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v5.0.4
August 27, 2026
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New1
Improved7
Fixed7
Internal11
Total26

Smarter Scrapes and Precise Billing

This release focuses on internal stability and performance improvements.

Highlights
Flexible sync deadlines

Configure your API calls to remain open until a specific deadline is met. This ensures you get scraped data in the initial response and eliminates unnecessary polling.

Smarter detection system bypasses

Scraping websites with advanced detection systems is now much more stable. The system preserves bypass strategies after resets, preventing unexpected failures on highly secured domains.

Fair billing for failed scrapes

You will no longer be billed for failed scrapes that return terminal HTML error pages. Our platform detects these bad responses early and filters them out before charging your ledger.

New Features

1

Flexible sync deadlines

Configure your API calls to remain open until a specific deadline is met. This ensures you get scraped data in the initial response and eliminates unnecessary polling.

Improvements

7

Smarter detection system bypasses

Scraping websites with advanced detection systems is now much more stable. The system preserves bypass strategies after resets, preventing unexpected failures on highly secured domains.

Passive security widget handling

Scraping pages with passive security widgets is now highly reliable. Our engine accurately distinguishes passive elements from active, blocking challenges to ensure smooth data extraction.

Granular browser error messages

Get detailed, actionable error messages if a browser session fails to launch. The API distinguishes concurrency limits from initialization timeouts so you can optimize scaling.

General bug fixes and improvements

Plus 4 internal improvements for better reliability and performance.

Fail closed production deployment recovery

- normalize container dotenv through a non-evaluating renderer before production shell consumers load it.

Decode quoted production dotenv escapes

Decode valid quoted dotenv escapes exposed by production.

General improvements

This release includes general improvements and maintenance updates.

Bug Fixes

7

Fair billing for failed scrapes

You will no longer be billed for failed scrapes that return terminal HTML error pages. Our platform detects these bad responses early and filters them out before charging your ledger.

Automated ledger reconciliation

Our billing system now automatically reconciles failed jobs against your account ledger. This ensures that any debits for failed jobs or tier upgrades are fully and safely refunded.

Consistent job polling URLs

Every asynchronous scrape now includes a consistent job polling URL in its response. This guarantees seamless tracking for all edge cases, including timeouts and automatic downgrades.

Robust third-party authentication

Enjoy more reliable and secure session persistence across your API integrations. Logging in via third-party one-tap authentication providers is now highly stable across all gateways.

Graceful documentation link redirects

All legacy documentation links have been permanently mapped to their modern canonical routes. You can now navigate reference guides smoothly without encountering broken URLs.

Continuous Task Queue Reliability

We fixed a bug that could cause scraping tasks to permanently stop processing during extended, multi-day operations. Your pipelines will now process high-volume request queues continuously and reliably without unexpected interruptions.

deployment recovery CI contracts

- mark the new command-target deployment tests executable.

Plus 11 internal changes for stability and performance.