Smarter Request Routing and Scraping Reliability
This release introduces intelligent per-IP rate limiting and geographic targeting to significantly boost scrape success rates on highly-protected websites. We have also added native PDF URL support, hardened our automated billing protection to exclude firewalled pages, and optimized dashboard authorization to resolve billing summary access issues.
You can now scale high-concurrency scraping without triggering rate limits on target domains. The API automatically regulates request velocity based on target domains and exit IP addresses to avoid blocks.
You can now leverage automated location-specific cookies for search engine scraping. This ensures regional ads and localized content are correctly retrieved and rendered based on your target country.
We have hardened our systems to automatically identify block pages and firewalls. If a target website blocks your request, AlterLab correctly identifies the block and prevents you from being billed.
New Features
3Smart Per-IP Admission Control
You can now scale high-concurrency scraping without triggering rate limits on target domains. The API automatically regulates request velocity based on target domains and exit IP addresses to avoid blocks.
Enhanced SERP Geo-Targeting
You can now leverage automated location-specific cookies for search engine scraping. This ensures regional ads and localized content are correctly retrieved and rendered based on your target country.
Seamless PDF Scrape Support
The scraping engine can now directly navigate to and extract text from PDF URLs. Automated browser sessions will no longer fail on automatic download triggers, returning full document content seamlessly.
Improvements
2Fairer Billing Detection Gate
We have hardened our systems to automatically identify block pages and firewalls. If a target website blocks your request, AlterLab correctly identifies the block and prevents you from being billed.
General bug fixes and improvements
Plus 46 internal improvements for better reliability and performance.
Bug Fixes
3Bulk Results Tracking
Fixed an issue where bulk-submitted jobs occasionally returned empty results due to missing reference records. All bulk tasks now write and retrieve execution history accurately for reliable delivery.
Billing Summary Authorization
Resolved credential authorization errors on the developer dashboard. Users can now view their billing summary and usage metrics on the billing tab without experiencing unexpected connection issues.
Media Asset Quality Gates
Fixed a bug where media assets, CDN URLs, and small-business pages failed content validation. Thresholds have been optimized to ensure thin but valid target pages are successfully returned.
Security
1Secure Newsletter Management
We have added rate-limiting controls to all email endpoints and introduced a secure double opt-in flow for newsletter signups. This hardens our newsletter management system against automated spam.
Plus 46 internal changes for stability and performance.