Context.dev

Overview

Context.dev is an AI-native web scraping and brand intelligence API designed to supply real-time structured data to AI agents and automated application workflows. It converts raw HTML into clean markdown, extracts structured site visual identities, crawls sitemaps, and performs deep brand enrichment through a single REST interface. By handling anti-bot stealth and proxy infrastructure natively, Context.dev provides reliable, agent-ready context without maintaining custom crawler pipelines.

What it does

• Scrapes URLs and crawls websites directly into token-efficient markdown or clean HTML for AI LLM ingestion
• Extracts complete brand styleguides including logos, exact hex color schemes, typography, and company firmographics
• Discovers page URL structures and extracts clean data across full sites via native sitemap crawlers
• Offers direct Logo Link and prefetch endpoints to render company brand assets rapidly without API credit exhaustion.

Who it's for

• AI Agent Developers & Software Engineers
• B2B SaaS Onboarding & CRM Platforms
• Lead Generation & Market Intelligence Teams
• Automation & Workflow Engineers

Why it works

• Built-in anti-bot bypass and JavaScript rendering eliminate proxy management overhead for engineering teams
• Clean markdown conversion reduces token consumption when feeding live web results into LLM context windows
• Typed SDKs for TypeScript, Python, Go, Ruby, and PHP enable rapid drop-in integration in under 10 minutes
• Dual-quota architecture separates low-latency direct logo asset fetching from complex web scraping queries.

Founder story

Context.dev was founded in 2025 by Yahia Bakour in San Francisco. Having previously worked as a Principal SWE Manager at Sunrun, an Amazon SDE2 on retail checkout systems, and co-founding StockAlarm.io, Bakour experienced firsthand how fragile scraping pipelines crippled AI agents. Backed by Y Combinator, he built Context.dev to supply LLMs with clean, realtime web context through a single developer API.

Alternatives

• Firecrawl
• Browser Use
• Tavily
• Bright Data

Comparison overview

• Context.dev combines markdown web scraping with typed company brand intelligence and styleguide extraction in a single API, whereas alternative tools like Firecrawl focus primarily on web-to-markdown conversion.
• Context.dev provides dedicated Logo Link endpoints without rate limits alongside metered scraping credits, while general proxy scrapers bill uniformly per HTML request.