Changelog

Follow our latest Hexomatic product and development updates.

1.65 – 18th May 2023

  • New Feature: Multi-source capability added to our ChatGPT automation enabling you to pass multiple data sources inside ChatGPT tasks from your workflow.

1.64 – 13rd April 2023

  • New Feature: We have released our ChatGPT automation enabling you to automate ChatGPT tasks inside your Hexomatic workflows at scale.

1.63 – 5th April 2023

  • Enhancement: Hexomatic has a new scraping recipe builder that suggests fields you can capture by analyzing existing scraping recipes created by our community.
  • Enhancement: New website design has been deployed for Hexomatic.

1.62 – 24th October 2022

  • New Feature: New Mobile Friendly Checker automation to enable you bulk check if URLs are mobile-friendly.
  • Enhancement: 12 new 1-click scraping recipes added to our Recipe Library, including Jomashop,BizBuySell, Feedspot, and more.

1.61 – 10th October 2022

  • Enhancement: New 1-click scraping recipes are added to the recipe library, including IMDb, SimplyHired, Surfdome, and more.
  • Enhancement: Phone number scraper automation has been updated so that users can run it in standard or fast mode. Additionally, this automation now allows you to set a limit on the number of results per domain.
  • Enhancement: The Email verification (EasyDMARC) automation has been enhanced to run faster.

1.60 – 3rd October 2022

  • Enhancement: New 1-click scraping recipes are added to the recipe library, including Indiehackers, Kijiji, Gumtree, and more.
  • Enhancement: The Ukrainian language is now available for the DeepL translator.

1.59 – 23rd September 2022

  • Enhancement: New 1-click scraping recipes are added to the recipe library, including Booking, Bestbuy, Flipkart, and more.

1.58 – 12th September 2022

  • Enhancement: Discover Tech Stack automation has been upgraded allowing you to check websites for more than 3000 tech stacks.

1.57 – 5th September 2022

  • Enhancement: The UI of our public scraping recipe library is polished and added 1-click buttons to easily start workflows from these.
  • Enhancement: 14 new templates are added to the public scraping recipe library.
  • Enhancement: Google Drive (Export/Sync) automation is improved, enabling you to add multiple inputs as the source.

1.56 – 29th August 2022

  • New feature: Our brand new public scraping library provides ready-made templates built by our community and team to make it easier than ever to scrape common websites.
  • Enhancement: Our data input automation now enables you to map columns from your imported CSV file into Hexomatic.

1.55 – 22nd August 2022

  • New feature: Rename file automation
  • Enhancement: Better scraping recipe selectors
  • Enhancement: More platforms added to discover profile automation
  • Enhancement: Workflow library now accessible from the dashboard

1.54 – 15th August 2022

  • New feature: Website categorization automation helps you classify websites based on their URL.

1.53 – 9th August 2022

  • New feature: Hexospark Automation to send leads automatically to your Hexospark CRM and email outreach campaigns.

1.52 – 28th July 2022

  • Enhancement: Proxy support enabled for our sitemap extractor automation (to prevent blocked requests).
  • Enhancement: 50 New social networks and communities added to our discover profiles automation including Quora, Twitch, and more.

1.51 – 21st July 2022

  • Enhancement: Field selector granularity has been improved, enabling a more precise selection of the elements to scrape in our scraping recipe builder.
  • Enhancement: “Case sensitive” option can be selected or deselected in our Filter data by criteria automation.
  • Enhancement: Email discovery automation now allows multiple filter values to be entered.
  • Enhancement: An option to extract domains from subdomains is added to our Extract domain from URL and Email address automation.

1.50 – 14th July 2022

  • Enhancement: Workflow filters have been improved, so you can personalize the workflows page UX to display workflows by status, automation, tags, and more.
  • Enhancement: 50 more platforms have been added to our Discover profile automation, including Venmo, Zillow, and more.

1.49 – 7th July 2022

  • Enhancement:Two new languages are now available for DeepL translator (Turkish and Indonesian).
  • Enhancement: You can now select custom rows in Google Sheets. Our Google Sheets import automation enables picking a range of rows in addition to the whole row.

1.48 – 1st July 2022

  • Enhancement: You can now save your favorite automation directly on the page of the automation.
  • Enhancement: Dashboard of Hexomatic has been improved further for a better user experience.

1.47 – 23rd June 2022

  • Enhancement: Ability to track traffic for a specific period of time, along with the number of premium credits deducted from an account by using residential proxies.
  • Enhancement: The UX of Hexomatic has been improved. Redesigned chart bars and sidebar make the UX more intuitive and seamless.
  • Enhancement: Discover profile automation was expanded with more than 50 new websites.

1.46 – 17th June 2022

  • Enhancement:Google sheets import automation has been updated, allowing you to import multiple columns.
  • Enhancement: A refresh button has been added to Google Sheets import automation, which lets you see the updates in the automation after updating your Google spreadsheet.
  • Enhancement: Hexomatic extension has been enhanced.
  • Enhancement: Discover profile API and documentation have been improved.

1.45 – 9th June 2022

  • New feature: Discover profile automation has expanded to more platforms, allowing you to search across a wider range of platforms (more than 50 platforms were added for this update).
  • Enhancement: Workflow search bar has become more intuitive and allows you to perform a global search across all automations and scraping recipes.
  • Enhancement: Scraping recipe engine is enhanced, allowing you to reload the last session using the Retry button.
  • Enhancement: Scraping recipe engine now features improved previews, enabling websites with an HTML structure that caused preview issues to have a better and faster preview.

1.44 – 2nd June 2022

  • New feature: Marking your favorite scraping recipes and automations is enabled in Hexomatic.

1.43 – 26th May 2022

  • New feature: New WordPress media upload automation that allows you to upload media files to WordPress in bulk.
  • Enhancement: Improved pagination in our scraping recipe builder, allowing you to handle pagination in cases when the page URL doesn’t physically change.
  • Enhancement: “Enter” custom action is added to our scraping recipe builder. This enables you to perform a “Enter” key press, ideal for website forms where there are no clickable buttons.

1.42 – 19th May 2022

  • New feature: Hexomatic workflows can now be triggered via any Hexowatch change monitor to perform tasks when changes are detected.
  • New feature: Scraping recipe builder is improved, enabling you to scroll specific elements in addition to scrolling the entire page.
  • New feature: Our automations now provide preview information about inputs and outputs, so you will know what to input and what type of outputs to expect before starting the workflow.

1.41 – 12th May 2022

  • New feature: PayPal is now supported as a payment option across Hexomatic, Hexowatch and Hexometer.

1.40 – 5th May 2022

  • Enhancement: Contextual automation suggestions recommending popular automations that go well with your chosen automation inside your workflow.
  • Enhancement: Additional frequency options for scheduling, allowing you to select the most convenient time for running your Hexomatic workflows.
  • Enhancement: Fast or Standard mode option available on several automations (Files & Documents finder Emails scraper, Get page content, Extract links from a page, Pull contact, Social link scraper).
  • Enhancement: More patches were deployed to improve scraping recipes success rates which affected some websites..

1.39 – 21st April 2022

  • New feature: New Amazon product review automation (premium)to take your Amazon research experience to the next level.
  • Enhancement: Additional frequency options for scheduling, allowing you to select the most convenient time for running your Hexomatic workflows.
  • Enhancement: Table and card view access to scheduling options.

1.38 – 15th April 2022

  • Enhancement: Data input automation has a new visual UI and provides simplified access to upload CSV, TXT, IMG, AUDIO, or PDF files.

1.37 – 7th April 2022

  • New feature: Workflow data archiving is added, enabling you to access historical data when running workflows again.
  • Enhancement: Tagging mechanism is improved, allowing you to select multiple tags or find all workflows for a specific tag by clicking the tag.
  • Enhancement: Additional progress data is displayed for a running workflow.

1.36 – 31st March 2022

  • New feature: Resize and compress images automation that lets you resize and compress your images in bulk.
  • New feature: Crop images automation that enables you to easily crop images at scale.
  • Enhancement: A filter results option is added for Email notifications so you can cut through the noise and focus on data that matters.

1.35 – 24th March 2022

  • Enhancement: We have improved our frequently used Find and Replace automation with the option of removing data as well.
  • Enhancement: Discover tech stack automation also received an upgrade enabling you to check for specific tech stack combinations.
  • Enhancement: We have an added filter results option for the following integrations: Slack, Telegram, Discord, Microsoft Teams.

1.34 – 17th March 2022

  • New feature: WordPress automation, enabling to create new posts right from the Hexomatic workflow.

1.33 – 10th March 2022

  • New feature: QR code generator automation.
  • New feature: AI Sentiment analysis automation.
  • New feature: a QR code generator browser extension, which makes it possible to turn any URL into a QR code instantly..
  • New feature: Make,formerly Integromat integration
  • Enhancement: Social links scraper automation can now detect Discord channels.

1.32 – 4th March 2022

  • New feature: Trustpilot Search automation.
  • Enhancement: Find and Replace automation to allow selecting a column (not just typing text) and appending/prepending data on each element in the column.
  • Enhancement: Scraping recipe builder now supports dropdown menus to select options in forms.
  • Enhancement: An option to insert a date/time into the record can be added in Google Sheets (Export/Sync) automation.

1.31 – 26th February 2022

  • New feature: Trip Advisor automation.
  • Enhancement: The sitemap extractor automation now has a URL filter.
  • Enhancement: Workflow sharing via email to other Hexomatic users is now live.
  • Enhancement: Scraping recipes now display a preview image.
  • Enhancement: Scraping recipe preview speed is now faster with up to 50 custom actions.
  • Enhancement: Ready-made workflows organized by sales, marketing, or research tasks.

1.30 – 18th February 2022

  • New feature: Google BigQuery automation (premium) providing access to over 230 public datasets.
  • New feature: Native charting and data visualization capabilities via our Google Data Studio automation.
  • New feature: Scraping recipe sharing, enabling anyone in our community to create and share their recipes with other Hexomatic users.

1.29 – 10th February 2022

  • New feature: Browser extension content analysis tool provides keyword density and text metrics
  • New feature: Browser extension screenshot capture generates full-page screenshots in any device size
  • New feature: Screenshot automation API, enabling you to capture screenshots programmatically

1.28 – 3rd February 2022

  • New feature: Twitter profile automation
  • New feature: Amazon product data automation
  • New feature: Firefox browser extension
  • Enhancement: Workflow scheduling improvements

1.27 – 27th January 2022

  • New feature: WHOIS automation API
  • New feature: Tech stack automation API
  • Enhancement: Improved 1 click ready made workflow library

1.26 – 20th January 2022

  • New feature: 2FA authentication
  • New feature: Integrately integration to send leads or data to 500+ apps.
  • Enhancement: Workflow tagging
  • Enhancement: SQL database IP whitelisting

1.25 – 13th January 2022

  • New feature: Access automations in your browser via our Chrome extension

1.24 – 5th January 2022

  • New feature: Google seller automation
  • New feature: Filter data by criteria automation
  • Enhancement: Grammar and spelling audit now works on free text inside your workflow
  • Enhancement: You can now specify which columns to include when downloading your data
  • Enhancement: Our scraping recipe builder now includes an attribute filter for the HTML field type
  • Enhancement: You can now include multiple find replace automations inside workflows

1.23 – 30th December 2021

  • New feature: Yelp automation
  • New feature: KonnectzIT integration
  • Enhancement: Added option to personalize the name of each integrated account / channel in your settings

1.22 – 22nd December 2021

  • New feature: Zapier integration
  • New feature: Pabbly Connect automation
  • Enhancement: Go to URL added to scraping recipe custom actions
  • Enhancement: Telegram number detection (in our social scraper)
  • Enhancement: Skype number detection (in our social scraper)
  • Enhancement: A “Load more” scraping recipe click action
  • Enhancement: An ignore filter for our crawler automation
  • Enhancement: A refresh option for our Google Sheets automation
  • Enhancement: Optional spreadsheet headers for Google Sheets

1.21 – 16th December 2021

  • New feature: Logo & favicon finder automation
  • New feature: Google Shopping automation
  • New feature: Email validation automation powered by EasyDMARC
  • Enhancement: WCAG 2.0 or WCAG 2.1 standards now available for accessibility audits
  • Enhancement: Custom pagination increment options for scraping recipes
  • Enhancement: CSV importing now reads all the columns
  • Enhancement: URL limit added in the sitemap extractor
  • Enhancement: Support for remotely hosted CSV or TXT files as a data input
  • Enhancement: Spelling & grammar audit now has a delay option

1.20 – 9nd December 2021

  • New feature: Google Drive (export/sync) integration
  • New feature: Malicious URL checker automation
  • Enhancement: Go to URL added to scraping recipe custom actions
  • Enhancement: Improved keyword automation to search within HTML.
  • Enhancement: Improved accessibility audit with better results and logo selection.
  • Enhancement: Search feature added to automations

1.19 – 2nd December 2021

  • New feature: SQL database connector automation, which enables you to connect Hexomatic to any database
  • New feature: Redirect extractor automation enables you to capture the destination URL of any affiliate link or link shortener.
  • Enhancement: Workflow scheduling down to every 30 min, 1h, 3h, 6h and more.
  • Enhancement: A new XPath selector option to our scraping recipe builder.
  • Enhancement: You can now block pop-up modals in our screenshot automation.
  • Enhancement: You can now extract domains from both URL’s and email addresses.
  • Enhancement: Email scraper and discovery automations let you pick how many emails to fetch.

1.18 – 25th November 2021

  • New feature: Google Image search automation lets you scrape Google Image results in a few clicks
  • New feature: AI Document OCR automation provides optical text recognition inside any PDF document
  • New feature: SEO backlink intelligence automation provides top level SEO metrics for any page or domain including number of referring domains, referring backlinks, types of backlinks and more.
  • Enhancement: Text to speech automation just got upgraded to work on multiple fields at a time
  • Enhancement: Card view for public workflows
  • Enhancement: Detailed credit usage summary inside workflow

1.17 – 19th November 2021

  • New feature: Article curator automation to scrape articles from any website
  • New feature: HTML grabber automation enables you to capture the entire HTML of any url.
  • New feature: structured data converter enables you to convert structured data files from one format to another, for ex: XML->CSV or CSV -> JSON etc..
  • New feature: Whitelabeled audit reports with your own logo
  • Enhancement:Platform improvements including new card view for ready made workflows.

1.16 – 12th November 2021

  • New feature: Accessibility audit automation, enables you to audit any web page for accessibility issues against the WCAG 2.1 guidelines and generate a pdf report.
  • New feature: Workflow data preview inside workflows, no need to download a CSV to see your data.
  • New ready made workflow: Audit businesses ranking on Google for accessibility issues
  • New ready made workflow:Audit a list of pages for accessibility issues
  • New ready made workflow: Perform a site-wide accessibility audit
  • Enhancement: We ugraded our Google search automation enabling you to specify organic, paid or both types of results. This is ideal if you want to scrape Google Ads data based on keyword + location.

1.15 – 8th November 2021

  • New feature: New Video Discovery automation in Hexomatic that detects and extracts video links found on Youtube, Vimeo, Rutube, Facebook and Instagram
  • Enhancement: Proxy option added for some of our ready made automations including the email and social scrapers and crawler automation.

1.14 – 28th October 2021

  • New feature: Discover Profiles automation
  • New feature: Pull Contacts automation

1.13 – 19th October 2021

  • New feature: New dashboard UI
  • New feature: Launched refer a friend scheme where you can earn 50 premium credits for you and every friend you refer to a paid plan
  • Improvement: Platform UX improvements

1.12 – 14th October 2021

  • New feature: SEO referring domains automation
  • Improvement: Added 6 new ready made workflow templates in the library

1.11 – 6th October 2021

  • New feature: SEO backlink automation
  • Improvement: Duplicate workflow option
  • Improvement: Duplicate scraping recipe option

1.10 – 24th September 2021

  • New feature: Launch of our ready made workflow library enabling you to deploy campaigns in one click
  • New feature: Guided workflow setup UI
  • New feature: AI based Logo detection automation
  • New feature: Human powered data collection automation

1.9 – 15th September 2021

  • New feature: Regex automation
  • New feature: RSS extractor automation

1.8 – 8th September 2021

  • New feature: find replace automation
  • New feature: xml sitemap generator automation
  • New feature: Yes/no crowdsourced automation
  • New feature: AI vision OCR automation
  • New feature: AI vision image safety automation
  • New feature: AI vision spoof detection automation
  • New feature: AI audio transcription automation
  • Enhancement: translation automation now supports multiple fields
  • Enhancement: UX improvement showing workflow credit usage

1.7 – 31st August 2021

  • New feature: crawler automation
  • New feature: regex added to scraping recipes
  • Enhancement: email & phone number extraction in scraping recipes
  • Enhancement: image labelling improvements
  • Enhancement: email scraper and discovery improvements
  • Enhancement: UX improvements
  • Enhancement: general bug fixes

1.6 – 23rd August 2021

  • New feature: AI image labelling automation
  • New feature: AI text to speech
  • Enhancement: added more email statuses to email scraping automation
  • Enhancement: added anchor text data to link automation
  • Enhancement: Improved workflow UX

1.5 – 17th August 2021

  • New feature: spelling & grammar audit automation
  • New feature: Bing search automation
  • Enhancement: Delay + custom height options added to our screenshot capture automation
  • Enhancement: Bulk run workflows
  • Enhancement: Selector based content scraping added to Get page content automation
  • Enhancement: Workflow statuses now update dynamically without needing a refresh
  • Enhancement: Translate to many languages at once using Translation automations

1.4 – 9th August 2021

  • New feature: Email address Validation – checks whether an email address is valid.
  • New feature: Files compressor- combines files into a single zipped folder.
  • New feature: Phone number scraper – finds phone numbers from web pages.
  • Mathematical operations – performs basic arithmetic operations.
  • Webhooks – sends data to any application via webhooks.

1.3 – 3rd August 2021

  • New feature: Duplicate remover automation
  • New feature: Email discovery automation
  • New feature: Amazon product seller automation to get all the competing sellers for any Amazon ASIN in any Amazon marketplace including price, condition and rating.

1.2 – 26th July 2021

  • New feature: keyword finder automation looks for the presence or absence of any keyword or phrase in the HTML of a page. This is ideal to look for specific scripts or mentions on a page.
  • New feature: Currency converter automation (featuring live exchange data)
  • New feature: Crypto currency converter automation(featuring live exchange data)
  • New feature: Amazon product search automation
  • Scraping recipe builder enhancement: Native ad / modal pop-up blocking
  • Scraping recipe builder enhancement: Scroll
  • Scraping recipe builder enhancement: Delay
  • Scraping recipe builder enhancement: Custom cookies
  • Scraping recipe builder enhancement: Refresh
  • Scraping recipe builder enhancement: Element blocking
  • Scraping recipe builder enhancement: Password input
  • Scraping recipe builder enhancement:Local storage of browser values
  • Scraping recipe builder enhancement: Improved automatic pagination
  • Bug fixes
  • Enhancement: Better anti bot countermeasures

1.1 – 20th July 2021

  • New feature: File & Documents Finder automation enables you to find all the urls in a page that match a specific file or document extension.
  • New feature: Schema Scraper automation extracts all the schema microdata used on a page typically used for search engine rich snippets.
  • New feature: Image Converter automation – Easily convert JPG, PNG and PDF files in bulk inside your workflow.
  • New feature: Google Sheets Import automation- Use any Google Sheet document as a data input inside your workflow.
  • Enhancement: You can now download your workflow results in JSON format
  • Enhancement: Recipe builder now displays a warning if the automatic pagination fails to detect pagination so you can use the advanced pagination instead.
  • Enhancement: You can now receive email notifications when a workflow is ready or has failed featuring direct links to CSV and JSON downloads

1.0 – 13th July 2021

  • Public launch of Hexomatic out of beta

0.7 – 7th July 2021

  • Enhancement: we improved our pagination detection, the way it now works is that you can select the paginated links and it will try and detect the pattern.
  • Enhancement: We improved compatibility rendering for our FAST and Full-stack browsers which should now render websites more reliably than before
  • Enhancement: We now have a manual pagination option so if the automatic option doesn’t detect it, you can now manually specify the pagination URL parameter and the start and end page numbers.
  • Enhancement: Up to now you could automatically capture text, numbers and URLs. We now have an HTML tag option so you can also capture native HTML from a field.
  • New feature: You can now specify HTML CSS selectors manually to zone in to specific fields on a page on a manual basis. This is ideal if our automatic selectors are not able to pick up a field.

0.6 – 29th June 2021

  • New feature: Google translate automation
  • New feature: DeepL translate automation
  • New feature: Google maps automation
  • New feature: content scraper automation enables you to universally scrape the content of any page into structured data
  • New feature: meta tag scraper automation enables you to capture key SEO tags from any page including meta title, description, canonical, robots, opengraph and twitter cards tags.
  • New feature: response code automation enables you to get the HTTP status code and response time for any URL, ideal to check if a page is available and how quickly the server responds.
  • New feature: links scraper automation enables you to capture all the internal / external links found on a page.
  • New feature: word stats automation provides the word count and character count for any page.

0.5 – 24th June 2021

  • New feature: Scraping recipe field previews
  • Improvement: Data input automation now also supports CSV and TXT file upload as well as different text copy paste options. This is ideal to scrape large lists of URLs from files.
  • New feature: sitemap extractor automation enables you to capture all the URLs from a sitemap or scrape a website using its sitemap.
  • New feature: screenshot automation enables you to capture web page screenshots in bulk inside a workflow using one of 8 different device sizes.
  • New feature: extract domain from URL automation enables you to get the root domain of any URL

0.4 – 17th June 2021

  • New feature: Editable scraping recipes
  • New feature: Tech stack automation lets you analyze URLs in bulk to detect 3rd party scripts or technology used on the page.
  • New feature: WHOIS automation provides structured domain ownership, registration, expiry and DNS details for any domain
  • New feature: Traffic insights automation, this is a premium managed automation that provides website level traffic estimations and breakdowns by traffic source.

0.3 – 10th June 2021

  • Big upgrade to our browsing engine used in the scraping recipes section, especially with regards to compatibility with different types of websites using certain JS/CSS combinations.
  • New feature: Launched two browsers inside the scraping recipe builder (FAST and FULL STACK) to handle different types of websites and countermeasures
  • New feature: Launched datacentre IP rotation as standard
  • New feature: Launched proxy add-on with residential and residential geo proxy types available in 1 click no config necessary
  • Bug fixes: Platform wide bug fixes to improve stability

0.2 – 2nd June 2021

  • Post launch bug fixes:
    workflow activation and scheduling
    email scraper automation
    social media links scraper automation
    chaining of automations
    scraping recipe url selector
    google sheet sync

0.1 – 21th May 2021 – Early access launch

  • Launched our early access beta onboarding our first customers