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The context:udm parameter can now be added to scraping requests, allowing you to specify and switch between Google SERP tabs, such as Images, Places, or Videos. This parameter tailors the type of results retrieved to match your specified tab, refining the search to suit your requirements.

We’ve refined positional scoring for the AI Overviews feature to ensure consistency with other SERP features. The pos_overall value now accurately represents the position of the AI Overviews result among all available Google SERP results.

New positional scoring for AI Overviews in SERP results

We’ve developed improved parsers for Walmart product and search pages, offering better-structured data and more points. To use them, set the parser_type to walmart_product_new or walmart_search_new.

Starting November 18th, these parsers will be the default for requests with parse: true, and the old versions will no longer be supported.

Streamline your projects with our new open source tools, designed for the developer community to use and adapt freely. 

Meet OxyCopilot, the first AI-powered assistant that generates code for scraping and parsing requests, using advanced LLMs to tackle complex patterns. Access it via the Scraper API Playground, enter a prompt, and get ready-to-use code in seconds.

Our Web Scraper API now combines three products into one, offering a unified solution for web data collection. From crawling to delivering structured data to your cloud, it ensures precise, reliable results for scraping search engines, e-commerce, and more. All plans are now 30% more affordable, with more targets and advanced features.

You can now choose your preferred product billing type - Datacenter Proxies per IP or per traffic. Starting from $0.65/GB or $1.20 /IP. 

Built to provide superior performance, bypassing toughest targets with unlimited-duration sessions. Pricing: from $2.10/IP. Best for: Ad verification, Cybersecurity, Market research

These sources have been decommissioned: baidu, baidu_search, yandex, yandex_search, wayfair, and wayfair_search. Now, please use the universal source for scraping Yandex and Baidu, or the universal_ecommerce source for Wayfair.

Scraper APIs now support submitting up to 5,000 query or URL parameter values within a single batch request, an increase from the previous limit of 1,000.

Our Web Unblocker and Scraper APIs now maximize website unblocking efficiency by using exclusively our team's predefined cookies. This update ensures improved results, offering the flexibility to include custom cookies alongside our predefined set if necessary. Explore further details in our documentation:  Web Unblocker, Scraper APIs.

Dedicated Datacenter Proxies now support SOCKS5 protocol - both TCP and UDP connections. Enjoy enhanced flexibility and security in your proxy usage.

Dedicated Datacenter Proxies now support SOCKS5 

Get all three output types from a single scraping job – HTML, Parsed JSON, PNG (rendered page screenshot). Learn more in our documentation: Realtime and Push-Pull.

You can now purchase Dedicated Datacenter Proxies starting from just $8.25/month. Fully customize your IP list with various countries - all done in a user-friendly Oxylabs dashboard.

Dedicated Datacenter Proxies: new pricing plan

Now our SERP Scraper API streamlines the process of scraping Google Lens data, making it easier to extract valuable insights from the search results and product pages across various E-commerce sites.

Explore improved statistics for Residential Proxies and Mobile Proxies on Oxylabs dashboard. Customize your data view by target or country, and experience quick load times with access to historical data for up to 90 days.

Advanced Residential and Mobile Proxies statistics

We’ve introduced continent targeting to give you more control over localization. This upgrade is available for Residential Proxies, Mobile Proxies, and Rotating ISP Proxies.

We have renamed the google_hotels source to google_maps. This source is designed to retrieve Google Local search results. It scrapes various location-based data, such as restaurants, hotels, coffee shops, gas stations, grocery stores, and more. Going forward, please utilize the google_maps source for your scraping tasks.

Invite team members to join your dashboard, granting them full access to its features, except for subscription and team management. See how it works in this video.

We've introduced data dictionaries for Google services such as Web Search, Image Search, News Search, and Reverse Image Search. These dictionaries include brief description, screenshot, parsed JSON code snippet, and a table defining each parsed field to help you understand the data better. Explore these resources in the sub-pages of our Google documentation.

Replace all your Dedicated Datacenter Proxies IPs in a couple of clicks on the Oxylabs dashboard for a one-time fee of 10% of your monthly subscription. Follow a step-by-step video on how to do it.

Dedicated Datacenter Proxies - replace all IPs

Add or remove countries, and re-allocate your Dedicated Datacenter IPs per country on the Oxylabs dashboard. Do it for a one-time fee of 10% of your monthly subscription or for free, when upgrading the plan.

Dedicated Datacenter Proxies - change IP locations 

Introducing an integration of browsing instructions with our existing JavaScript rendering capability, forming the ultimate Headless Browser feature for Web Unblocker and Scraper APIs.

Use ip.oxylabs.io/location to check the parameters of your IPs - this domain delivers information from four geolocation databases: MaxMind, IP2Location, DB-IP, and IPinfo.io.

Web Unblocker and Scraper APIs maximize website unblocking efficiency by utilizing predefined headers, therefore our system automatically filters out client-sent headers to enhance success rates.

Purchase Dedicated Datacenter Proxies directly from Oxylabs' dashboard, bundling dedicated IPs from 7 countries with no bandwidth limitations.

Dedicated Datacenter Proxies available on self-service

You can now create usage limit rules for Residential, Mobile, and Shared Datacenter proxy users directly from the dashboard. This empowers our clients to take control of their spending by setting daily, monthly, or lifetime limits.

Select IPs in the exact location based on just a few simple parameters - latitude, longitude, and radius. With this feature, you can obtain IPs from a particular area at no extra cost.

Our SERP Scraper API has been enhanced! You can now access AI Bing search results by adding a "render": "html" parameter.

Bing search generative AI result scraping

Refine Mobile proxies targeting with a city or state parameter for more accurate results.

City and state targeting for Mobile Proxies

Introducing Datasets - get collections of fresh, ready-to-use data that streamline the entire data acquisition process and let you focus on data analysis rather than data gathering.

Explore our new, user-friendly dashboard interface for a more intuitive experience. Check out a short walkthrough video that guides you through all the updates.

You can add your own notes while submitting a job! This enables you to pass your internal reference IDs when submitting jobs and view the same reference IDs in the output.

We're introducing an exclusive dashboard feature that offers a firsthand encounter with our Scraper APIs. Input your target URL, customize parameters, and watch results unfold.

Scraper APIs Playground in Oxylabs Dashboard

SERP Scraper API's continuous scroll FREE feature handles layouts automatically, ensuring the requested amount of organic results is loaded and scraped.

Handling Google Search continuous scroll with SERP Scraper API

No more limitations when it comes to data parsing! Define your parsing logic with XPath and CSS selectors to extract only the data your company needs from any website.

The endpoint generator is now available for Mobile Proxies, making it easy to integrate your proxies. Select location and session type parameters and export the list of endpoints in CSV, JSON, or TXT formats. For more information, check our documentation.

Residential and Mobile proxies now support HTTPS and SOCKS5 protocols. Learn how to set up Residential Proxies or Mobile Proxies for your specific needs.

HTTPS and SOCKS5 support for Residential and Mobile Proxies

Proxy coordinates can now be delivered in geohash format! To enable this feature, contact us via email for manual setup.

We've introduced ZIP code targeting in the US with Residential Proxies. Setup instructions can be found in our documentation.

Capable of bypassing sophisticated anti-bot systems, our AI-powered proxy solution, Web Unblocker, allows individuals and businesses to imitate organic user behavior and access public data from 195 countries hassle-free.

Dashboard users can find the endpoint generator under Residential proxies product. Generate a list of endpoints targeting IPs from different locations based on user configuration.

Dashboard Endpoint Generator for Residential Proxies

Release Notes

November 06, 2024

Enhanced Google SERP tab filtering

November 04, 2024

New positional scoring for AI Overviews in SERP results

October 17, 2024

New Walmart parsers available

October 15, 2024

Open Source Tools

September 25, 2024

Introducing OxyCopilot

September 25, 2024

All-In-One Web Scraper API