Changelog
We’re constantly improving the platform. See here notable changes in our lineup of products & improvements over the time.
February 2023
- Browserless v9.9: Upgraded to Lighthouse v10.
January 2023
- Metascraper: Crossed 2,000 stars on GitHub.
- Metascraper v5.33.7: Improved YouTube integration.
December 2022
- Microlink: Added logo page.
- Metascraper v5.33: Improved Twitter integration.
- Metascraper v5.32.4: Improved Spotify integration.
November 2022
- Microlink MQL: Added nested selectorAll support.
- Microlink API: Improved logo detection.
- Microlink OSS: Released nanoclamp2.0
- Microlink MQL: Added ESM bundle and demosite.
October 2022
- Microlink: Improved website accessibility.
- Microlink: Added formats-supported benchmarking page.
September 2022
- Microlink API: Added function query parameter.
- Microlink API: Improved file detection.
August 2022
- Microlink Recipes: Added youtube-dl recipe.
- Microlink API: Added integrity verification for assets.
- Microlink: Released Microlink Edge Proxy.
- Microlink API: Added countryCode support.
- Browserless v9.6: Improved evasion techniques.
- Microlink Cards: Addedworkos-docspreset.
July 2022
- Microlink: Released geolocation.microlink.io.
- Microlink API: Implemented Server-Timingresponse header.
- Metascraper v5.30.0: Added data URI detection for web app manifests.
June 2022
- Microlink API: The query parameters removeandhidehas been removed; use styles instead.
- Microlink API: All DNS queries are now resolved via DNS-over-HTTPS.
- Browserless v9.4: Better management for killing browser process groups.
May 2022
- Microlink API: Rewrite relative non root URLs into absolutes.
- Microlink Cards: Addedworkospreset.
- Microlink Cards: Addedworkos-changelogpreset.
April 2022
- Metascraper v5.29.0: Added support for graph detection for JSON+LD markup.
- Browserless v9.3.14: Performance improvements for spawning & kill a process group.
March 2022
- Microlink API: Improved palette detection for more image formats, such as ICO, BMP, HEIC, PSD.
- Metascraper v5.28.0: Fallbacking favicon detection to root domain in case URL provided is a subdomain.
- Metascraper v5.27.0: General performance improvements dealing with network calls.
- Microlink Cards: Addedsaraostechpreset.
February 2022
- Microlink Cards: Addeddashboardpreset.
- Microlink Cards: Addedgithub-orgpreset.
- Microlink Cards: Addedjust-javascriptpreset.
January 2022
- unavatar.ioCrossed 50 millions requests per month.
- Microlink Cards: Addedgithub-repopreset.
- Microlink Cards: Addedaccesibilitypreset.
- Microlink Cards: Addedmikesanromanpreset.
- Microlink Cards: Addednetlifypreset.
- Microlink Cards: Addeddraculashoppreset.
- Microlink Cards: Addedapplepreset.
- Microlink Cards: Addedthebootstrappedfounderpreset.
December 2021
- Microlink OSS: Released ffprobe.
November 2021
- unavatar.ioCrossed 30 millions requests per month
- Microlink API: Added iframe Twitter player detection.
- Microlink Functions: Added HTML markup of the target website as function parameter.
- Microlink Recipes: Added healthcheck recipe.
- Microlink API: Added filename query parameter.
- Microlink: Revamped recipes.
- Microlink API: Added BMP, WebP & AVIF support for palette.
- Microlink: Special thanks to Haaris Bfor improving service security.
- Browserless v9.3.0: Upgraded to Lighthouse v9.
October 2021
- Metascraper v5.25.0: Improved highest resolution logo detection and PWA manifest integration.
- Microlink Recipes: Added emails recipe.
- Microlink MQL: Added email as type.
- Microlink API: Special thanks to Daniel Wangfor improving service security.
- Microlink API: Added efatalclientandeforbiddenurlerror codes.
September 2021
- Microlink API: Added preset support for lighthouse.
- Microlink Cards: Addeddraculapreset.
- Microlink Recipes: Added excerption recipe.
- Microlink API: Improved evaluate performance.
- Keyv: Released@keyvhq/multi
- Keyv: Released@keyvhq/offline
- Keyv: Released@keyvhq/compress
- Keyv: Released@keyvhq/memoize
August 2021
- unavatar.iocrossed 20 millions requests per month
- Microlink OSS: Released metatags.
- Microlink API: Added staleTtl query parameter.
July 2021
- Microlink OSS: Sponsored unavatar.io.
- Microlink Recipes: Added Instagram recipe.
- Microlink Recipes: Added Telegram recipe.
- Microlink Recipes: Added Reddit recipe.
- Microlink OSS Released keyv.js.org.
- Metascraper v5.22.0: Added more heuristic cases for logo detection.
- Microlink Proxy: Added Wallmart URLs support.
June 2021
- Microlink: Added Microlink Enterprise plan.
- Browserless v9: Official release.
- Microlink Blog: Added Microlink Proxy post.
- Metascraper v5.22.0: Added Instagram integration.
May 2021
- Microlink OSS Added spotify-url-info.
- Browserless v9 beta: A total rework improving how Chromium's process are managed.
- Microlink Function: Added moreallowedNPM packages.
- Microlink Cluster: Improve stability, better k8s autoscaling setup.
April 2021
- Microlink API: Added better default fonts and improved font rendering.
- Microlink CLI: Released v2.0.0.
- Microlink Function: Released@microlink/localfor running them locally.
March 2021
- Microlink API: The query parameter ping now accepts an object interface.
- Microlink Recipes: Added CodePen recipe.
- Microlink Cards: Addedrichhainesandm1guelpfpresets.
February 2021
- Microlink Cards: Addedmetapreset.
- Microlink API: The service now relies on CloudFlare DNSfor domain resolution.
- Microlink OSS: Created youtube-dl-execrepository.
January 2021
- Microlink Cards: Addedconference,frameandtwitterpresets.
- Metascraper v5.16.17: Improved audio detection from HTML and JSON+LD markup.
- Metascraper v5.16.9: Improved description casuistic detection.
- Browserless v8.7.0: Upgraded to Lighthouse v7.
- Browserless v8.6.0: Ensure to wait images on viewport before taking a screenshot.
December 2020
- Microlink API: The query parameter meta will return
headersandstatusCodeas part of the response payload. - Microlink Cluster: The infrastructure has been upgraded from Redis v5 to Redis v6 using a master + slave + sentinel cluster.
November 2020
- Metascraper v5.15: Improved Telegram integration.
- Microlink API: Added evaluate data extractor.
- Microlink API: Added retry query parameter.
- Microlink Cluster: Upgraded to Node.js 14 LTS.
October 2020
- Microlink: Refreshed pricingplans with inclusive VAT.
- Microlink Cluster is now using high availability Redis instances with automatic failover.
September 2020
- Microlink Cluster Setup TLSversion for
*.microlink.iois nowTLS 1.2. - Microlink API: Deprecate
waitFor, use waitForSelector or waitForTimeout instead.
August 2020
- Microlink: Refreshed website design.
- Metascraper v5.14.0: Improved Spotify integration.
July 2020
- Microlink: Launched Microlink Changelog.
- Microlink: Launched Microlink Recipes.
- Browserless v8: Official release.
June 2020
- Microlink: Launched Microlink OSS.
- Microlink SDK Added CSS variables support.