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Turn phone numbers and postal codes on any page into the person's local time, weather and the perfect greeting. Parse lives right in your browser and does the math for you. It spots phone numbers, ZIP codes and postal codes on any website, whether it's your CRM, a dialer, Google Maps or a random directory, and instantly shows the local time, the weather and whether a sales call is allowed right now. It covers the US, Canada and Mexico out of the box. What's new in Parse 1.19 This is the biggest update Parse has had. It brings seven versions of work to Chrome in one release: Canada and Mexico, severe weather alerts, a call planner in every badge, bulk lookup, and badges that work in far more CRMs. Canada and Mexico • Canadian phone numbers and postal codes get badges, and each one gets a ✓ or ✗ by the CRTC's telemarketing hours: 9 AM–9:30 PM on weekdays and 10 AM–6 PM on weekends, in their time. • Mexico is on for everyone. Parse finds +52 numbers, numbers written the Mexican way (55 1234 5678) and postal codes the address marks as Mexican (C.P. 64000). Border towns such as Matamoros and Ciudad Juárez follow US daylight saving, as they do in real life. • Caribbean +1 numbers from Jamaica, the Dominican Republic, the Bahamas and 18 more show their own country's time. The right time for every number • 26 US area codes cross a time zone line, among them 850 in Florida, 423 in Tennessee and 812 in Indiana. Parse now places each number by its exchange, so (850) 644 shows Tallahassee on Eastern time and (850) 432 shows Pensacola on Central. Before this update, about two in three 850 numbers showed the wrong hour. • If you know a contact lives somewhere other than their area code suggests, set their time zone by hand. Parse keeps it for that number until you reset it, and the badge and the ✓ or ✗ follow it in every tab. • Every US and Canadian area code is built into Parse, so the time and calling hours still show when you're offline or behind a strict firewall. Severe weather alerts • While a warning is in effect where your contact is, the badge shows one icon after the time: 🌀 hurricane, 🌪️ tornado, 🌊 flood, 🔥 wildfire and more. Hover for each warning, when it ends in their time and which agency issued it. • Major hazards only. Hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, wildfires, volcanoes, blizzards and ice storms show up, while tide, surf, heat and fog notices stay off your screen. • Warnings come from the national weather service that issues them for that place. Pick the level in Settings, or turn alerts off. Plan the call from the badge • Click any badge to open a planner with a 24-hour slider, shaded for the hours you're allowed to call. It opens on the first good slot. • 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. Built for CRMs • Parse now runs inside iframes and web components, which is where Salesforce Lightning, ServiceNow, Freshworks, Genesys and many dialers show their records. • Badges in narrow CRM cells used to get cut off. Now you choose whether a badge spills over the edge, wraps under the number or widens the cell, in Settings or right from the Parse popup on any page that looks like a CRM. • In spreadsheets such as Airtable, Smartsheet and Excel on the web, a badge that doesn't fit its cell stays hidden, and hovering the number shows everything. • Copying a table row gives you the page's own text with no badge text mixed in. If you want the badge text in your copies, one button in the popup turns it on. Bulk lookup • 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 adds the time zone, local time, calling hours, coordinates, weather and alerts to every row, 25 rows per run. • Download the results as CSV, Excel or JSON, or copy them straight back into your sheet. Badges, hover card and Settings • Badges start with the state or province, as in FL · Good Evening · 9:56 PM ✗ · 78°F. • Hover any badge for Parse's own card: the town and county, their time in large type, whether you can call now and until when, the weather and any warnings. It follows your light or dark mode. • Two smaller badge styles, Compact tag and Corner flag, keep tight CRM rows from growing (FL 2:06p ✓). • °F or °C and 12 or 24-hour time, both set automatically from your browser's language. • Settings is now a tabbed page where each tab fits on one screen. Everything you had set carries over. Fixes • Google Maps no longer loses a place's phone number and address after Parse adds its badge. • Lookups give up after a few seconds instead of leaving a badge loading. • A number written after another country's calling code, such as +63 917 123 4567, no longer reads as a New York number. • Pages with hundreds of numbers do less work on each minute's update. In Beta Turn on Beta features in Settings > Countries to try these early: • Numbers from every country written with their country code, and local formats for any of 213 countries you pick. • Postal codes from 88 countries, and calling hours for France, Spain and Australia. • Europe's severe weather warnings through MeteoAlarm, with our thanks to EUMETNET and the 39 national weather services behind it. • Number missing? Point at a number Parse skipped and it tells you why. One click sends us a report with the number's format and area code, never the full number or the page. Also in Parse • Live weather is on for everyone, with 250 weather lookups a day without an account and 1,000 a day with a free Pea account. Local time and calling hours have no daily limit. • Calling hours check: each US number shows ✓ when a sales call is allowed right now and ✗ when it isn't, using the federal 8 AM–9 PM window or the tighter hours in 20 states such as Florida and Texas. Hover the badge for the rule and when it changes. General information, not legal advice. • Badge colors: green when you can call and red when you can't, or a 🟢/🔴 dot instead. • Badges keep the time current in tabs you leave open. Privacy Parse reads pages inside your browser and works out where a number is right there. To look up a place it sends only an area code, a ZIP code, the first three characters of a Canadian postal code or a location rounded to about 1 km for the weather. Names, emails and full phone numbers never leave your browser. Parse is free to install. Add it to Chrome, open any page with a phone number, and the local time is already there. Already using Parse? Chrome updates it on its own and keeps your settings.