Scrapfly Product Release Notes

Scrapium Browser v144 released with HTTP/3, QUIC, and UDP support. This version matches Chromium 144 and introduces next-generation protocol support for enhanced stealth and fingerprint accuracy.

Key improvements:

• HTTP/3 Protocol Support - Modern web protocol over QUIC for improved performance and stealth
• QUIC Transport Layer - Low-latency multiplexed connections with better congestion control
• UDP Proxy Support - Full support for HTTP/3/QUIC/UDP proxy connections

HTTP/3 and QUIC provide significant advantages for web scraping by matching real browser fingerprints more accurately. Modern browsers like Chrome, Firefox, and Safari all support HTTP/3, making it essential for avoiding detection on HTTP/3-enabled websites.

Automatically available on all services - No configuration required:

• Web Scraping API
• Screenshot API
• Crawler API
• Cloud Browser Service

HTTP/3, QUIC, and UDP protocols now automatically enabled. Our infrastructure has been upgraded to support next-generation web protocols for enhanced fingerprint accuracy and stealth.

What's new:

• Curlium HTTP/3 Support - HTTP client library upgraded with HTTP/3, QUIC, and UDP protocol support
• Proxy Network HTTP/3 - Residential, datacenter, and mobile proxies now support HTTP/3/QUIC/UDP
• Automatic Protocol Negotiation - Seamless fallback to HTTP/2 or HTTP/1.1 when needed
• Zero Configuration - Available automatically on Web Scraping API, Screenshot API, Crawler API, and Cloud Browser Service

Why HTTP/3 matters for stealth:

HTTP/3 and QUIC enable better fingerprint matching with real browsers and improved performance through reduced latency and connection overhead. Since HTTP/3 is increasingly adopted by major websites and CDNs, using these protocols helps your requests blend in with legitimate traffic, reducing the risk of detection on websites that analyze protocol-level fingerprints.

All proxy types now support these protocols without any additional configuration.

Python SDK 0.8.24 released.

Update instructions:

• Install specific version: pip install scrapfly-sdk==0.8.24
• Upgrade to latest: pip install --upgrade scrapfly-sdk

View release on GitHub

See the Python SDK documentation

Antibot Detector 2.4 released.

• Fix badge/popup desync - Popup now correctly shows detection results when badge displays count
• Root cause: Badge updates early (in processDetectionData), but cache write happens later (in finalizeDetection)
• Fix: Check badge count and use state.mainData directly without waiting for state.expiry
• Fix "Extension context invalidated" errors - Logger now gracefully handles extension reload
• Fix memory leaks - Clean up finalizationDebounce and batchProcessingFlags Maps on tab close/URL change

The Chrome extension for detecting antibot protection has been updated.

View release on GitHub

See the Antibot Detector documentation

Vision Deficiency Simulation now available for accessibility testing. Capture screenshots that simulate how web pages appear to users with various visual impairments, enabling WCAG, ADA, and Section 508 compliance testing.

Supported vision deficiency types:

• Deuteranopia - Red-green color blindness (green-blind), affects ~6% of males
• Protanopia - Red-green color blindness (red-blind), affects ~2% of males
• Tritanopia - Blue-yellow color blindness
• Achromatopsia - Complete color blindness (monochromacy)
• Blurred Vision - Simulates uncorrected refractive errors

Use the vision_deficiency parameter to test your pages for accessibility compliance.

Learn more about accessibility testing

Screenshot API Visual Player now available. A dedicated interactive playground for the Screenshot API, allowing you to configure, test, and preview screenshot captures directly in your browser.

Key features:

• Live Preview - See screenshot results instantly with full-size image preview
• All Parameters - Configure capture mode (fullpage, viewport, element selector), resolution, format (JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF), and rendering options
• Visual Options - Dark mode, banner blocking, print media format, and image loading controls
• Cost Estimation - Real-time API credit cost estimation with bandwidth warnings
• Code Snippets - Auto-generated code snippets for Python, TypeScript, Go, and cURL
• Webhook Support - Test asynchronous screenshot requests with webhook integration
• Log Replay - Replay previous screenshot requests directly from the monitoring log

Try the Screenshot API Player

Enhanced AI Extraction with Structured Output. Our AI-powered extraction engine has been significantly upgraded to deliver more accurate and reliable structured data.

Key improvements:

• Guaranteed Schema Compliance - Extracted data now strictly adheres to the defined schema structure, eliminating malformed outputs
• Smarter Computed Fields - Enhanced intelligence for derived fields like sentiment analysis, date formatting, and currency normalization
• Automatic Currency Detection - Currency symbols are now automatically converted to ISO3 codes (e.g., $ → USD, € → EUR, £ → GBP)
• Intelligent Date Parsing - Raw dates in any format are automatically normalized to standard YYYY-MM-DD format
• Improved Sentiment Analysis - More accurate sentiment detection with confidence scores for review extraction

These improvements apply to all extraction schemas including Product, Article, Review, Real Estate, Job Posting, and more.

Explore the Extraction API documentation

MCP Server 1.0.9 released.

The Scrapfly MCP (Model Context Protocol) server has been updated.

View release on GitHub

Scrapium Browser v143 released. This version match with Chromium 143 and continue to improve antibot detection and scraping capabilities.

Following services are automatically upgraded:

• Cloud Browser Service
• Web Scraping API
• Screenshot API

Scrapfly MCP Server now available for self-hosting. You can now run the Scrapfly MCP (Model Context Protocol) server on your own infrastructure for enhanced privacy and control.

The self-hosted MCP server provides the same powerful web scraping capabilities through a standardized protocol, allowing seamless integration with AI assistants and automation tools.

Key features:

• Full control over your scraping infrastructure
• Compatible with Claude, GPT, and other MCP-enabled AI assistants
• Easy Docker deployment
• All Scrapfly API features available

View the MCP Server repository on GitHub

Go SDK officially released. Scrapfly now offers a native Go SDK for seamless integration with your Go applications.

The Go SDK provides a clean, idiomatic API for accessing all Scrapfly services including Web Scraping API, Screenshot API, and Extraction API.

Key features:

• Full Web Scraping API support
• Screenshot API integration
• Extraction API support
• Async and concurrent scraping
• Comprehensive error handling
• Well-documented with examples

Install with go get github.com/scrapfly/go-scrapfly

See the Go SDK documentation

Proxified Response now transparently handles CLOB and BLOB content. When using proxified_response=true, large content (over 5MB) that would normally be stored as CLOB (text) or BLOB (binary) is now streamed directly to you without any additional API calls.

Previously, large responses required a separate request to retrieve the content. Now the API automatically streams the content transparently, making integration simpler for large files like PDFs, images, and datasets.

Learn more in the Web Scraping API documentation.

Proxified Response mode available in API Player. Test the proxified_response parameter directly in the dashboard.

Go SDK 0.1.0 released.

Update instructions:

• Install: go get github.com/scrapfly/go-scrapfly@v0.1.0

View release on GitHub

See the Go SDK documentation

Crawler API released in EARLY ACCESS. This powerful API allows you to crawl entire websites with advanced configuration options.

The Crawler API is perfect for discovering and scraping content at scale across multiple pages, with intelligent depth control and filtering capabilities.

Key features:

• Configurable crawl depth and page limits
• URL filtering with include/exclude path patterns
• Automatic sitemap and robots.txt processing
• Multiple content format support (HTML, Markdown, Text, Clean HTML)
• Built-in extraction rules for structured data
• Real-time webhook notifications
• Content caching and TTL configuration
• Batch content retrieval with multipart responses
• Export and import crawler configurations

Discover the Crawler API documentation and start crawling in your dashboard.

Extraction API Player added to Dashboard. Test and debug extraction rules on already-scraped content directly in your browser.

The Extraction API Player is perfect for replaying extraction on cached content, data lake documents, or previously scraped pages without re-scraping the target website.

Key features:

• Test extraction on custom HTML/text content
• Try all extraction methods (AI Model, LLM Prompt, Manual Template)
• Pre-configured examples for quick start
• Live preview of extracted data
• Code snippets in multiple languages
• Load content directly from crawler results
• Export and share extraction configurations

Access the Extraction API Player and learn more in the Extraction API documentation.

Browser Downloads & File Attachments now supported. When Javascript Rendering is enabled, Scrapfly browsers now automatically capture files downloaded during browser interactions.

This powerful feature allows you to retrieve documents, PDFs, spreadsheets, and other file attachments that are triggered by button clicks, form submissions, or other browser interactions.

Downloaded files are automatically captured and stored on Scrapfly's servers, with metadata and download URLs available in the API response under result.browser_data.attachments.

Key features:

• Automatic capture of all browser downloads
• Support for all file types (PDFs, spreadsheets, documents, archives, etc.)
• Authenticated download URLs with API key
• Automatic duplicate filename handling
• Visible in monitoring dashboard Attachments tab

Learn more in the Browser Downloads documentation.

N8N Integration 0.1.7 released.

The Scrapfly nodes for N8N have been updated with new features and improvements.

View release on GitHub

N8N Community Nodes

See the N8N Integration documentation

Scrapium Browser v142 released. This version match with Chromium 142 and continue to improve antibot detection and scraping capabilities.

Following services are automatically upgraded:

• Cloud Browser Service
• Web Scraping API
• Screenshot API

Scrapium Browser v141 released. This version match with Chromium 141 and continue to improve antibot detection and scraping capabilities.

Following services are automatically upgraded:

• Cloud Browser Service
• Web Scraping API
• Screenshot API

Multi factor authentication (MFA) is now available for all users to improve the security of your account. It works for individual and team accounts. You can now enable it from your dashboard security settings.

Scrapium Browser v137 released. This version match with Chromium 137 and continue to improve antibot detection and scraping capabilities.

Following services are automatically upgraded:

• Cloud Browser Service
• Web Scraping API
• Screenshot API

Python SDK 0.8.22 released.

Update instructions:

• Install specific version: pip install scrapfly-sdk==0.8.22
• Upgrade to latest: pip install --upgrade scrapfly-sdk

View release on GitHub

See the Python SDK documentation

Proxy Saver is now available in public beta. Proxy saver allows you to cut cost on proxy provider by reducing the bandwidth usage and leverage distributed http cache, reuse connection and more. (Compatible with any proxy provider on the market and private proxies).

• See the Proxy Saver documentation
• Acces Proxy Saver Dasbhoard

Team feature is now available in the dashboard. You can now invite your team members to collaborate on your projects and configure their access rights.

You can see the documentation, and discover it in your dashboard.

TypeScript SDK 0.6.9 released.

• change Extraction API parameters names to match API parameter names:
• ephemeral_template -> extraction_ehphemeral_template
• template -> extraction_template
• old parameter names are still available with a deprecation warning

Update instructions:

• npm: npm install scrapfly-sdk@0.6.9
• JSR: jsr add @scrapfly/scrapfly-sdk@0.6.9

View release on GitHub

See the TypeScript SDK documentation

Web Scraping API now announce the debug replay url, when you are using the debug parameter in the Web Scraping API, the response will now contain a content_replay_url in context.debug to replay a scrape against the exact same content.

This URL need to be authenticated with the same API key used to perform the scrape.

    context {
      debug: {
        screenshot_url: "https://api.scrapfly.io/11cd6abe-5061-4dce-8d37-5d50e667a071/scrape/screenshot/ee8484c6-ee5f-4775-a665-0a2b57631c1c/debug",
        response_url: "https://api.scrapfly.io/scrape/debug/ee8484c6-ee5f-4775-a665-0a2b57631c1c",
        content_replay_url: "https://api.scrapfly.io/scrape/debug/ee8484c6-ee5f-4775-a665-0a2b57631c1c/replay",
      }
    }

For more information, refer to the Web Scraping API documentation

Screenshot API released. This API allows you to take screenshots of web pages, much simpler than the Web Scraping API and all preset pre configured (Image load, High quality, Rendering wait)

Screenshot API provide some unique features:

• Multiple image format (jpg, png, webp, gif)
• Multiple capture mode (custom viewport, fullpage, vertical, elements)
• Custom resolution
• Caching
• Page options (Dark mode, block banners, block ads, print format)

You can now discover the Screenshot API in the API documentation.

Extraction API released in BETA. This API allows you to extract structured data from web pages. It comes with 3 modes of extraction:

• Custom rules with extraction template: define your own extraction rules, formatters, and filters
• LLM Prompt Extraction: Extract or ask question about the document using our pre-trained LLM model dedicated to web scraping
• Automatic extraction: Choose a model of extraction based on the type of page (product, job, article, etc.) and retrieved the structured data and metadata information to evaluate the quality of the extraction

You can now discover the Extraction API in the API documentation.

Web Scraping API now integrate data extraction from the scraped pages. You refer the documentation of those new parameters:

• extraction_template: Use your own extraction rules
• extraction_prompt: Use LLM prompt to retrieve data
• extraction_model: Use automatic extraction mode

Fixed an issue where the Web Scraping API screenshot return the image with an invalid IANA content type image/jpg instead of image/jpeg

The proxified_response parameter, when using extraction_template or extraction_prompt or extraction_model, now return the content-type of the extracted data instead of the original response content-type.

More information about the proxified_response parameter in the Web Scraping API documentation

The format parameter now accept options to configure the output format of the scraped page.

Markdown format now allow to:

• Disable images no_links and use the alt text instead
• Disable links no_images and use the anchor instead

By using the following notation: markdown:no_links,no_images - {format}:{option1},{optionN}

To lean more about those formats, refer to the Web Scraping API documentation

Python SDK 0.8.17 released. This version introduce the support of:

• Web Scraping API format parameter
• Web Scraping API screenshot_flags parameter

You can now install the new version with pip install scrapfly-sdk==0.8.17 or upgrade with pip install --upgrade scrapfly-sdk

See the Python SDK documentation PyPi package

Javascript SDK 0.5.0 released. This version introduce the support of:

• Web Scraping API format parameter
• Web Scraping API screenshot_flags parameter

You can now install the new version with npm install scrapfly-sdk@0.5.0 or upgrade with npm install scrapfly-sdk@latest

See the Javascript SDK documentation NPM package

Scrapfly has now official integration with LlamaIndex to help you to extract data.

See LLama index documentation

Scrapfly has now official integration with LangChain to help you to extract data.

See LangChain documentation

Introduce a new parameter format to the Web Scraping API to allow you to convert the scraped page to a specific format. With the rise of LLM usage, you can now convert into friendly LLM format and more.

You can now convert the scraped page to:

• markdown
• text
• json (auto parse)
• clean_html

If you are using proxified_response to directly retrieve the content, the announced content-type will follow the format you choose.

To lean more about those formats, refer to the Web Scraping API documentation

You can now pass flags to configure screenshot options directly from the Web Scraping API.

Available flags:

• load_images
• dark_mode
• block_banners
• high_quality
• print_media_format

To lean more about those flags, refer to the Web Scraping API documentation