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v2.18.0
February 8, 2026
Minor release
In this release
New4
Improved1
Fixed2
Internal34
Total41

Protected Site Support & Scraping Speed

Major scraping improvements including better compatibility with protected sites, new extraction capabilities for major e-commerce and social platforms, and a new lightweight browser scraping mode.

Highlights
Improved Protected Site Compatibility

Added TLS fingerprint impersonation to significantly improve success rates on sites with advanced bot protection. Many previously difficult sites now return content on the first attempt.

New Lightweight Browser Scraping Mode

Introduced a fast API-replay scraping mode that captures and replays browser network requests, delivering browser-level accuracy at HTTP-level speed.

Scraping Performance Boost

Applied 14 performance optimizations across the scraping pipeline, resulting in faster response times especially for browser-based scrapes.

New Features

4

Improved Protected Site Compatibility

Added TLS fingerprint impersonation to significantly improve success rates on sites with advanced bot protection. Many previously difficult sites now return content on the first attempt.

New Lightweight Browser Scraping Mode

Introduced a fast API-replay scraping mode that captures and replays browser network requests, delivering browser-level accuracy at HTTP-level speed.

E-Commerce Extraction Improvements

Improved product data extraction for major e-commerce platforms, with better metadata parsing and support for client-side rendered product pages.

Social Media Profile Scraping

Added support for scraping social media profile data through dedicated API integrations, bypassing common anti-bot protections.

Improvements

1

Scraping Performance Boost

Applied 14 performance optimizations across the scraping pipeline, resulting in faster response times especially for browser-based scrapes.

Bug Fixes

2

Playground Code Copy Fix

You can now copy code examples from the playground without needing to be logged in.

2FA Email Delivery Fix

Fixed a bug where two-factor verification codes were not being sent via email during account actions.

Plus 34 internal changes for stability and performance.