Request Time Budgets, Faster Failure Detection, and Geo Expansion
This release introduces fine-grained request deadline control, smarter failure detection for unreachable sites, and major geographic expansion. We also improved volume bonus clarity in the deposit flow, launched a new social media data landing page, and delivered targeted code examples across key documentation pages.
You can now set a `time_budget` parameter (5–300 seconds) to enforce a hard wall-clock deadline for your scraping requests. This caps worst-case latency across all escalation tiers, giving you predictable completion times for time-sensitive workflows.
The API now proactively classifies domains with a consistent failure history and returns an immediate error instead of waiting through the full retry sequence. This reduces wasted time and credits on sites that are known to be unreachable.
Deposit pack buttons now display the full dollar total you will receive after the bonus is applied — for example, "$50 → $55.00" — so you can see exactly what you get before confirming.
New Features
5Request time budget
You can now set a `time_budget` parameter (5–300 seconds) to enforce a hard wall-clock deadline for your scraping requests. This caps worst-case latency across all escalation tiers, giving you predictable completion times for time-sensitive workflows.
Faster failure detection for unreachable sites
The API now proactively classifies domains with a consistent failure history and returns an immediate error instead of waiting through the full retry sequence. This reduces wasted time and credits on sites that are known to be unreachable.
Volume bonus visibility in deposit flow
Deposit pack buttons now display the full dollar total you will receive after the bonus is applied — for example, "$50 → $55.00" — so you can see exactly what you get before confirming.
Social media data use-case page
We launched a dedicated landing page covering social media data collection use cases, including profile scraping, trend monitoring, and platform analytics workflows.
Targeted code examples on key documentation pages
The five most-visited documentation pages now feature inline, context-specific code samples tailored to the topic at hand. This makes it faster to go from reading to integrating without switching tabs.
Improvements
4Expanded Global Geographic Targeting
You can now target 119 additional countries for localized scraping, bringing our total supported regions to 152. This ensures precise geographic routing for your requests and eliminates unexpected regional fallbacks.
Optimized Initial Request Latency
We improved the speed of the very first request made to domains with custom difficulty settings. This optimization reduces round-trip times on startup, ensuring consistent performance for your scraping tasks from the very first call.
Enhanced billing confirmation receipts
Every deposit confirmation now includes a professional invoice PDF and clear paths for technical support. This update streamlines your accounting workflows and ensures you have immediate assistance for any billing inquiries.
General bug fixes and improvements
Plus 28 improvements for better reliability and performance.
Bug Fixes
7Accessible deposit pack buttons
Deposit pack buttons now include complete accessibility labels that announce the bonus percentage, exact dollar total, and any promotional badge. This improves screen reader compatibility and ensures all users have the same clarity when selecting a pack.
Corrected Comparison Pricing Displays
The savings indicators on comparison pages now correctly handle non-positive values to ensure clear pricing transparency. This update prevents misleading percentage calculations from appearing in your dashboard.
Improved Billing Email Formatting
Account balance notifications now consistently display totals with two-decimal precision for better readability. This ensures your final balance alerts are concise and follow standard currency formatting.
Improved OpenAPI enum documentation
Domain difficulty override fields in the API spec now correctly expose their valid enum values instead of a generic string type. This makes client SDK generation and interactive documentation more accurate.
Increased depth crawl stability
We improved how our crawling engine processes varied content types to prevent unexpected failures during deep site analysis. This fix ensures your data extraction remains consistent across a broader range of web page structures.
Enhanced Service Reliability
We resolved a connectivity issue affecting our processing nodes to ensure consistent service availability. Your scraping jobs will now experience higher uptime and fewer interruptions during peak usage periods.
Resilient Search Result Processing
We fixed an error that could occur when the API encountered specific types of web content during data extraction. This update ensures your integrations remain stable even when processing unexpected data formats.
Plus 28 internal changes for stability and performance.