Google Gemini URL Context

Metadata

• Author: Simon Willison’s Weblog
• Full Title: Google Gemini URL Context
• URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/18/google-gemini-url-context/#atom-everything

Highlights

• Google Gemini URL Context (via) New feature in the Gemini API: you can now enable a url_context tool which the models can use to request the contents of URLs as part of replying to a prompt. I released llm-gemini 0.25 with a new -o url_context 1 option adding support for this feature. You can try it out like this: (View Highlight)