Chrome Extension + REST API

See when anything
on the web was published

PageDate scans pages and individual elements — images, listings, articles, ads — and surfaces publish dates with confidence scores.

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Built for researchers & power users

Detect dates from HTML, metadata, CMS APIs, image headers, and more.

🔍 Deep page scan

Scans images, posts, text blocks, and containers. Progressive loading as you scroll.

🌍 Multilingual dates

English, Macedonian, Cyrillic month names, relative dates like “today” and “денес”.

📚 Wayback integration

Links to Internet Archive snapshots when available for the current page.

🖱️ Click inspect

Click any element to inspect its date metadata in real time.

⚡ CMS-aware

WordPress REST, Shopify JSON, JSON-LD, Elementor, and filename heuristics.

📊 Export

Export scan results as JSON, CSV, or a timeline report from the extension.

API usage

All scan requests require an API key in the x-api-key header.

POST /scan

Full page analysis. Send HTML snapshot + element refs from the extension.

curl -X POST https://YOUR_DOMAIN/scan \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -d '{"url":"https://example.com","html":"<body>...","mode":"deep","refs":[]}'

GET /usage

Check daily scan quota for your API key.

POST /scan (inspect)

Single-element inspect mode with mode: "inspect".

Rate limits

200 full scans per day per key. Batch/image modes are lighter on quota.

Configure the API URL in the extension popup after you receive your key.

Request API access

Keys are issued manually after review to prevent abuse. You'll receive your key by email.