser, the editor loads the entire scenegraph via WebSocket as Kiwi-encoded binary frames. This tool captures those frames via Chrome DevTools Protocol, decodes the binary…
I/Claude reverse-engineered Figma's binary WebSocket protocol launched on April 1, 2026 with 7 votes, #1,538 of 21,248 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
What it does
MCP/Skills/CLI/libs to Decode Figma's binary Kiwi wire protocol: extract scenegraph, SVGs, and CSS from WebSocket frames, bypassing REST API rate limits. - allan-simon/figma-kiwi-protocol
In the maker’s words, at launch
Disclaimer: this is vibe-coded — (<- I lost you there) the README, most of the code, and the binary format reverse-engineering were done with Claude. But the tool works and I use it everyday for some days now. As Baudelaire said "qu'importe le flacon, pourvu qu'on ait l'ivresse." ~I~ Claude built a tool that decodes…
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