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Browser Automation & Scraping

Headless browsers, crawlers, and scraping APIs — the data layer for AI agents.

ThuJun 4, 20261 release
Crawleev3.17.0
WedJun 3, 20262 releases
FriMay 29, 20261 release
Apify SDKv3.4.1
ThuMay 28, 20261 release
Stagehandstagehand-server-v3/v3.7.1
WedMay 27, 20261 release
Stagehandstagehand-server-v3/v3.7.0
TueMay 26, 20261 release

Introducing /monitor

Enter a URL, describe what you want to track, and /monitor notifies your AI agent via webhook the moment pages or sites change. Use up to 90% fewer LLM tokens by only ingesting what actually changes.

Key Features:

  • Set a goal in plain English — Describe what to watch and /monitor configures the URLs, schema, and schedule for you
  • Up to 90% fewer LLM tokens — Your agent only ingests what changes on a page
  • Any cadence, with cost upfront — 5 minutes, hourly, daily, or custom cron schedule with estimated monthly cost shown upfront
  • Webhook or email delivery — Signed webhooks with custom headers or email with diff in body
  • Permalinks for every change — Diffs are first-class objects you can share or hand to another agent
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Monitoring
ThuMay 21, 20261 release

Fetch API now returns markdown and JSON

Use the updated Fetch API to fetch and return web content as markdown or structured JSON from any URL. Faster and cheaper than spinning up a browser, in formats that are easier for humans and models to read.

Data cap raised from 1MB to 5MB.

Extract ~$4 / 1k pages, ~$7 / 1k with proxies.

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WedMay 20, 20261 release
Stagehandstagehand-server-v3/v3.6.10
FriMay 15, 20263 releases

v2.10 is live

Firecrawl v2.10 ships a new /parse endpoint, Lockdown Mode, Question and Highlights formats, and four new official SDKs (Go, Ruby, PHP, .NET) plus reliability and security fixes.

Key Features:

  • /parse endpoint — Upload PDFs, Word docs, and spreadsheets up to 50 MB and get clean, LLM-ready Markdown, JSON, or summaries back. Powered by a new Rust-based engine that's up to 5x faster
  • Lockdown Mode — Set lockdown: true on /scrape to serve results exclusively from Firecrawl's index with no outbound requests and zero data retention by default
  • Question Format — Pass a natural-language prompt to /scrape and get a grounded answer back, with up to 100x fewer tokens per call
  • Highlights Format — Get back the exact sentences, code blocks, and table rows on a page that match your query, with original formatting preserved
  • Four New Official SDKs — Go, Ruby, PHP (with Laravel support), and .NET all joined the SDK family with v2 parity. The Rust SDK has been promoted to the official v2 SDK
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v2.10 Release

v2.10 is live

Firecrawl v2.10 ships a new /parse endpoint, Lockdown Mode, Question and Highlights formats, and four new official SDKs (Go, Ruby, PHP, .NET) - plus a long list of reliability and security fixes.

Highlights
  • /parse endpoint — Upload PDFs, Word docs, and spreadsheets up to 50 MB and get clean, LLM-ready Markdown, JSON, or summaries back. Powered by a new Rust-based engine that's up to 5x faster.
  • Lockdown Mode — Set lockdown: true on /scrape to serve results exclusively from Firecrawl's index with no outbound requests and zero data retention by default. Available everywhere, including the CLI (--lockdown) and MCP.
  • Question Format — Pass a natural-language prompt to /scrape and get a grounded answer back, with up to 100x fewer tokens per call.
  • Highlights Format — Get back the exact sentences, code blocks, and table rows on a page that match your query, with original formatting preserved — also using up to 100x fewer tokens per call.
  • Four New Official SDKs — Go, Ruby, PHP (with Laravel support), and .NET all joined the SDK family with v2 parity. The Rust SDK has been promoted to the official v2 SDK.
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v2.10 Release
GitHub Releasesv2.10
ThuMay 14, 20261 release

Session replay streaming

Session replays can now be embedded directly in your product and streamed to your end users within seconds of a session ending.

Includes:

  • API for embedding session replays in your own product
  • Playback in any HLS-compatible player
  • Storage, fMP4 encoding, and CDN delivery handled by Browserbase

Your backend fetches the session's .m3u8 playlist from our API, your frontend hands it to a player, and end users stream segments directly from our CDN.

Free on every plan, up to 120 sessions per minute.

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WedMay 13, 20261 release

Reduce context bloat in Stagehand 3.4

Stagehand 3.4.0 is live.

Use ignoreSelectors to keep noisy parts of a page out of extract() and observe(): ads, nav, modals, related posts, and anything else your agent should ignore.

Plus:

  • Agent variables are now supported in the Stagehand API schema without the experimental requirement
  • Agent mode now defaults to hybrid for compatible models and DOM mode otherwise
  • New CUA model support: openai/gpt-5.4-mini, openai/gpt-5.5, and anthropic/claude-haiku-4-5
  • Better OOPIF frame handling and stronger observe element ID prompting
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MonMay 11, 20262 releases
FriMay 8, 20262 releases
Stagehandstagehand-server-v3/v3.6.8

Highlights Format

Highlights is a new format for /scrape that returns the exact sentences, code blocks, and table rows on a page that match your query, all while using up to 100x fewer tokens.

Highlights
  • Citable, hallucination-free output — Nothing in the response is rewritten, translated, or hallucinated. Every sentence is provably from the source page, in the page's own words.
  • Code blocks and tables preserved — Consecutive sentences from the same block re-join into paragraphs, consecutive code lines wrap in fenced blocks with their original language, and table rows rebuild into Markdown tables with headers auto-included.
  • Up to 100x fewer tokens per call — Returning just the matching lines instead of the full page lowers inference costs, speeds up responses, and keeps your context window lean.
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Highlights Format
ThuMay 7, 20262 releases