What’s new in Parse

Parse 1.17

October 13, 2026 · Chrome and Firefox · includes 1.13 to 1.16, which ship together in this update

Canada and Mexico

• Canadian phone numbers and postal codes get badges. A postal code such as “Toronto, ON M5V 3L9” is looked up by its first three characters (M5V), and that is the only part that leaves your browser.
• Canadian area codes that span more than one zone (807, 867, 250, 306, 418, 709 and their overlays) are placed by exchange, so Kenora (807-468) shows Central time and Thunder Bay (807-344) shows Eastern.
• Canadian numbers get a ✓ or ✗ by the CRTC’s telemarketing rules: 9 AM to 9:30 PM on weekdays and 10 AM to 6 PM on weekends, in their time. The Calling hours switch in Settings covers the TCPA and the CRTC together.
• Mexico is on for everyone. Parse finds numbers written with +52 or the Mexican way (“55 1234 5678”) and postal codes when the address marks them as Mexican (“C.P. 64000”, “Guadalajara, Jal. 44100”). A US ZIP stays a US ZIP.
• Border towns such as Matamoros, Nuevo Laredo and Ciudad Juárez follow US daylight saving, as they do in real life, so their time is right from March to November.
• Mexico has no set calling hours. The hover card says what the law asks instead: no sales calls to numbers on PROFECO’s REPEP register or to anyone who asked not to be called.
• Caribbean +1 numbers (Jamaica, the Dominican Republic, the Bahamas and 18 more) show their own country’s time instead of a question mark.

Area codes that cross a time zone line

• 26 US area codes have exchanges in more than one time zone, among them 850 in Florida, 423 in Tennessee, 812 in Indiana, 605 and 701 in the Dakotas, 541 in Oregon and 928 in Arizona. Parse now places each number by its exchange, the three digits after the area code.
• (850) 644 is Tallahassee on Eastern time and (850) 432 is Pensacola on Central. Until this update every 850 number showed Eastern, which put the time and the calling-hours mark an hour off for about two in three of them.
• The hover card names the town and says when its area code also covers another zone. Type an area code on its own in the popup and it lists each zone with its share of the numbers.
• Only the area code is sent, as before. The exchange table ships inside the extension.

Severe weather alerts

• While a warning is in effect where your contact is, the badge shows one icon after the time for the most serious one. Hover for each warning, when it ends in their time and which service issued it.
• Parse shows major hazards only: hurricanes and tropical storms, tornadoes, floods and storm surge, wildfires, volcanoes, blizzards and ice storms. Thunderstorms and wind show at Severe or Extreme. Tides, surf, heat, fog and air quality notices stay off the badge.
• Warnings come from the national weather service that issues them for that place, and from MeteoAlarm in Europe. A tropical storm nearby is added with its distance and wind speed when the local warnings don’t mention it yet.
• Settings > Weather sets the level: Warnings and watches (the default), Severe and extreme only, Everything, or Off. Alerts need live weather to be on.
• For alerts, Parse sends the place’s location rounded to about 1 km and its country code. No numbers, ZIP codes or postal codes.

Planning a call from the badge

• Click a badge to open a planner with a 24-hour slider in 15-minute steps, shaded for the hours you can call them. It opens on the first slot inside their calling hours.
• Under the slider sits a line ready to paste into an email or a text, such as “Does 2:00 PM CT work?”, with a Copy button.
• If you know a contact lives somewhere other than their area code suggests, set their time zone by hand from the planner. Parse keeps it for that number until you reset it, and the badge, the ✓ or ✗ and the hover card follow it in every tab.

Badges and the hover card

• Badges start with the state or province: “FL · Good Evening · 9:56 PM ✗ · 78°F”.
• Hovering a badge opens Parse’s own card in place of the browser’s plain tooltip. It shows the town and county, their time in large type, whether you can call now and until when, the rule behind it, the weather and any warnings. It follows your system’s light or dark mode and stays open while you take a screenshot.
• Two smaller badge styles, Compact tag and Corner flag, keep tight CRM rows from growing (“FL 2:06p ✓”). Pick one under Settings > Badges.
• Temperature in °F or °C and time in 12 or 24-hour format. Both start on Auto, which follows your browser’s language.

Bulk lookup inside Parse

• The Bulk lookup button in the Parse popup opens a page where you can paste a list, paste cells from a spreadsheet or drop in a CSV file. Parse finds the column with the numbers or ZIP codes and notices a header row.
• Each row gets the time zone, the local time, whether you can call now and until when, the place’s coordinates, the weather and any warnings. Download the results as CSV, Excel or JSON, or copy them straight back into your sheet.
• Bulk lookup keeps the same privacy as the badges: only area codes, ZIP codes and the first three characters of postal codes are looked up.

Settings

• Settings is now a page of tabs (General, Badges, Weather, Calling hours, Blocked, Countries and About) laid out in two columns, so each tab fits on one screen. Everything you had set carried over.
• The Calling hours tab lists the rule Parse checks for each country, and the Weather tab shows which hazards each alert level includes.

Fixes

• On Google Maps, a place’s phone number and address could disappear once Parse had badged them. Maps redraws its rows and throws away anything it didn’t put there, which included Parse. Parse now puts both back before the page paints.
• When api.pea.dev couldn’t be reached (offline, behind a firewall or during an outage) phone badges showed a question mark. Every US and Canadian area code is now built into the extension, so the time and the calling-hours mark still show.
• Lookups now give up after a few seconds instead of leaving a badge loading for good.
• Once the daily weather allowance is used, Parse stops asking for weather until the next day or until you sign in.
• From midnight to 5 AM their time the badge said Good Morning while the popup said Good Evening. Both say Good Evening now.
• A number written after another country’s calling code, such as +63 917 123 4567 in the Philippines, no longer reads as a New York number.
• Pages with hundreds of numbers do less work on each minute’s repaint.

Other countries, in Beta

• Settings > Countries has a Beta section for numbers from other countries. Numbers written with their country code are found for every country, and numbers written the local way for any of 213 countries you pick.
• Postal codes from 88 countries are found when the address marks them, for example “FIN-00100” or a country named on the same line.
• France, Spain and Australia get a calling-hours ✓ or ✗ by their own rules. Germany and the UK have no set hours, and the hover card says what their law asks instead.
• These countries get severe weather warnings too: Europe through MeteoAlarm, and several others from their national weather services.

Privacy

Parse still reads pages inside your browser, and it places numbers and postal codes there too. The only things that leave are an area code, a US ZIP code, the first three characters of a Canadian postal code, or a place’s location rounded to about 1 km for the weather and alerts. Names, emails and full phone numbers never do. The privacy policy has the details.

Earlier releases

Parse 1.12 October 2026

• Live weather is on by default, with 250 lookups a day without an account and 1,000 with a free Pea account (up from 50 and 250).
• Shorter badges: the ✓ or ✗ sits right after the time and the parts are split by a dot, as in “Good Afternoon · 12:06 PM ✓ · 78°F Sunny”. The bar separator is still available in Settings.
• Weather got a section of its own in Settings.

Parse 1.11 September 2026

• The calling-hours flag became a ✓ or ✗ after the time, with the rule and the time it changes on hover, so badges stopped breaking page layouts.
• A calling-hours color mode tints badges soft green while a call is allowed and red when it isn’t. A green or red dot is available as well.
• Weather emojis show with the temperature on its own, not only next to the conditions.
• A share button in the popup copies the link to Parse.

Parse 1.10 September 2026

• TCPA calling hours for every US number and ZIP code: the federal 8 AM to 9 PM window in their time, plus the stricter hours of 20 states, each checked against its statute. Pennsylvania’s new hours from October 18, 2026 switch over on their own. Our calling hours guide lists every state.
• Badges repaint on the minute, so a tab left open all day keeps the right time.
• CRMs built on React or Vue no longer leave the last record’s number and badge on screen when you open the next one.
• Long pages are scanned in chunks, which cut the work on our 6,000-number test page to about half of what 1.9 needed.

Parse 1.9 September 2026

• Parse moved to upgraded servers, and time zones are worked out in your browser, so the daily allowance only counts live weather.
• The popup says when the daily limit has been reached and why the weather stopped showing.
• Paste joined your Pea account, for encrypted links that delete themselves once read.

Found a bug or missing a feature? Write to hello@pea.dev or use Report bug in any badge’s planner, and we’ll read it.