Changelog
Track the latest Oxylabs product updates, feature releases, and improvements. Stay informed on what's new with our tools and documentation.
Granular parsed results for Google Travel: Hotels
google_travel_hotels source now returns a more detailed offers field when parse is set to true, with additional hotel-offer details in every parsed response.
Enhanced parsing for Google search news
Parsed output from the google_search source now returns more detailed data for the additional news component by using "parse": true , which appears in searches using the tbm=nws parameter.
Improved session consistency for Headless Browser
Headless Browser sessions have been improved to stay more consistent while accessing the targeted sites, instead of regenerating it between requests.
Google Books dedicated parser
A dedicated Google Books parser is now available through the google_search source using the tbm=bks parameter with parse set to true to receive structured book data in JSON format.
YouTube Downloader audio parameter
YouTube Downloader now accepts an optional audio_language parameter for selecting the audio track:
original– the creator's original audio trackdefault– the audio track YouTube selects (may be dubbed).
New proxy locations
New locations have been added across multiple self-service proxy products:
Dedicated Datacenter Proxies: Croatia, Romania, Malaysia, Philippines, Bulgaria
Datacenter Proxies (pay per GB): Finland
Datacenter Proxies (pay per IP): Croatia, Finland, Philippines
Dedicated ISP Proxies: Belgium, Romania, Brazil, Colombia
ISP Proxies: Romania, Brazil, Colombia
Increased prompt limit for Google AI Mode
The maximum prompt length for Google AI Mode source requests has increased from 4,000 to 8,000 characters.
Custom browser instructions for LLM sources
LLM sources now support custom browser instructions, allowing you to define actions (e.g., clicks, scrolls, waits) to control page behavior before content is extracted.
Custom parser for Home Depot data
A dedicated parser for Home Depot product pages is now available through the universal scraping source. Enable parsing on your request to receive structured product data (such as title, price, availability, and specifications) instead of raw HTML.
Structured Google Scholar results
Google Scholar is now a dedicated parsed source in Web Scraper API. Set source to google_scholar and parse to true to receive parsed JSON directly.
Improved success rates on hard-to-reach targets
We have rolled out improvements to how requests are handled on sites using CAPTCHA. Success rates on these targets should improve, particularly for jobs that previously saw elevated failure or retry rates. Learn more in our documentation.
More accurate Walmart e-commerce pricing
Parsed output from Walmart e-commerce sources now returns pricing data more reliably and consistently. If you're tracking competitor prices or monitoring product catalogs, you'll get cleaner numbers automatically with new requests using "parse": true.
Improved fingerprint validation and device-memory alignment
Headless Browser now offers more realistic browser fingerprints and continues to align device-memory values with the rest of the emulated fingerprint to lower detection risk for all users. This change applies automatically to all Headless Browser sessions.
Oxylabs Agent Skills
Oxylabs now offers official Agent Skills – structured skill files that teach AI agents and coding assistants work with Oxylabs products with significantly more accurate code and fewer hallucinations.
Each Oxylabs agent skill is product-specific and tools like Claude, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot can pick the right product and handle all the technical details with up-to-date information.
Find setup instructions and all skill files in the official Oxylabs Agent-Skills repository.
Citation retries for ChatGPT web search
ChatGPT source requests with search set to true now retry citation extraction automatically, roughly doubling citation coverage in the parsed citations field.
The overall request success rate is unchanged, and no payload changes are needed for requests already using search: true.
Batch requests for LLM targets
LLM sources now support up to 5,000 prompts within a single batch request for chatgpt, gemini, and perplexity sources. Every prompt runs as its own job, so you get one job ID back per prompt. Learn more about batch requests here.
Dashboard login: Microsoft Entra SSO
Oxylabs dashboard login now supports Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) for single sign-on (SSO) in addition to Google and Okta.
To set up Entra SSO, contact your Oxylabs account manager and authenticate the users in your organization to sign in through Entra ID instead of using email and password. Head to dashboard login page to start.
New and updated LLM sources for Web Scraper API
Web Scraper API LLM & AI sources now offers a dedicated gemini source together with updated chatgpt and perplexity scrapers. All LLM sources now share a more consistent request structure, streamlined output envelope, and include new response fields (citations, shopping, ads, etc.)
Partial download (trimming) for Video Data API
YouTube Downloader can now download a specific segment of a video instead of the full file by adding start_at and end_at to the context array. Both parameters take an hh:mm:ss timestamp format.
Video Data API: video quality selection
YouTube Downloader now supports resolution selection for downloaded videos using the context: video_quality parameter with specific resolution from 144p all the way up to 8K.
Error codes for Video Data API
Web Scraper API youtube_download source now returns specific error codes in job status response for easier troubleshooting when a video can't be downloaded.
Top-up flow improvements
Top-ups for Residential Proxies, Mobile Proxies, Datacenter Proxies (per GB), Web Unblocker, and Web Scraper API are no longer restricted to fixed values. You can now enter any amount within the range allowed by your plan instead of choosing from a preset list.
Oxylabs Dashboard API
Dashboard API allows users to programmatically access product usage statistics of Oxylabs Datacenter Proxies (DC) and Headless Browser (HB) for automated reporting and real-time usage monitoring without using Oxylabs dashboard directly.
HTTP/3 protocol support
HTTP/3 protocol is now supported by Residential and Mobile Proxies. Access is available through a dedicated SOCKS5 endpoint with UDP support.
Session IP change control
Residential Proxies and Mobile Proxies now support a new sticky session model via sessid_oneip, which allows you to keep the same IP for as long as the original exit node remains available up to the set session duration without assigning a new IP after the session expires.
New proxy locations
New locations have been added across multiple self-service proxy products:
Dedicated Datacenter Proxies: Belgium, Saudi Arabia, Israel, New Zealand, Thailand, Switzerland, Portugal
Datacenter Proxies (per GB): Saudi Arabia, Israel, New Zealand, Thailand
Datacenter Proxies (per IP): Saudi Arabia, Israel, Switzerland, Thailand
Dedicated ISP Proxies: Australia, Singapore, Ireland, Norway, Denmark
ISP Proxies: Singapore, Ireland, Norway, Denmark
City and state-level targeting for Headless Browser
You can now set the geo-location of your Headless Browser sessions to the city or state level. New parameters include p_city for city and p_state for state or region targeting.
Improved proxy upgrade flow
You can now upgrade Dedicated ISP, ISP, Datacenter (per IP), and Dedicated Datacenter Proxy plans starting from just 5 IPs for ranges between 0 and 100 (previously 20-IP minimum requirement).
The upgrade summary now also provides more details, including discount breakdowns and exact billing dates for easier scaling.
Google Domain parameter no longer available
Web Scraper API domain parameter for google sources is no longer available. To localize your searches, use the geo_location parameter. For more details, check our geo_location parameter structures here.
Renaming Unblocking Browser
We’re making a change to our product naming: Unblocking Browser is now Headless Browser. This is a name change only and all core features, functions, and integrations will remain the same as per pre-existing workflows.
New ASN providers
IPs from Cox and Deutsche Telekom are now included in ISP Proxy and Dedicated ISP Proxy pools. Dedicated ISP Proxy users can choose their preferred premium ASN provider directly from the Oxylabs dashboard.
Dedicated ISP Proxies
Dedicated ISP Proxies are now available in the self-service dashboard. This new proxy type provides fully dedicated, static IPs sourced from premium ISP providers and the ability to freely choose your preferred ASNs. Dedicated ISP proxies offer top-tier speed, stable connections, maximum customizability, and unlimited-duration sessions.
Learn more in the Dedicated ISP Proxies documentation.
Advanced filters for Residential Proxies
Residential Proxies support two advanced filters that give you more control:
Platform (OS) –
plparameter to select the operating system (e.g., Windows, iOS) of the residential proxy for the TCP connection. This lets you improve your scraping success rates by matching your HTTP and TCP fingerprints.IP Version – you can receive only IPv4 or IPv6 addresses from the entire Residential Proxies pool using the
ipversion-4oripversion-6parameter.
Result Aggregator
Web Scraper API users can now bundle multiple scraping results into large batch files to streamline storage using the Result Aggregator. Create a custom aggregator via the /v1/aggregators endpoint and route jobs to it by adding the aggregate_name parameter to your scraping request payloads.
Unblocking Browser session inspection
Unblocking Browser now supports real-time visual inspection through a VNC-based Session Inspection Tool. Add o_vnc=true to your connection endpoint (e.g. wss://user:pass@ubc.oxylabs.io?o_vnc=true) to open a live graphical view of the headless browser and interact with it directly.
New Datacenter Proxy locations
Five new Datacenter proxy locations are now available for per-traffic (per GB) users: Latvia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Greece, and Austria. Requests can now be routed through these countries to optimize coverage and performance.
YouTube Autocomplete scraping source
Web Scraper API can now retrieve YouTube search term suggestions with the new youtube_autocomplete source. It allows users to discover related keywords for any search query, which can then be used with the youtube_search source to discover more relevant videos.
Updated Google Shopping sources
Google Shopping sources now use the token-based system, replacing the product_id workflow. google_shopping_search (with render enabled) now provides a token required for google_shopping_product requests.
Additionally, google_shopping_pricing is no longer supported as a standalone source. To extract pricing data, use the google_shopping_product source.
Finally, google_shopping_product can now expand the "More Shops" panel to access additional listings by submitting the job with render: 'html' (only first expansion is available).
Self-healing parser presets
Users can now enable self-healing for their parser presets by setting "self_heal": true in the preset configuration. This feature allows Oxylabs to automatically adjust your parser instructions when a parser preset starts to fail due to changes in the target website.
YouTube channel
Users can now scrape YouTube channel data with the new dedicated source – youtube_channel. It lets you retrieve all key channel data, including subscriber, video, and view counts, general metadata, and a list of its videos by providing the YouTube channel_handle.
YouTube Subtitles
Web Scraper API now supports YouTube subtitles and closed captions (CC) extraction with a new source – youtube_subtitles. Users can now retrieve auto_generated and user_provided captions by providing a YouTube video ID and subtitles language code.
New dedicated sources available for Web Scraper API
Added 3 new dedicated targets for Web Scraper API: perplexity, chatgpt, google_ai_mode. These targets enable extraction of LLM-generated responses from AI search interfaces. See all available targets in this table.
Markdown output
You can now request the markdown output in addition to HTML or parsed JSON. To get the markdown content in the response, set the "markdown": true in your request.
Multi-format output in a single API response
Added
Ability to retrieve multiple output formats in a single API response
Support across Realtime and Push-Pull integration methods
Changed
The
typeURL parameter now supports a list of result types (parsed,markdown,png,xhr,raw) instead of a single value
Parser presets
Added the ability to create, reuse, and manage custom parser presets through the Web Scraper API. Parser presets are hosted on our system, allowing you to easily use them across multiple scraping jobs. Additionally, you can monitor usage and performance metrics of each preset.
Usage alerts for Datacenter Proxies per traffic
Customers using Datacenter Proxies with a traffic-based subscription will now receive email notifications when 80% and 100% of monthly traffic is used. Visit My Account → Email Notifications in the dashboard to select the thresholds you'd like to be notified about, add multiple recipient emails, or disable these notifications entirely.
AI Studio – 5th app released
AI Studio now features 5 AI-driven tools you can control using natural language prompts. Each app automates a specific web scraping task while eliminating typical pain points. Our toolkit includes AI-Crawler, AI-Scraper, Browser Agent, AI-Search, and the newly added AI-Map.
File naming templates for Cloud Storage
Added support for custom file naming templates when saving results to Cloud Storage. You can now use submitted job parameters and job_info variables to define file names and directory paths. This makes it much easier to organize and identify your files.
Google Reverse Image Search scraping source no longer available
Google Reverse Image Search (google_images) source is no longer supported due to Google decommissioning the feature. You can now use Google Lens (google_lens ) source instead, which delivers an equivalent service and follows the same input and output formats.
XHR request capturing
Web Scraper API now supports capturing network requests (Fetch/XHR) for easier scraping of dynamic content from JavaScript-heavy websites. Set the xhr parameter to true to extract data directly from API responses instead of parsing HTML.
Alibaba Cloud OSS and other S3-compatible storage
Web Scraper API now supports Alibaba Cloud Object Storage Service and other S3-compatible storage solutions setups. To save scraped results to these buckets, set the storage_type to s3_compatible and provide your storage_url.
Advanced filtering and sorting for Amazon Search
Added sort_by and refinements parameters to our Amazon Search source for more precise scraping based on price, brand, color, and other filters.
AI-powered browser instructions
Users can now generate browser instructions using AI in the Web Scraper API Playground on our dashboard. Instead of manually selecting each action, you can simply enter a prompt, and the instructions will be automatically generated.
High-Bandwidth Proxies for video download
Introducing High-Bandwidth Proxies - scrape video and audio data at scale with 200+ Gbps dedicated bandwidth, smart IP rotation, and long-lived connections built for uninterrupted, high-volume downloads. Fully compatible with yt-dlp and other open-source libraries, easy to integrate, and optimized for speed, stability, and scale with a dedicated proxy exit node.
Video scraping & AI-ready data via API
Introducing Video Data API - AI-ready infrastructure to find relevant videos, channels, and playlists, download video/ audio files, extract transcripts, and enrich everything with metadata - no need to build or maintain your own scrapers.
Ethical YouTube video datasets
Access high-quality, creator-approved video datasets with rich metadata, transcripts, and 720p+ resolution - ready for training and fine-tuning AI models. No scraping, no legal headaches, just clean, and scalable video data.
New product release - Unblocking Browser
We’ve launched Unblocking Browser, a headless, fully managed browser that simulates authentic browsing behavior to handle bot traffic management systems or CAPTCHAs automatically, and access complex, JavaScript-heavy sites with ease.
30 new parametrized sources for Web Scraper API
Web Scraper API now supports 30 new parametrized sources - select parameters, such as search term, store ID, or ZIP code, and automate your request construction.
Usage limit email notifications for Web Scraper API and Web Unblocker
You can now set up email alerts to be notified when your Web Scraper API or Web Unblocker usage reaches 80% and/or 100% of your monthly subscription limit.
Google AI Overviews response schema update
Google AI Overview response structure now supports multiple AI Overview blocks in a single response. Previously limited to a single object, the schema now returns an array of AI Overview objects, ensuring you capture all AI-generated content from Google's search results.
Google related searches schema improvement
We've improved Google Web Search related searches schema with more precise position tracking for multiple related search blocks. You can now get detailed, position-specific related search results directly in their parsed data.
OxyCopilot prompts and code samples' library
We’ve launched the OxyCopilot prompts library with ready-to-use AI prompts and code samples for scraping and parsing tasks. Users can now follow step-by-step guides to generate requests for specific targets and view parsed data examples produced by OxyCopilot.
Multimodal video data extraction
Web Scraper API now supports multimodal YouTube data extraction with four new sources: youtube_search, youtube_download, youtube_transcripts, and youtube_metadata. Users can now retrieve video, audio, transcripts, and metadata for AI applications and advanced analytics.
New endpoints for Web Scraper API Scheduler
We’ve added two new endpoints to the Web Scraper API Scheduler for better visibility into scheduled jobs. Users can now retrieve any schedule's run history (/runs) and executed job lists (/jobs).
No-code browser instructions
Users can now create browser instructions with a few simple steps in the Web Scraper API Playground on our dashboard, eliminating the need for manual coding - set up actions, generate structured JSON, and export it for further use.
Set currency when scraping Amazon
You can now specify the currency when scraping Amazon product, search, pricing, and best-sellers pages! Simply add the context:currency parameter to define the price currency. Find the available values here or refer to the respective Amazon documentation pages.
Usage alerts for Residential and Mobile Proxies
Stay informed and avoid service interruptions. You can now receive email notifications when you're approaching the monthly subscription limit for your Residential and Mobile Proxies. To enable or disable this feature, simply go to My Account > Email Notifications in your dashboard.
More localization features for Kroger
You can now set a delivery_zip code for Kroger to specify precise delivery locations and use the fulfillment_type parameter to choose the preferred order method, including ship, pickup, delivery, or in_store.
5 free Datacenter IPs
All new signups now get 5 free datacenter IPs to test the service – no credit card needed. Sign up now or check out our docs to get started.
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