Here you can track all the changes made on Agenty products, API, open-source libraries, terms and more. You may signup to get the latest news in your inbox, every month or watch this page for list of change logs.
Accept cookie consent automatically
We’ve added a new feature in scraping, web crawling agent to accept cookie consent automatically when visiting a website first time.
For example, if there are any modal open with an active button like “Accept cookie”, “Allow cookie” or “Accept all cookies” etc. Agenty will automatically click on that button to accept and continue to access the webpage for better screenshots, native crawling and looks like as human.
This is turned on by default on all agents. If you want to change the default settings, you can turn it on/off from here -
Your agent > configuration > browser settings
Improved webhook and MongoDB integration
We’ve re-written our webhook and MongoDB integration to auto-transfer the web scraping data to your API or mongo collection automatically.
The data will be partitioned into smaller batches for large volumes. For example, if you have a web scraping agent with 100k output rows.
Agenty will send 100 webhook request to your API, when batch size is set to: 1000 to POST 1000 rows on each request.
Full page screenshots
We’ve improved the scraping agent to capture full page screenshot/HD screenshot for website debugging or general business requirement to capture websites screenshot.
To capture a URL screenshot, add a default field and select full_screenshot
from system fields.
Chrome extension v2.9.4
We’ve released the new version of Agenty’s Chrome extension for web scraping with improved user experience and upgrade to chrome manifest v3 for better performance and speed.
- New draft mode feature to automatically keep the un-saved version of scraping agent to avoid erasing all the fields and selectors on webpage refresh accidentally.
- Re-designed login flow to ask for login only on save, preview result etc. to improve the testability for customers trying the extension without an Agenty account.
- Improved UI, buttons and modals.
Here you can track all the changes made on Agenty products, API, open-source libraries, terms and more. You may signup to get the latest news in your inbox, every month or watch this page for list of change logs.
February 2022
January 2022
- Launched Agenty 2.0 - Scalable, 2x faster and more secure. See all changes here
April 2021
- Change in Shopify integration to upload product variants with fields like
option1
,option2
to match with Shopify import/export wizard
January 2021
- New: Added
agent_name
property in change detection agent actions - wehook, slack and all - Logs: Logs level changed to
WARN
when retrying for errors, insteadTRACE
- Logs: Changed browser.agenty.com to print error message when retrying instead only statusCode
- Fix : Fixed crawling agent to match
content-type
header withmimetypes
with/without charset encoding as well. For examplemimetypes":["text/html"]
will be considered as a match withcontent-type : text/html; charset=utf-8
December 2020
- New filter and Download options on
/jobs
page - New pin to dashboard option to pin agents on dashboard
November 2020
We’ve released many new features in Change Detection agent, here is the list or see this YouTube video here:
- Better result view - Now you can see the Checks history as well the Changes history report on result tab.
- Download data - The download data as CSV feature is available now to download the full change detection report as CSV.
- Screenshot attachment - New screenshot attachment option to attach original and changes screenshot on email attachment to easily compare and find what has been changed.
- Error alerts - Get an email alert when agent error/website timeout / 404 etc.
- Screenshot options - Screenshot options are available now to capture
element
,full_page
orhalf_page
screenshot. See docs - Actions - New action feature to trigger selected actions. For example, you can use a Slack action to get your change reports on
slack
or a POST onwebhook
or even start other agents conditionally when change detected.
October 2020
- Shopify plugin update : New profit option to add margin dynamically and rounds up options for price rounding See docs
September 2020
- Shopify plugin upgrade - Now you can upload variants, quantity to better sync product variants as well on your shopify store. See docs
June 2020
- New screen capture command in scraping agent under login/form submit to capture screenshot for better debugging and trouble-shooting.
- Fixed fatal error in OCR agent for 0 byte images.
May 2020
- Fixed request object not shown in browser.agenty.com while editing the agent
- New request JSON validation to show quick errors for invalid JSON.
April 2020
- New Puppeteer API for RPA, Browser as service and web scraping
- Puppeteer integration with scraping agent.
- Vertical tabs for agent editor in all existing agent types.
March 2020
- List upload size extended to 25mb
- Change in dashboard to show top 10 agents only in “pages used by agents” chart
- New fail-retry rules option in scraping agent to define rule to tell the agent, when it should retry the requests.
- COVID-19 Resources - New COVID-19 related API and web scraping agents
February 2020
- New feature - Logs view in change detection agent
- New coupons feature - See how to apply coupons here
January 2020
- New product: Sentiment analysis agent
- New product: Machine translation agent
- New gzip data download option in all agents to download agent result as compressed gzip file.
- Change subscription plan, frequency, cancel option for card-based subscription
- New public data sets with 100 of agents created by Agenty community to re-use and share data across customers.
-
Algolia integration improvement - New
object_id
,clear_index
option to upsert documents and clear index when needed.
See complete details here
December 2019
- New product: Change detection agent to track website changes and get alert on email.
- New: Released Chrome Extension 2.9.0
- New: CRON and interval scheduler
See complete details here
November 2019
- Released Chrome extension 2.8.6 with following changes
- Load my agents and edit in Chrome extension
- Auto select elements and generate matching result for all fields while editing the agent.
- Update agents after making changes
- Bug fix for svg elements to avoid exception
- New feature to create multiple collections, preview all collections result and download in extension itself.
- New: FireStore plugin to send Agenty result to Google FireStore NoSQL database
- New: Change history option in agents to track the changes in agent configuration and restore if needed (Available in Business and higher plans only)
October 2019
- New: Proxy and country selection settings to allow customers to define what proxy should be used in their web scraping agent.
- New:
Count
option in scraping agent to get the number of matching recoreds. - New: Full screen view of agents result
August 2019
- New: Capture screenshot with web scraping
- New: Download images, pdf or files with web scraping to your S3 bucket
- New: SFTP integration to allow automatic file transfer to SFTP
- Change: Increased total agents credit by 3x in all plans. Now, you have to 10 agents in Basic plan, 100 in Professional plan, and 250 agents in Business plan
July 2019
- New: Infinite scrolling feature in web scraping agent
- New: Load more pagination feature in web scraping agent
- New: JavaScript injection feature in web scraping agent for scrolling, next click, or to fire any event after page load and before scraping
- Change in Insert, Append post-processing functions to execute only when cell value is not blank.
- Language detection improvement in scraping agent to scrape Japanese websites
June 2019
- Shopify Integration- Scrape products from supplier sites and upload to your Shopify store, update prices, images and more automatically.
- Algolia Integration- Crawl your website and add, update agent result to your search indices on Algolia.
- MongoDB Integration- Import the agent result to your MongoDB NoSQL database collection.
- Amazon S3 Integration- Upload the agent result CSV file to your Amazon S3 Bucket on selected region.
- Dropbox Integration- Upload the agent result CSV file on your Dropbox account.
- Affiliate program - Our affiliate program is live now, now you can earn a 30% commission on every client you refer to Agenty
May 2019
- Integrated Stripe on pricing page to accept credit card payments
- A replication of Agenty scripting library in
C#
has been published on Github. This open-source.NET
package can be used to test and debug pre-processing and post-processing scripts locally. See the code on Github or install from Nuget - New solutions page is available with many use cases, Agenty is used in businesses.
- Improved OCR quality for pdfs
- Webhook integration improvement and documentation
April 2019
- Integrated Stripe on pricing page to accept credit card payments
- A replication of Agenty scripting library in
C#
has been published on Github. This open-source.NET
package can be used to test and debug pre-processing and post-processing scripts locally. See the code on Github or install from Nuget - New solutions page is available with many use cases, Agenty is used in businesses.
- Improved OCR quality for pdfs
- Webhook integration improvement and documentation
March 2019
- Scraping Agent - Many improvement in default scraping engine with realistic fingerprints, performance, speed and anonymous that make the web scraper difficult to detect. And 2 more new engines for super-fast web scraping.
- OCR Agent (new product)
- Textract Agent (new product)
- Barcode Recognition Agent (new product)
- Real-time progress tracking of jobs
- Buckets - New feature to upload documents
- Custom Roles - New feature to create custom roles and permission for team members
- Wait after page load - New feature in scraping agent to wait for selector or fixed time before scraping data.
- Changes in API authentication -
apikey
query parameter should be used insteadkey
- Changes in start job using API - The
async
route should be used to start jobs in cloud - Lower case attributes - All the attributes in API, Webhook, Plugins etc are set to
lowercase
as standard. - Triggers are now plugins - The trigger feature has been renamed as plugins.
- Improvement in scheduler UI - The scheduler UI now show the schedule to edit and also the CRON expression
- Changes in pricing plan - The $49 plan has been removed and added new $249 plan for businesses looking on the requests for high pages credit, and the professional plan now has 75k pages credit and 40 agents. Also note that, there are no change in pricing for existing customers.