Launch HN: Context.dev (YC S26) – API to get structured data from any website

According to Hacker News, Yahia Bakour is launching Context.dev, a Y Combinator startup offering an API to extract structured data from any website. Instead of raw HTML, you get clean Markdown, screenshots, or JSON shaped to your schema. It's built for use cases like feeding chatbots customer context, powering AI agents, or enriching onboarding. Bakour, who previously co-founded two acquired startups, is emphasizing responsible crawling: Context.dev caches aggressively, respects opt-outs, and throttles requests to avoid hammering sites. The core idea is simple—developers want to build with web data, not just scrape it raw.

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