We raised $9M to give agents the internet
Context.dev has raised a $9M seed round led by General Catalyst. A note from Yahia on why he started the company and what changed along the way.
The Context.dev Blog
Product announcements, research, and engineering from Context.dev.
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Introducing Rusteerio
Why we ported Cheerio to Rust, how LLMs made it worth doing, and what changed in our HTML processing benchmarks.
Introducing Context Highlights
Token-efficient web extraction for agents. Context Highlights returns the relevant passages from a webpage for your query.
Introducing the Answers API
Give Answers a research task and get structured JSON with source URLs. Web research for your app or agent, in one API call.
Announcing Monitors: Watch Any Website for Changes
Context.dev Monitors is here in beta. Watch a page or sitemap for exact changes, or a whole site for semantic changes, on a schedule. Get a signed webhook when something changes.
The Hidden Race Condition in file-type That Corrupted Our Parallel Image Detection
Our logo candidate list kept shrinking at random. We traced it to the file-type npm package, which shares internal state across detections and returns mismatched MIME types when called in parallel.
We're now backed by YCombinator
A quick note from Yahia: Context.dev is now backed by Y Combinator.
Introducing news search
Search over 200 million articles for company announcements, press releases, and news. Give your agents current sources to work with.
Our free tier is back
Start building with 1,000 free API credits every month, no credit card required. Try Context.dev on the pages, companies, and projects you care about.
Announcing the Context.dev Integration for Cursor
Context.dev is now available in the Cursor Marketplace, bundling 34 live-web tools with focused skills, commands, and rules for research, extraction, brand intelligence, monitoring, and batch work.
Announcing the Context.dev Integration for OpenClaw
Context.dev is now available on ClawHub as an OpenClaw plugin and skill, adding native live-web tools plus OAuth access to the complete public tool catalog.
Announcing the Context.dev Integration for Eve
Context.dev is now available in the Eve integrations registry, giving durable AI agents 34 tools to search, scrape, extract, enrich, monitor, and process the live web.
Introducing the Context.dev Affiliate Program
We're launching an affiliate program with 25% recurring commissions for the first 3 years of every subscription you refer. Here's how it works and how to join.
Context.dev is SOC 2 Type 1 Compliant
Context.dev has achieved SOC 2 Type 1 compliance with Comp AI and is now in the observation period for Type 2. Customers can request our report on trust.context.dev.
Announcing the Context.dev Go SDK
Context.dev now has an official Go SDK, making it easier to add brand intelligence, web scraping, screenshots, product extraction, and schema-based web extraction to Go services.
We are Context.dev, not Context.ai
A quick note to our customers: Context.dev has no affiliation with Context.ai, the AI platform named in the recent Vercel security incident.
Brand.dev is now Context.dev
We're evolving. Brand.dev is becoming Context.dev, and this is the next chapter in our mission to make the internet a more interesting place.
How We Fixed a ReDoS Vulnerability That Turned 15-Second Requests into 5-Minute Timeouts at Context.dev
Learn how we discovered and fixed a ReDoS (Regular Expression Denial of Service) vulnerability that was causing our HTML parsing to timeout.
Preventing Memory Issues in Node.js Sharp: A Journey
Learn how to prevent memory issues when using Sharp in Node.js. Practical tips and techniques for handling image processing at scale.
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