Changelog & new updates

Follow our latest Hexomatic product and development updates.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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