Context.dev Launches: The Unified API for Web Scraping and AI Agents
Launch HN: Context.dev (YC S26) – API to get structured data from any website
We are thrilled to announce Context.dev, a YC-backed platform designed to simplify web data extraction for AI agents. Our single API replaces fragmented tools, allowing developers to scrape live content, extract structured data via JSON schemas, and retrieve brand intelligence instantly. By handling the complex infrastructure of crawling and parsing, we empower teams to build smarter, context-aware products faster without maintaining brittle internal pipelines.
Stop feeding agents knowledge frozen at the model's cutoff and start pulling live web data the moment your product needs it.
- SOLAR_FIELDS
If you want to vibe something that gets you 70% of the way to this well funded startup in like 15 minutes just tell your LLM of choice to create a hook or override the web fetching skill to pipe the content through Mozilla’s readability extension that strips the DOM elements out deterministically, leaving only the content. You can then parse it however you want. Can be done entirely client side, in runtime, with a few JavaScript libraries
- setgree
I like the clarity, tone, and readability of your webpage. Also your FAQ is refreshing
> When Should I talk to sales?
> Talk to sales if you need high-volume pricing beyond 2M credits/month, custom rate limits, SSO / SAML, SCIM provisioning, an uptime SLA, annual invoicing, an MSA / DPA, or a dedicated support channel. Reach us at [email protected] or through the contact page.
Would that this were the norm everywhere, rather than (say) a sales rep from Datadog scraping my phone number from who knows where to ask about my company's needs after I sign up for a free account on a whim :)
- twosdai
Are you using residential proxies? How do you handle websites that don't want to be scraped.
EG if I start passing in Linkedin pages what is your expectation of the result that people would see per profile.
EDIT:
Congrats on the launch seriously hard work, just wanting to understand your scraping stance more. I've worked with a lot of tools on this, didn't mean for my initial comment to be adversarial.
- aadv1k
Hi! Congrats on the launch, I gained LOTS of great insights from your comments, particualrly the bits about diffrentiation in a crowded market.
I am building something in agentic automation space, currently it's still under development, but would love to know your journey of ideating -> building -> getting the first customer -> iterating -> and presumably getting into YC.
Am still relatively new to this (19 lol) so I got a long way, but would really appreciate any insights :)
Cheers! Wish you luck with Context.
- dataviz1000
Have a look at Intercept. [0] I don't have a need for it, likely it is dated and will require some more tuning, and I want to get away from scraping. Creating typed Typescript proxy API for any website might be something you find useful.
> Reverse-engineers any website by doing a breadth search across every transport (JSON, WebSocket, WebRTC, GraphQL, SSE, HLS, PubSub), listing them all, and generating a typed JSON API that bypasses almost all bot protections — including Turnstile. I didn't include the ability, but it bypassed the most advanced ChatGPT + Turnstile. Built with self-improving Claude Code agents that rewrite their own instructions until fresh agents consistently succeed.
> Once connected to a page, it intercepts every byte of network traffic — then actively drives the page to surface endpoints that only fire on interaction. It types into forms, clicks buttons, scrolls, triggers modals, paginates, submits searches, and walks through multi-step flows, watching what each action produces on the wire. Every request gets captured with its method, headers, payload shape, and response, then classified by transport (JSON, WebSocket, WebRTC, GraphQL, SSE, HLS, PubSub). The result is a complete map of the site's real API surface — including the hidden endpoints that only exist behind a click — turned into typed proxy routes you can curl.