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Scrape Anything batches up to 100,000 URLs

  • Submit up to 100,000 URLs, or crawl a site, in one asynchronous batch.
  • Combine Markdown, HTML, screenshots, images, bytes, parsers, product data, highlights, and JSON extraction with the same per-page options as Scrape Anything.
  • Create jobs and inspect results from the dashboard too.

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List browser profiles

  • GET /org/browser/profiles lists your organization’s browser profiles with their creation time, newest first. It costs no credits and needs logs:read.
  • Add an optional description when you create a profile to label it in that list.
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Updated request limits

  • New Free organizations receive 2 concurrent requests and 10 requests per minute. Both limits apply across the organization.
  • Existing allowances are preserved through the rollout and routine renewals. Plan changes apply the new plan’s base limits; explicit overrides remain until cleared.
  • The dashboard shows your effective request limits.

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Eight prebuilt parsers

  • Prebuilt parsers extract Google Maps businesses, Google Play and App Store app details and reviews, emails, phone numbers, and links without custom extraction rules.
  • Set formats.parse: true, parseParams.type: "prebuilt", and a parser name, or choose a parser in the playground.

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Request fewer Search results

  • Search accepts numResults from 1–100, down from a minimum of 10. The default remains 10.
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Authenticated scraping with browser profiles

  • Sign in once and reuse a saved browser session with sharedParams.profile on Scrape Anything. Browser profiles are available on paid plans and belong to your organization.
  • Create and reuse profiles in the playground. Profile requests bypass shared caches and do not support zero data retention.

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Search understands relative time

  • When you omit freshness, Search can infer a publication window from queries such as “today” or “this week”.
  • An explicit freshness setting takes precedence.
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  • Map search matches search terms across website languages to find relevant pages even when their content uses a different language from your query.
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Longer batch result retention

Batch result files are now kept for 180 days after the batch finishes, up from 7 days. GET /batch/{batch_id} returns fresh download links and GET /batch/{batch_id}/results serves the records for the whole window.
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Monthly credits for every Free organization

  • Free organizations receive 1,000 credits monthly, whether they signed up with a work or personal email.
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Search description length

  • Set descriptionMaxCharacters on Search to cap each result’s description.
  • When it is above 0 and the query has no domain or freshness filter, news-index results fill that space with the article passages that best match your query.
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Search page reads

  • Search page reads now default to a 20-second deadline per page, plus any waitForMs, instead of 45 seconds. Set markdownOptions.timeoutOpts to change it.
  • Pages that serve an anti-bot challenge report WEBSITE_BLOCKED on markdown.code and highlights.code.

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JSON extraction on long pages

  • JSON extraction now also reads head metadata (description, canonical URL, language, author, keywords, dates), counts JSON-LD and meta tags separately from the Markdown limit, and keeps the sections that best match your schema on long pages.
  • A successful extraction from a page that did not fit includes json.isTruncated: true.
  • Numbers that do not appear on the page and punctuation-only strings are dropped from optional or nullable fields.

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Answers sources and partial answers

  • sources lists the pages and company or profile records read for the answer, followed by URLs cited in json_content.
  • With return-partial, a model error after evidence was gathered returns a partial answer instead of failing.

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Parse and credit usage

  • Parse returns 400 INPUT_VALIDATION_ERROR instead of WEBSITE_ACCESS_ERROR for an upload it cannot read or that has no extractable content.
  • GET /org/usage and GET /org/usage/history return your credit balance and usage over time. They share the request logs rate limit.
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Product image deduplication

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Removed EXTERNAL_PROVIDER_ERROR

  • EXTERNAL_PROVIDER_ERROR is no longer returned. Upstream failures return 500 INTERNAL_ERROR (Answers and People previously returned 502), failed Scrape json outputs report INTERNAL_ERROR, and Answers time limits return 504 REQUEST_TIMEOUT.

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Longer Search cache windows

  • Search Markdown now defaults maxAgeMs to 180 days (15552000000 ms), or 365 days when only highlights are requested.
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  • Search returns passages relevant to your query with highlightsOptions.enabled. Each result reports highlights.code, like markdown.code.
  • Search Markdown and highlights each add 1 credit per 10 results when at least one result returns them.
  • Search Markdown now defaults maxAgeMs to 15 days (1296000000 ms).
  • Scrape highlights now add 1 credit instead of 3.
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Concurrency limits

New organizations are limited by concurrent requests instead of requests per minute: Free 1, Developer 10, Pro 100, Growth 250, and Scale 500. The limit applies across the organization and to every API key. Organizations created earlier keep their per-minute limits. Concurrency responses include X-RateLimit-Mode: concurrency and omit X-RateLimit-Reset. See Rate limits.

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Browser actions on page monitors

Page monitors accept target.actions, up to 5 browser actions that run before each capture. Actions require a paid plan, and each run with actions costs 2 credits.

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Longer scrape cache windows

Scrape and batch page options now default maxAgeMs to three days (259200000 ms) and accept up to 365 days (31536000000 ms). Set 0 to fetch fresh content. The synchronous Crawl cache window is unchanged.
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Answers page caching

  • Answers can reuse cached page reads: up to 30 days old in fast and 7 days in ultra.

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Plan changes and account limits

  • Upgrades take effect immediately and preserve your remaining credits. Downgrades take effect at renewal and can be cancelled beforehand.
  • Review billing for plan changes, Auto-Topup, and spend alerts.
  • Rate-limit reminder emails help you identify sustained throttling.
  • Free organizations receive an email when repeated errors disable their keys. Fix failing requests and contact support before resuming traffic.

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Agent Feedback

  • Agents can report problems with API calls, documentation, SDKs, or the CLI.
  • Include a category, a short note, and the affected request ID or URL.
  • Submit feedback with any API key, at no credit cost.
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Auto-Topup in smaller blocks

New subscriptions use 1,000-credit Auto-Topup blocks:Existing subscriptions keep their current rates.Manage Auto-Topup and spend alerts.

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Highlights format on Scrape

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Extract product data with scrape

  • Extract product details with formats.product, including prices, images, and variants.
  • Results identify whether the URL is a product page and include a normalized product record when available.
  • Adds 1 credit.
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Scrape Anything

  • Scrape a page once for Markdown, HTML, screenshots, images, original bytes, or selected fields. Choose any combination with formats.
  • Control freshness with maxAgeMs; use 0 to fetch fresh content.
  • Costs 1 credit, or 2 with browser actions, plus 1 per PDF page recovered by OCR.

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Map website URLs

  • Discover a site’s URLs with available titles, descriptions, keywords, and languages.
  • Filter and search the list, include subdomains, or set a maximum number of links.
  • Costs 1 credit, or 2 when using search.

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SDK updates

  • All five SDKs now support Scrape and Map URLs.
  • Replace the old per-format scraping methods with the unified Scrape and Map methods.
  • Existing HTTP routes keep working. The CLI does not yet include these two commands.
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Bytes with rendering and cache controls

  • Download rendered HTML bytes after a waitForMs delay. Other resources keep their original bytes.
  • Downloads are cached for one day by default, up to 30 days. Use maxAgeMs=0 to fetch fresh content.
  • Requests with credentials or zero data retention bypass caching.

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Screenshots with custom headers

  • Send custom target headers, including authorized cookies, when taking screenshots.
  • Requests with custom headers bypass caching and return an inline PNG data URL.

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Country routing for page images

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SOC 2 Type II compliance

  • Context.dev is now SOC 2 Type II compliant.
  • Review security policies, subprocessors, and access to compliance evidence in the Trust Center.

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Screenshots from a full URL

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Extract fields with CSS

  • Use CSS selectors to return structured fields alongside a page’s HTML, with no additional credits.
  • extractRules supports text, attributes, lists, and nested objects.

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Zero data retention for AI endpoints

  • Zero data retention now supports Answers, Search, People Enrich, Images, and Styleguide.
  • Enable it for your organization, send zdr: "enabled", and verify X-Context-ZDR: true on supported requests.

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API keys during onboarding

  • Onboarding now picks up newly created API keys without getting stuck waiting.
  • If loading fails, you can retry; setup prompts become copyable once the key is ready.

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More reliable scraping and API errors

  • Pages with large response headers can now be scraped.
  • Temporary gateway failures return a JSON 503 response. See troubleshooting for recovery guidance.
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More reliable payments

  • Fixed duplicate Auto-Topup charges when several requests reach a low balance together.
  • Plan upgrades also wait for successful payment, with a clear recovery path when payment fails.

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Startup and nonprofit program

  • Eligible startups and registered nonprofits can apply for 30% off their first year on a self-serve annual paid plan, with a private Slack Connect channel.
  • Approval is required; overages are excluded, and existing agreements stay unchanged.
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Reinforcement learning grants

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Timeout controls and partial results

  • Set a request deadline and choose whether to fail or accept partial results with timeoutOpts.
  • Partial results are marked with partial: true or finalDOMState: "still-loading". Bytes and Prefetch support fail behavior only.
  • September 16 update: partial HTML, Markdown, Images, Screenshot, and Styleguide captures accept budgets from 5,000 ms.

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Download raw resource bytes

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Parse documents up to 50 MiB

  • Parse now accepts uploads up to 50 MiB, twice the previous limit.
  • Conversion remains 1 credit, plus 1 credit per PDF page recovered by optional OCR.

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Request logs and search results

  • Request logs redact recognized credentials in request fields, headers, and URLs.
  • Web Search results always include a description string, empty when no snippet is available.
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Advanced monitor controls

  • Focus page monitors on specific content with include and exclude selectors.
  • Changing filters starts a new baseline. Empty filtered results fail the run and preserve the previous baseline.
  • The dashboard adds controls for whitespace, webhook retries, and extraction depth.
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Answers: web research in two modes

  • Ask a question about the live web and receive JSON with source URLs.
  • Fast: 10 credits with a 30-second budget. Ultra: 100 credits with a 50-second budget.
  • The API defaults to Ultra; the playground defaults to Fast.

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Restricted API keys and per-key usage

  • Restricted API keys let you grant only the data, log, monitor, and batch access an integration needs.
  • Existing keys keep full access.
  • Search and filter keys, then open their usage charts and request logs from the dashboard.

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Team roles and deactivation

  • Manage Owner, Admin, and Member roles, transfer ownership, and deactivate or reactivate teammates.
  • Deactivation revokes the person’s credentials and prevents invitations or domain auto-join from restoring access.

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Formatted Slack webhook notifications

  • Send monitor and batch events directly to Slack or GovSlack for readable messages with resource links.
  • Other webhook destinations continue receiving JSON.

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More accurate freshness controls

  • Brand retrieval and Styleguide now honor maxAgeMs: 0 and values under one day.
  • Set 0 to fetch fresh data.
  • The three-month default and one-year maximum are unchanged.
  • See Cache freshness.
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Updated Free credit allowances

  • Free organizations with a work email now receive 1,000 credits monthly.
  • Personal-email organizations receive 250 credits once, without monthly refills.
  • This replaces the September 6 allowance.
  • Superseded October 6: see current Free credits.

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Request log endpoints

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Better blocked-page detection

  • Scraping now recognizes more CAPTCHA, login, and access-denied pages, including pages that return HTTP 200.
  • These return WEBSITE_BLOCKED instead of being billed and cached as usable content.
  • Brand cache metadata also reflects the age of the underlying scrape more accurately.
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Context.dev for Gemini CLI

  • Connect Gemini CLI to search, scrape, extract, parse, and retrieve brand data from the terminal.
  • The official extension uses browser-based OAuth.

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Context.dev for Composio

  • Use Context.dev through Composio for scraping, extraction, parsing, brand data, batches, and monitors.
  • Connect an API key to make the toolkit available to your agent framework.
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Context.dev for Replit

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Webhook retries, delivery history, and replay

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Monthly API credits for new Free accounts

  • New Free accounts received monthly allowances of 500 credits with a work email or 250 with a personal email.
  • Refills preserved balances above the allowance.
  • Superseded September 11: see current Free credits.

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Higher default monitor limits

  • Monitor allowances increase from 2 to 10 on Free, 50 to 100 on Developer, and 500 to 1,000 on Pro.
  • Scale’s default is 10,000 monitors.

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More reliable brand profiles and SVG logos

  • Brand retrieval handles redirects, placeholder sites, and error pages more accurately.
  • SVG logos now render more reliably outside the original website.

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Clearer credit counters and dashboard support

  • Dashboard counters distinguish monthly allowances from bonus balances, and Support chat is available after onboarding.
  • Monthly refills also preserve manually granted balances above the allowance.
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Zapier 3.1

  • Zapier 3.1 adds event triggers and actions across scraping, extraction, batches, monitors, and brand data.
  • Start a Zap from a website change, monitor run, or finished batch.
  • Existing 3.0 Zaps keep running.
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Downloadable captured font files

  • Styleguide now returns captured font files through stable CDN URLs in fontLinks, so downloads work outside the source website.
  • See Extract a design system.

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More playground languages

  • The playground’s language selector now includes all 120 languages supported by the API, plus automatic detection.

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Better crawls of redirected documentation sites

  • Crawl follows sites that redirect to a dedicated documentation subdomain and continues beyond the first page more reliably.

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Context.dev on Zapier

  • Connect Context.dev to your other apps with the Zapier integration.
  • The guide includes setup, available actions, and automation recipes.

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URL mapping can include subdomains

  • Set includeSubdomains: true to discover URLs across a domain and its public subdomains.
  • The default remains false; the option is also available in the playground.
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Enterprise SSO on the Scale plan

  • Scale organizations can connect an identity provider from Organization Settings.
  • Owners create a setup link valid for 24 hours.
  • Verified company-domain teammates are routed to the provider at sign-in. Password sign-in remains available.
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Create additional organizations

  • Use the dashboard’s organization switcher to create another organization when every organization you own is on a paid plan.
  • Each has separate members, API keys, and billing.
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Cache metadata on every cacheable response

  • Cacheable responses now include cache_metadata with a hit, miss, or zdr status and age_ms, so your application can see how fresh the data is.
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Context.dev for Claude

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Dashboard dark mode

  • Choose light, dark, or system appearance from the dashboard user menu.
  • Your preference is remembered across visits.

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More reliable slow-page scraping

  • Slow-loading pages have more time to finish browser rendering, and repeat scrapes can reuse a working access route for sites with stricter protection.
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Pause your plan for up to three months

  • Pause a paid plan for one, two, or three months, starting at renewal.
  • Monthly charges, included-credit allocations, and Auto-Topup pause. Existing credits remain usable.
  • Cancel a scheduled pause, or pay to resume early and restore monthly credits.

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Office documents with incorrect content types

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Timestamped YouTube transcripts

  • YouTube transcripts now include timestamps roughly every 30 seconds, making it easier to trace a passage back to the video.

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Payment alerts and plan status

  • Organization owners now receive an email when a subscription payment fails, with a link to update the payment method.
  • The dashboard also shows scheduled cancellations.

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Website names in batch lists

  • Batch lists now show each job’s target website, making similar jobs easier to distinguish.
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Scroll pages before scraping

  • Browser actions now support scrolling to load more content before capturing Markdown, HTML, or Images.
  • Scroll controls are also available in the playground.

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Duplicate monitors in one click

  • Choose Duplicate from a monitor’s menu to open a new monitor with the same settings.
  • Change the target and save.

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Email verification survives mail scanners

  • Verification links now wait for your confirmation, preventing email security scanners from consuming them before you open them.
  • This applies to signup and account-email changes.
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  • Logo Link now accepts type=wordmark to prefer wide wordmarks over square icons.
  • Combine it with theme=light or theme=dark.

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Richer playground results

  • Playground results now show page metadata, freshness, and browser-action outcomes, with clearer previews for scrape, extract, brand, and parse requests.
  • Parse displays its OCR credit cost before you run it.
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Context.dev for ChatGPT

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Website privacy controls

  • Choose which analytics cookies to allow through the website’s consent controls.
  • Optional analytics wait for your consent.
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Context.dev for Cursor

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Context.dev for LangChain

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Clear obstructive popups from screenshots

  • Set clearPopups=true to dismiss obstructive banners, popups, and overlays before taking a screenshot.

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Context.dev for OpenClaw

  • Connect OpenClaw for web search and scraping, with optional OAuth access to Context.dev’s public MCP tools.
  • Web Search now accepts up to 100 excluded domains, giving you more control over which sources appear in results.

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More accurate brand colors, logos, and contacts

  • Brand profiles better match website colors, preserve original logos, and filter placeholder contact emails.
  • Redirects to shared hosting platforms no longer replace the requested company’s brand with the platform’s.
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News Search launches in beta

  • Find company news by name, domain, ticker, or ISIN.
  • Filter by publisher, date, article type, language, or country.
  • Successful searches cost 1 credit per 10 returned articles. A successful search with no articles is free.

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More control over Brand Search matching

  • Brand Search adds autocomplete, queryBy, and typoTolerance.
  • Choose name or domain matching, prefix matching, and tolerance for up to two typos.
  • These controls are also in the playground.
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Change your account email securely

  • Change your email from Personal Settings after confirming your identity and verifying the new address.
  • Your previous address receives a notification, and you stay signed in.
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Context.dev for Eve

  • Add Context.dev to Eve with eve add connection/context for search, scraping, extraction, and brand tools.
  • Each user authorizes their account in the browser.
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Screenshots now cost 1 credit

  • Screenshot requests now cost 1 credit.
  • See Take a screenshot for capture options and examples.

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Earn extra credits

  • Eligible Free accounts with a personal email can earn bonus credits by following Context.dev or submitting a public post for review.
  • The dashboard shows the available rewards and submission status.

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Better text encoding

  • Pages, feeds, and sitemaps now respect declared character encodings, reducing garbled text on sites that use older encodings.
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Prefetch styleguides ahead of time

  • Queue a styleguide with type: "styleguide" on Prefetch to reduce the wait for a later Styleguide request.
  • Prefetching costs 0 credits.
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HTML alongside Markdown in one scrape

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Page headings and main content

  • HTML and Markdown responses now include metadata.headings in document order for tables of contents and content routing.
  • Main-content filtering also preserves the page’s <main> landmark.
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People Enrichment API

  • Find a person from a social URL, name and company, or work email, with a 0–100 match score.
  • The beta is available on paid plans and costs 20 credits per successful match.
  • Free and disposable email inputs are rejected without charge.

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Employee counts on brand data

  • Brand profiles now include employees with a headcount range and an exact count when known.
  • Unknown values are null.

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Relevance search for URL mapping

  • Give Map URLs a search phrase such as pricing and plans to return matching pages in relevance order.
  • Searched requests cost 2 credits instead of 1.

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Per-page OCR billing and clearer PDF errors

  • OCR adds 1 credit per recovered PDF page to the 1-credit request cost.
  • Enable OCR with ocr=true for Parse or pdf[ocr]=true for scraping.
  • Image-only PDFs return PDF_IMAGES_ONLY when OCR is needed.

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Clearer timeouts for new brand lookups

  • A brand lookup on a new domain with a timeout below 10 seconds now returns 422 COLD_DOMAIN_TIMEOUT_TOO_LOW immediately.
  • Timeout responses suggest prefetching the brand before you need it.

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YouTube pages become structured Markdown

  • Scrape a YouTube video or channel to receive its available metadata and description as structured Markdown.
  • Videos with retrievable captions also include a transcript.
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More specific scrape errors

  • Identify scrape failures with clearer errors for oversized content, unresolved domains, and intentionally skipped PDFs.
  • Oversized embedded files no longer fail the entire page scrape.

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Faster repeat scrapes

  • Repeat scrapes of unchanged pages return faster by reusing the previous Markdown conversion.
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Brand Search for autocomplete

  • Find up to 10 matching companies by name or domain, with logos for autocomplete and lookup forms.
  • At launch, requests are free on Pro and Scale and cost 1 credit on Free and Starter.
  • August 6 update: name matches rank first, and Brand Search is available in the playground.
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Context.dev MCP is live

  • Connect your AI client over MCP to use Context.dev through browser-based OAuth.
  • Setup guides cover Claude, Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, ChatGPT, and VS Code.
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Usage charts by product

  • Dashboard usage charts now separate All, Data APIs, Monitors, and Batches, so you can track activity by product.

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Monitors recover from failed runs

  • Monitors recover from temporary scraping failures instead of pausing after one failed run.
  • Resume an already paused monitor by setting its status to active.
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Credit refills on your billing day

  • Monthly credits now refill on your billing day, including monthly allocations on annual plans.
  • Your allowance covers a full cycle from subscription rather than resetting on the first of the calendar month.
  • Auto-Topup preferences are also preserved across plan changes.
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Batch scraping for up to 25,000 URLs

  • Scrape up to 25,000 URLs asynchronously, using a list, a starting page, or a sitemap.
  • Get Markdown or HTML through polling, webhooks, or downloads.
  • Credits are reserved for the accepted page budget. Only successful pages are charged; unused credits are released.
  • Use item IDs and idempotency keys to match results and retry submissions safely.

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Connect AI agents over MCP with OAuth

  • Connect an AI client over MCP and authorize it in your browser with OAuth.
  • The consent screen identifies the client and requested access; no API key needs to be pasted into its configuration.
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Monitor the changes that matter

  • Give page monitors instructions describing which changes matter, such as pricing changes rather than rotating testimonials.
  • Semantic detection filters irrelevant changes; empty or blocked snapshots fail the run without replacing a valid baseline.
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Usage alerts for overages

  • Set an Auto-Topup budget and receive email alerts at selected spending thresholds.
  • Alerts are a soft cap: API requests, monitors, and Auto-Topup continue after the budget is exceeded.
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Simpler monitor setup and secret rotation

  • Create a monitor with just name and target. Scheduling defaults to daily, with detection selected for the target.
  • Check the baseline run using initial_run_id.
  • Rotate webhook signing secrets without replacing the monitor. The old secret stops signing new deliveries immediately.

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Browser actions before scraping

  • Click, type, or wait before scraping Markdown, HTML, or Images. Paid plans support up to five ordered actions.
  • Standard requests with actions cost 2 credits and bypass caching. Enriched image requests remain 5 credits.
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Zero data retention

  • Eligible scraping and parsing requests now support zero data retention.
  • Set zdr=enabled to bypass shared caches and retained content logs, and verify the X-Context-ZDR: true response header.
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Default organization

  • Choose which organization opens by default when you use more than one account workspace.
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Layout-aware PDF parsing

  • Parse PDFs with better tables, reading order, headings, and subscript or superscript text.
  • Display equations are preserved as text. OCR can also recover corrupted text layers.
  • This update applies to Parse. See the guide for current OCR controls and billing.
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Faster web dashboard

  • Dashboard pages load faster when moving between usage, API keys, team settings, and product views.
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Request tags for usage tracking

  • Tag requests by customer, feature, or environment, then filter charts and logs by those tags.
  • Add up to 20 labels without changing pricing or caching. Monitor resource tags remain separate.

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Parse file bytes to Markdown

  • Upload documents directly and get Markdown without hosting a file at a URL.
  • Choose format hints, PDF page ranges, and content controls. Conversion costs 1 credit, with optional OCR charges.
  • The launch limit is 25 MiB, increased to 50 MiB on September 15.
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Rate-limit headers on every response

  • Authenticated responses now include X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining, and X-RateLimit-Reset, so you can pace calls before hitting the limit.
  • A 429 also includes Retry-After.
  • See Rate limits.

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Cleaner main-content Markdown

  • Main-content filtering removes more navigation, ads, comments, and layout markup from Markdown scrapes.
  • The response also includes contentLength, measured in UTF-8 bytes, to help detect empty results.

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Per-run monitor webhooks

  • Subscribe to run.completed for a signed webhook after every completed run, including baseline and no-change runs.
  • Existing integrations continue receiving change.detected only.
  • Run history adds webhook_deliveries. The singular field remains available but is deprecated.

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Monitor webhook health tracking

  • Receive an email after three consecutive monitor runs with failed webhook deliveries.
  • A successful delivery or webhook URL change clears the failure streak. Rate-limited receivers are retried using Retry-After.
  • See delivery failures for recovery steps.
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Join an organization by email domain

  • Let teammates with a verified company email domain discover and join your organization without an invitation.
  • Manage the setting from the dashboard.
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Website monitors

  • Watch a page, sitemap, or structured data on a schedule and receive signed webhooks when it changes.
  • Manage monitors, runs, and changes through the API or SDKs, at no credit cost.
  • Successful page and sitemap checks cost 1 credit; extract checks cost 10. Failed or skipped runs are free.
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Brand lookup from an exact URL

  • Retrieve brand data from an exact page with type: "by_direct_url".
  • Results use that page’s content only and cost 10 credits on success.
  • Domain-lookup options such as maxSpeed, force_language, and maxAgeMs are not supported.
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One request for brand lookups

  • Use one POST /brand/retrieve operation for domain, email, name, ticker, and transaction lookups.
  • The type field selects the lookup, giving SDK integrations one consistent entry point.

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One request for prefetching

  • Prefetch now uses one request with a type field for queuing brand data by domain or email.

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API reference navigation

  • The API reference now groups related operations, uses shorter names, and redirects legacy pages to their replacements.
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Customer referrals

  • Share your referral link from the dashboard.
  • Referred customers receive 10% off for 12 months, and you earn 10% of their payments for a year.
  • The program is available to existing customers without an application and is separate from the affiliate program.

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Remove duplicate images

  • Set dedupe=true on Images to remove near-duplicate images without changing the request price.

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Scrape PowerPoint presentations

  • Scrape PowerPoint URLs into Markdown or HTML, including slide text, tables, and speaker notes.
  • Supports PPTX and legacy PPT. Crawls can follow links to presentations.
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Scrape spreadsheets and CSV files

  • Scrape Excel and CSV URLs into tables.
  • Workbooks return separate sheet tables, and CSV output preserves an optional title or attribution above the header.
  • Markdown, HTML, and Crawl support the new formats.
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#1 Product of the Day on Product Hunt

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  • Choose theme=light or theme=dark on Logo Link to prefer a matching logo variant.
  • Without a theme, the highest-resolution available logo remains the default.

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Settle animations before capture

  • Set settleAnimations=true to stabilize animations before capturing HTML, Markdown, or crawled pages.
  • The option defaults to false.
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Capture light and dark themes

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Dashboard refresh

  • The refreshed dashboard brings consistent navigation across signup, overview, team management, and API tools, with clearer parameter controls and usage displays.
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Scrape from a selected country

  • Fetch supported scraping, crawling, and screenshot requests from a selected country using a two-letter country code.
  • Use it when page content or access varies by location.
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Capture sections of long pages

  • Use scrollOffset to capture a viewport-sized section of a long page starting at a selected vertical offset.
  • See Take a screenshot.
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Annual plans

  • Annual billing is now available with two months free compared with monthly billing.
  • Choose yearly billing on the pricing page.
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Account setup for coding agents

  • Coding agents can start account setup through auth.md.
  • Follow the browser verification step to claim the account and complete setup.
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PHP SDK

  • The official PHP SDK is available through Composer for PHP 8.1 and later.
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Scrape Word documents

  • Markdown, HTML, and Crawl now accept DOCX and legacy DOC URLs, returning structured document content without a separate conversion step.
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Page metadata

  • Scrape and crawl responses now include page metadata such as title, description, language, canonical URL, and structured data.
  • Metadata survives content filtering, and relative resources resolve against the final URL after redirects.
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Hourly usage

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Response compression

  • Use Accept-Encoding: gzip to reduce transfer sizes for large API responses.
  • See Compression for client setup and verification.
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Identify missing pages

  • Scrape and Crawl now return 404 for missing pages, separating them from other website-access failures.
  • See Troubleshooting for status handling.

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Faster usage logs

  • Large usage histories load and filter faster, including organizations with millions of request logs.
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Affiliate program

  • The new affiliate program pays 25% of referred customer payments for a year.
  • See the program terms for eligibility.
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Export playground results

  • Export a playground response as JSON, copy it, or choose Try in Cursor to open an implementation prompt with the response included.
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Context.dev CLI

  • Use Context.dev from the terminal with the official CLI for macOS, Linux, and Windows.
  • Choose JSON or YAML output, transform responses, and pipe results into scripts or coding-agent workflows.

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Retry guidance for rate limits

  • Rate-limited responses include key_metadata with zero credits consumed and a Retry-After header.
  • Use the reset delay before sending another request.
  • See Rate limits.

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Credits used and remaining

  • JSON responses to recognized API keys now include credits_consumed and credits_remaining in key_metadata, including on validation errors and timeouts.
  • Responses to invalid keys omit it.

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Filter logs by status

  • Filter dashboard request logs by HTTP status to find failures and investigate integration issues.
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Documentation refresh

  • Updated guides and navigation make setup and API details easier to find for developers and coding agents.
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Usage by API key

  • View calls and credit usage by API key in the dashboard, with names shown where available.
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Filter content with CSS selectors

  • Use includeSelectors and excludeSelectors to scope HTML, Markdown, and crawl content.
  • Exclusion wins when both match; non-HTML documents are unaffected.
  • See Content controls.
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Read underlying XML

  • HTML scraping now returns the underlying XML for styled sitemaps and feeds, rather than a browser’s rendered XML viewer.
  • The response identifies the detected content type.
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Custom request headers

  • Send custom target headers, including language preferences or authorized credentials.
  • Requests with custom headers bypass the shared cache.
  • Keep your Context.dev API key separate from headers sent to the target site.
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Backed by Y Combinator

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Cache and search controls

  • The Styleguide playground adds cache-age presets.
  • Web Search also supports more Markdown, PDF, freshness, and timing controls, with updated SDK examples.
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Per-minute rate limits

  • API limits now use a per-minute window and appear in the dashboard.
  • The launch limits are 10 requests/minute for Free, 120 for Starter, 300 for Pro, and 1,200 for Scale.
  • See Rate limits for current allowances.
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  • Search the web and optionally retrieve each result’s Markdown in one request.
  • Filter domains and freshness, expand a query, and choose content controls.
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SOC 2 Type I compliance

  • Context.dev is now SOC 2 Type I compliant.
  • Review current compliance status and evidence in the Trust Center.

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Go SDK

  • The official Go SDK is available, with typed requests and responses for Context.dev APIs.
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  • Set handleCookiePopup=true to dismiss cookie and consent banners before taking a screenshot.
  • The option is off by default.
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PDF parsing controls

  • The pdf object replaces parsePDF with controls for whether to parse a PDF and which pages to read.
  • Existing requests remain compatible.
  • See PDF handling.

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Set a crawl time budget

  • Give Crawl a soft time budget with stopAfterMs.
  • It checks the budget between pages and can return the pages collected so far.
  • The launch default is 80 seconds, with values from 10 to 110 seconds.
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Wait for dynamic content

  • Use waitForMs on supported web endpoints to allow dynamic content more time to load before capture.
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Screenshot dimensions and freshness

  • Screenshots now accept custom viewport dimensions and cache-age controls.
  • Responses include the image’s width and height for layout without downloading it first.
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Control brand-data freshness

  • Control brand-data freshness with maxAgeMs, defaulting to three months.
  • At launch, values were clamped between one day and one year.
  • Updated September 12: values under one day, including 0 for fresh retrieval, are now honored.
  • See Cache freshness.
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Image caching and enrichment

  • Images adds caching and optional dimensions, hosted copies, MIME types, and asset classification.
  • Standard requests remain 1 credit; enabling any enrichment option costs 5 credits per call.
  • Use maxAgeMs=0 to request fresh results.
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Better wordmark detection

  • Logo extraction better recognizes wordmarks composed of an image and adjacent brand text.
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Include iframe content

  • Set includeFrames=true to include rendered iframe content in HTML, Markdown, and crawl results.
  • The option is off by default.
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Playground controls and docs

  • Playground endpoints now link to their documentation and expose their parameters in the UI.
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Explore more usage history

  • Browse paginated request history, filter every endpoint your organization has used, and view longer date ranges.
  • Interactive chart legends let you toggle paths and statuses.
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Scrape PDF URLs

  • HTML, Markdown, and Crawl now process PDF URLs, with parsing controls and skipped-page counts.
  • PDF scraping launched with automatic OCR; OCR became opt-in on August 6.
  • See Parse documents for current controls and billing.

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Crawl freshness controls

  • Set maxAgeMs on Crawl to control how long cached results can be reused.
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Font-file URLs

  • Styleguide responses add fontLinks, mapping font families and weights to available file URLs.
  • The result distinguishes Google Fonts and custom fonts.
  • See Extract a design system.
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Filter mapped URLs

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  • Track credits over time alongside API calls, see usage by endpoint, and search request logs by input.
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Multiple API keys

  • Create and manage multiple API keys from the dashboard to separate integrations and rotate credentials.
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More social platforms

  • Brand social links now include WhatsApp, Telegram, and Line, bringing supported platforms to 31.
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Brand website language

  • Brand profiles include primary_language, identifying the detected primary language of the website.
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Website crawling

  • Crawl a website from a starting URL and return collected pages as Markdown.
  • Limit pages and depth, filter URLs, and choose whether to follow subdomains.
  • Successful pages cost 1 credit each; the response includes per-page outcomes and totals.
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Styleguide update

  • Styleguide extraction is faster and adds ready-to-use css fields.
  • The prioritize parameter is removed; prioritization is handled automatically.
  • See Extract a design system.
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Keep main page content

  • Set useMainContentOnly=true to focus Markdown output on primary page content and remove navigation, sidebars, headers, and footers.
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Discover background images

  • Image scraping now discovers CSS background images in addition to standard image elements.

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Control URL mapping

  • Set maxLinks to control URL mapping from 1 to 100,000 links.
  • At this release, the returned urls array remains capped at 500.
  • See Map website URLs for current limits.
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Brand.dev is now Context.dev

  • Brand.dev is now Context.dev, reflecting the expansion from brand data into web scraping and extraction.
  • Existing integrations remain compatible without code changes.
  • Earlier entries use the current product name and documentation links.
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Better logo detection

  • Logo detection filters more decorative icons and other shapes that are not the company’s logo.
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Company lookup by country

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Credit-based pricing

  • API pricing moves from calls to credits.
  • Existing quotas convert at 10 credits per call, so 3,000 calls becomes 30,000 credits.
  • Standard brand lookups remain 10 credits, while lighter scraping operations cost 1 credit.
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Scraping in the playground

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HTML, Markdown, Images, and URL mapping APIs

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Verify transaction matches

  • Set high_confidence_only=true on transaction lookups to request extra verification of the merchant match.
  • It defaults to false.
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Styleguides from an exact page

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Lower API latency

  • API requests return faster across endpoints.
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Larger plan quotas

  • Monthly quotas increase from 2,000 to 3,000 calls on Starter and from 10,000 to 20,000 on Pro, without a price increase.
  • Legacy 1,000- and 1,500-call plans move to 3,000; 15,000-call plans move to 20,000.
  • Existing customer prices remain locked in, and their quotas will not be reduced. See plans and billing for current allowances.
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  • Logo Link is available: display a company’s logo using a URL built from its domain.
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Updated guides

  • Updated setup instructions and task guides make it easier to find the right API and make a first request.
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Context.dev for Make

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  • Brand retrieval no longer returns generic social-network homepages as company profiles.
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Dashboard redesign

  • The developer dashboard has a new layout and navigation for API tools and account management.
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More playground tools

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Faster brand retrieval

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Prefetch by work email

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Fewer duplicate backdrops

  • Backdrop processing removes duplicate images from brand results.
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Merchant phone numbers

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Request brand updates

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More context for transaction matching

  • Improve merchant matching with an optional category code (mcc), city, and country (country_gl).
  • See Transaction enrichment.
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Billing on successful requests

  • At this release, billing changed to charge only successful 200 responses, leaving invalid inputs, inaccessible domains, and rejected email types unbilled.
  • See current billing guidance for today’s policy.
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Clearer demo errors

  • Demos explain invalid inputs more clearly, and website links and missing-page handling have been corrected.
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Sign in with GitHub

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Brand lookup by email

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More brand lookup options

  • Brand lookup documentation now covers domain, company-name, and ticker inputs with a consistent response shape.
  • See Get brand data.
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Faster API responses

  • API requests return faster across endpoints.
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Fewer false logo matches

  • Logo detection rejects more decorative icons that could otherwise be mistaken for company logos.
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International ticker exchanges

  • Set ticker_exchange to distinguish the same ticker across international exchanges.
  • Without it, the lookup assumes a US listing.
  • See Look up by ticker.
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Zapier 2.0

  • Zapier 2.0 adds three actions, updates brand retrieval, and includes new recipes.
  • See the Zapier guide for the current action catalog.
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API History beta

  • The dashboard’s new API History beta shows request activity and consumption trends.

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Corrected usage charts

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Faster uncached brand lookups

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Styleguide controls

  • Styleguide adds a prioritize choice between speed and quality.
  • Styleguide removes this parameter in April 2026; follow the current design-system guide.
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Faster styleguide extraction

  • Brand profiles add a links object for discovered careers, blog, terms, privacy, contact, and pricing pages.
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Starter pricing

  • Starter pricing changes for new customers.
  • Existing customers retain their previous plan rates.
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Download invoices

  • View and download invoices from the dashboard.
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One site for docs and account tools

  • Account management and documentation now share the main website, removing the need to switch to a separate developer-portal domain.
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Change plans directly

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Richer brand previews

  • Brand previews now include contact email, phone, industries, and backdrops.
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Industry and subindustry labels

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Look up by name or ticker

  • Look up brand profiles by company name or stock ticker, in addition to domain.
  • See Get brand data for supported lookup methods.
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More wordmark coverage

  • Improved wordmark extraction and refreshed brand records increase the coverage of wide brand logos.
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Keep history when rotating keys

  • Rotating an API key no longer clears request history.
  • Usage remains attached to the organization, including historical calls.
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Adult-content classification

  • Brand profiles add is_nsfw to help applications identify adult-content websites.
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Higher-resolution logos

  • Logo extraction prioritizes higher-resolution sources and filters low-quality variants.
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Original search API retired

  • The original search endpoint is retired and returns 410 Gone.
  • This historical retirement does not apply to the Web Search and Brand Search APIs introduced in 2026.
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Company names and dashboard feedback

  • Updates on July 13 and 19 improve extracted company names and add a dashboard feedback widget for reporting data issues and suggestions.
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Clearer API errors

  • Invalid endpoints and request parameters now return clearer errors, with improved traffic protection for service availability.
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Typography through Styleguide

  • Use Styleguide for detailed typography, including families, weights, sizes, line heights, and spacing.
  • It provides more typography detail than the Brand response.
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Faster screenshots and styleguides

  • Screenshot and Styleguide requests are faster for both cached and newly captured pages.
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Screenshot API beta

  • The beta Screenshot API captures viewport or full-page images and returns a hosted image URL.
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Styleguide API beta

  • The beta Styleguide API extracts colors, typography, spacing, shadows, and component styles for application theming.
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Developer portal and affiliates

  • The developer portal has updated navigation and documentation.
  • The original affiliate program launches with 20% commission; a new program replaces it in June 2026.
  • See current affiliate terms.
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Faster brand retrieval

  • On-demand brand retrieval returns results faster.
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Brand prefetching

  • Paid subscribers can prefetch brand data before it is needed, at 0 credits, to reduce the wait for a later lookup.
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Speed and timeout controls

  • Use maxSpeed for faster Brand lookups with less detail, and timeoutMS to set a request deadline.
  • Timed-out requests return 408. See Timeouts for the current replacement syntax and limits.
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Request-history filters

  • Filter dashboard request history by recent periods, longer date ranges, or all available history.
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First Zapier integration

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Ruby SDK and image metadata

  • The official Ruby SDK is available.
  • Image metadata also adds has_opaque_background for assets with their own background.
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Python SDK

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Typed TypeScript SDK

  • The rewritten TypeScript SDK exposes request and response types for easier integration.
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Faster brand lookups