Context.dev, a new API from Y Combinator batch S26 founder Yahia, simplifies integrating web data into applications and AI agents. The service allows developers to send a URL and receive cleaned Markdown, rendered HTML, screenshots, or extracted images. It also provides company or brand context, including logos, colors, fonts, and social links, by simply sending a domain name.

For more complex needs, developers can provide a URL alongside a JSON Schema to extract specific structured data, such as pricing plans or support links, tailored to their application's requirements. The core goal is to deliver usable data formats like JSON for applications or Markdown for language models, rather than raw HTML. This evolves from the founder's previous work on Brand.dev, which focused on providing brand data for customer onboarding.

Context.dev aims to address the need for reliable web data extraction while respecting website policies, employing a caching layer to avoid excessive requests and honoring opt-out requests from websites. Use cases include updating chatbot knowledge bases, generating brand assets, enriching CRM records, and enabling AI agents to research companies. The platform offers a free tier and a self-serve dashboard for quick integration.