Automated CAPTCHA Solving and Smarter Routing
This release introduces fully automated CAPTCHA solving for popular verification challenges, alongside smart endpoint discovery to fetch raw structured data directly when standard page extraction fails. We have also optimized connection routing for server-rendered domains to eliminate latency and added typed exception classes to the Python SDK for more robust error handling.
Earn recurring commissions by promoting AlterLab through our new dashboard interface. You can now track referrals, view your payment history, and build promotional links directly in one place.
Invite fellow developers to try our platform and get rewarded. Both you and the referred user will receive $0.50 in free API credits once their new account is successfully created.
The scraper now automatically queries alternative structured endpoints (like WordPress REST or GraphQL) when HTML extraction fails. This fetches structured data directly, avoiding slow browser rendering.
New Features
5Affiliate Partner Program
Earn recurring commissions by promoting AlterLab through our new dashboard interface. You can now track referrals, view your payment history, and build promotional links directly in one place.
User-to-User Credit Sharing
Invite fellow developers to try our platform and get rewarded. Both you and the referred user will receive $0.50 in free API credits once their new account is successfully created.
Direct API and Endpoint Discovery
The scraper now automatically queries alternative structured endpoints (like WordPress REST or GraphQL) when HTML extraction fails. This fetches structured data directly, avoiding slow browser rendering.
Automated CAPTCHA Solving
We have introduced fully automated solving for pages protected by reCAPTCHA and hCaptcha. The platform dynamically extracts site keys, solves the challenges, and returns the protected content.
Enhanced Client-Side Data Extraction
The platform now securely evaluates inline scripts to capture dynamic client-side application states from server-rendered pages. This allows you to retrieve fully computed data structures.
Improvements
9Enhanced SDK Compatibility
Easily migrate your existing pipelines to AlterLab with zero code changes. We now support drop-in SDK compatibility with other popular scraping tools, complete with quick-start guides.
AI Agent Optimization
We optimized our llms.txt and OpenAPI schema specifically for AI grounding. Large language models can now reason about, integrate, and call our API with higher success rates.
Frictionless Key Onboarding
Generate and test your credentials faster than ever. When you create an API key in our onboarding modal, a silent background scraping demo is initiated so you can inspect live data immediately.
General bug fixes and improvements
Plus 27 internal improvements for better reliability and performance.
Proactive Routing for Faster Scrapes
For proven server-side rendered targets, requests are routed directly to the optimal execution layer. This completely bypasses initial probe latency, saving up to 5 seconds per request.
Hardened Injection Timing for Solvers
We updated the challenge solver initialization sequence to strictly attach before target scripts run. This eliminates race conditions and ensures browser overrides are fully applied.
Direct Billing Links in Error Responses
A direct billing link is now included in all HTTP 402 responses. This allows developers to quickly access the payment page and resolve balance limits directly from their error logs.
Automatic Fallback for SSL Issues
Modified routing to automatically attempt browser-based rendering when targets have incomplete SSL chains. Rather than failing, the system attempts alternative secure retrieval paths.
Enhanced enhanced mode Alignment
Aligned browser user-agent headers with network signatures to match standard browser updates. This reduces detection rates on targets that verify version consistency across connections.
Bug Fixes
10Automatic Challenge Escalation
Our request routing now detects empty shells or verification screens returned by target site protection systems. The API automatically escalates and retries the request to ensure success.
Reliable E-Commerce Scraping
We improved simulated browser behavior on major localized online storefronts. Sessions now reliably execute human-like cues to bypass blocks and increase success rates.
Dashboard Data Retention
Your dashboard now falls back to displaying the target domain name for historical scraping jobs. This preserves high-level URL visibility in your history even after underlying payload data is cleared.
Ticket List Crash Fixed
Fixed a backend query constraint error that caused the support tickets list to crash for any accounts that had multiple active tickets. Users can now view their full support history without issues.
Safe Commission Tracking
Introduced database-level safeguards to eliminate double-counting on affiliate commission records. This ensures that brief network retries from payment processors are safely ignored.
filter is_public on template slug lookup in scrape endpoint
The \ parameter in the unified scrape endpoint looked up templates by slug without filtering on \.
guard legacy payment affiliate commission behind grant_credits result
Guards affiliate commission in the legacy one-time payment path behind the success result, preventing affiliates from earning commission when credits were never actually granted.
Accurate Job Status Tracking
Fixed an issue where jobs interrupted by crawler restarts could remain pending indefinitely. Interrupted job states are now fully synchronized, ensuring you receive clear failure reasons.
Clearer Crawler Error Messages
Crawl-related validation failures are now parsed into human-readable error messages. This prevents raw, nested response structures from causing interface rendering crashes.
Reliable Challenge Solver Execution
Fixed connection edge cases in the challenge solver that could cause premature aborts. The solver now reliably triggers browser-level fallbacks whenever verification challenges arise.
Security
2Protected Demo Pages
Secured our specialized B2B demo environments behind secure session gates. These pages now require active user authentication to prevent unauthorized public access or relationship exposure.
Billing Information Exposure Prevention
We hardened search endpoint error handling to prevent the exposure of account balance details in standard error responses. Failed transactions now return clean, generic responses.
Plus 65 internal changes for stability and performance.