Changelog

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Highlights on Search

• 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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Longer scrape cache windows

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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

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Highlights format on Scrape

• Find the passages most relevant to a question or topic with formats.highlights and highlightsParams.query.
• Set maxCharacters to limit the total length. Highlights also work with zero data retention.
• Adds 3 credits only when passages are returned.

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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. Optional AI fallback adds 6 credits only when it returns a verdict.

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Scrape any page in one request

• 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

• Use country to extract page images from a selected region.
• The country applies to both the page and its image downloads.

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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

• Capture a page from its full URL with GET /web/scrape/screenshot, for 1 credit.
• See the screenshot guide for capture options and examples.

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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

• Teams building reinforcement learning systems can now apply for Context.dev data credits.
• The program page explains eligibility and how to submit a research proposal.

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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

• Download images, PDFs, HTML, and other resources as base64, with file size, content type, final URL, and origin status.
• Supports files up to 20 MiB, custom headers, country targeting, and zero data retention.
• Costs 1 credit per download.

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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.

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Request log endpoints

• Find requests by time, endpoint, key, status, error, or tags, and retrieve an individual call.
• Responses now include request_id and X-Request-Id for tracing.
• Log endpoints cost 0 credits.

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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

• Connect Context.dev to Replit Agent to search, scrape, and retrieve company data while building your app.

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Webhook retries, delivery history, and replay

• Configure automatic webhook retries for batches and monitors with webhook.retry.
• Replay failed deliveries for up to seven days, without rerunning the job or spending credits.
• Inspect 30 days of delivery history and attempts in the dashboard.

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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

• Connect Context.dev to Claude from the Connectors Directory to search, scrape, crawl, extract, parse, and monitor the web.

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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

• Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files served with incorrect content types are now recognized and parsed instead of being treated as webpage HTML.

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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 wordmarks

• 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

• Add Context.dev to ChatGPT to search, scrape, crawl, extract, parse, and monitor the web from a conversation.

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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

• Install the Cursor plugin to give your coding agent access to Context.dev’s web tools.

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Context.dev for LangChain

• Use LangChain’s Context.dev integration for search, scraping, extraction, parsing, brand data, monitors, and batches.
• Install the langchain-context package to get started.

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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.

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Exclude more domains from web search

• 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

• Set includeHTML=true to return HTML and Markdown together from one scrape.
• Markdown batches support the same option, also available in the playground.

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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

• Context.dev reached #1 Product of the Day on Product Hunt.
• Thank you for the feedback and support.

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Logo Link themes

• 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

• Set colorScheme to light or dark when taking screenshots or extracting a styleguide to capture the site’s selected color mode.

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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

• View hourly calls and credit consumption for today and yesterday in the dashboard.

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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

• Context.dev is now 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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Web search

• 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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Dismiss cookie banners

• 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

• Filter mapped URLs with urlRegex.
• See Map website URLs for examples.

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Credit charts and log search

• 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

• Provide country_gl when looking up a company by name to distinguish companies with the same name in different countries.

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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

• Try HTML, Markdown, Images, and URL mapping directly from the dashboard playground.

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HTML, Markdown, Images, and URL mapping APIs

• Four new APIs turn URLs into HTML, Markdown, images, or a website URL inventory.
• Scraping includes automatic proxy handling without a separate proxy charge.

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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

• Extract a styleguide from an exact page with directUrl.
• Provide either a domain or a direct URL.

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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

• 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

• Connect Context.dev to Make to build automations with other apps.

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More accurate social links

• 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

• Email-based brand lookup and font extraction are now available in the dashboard playground.

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Faster brand retrieval

• Brand retrieval is faster for domains that have not already been cached.

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Prefetch by work email

• Prefetch brand data from a work email before you need the result.
• The operation costs 0 credits for paid subscribers and rejects free or disposable email addresses with 422.

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Fewer duplicate backdrops

• Backdrop processing removes duplicate images from brand results.

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Merchant phone numbers

• Include a merchant phone number in transaction enrichment to help verify the company match.

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Request brand updates

• Request a brand-data update for incorrect logos, colors, or company details.
• The launch offers review within 24 hours.

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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

• Sign up or sign in to Context.dev with GitHub.

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Brand lookup by email

• Look up a brand from a work email.
• The API extracts the company domain and returns a specific error for free or disposable email providers.

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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

• Fixed incorrect displays in the dashboard’s request-history charts.

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Faster uncached brand lookups

• Brand retrieval returns results faster for uncached domains.

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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

• Styleguide extraction returns results faster.

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Company website links

• 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

• Upgrade or downgrade a plan without cancelling it first.

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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

• Brand profiles add Easy Industry Classification in industries.eic, with 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

• The first Zapier integration launches with a brand-retrieval action.

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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

• The official Python SDK is available.

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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

• Brand lookups return results faster.