This week we shipped a handful of reliability improvements and new data fields across several of our scraping APIs. Here's a rundown of what's new.
JS Rendering Scraping Is Now More Reliable (Bug Fix)
We fixed an issue that was causing intermittent errors during JavaScript rendering scraping. JS rendering is now working consistently, so you can expect more reliable and stable scraping results across the board. If you'd previously seen sporadic failures on JS-heavy pages, this fix should resolve them.
Amazon Product Scraper API Now Supports the Amazon's Choice Label (Update)
The Amazon Product Scraper API has been updated to include the Amazon's Choice label in its response. You can now identify, at the API level, which products carry the Amazon's Choice badge without having to infer it from other fields — useful for competitive analysis, merchandising insights, and product enrichment workflows.
Post Scraper API Now Supports Images and Links (Update)
The Post Scraper API now returns images and textual links as part of its response. This means you can pull richer post data including associated image content and any links embedded in a post directly from a single API call, making it easier to build more complete content pipelines without additional lookups.
Google News V2 Scraper API Now Includes Authors (Bug Fix)
We resolved an issue where author information was missing from the response for a subset of calls to the Google News V2 Scraper API. Author data is now correctly and consistently returned, so downstream attribution and analysis workflows relying on author fields should now work as expected.
Why These Updates Matter
Taken together, this week's changes fall into two buckets: stability and enrichment.
- Stability: The JS rendering fix and the Google News V2 author fix both address consistency issues — cases where the API was returning incomplete or intermittently missing data. These are the kinds of fixes that matter most for production pipelines, since intermittent issues are often the hardest to debug on your end.
- Enrichment: The Amazon's Choice label and the Post Scraper images/links additions both give you more signal per API call, reducing the need for secondary scrapes or manual enrichment steps.
What You Need to Do
None of these changes are breaking. Existing integrations will continue to work as before; the new fields will simply start appearing in responses where applicable, and the reliability fixes apply automatically to existing calls. If you want to start using the new fields (Amazon's Choice label, post images/links, or Google News authors), just check your response parsing logic to make sure you're capturing the new fields where relevant.
As always, if you notice anything unexpected after this rollout, reach out to support and we'll take a look.
That's it for this week, see you in the next update.
