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Now you can get more granular hotel-offer details in your google_travel_hotel results, giving you a fuller picture of each offer in a single request. Whether you're tracking rates or comparing providers, there's less parsing to do on your end. The structured data appears automatically in new requests, so no changes are needed on your side.

Get richer and structured Google Travel: Hotel data – with more granular offers field results.

Granular parsed results for Google Travel: Hotels

The news component in google_search source now gets you enhanced structured data. Each news result now comes back with a fuller set of fields, so you get cleaner, more complete structured output without extra parsing on your side.

Google Search now returns detailed parsed data – more complete output, less cleanup on your end.

Headless Browser sessions now keep a consistent browser environment from start to finish, so demanding targets are less likely to interrupt a run with extra verification. That means fewer stalls mid-session, lower latency, and higher success rates – without touching your code.

Headless Browser sessions are now more consistent with higher success rates & less interruptions.

Improved session consistency in Headless Browser

Google Books data is now available in structured JSON. Submit a Google Books URL through the google_search source and enable parsing. Results come back as ready-to-use JSON, so there's no parser to build or maintain on your end.

Collect clean and structured results from Google Books – no custom parser needed.

Video Data API now lets you specify which audio track to retrieve through the audio_language parameter. You can select the creator's original recording or the platform's default track. This gives you direct control over the language you receive. Existing jobs are unaffected unless you set the option.

Choose your audio track in Video Data API – control which language you receive.

We’ve expanded proxy coverage across multiple self-service products with new countries:

Dedicated Datacenter Proxies: Croatia, Romania, Malaysia, Philippines, Bulgaria

Datacenter Proxies (pay per IP): Croatia, Finland, Philippines

Dedicated ISP Proxies: Belgium, Romania, Brazil, Colombia

New proxy locations are now available across multiple self-service proxy products.

Broader global coverage with new proxy locations

The prompt limit for Google AI Mode results has doubled, from 4,000 to 8,000 characters. This gives you room to submit longer, more detailed prompts, so complex queries return richer, more precise results in a single request.

Google AI Mode prompts now go up to 8,000 characters – giving you room for more detailed queries.

Increased prompt limit for Google AI Mode

You can now control page interactions with custom browser instructions when scraping LLM sources, on top of the batch processing already available. Together, these give you more control over how large-scale LLM data collection runs, letting you handle bigger workloads with the precision your use case needs.

Submit LLM scraping jobs with custom browser instructions for precise page control.

Custom browser instructions for LLM sources

You can now collect clean and structured product data from Home Depot product pages without building or maintaining a parser yourself. This adds another major retailer to our dedicated parser lineup – getting you ready-to-use fields faster and with less custom development on your end.

Get clean, structured Home Depot product data – no custom parser logic needed from your end.

Your requests to CAPTCHA-protected sites are now handled with improved logic, resulting in higher success rates – particularly for jobs that previously retry rates or came back empty – should run cleaner, with fewer gaps in your data.

The change applies automatically across existing configurations, so no updates are needed on your side.

CAPTCHAs on hard-to-reach targets are now resolved more reliably and automatically.

Improved success rates on hard-to-reach targets

We've improved how pricing fields are extracted for Walmart e-commerce sources. Prices now appear more consistently in parsed responses across product pages and search result types. More reliable values will appear automatically in new requests, with no manual work from your end.

The parsed output of Walmart e-commerce sources now match with the source pages.

Headless Browser is now refined to build and check its fingerprints, so emulated sessions look more like real devices. We've made its browser fingerprints more realistic and consistent, so your sessions get interrupted less often and more of your requests get through – all automatically, with nothing to set up.

Headless Browser now has improved fingerprint validation for more reliable continuous sessions.

Improved fingerprint validation and device-memory alignment

Connect your AI coding assistant to Oxylabs using plain English by adding our Agent Skills. Tools like Claude, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot pick the right Oxylabs product and handle the technical details, so you can skip the docs and spend your time building.

Oxylabs Agent Skills let you build with Oxylabs products using tools like Claude, Cursor, or Copilot – without any manual work.

You can now retry ChatGPT responses that use web search by setting the search to true – without any payload charges or affecting the success rate, allowing you to get more complete, traceable sourcing behind each answer, so there's less need to re-run prompts to fill in missing references.

ChatGPT web search now retries citation extraction, returning roughly twice the source citations per response.

You can now send up to 5,000 prompts to popular LLM targets (e..g., ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity) in a single batch request, instead of submitting them one at a time. This takes the busywork out of high-volume LLM data collection, saving time on large jobs.

Send up to 5,000 prompts to popular LLM targets in a single batch request, saving time on your repetitive jobs.

You can now sign in to the Oxylabs dashboard with Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD), joining Google and Okta as supported SSO options. For teams running on Microsoft, that means logging in with the same identity you already use for Outlook, Teams, and SharePoint – no extra credentials to set up or manage.

Sign in to Oxylabs dashboard with Microsoft Entra ID along with the existing Google and Okta as supported SSO options.

You can now scrape Gemini and capture ChatGPT ad and shopping placements, on top of existing support for ChatGPT, Perplexity, and AI Mode. Just set the source to your preferred LLM, add your prompt, and you can track rankings, citations, and mention rates across the AI platforms shaping what buyers see – structured and parse-ready.

Web Scraper API LLM scraping possibilities with Gemini as an LLM source, and returns ad and shopping results from ChatGPT.

You can now download a specific segment of a video instead of the full file by setting start_at and end_at timestamps in the context array. Only the selected portion between the two points is downloaded, which keeps file sizes down, removing the need to trim clips yourself afterward.

Download a specific segment of a video instead of the full file by setting the start and end timestamps.

Partial download (trimming) for Video Data API

You can now control the resolution of downloaded videos, from 144p all the way up to 8K, or simply request the best or worst available quality. Set it once with the context: video_quality parameter and get videos at the size that fits your storage and processing needs.

Control the resolution of downloaded videos, from 144p to all the way up to 8K.

Oxylabs Video Data API now returns a specific error code when a video can't be downloaded, identifying the exact cause. Each reason maps to its own code in the job status response, so you can handle failures programmatically instead of parsing a generic error.

Video Data API now returns a specific error code when a video can't be downloaded stating the exact cause.

You can now top up your traffic balance for Residential Proxies, Mobile Proxies, Datacenter Proxies (per GB), Web Unblocker, and Web Scraper API by any amount within your plan's range, instead of picking from a handful of preset options. 
Need exactly 5 GB? Add it in a single step – no more splitting one purchase into several top-ups.

Top-up your traffic balance by any amount within your plan's range, instead of choosing from the fixed presets.

Introducing Oxylabs Dashboard API to programmatically access your product usage statistics for Oxylabs Datacenter Proxies (DC) and Headless Browser (HB). This allows automated reporting and real-time usage monitoring without the need to directly access the Oxylabs dashboard.

Introducing Dashboard API to programmatically access product usage statistics for Datacenter Proxies and Headless Browser.

You can now connect to Residential Proxies and Mobile Proxies with HTTP/3 protocol, offering faster connections and more reliable automated request management. Access is available through a dedicated SOCKS5 endpoint with UDP support.

Residential Proxies and Mobile Proxies are now enhanced with the new HTTP/3 protocol support.

Residential Proxies and Mobile Proxies now support a new sticky session behavior via sessid_oneip. Users can keep the same IP for as long as the original exit node remains available up to the set session duration. If that exit node expires or goes offline before the duration ends, the request returns a 502 error rather than being routed through a new IP.

Residential Proxies and Mobile Proxies now have a granular single-IP sticky session parameter.

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

New locations added to Dedicated Datacenter, Datacenter, Dedicated ISP, and ISP proxy pools.

You can now set the geolocation of your Headless Browser sessions at the city and state-level, not just by country. This gives you more precise control when websites personalize content based on location, making it easier to access the right version of a page for competitive analysis, QA testing, or market research.

Headless Browser sessions are now available at city and state-level, not just by country. 

The Web Scraper API’s Domain parameter for Google, which enabled localization via country-specific Google domains, is no longer supported. To localize your searches, use the geo_location parameter, which provides better performance and stability.

For more detailed information, read about our suggested geo_location parameter structures here.

The parameter for localized searches has been replaced by the geo_location parameter.

We’ve expanded ISP Proxies and Dedicated ISP Proxies IP selection with two new premium providers – Cox and Deutsche Telekom. This offers more flexibility and reliability for session-based workflows with additional high-quality IPs from Europe and North America. Dedicated ISP Proxy users can choose their preferred premium ASN provider directly from the Oxylabs dashboard.

Cox and Deutsche Telekom are now available for ISP and Dedicated ISP proxy users.

Access fully dedicated, static IPs from top-tier ISP providers to achieve higher success rates on even the most challenging websites. Choose your preferred premium ASN for greater control over traffic reputation, take advantage of unlimited session duration and bandwidth, and level up any session-sensitive workflow with consistent and reliable performance.

New proxies with top-tier ASN selection for superior performance added to the Oxylabs portfolio

We've added two advanced filter options for Residential Proxies:

Platform (OS) – You can filter proxies by the operating system they originate from (e.g., Windows, iOS). This allows you to match HTTP and TCP fingerprints, which can significantly improve scraping success rates.

IP Version – You can filter proxies by their IP version to receive only IPv4 or IPv6 addresses.

Two new proxy filters: by operating systems and IP version (IPv4 or IPv6).

Web Scraper API users can now bundle results across multiple Web Scraper API requests using the new Result Aggregator. This feature helps you reduce storage API calls and simplifies data implementation by bundling up high volumes of small files into larger batches. You can also customize automatic batch delivery with defined maximum file size, result count, and aggregation frequency for additional flexibility.

Bundle data from multiple Web Scraper API requests into customizable batches.

You can now visually inspect your Unblocking Browser sessions in real time. The new Session Inspection Tool provides a live, VNC (Virtual Network Computing) view of how pages render and how your workflow executes, helping you quickly diagnose complex issues and validate behavior that isn’t visible from the browsing logs.

Inspect Unblocking Browser sessions via live VNC view for easier debugging.

We’ve expanded our Datacenter proxy network with five new locations: Latvia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Greece, and Austria. Per-traffic (per-GB) users can now route requests through these countries for more efficient access to regional web data and improved scraping performance.

Five new European locations: Slovenia, Slovakia, Greece, Latvia, and Austria.

Parser presets can now automatically adapt as target websites change. Enable self-healing to reduce the need for manual maintenance and improve success rates for your new and existing parser presets.

Parser presets can now automatically adjust and adapt to website changes.

We've added two new smaller pay-per-traffic plans, giving you lower monthly commitments and an easier way to get started.

Two new smaller pay-per-traffic plans for lower commitment and easier start.

You now have access to five new ISP Proxy locations – Hong Kong, Australia, Sweden, Croatia, and South Korea, for broader coverage and more reliable connections worldwide.

Five new global locations: South Korea, Australia, Hong Kong, Sweden, Croatia.

You can now collect Google AI Overviews (AIO) data with Oxylabs’ Web Scraper API through existing sources like google_search and google_ads. Get richer insights in one call – both standard search results and AI Overviews, faster and easier than ever.

Get Google AI Overviews with normal search results in a single API request.

You can now retrieve data directly from ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, and Perplexity using our Web Scraper API. These dedicated sources make it faster and easier to access organic AI-generated content for your workflows.

New sources for ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, Perplexity organic responses.

New dedicated sources now available for Web Scraper API

Users can now request markdown output as an alternative option to HTML or parsed JSON results. Markdown responses provide an easy-to-read format, simplifying result integration into various content workflows and AI tools.

Get all your result types at once! We've streamlined the data retrieval process, allowing you to get parsed data, Markdown, screenshots, XHR, and raw results in a single API response. This update simplifies workflows, eliminates extra API calls, and works with both Realtime (sync) and Push-Pull (async) methods.

Multi-Format Output in a Single API Response

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.

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.

Usage alerts for Datacenter Proxies per traffic

We've added AI-Map to AI Studio, expanding our collection to five AI apps that you can control with natural language prompts. Built to tackle specific scraping challenges, these apps turn time-consuming manual processes into quick automated tasks that anyone can run. You can now access AI-Map alongside AI-Crawler, AI-Scraper, Browser Agent, and AI-Search.

Web Scraper API pricing now adapts to the complexity of your scraping needs. You'll benefit from lower rates when scraping websites without JavaScript rendering, along with reduced pricing for high-demand targets like Google or Amazon. Additionally, the free trial no longer has a time limit—giving you the flexibility to explore the product at your own pace. 

Feature-based billing for Web Scraper API

You can now define your own file naming templates when saving results to Cloud Storage. Use job parameters and job_info variables to specify file names and directory paths. This improves file organization and identification.

Google Reverse Image Search scraping source is no longer supported and has been replaced with Google Lens, which delivers an equivalent service and uses the same input and output formats.

Google Reverse Image Search scraping source no longer available

Web Scraper API now supports capturing network requests (Fetch/XHR) to extract data directly from API responses while the page is loading, instead of parsing HTML.

We've expanded our cloud storage support for Web Scraper API! In addition to AWS S3 and Google Cloud Storage, the Web Scraper API now supports Alibaba Cloud Object Storage Service and other S3-compatible storage solutions.

Saving your scraped data just got more flexible – set storage_type to s3_compatible and provide your custom storage_url.

New storage options now available for Web Scraper API

Users can now scrape Amazon Search with new control parameters for precise sorting and filtering, eliminating the need to deal with large, irrelevant datasets.

Advanced filtering and sorting for Amazon Search

Users can now generate browser instructions with AI. Instead of manually selecting each action, you can simply enter a prompt, and the instructions are automatically filled in.

Scrape video and audio data at scale with 200+ Gbps dedicated bandwidth, smart IP rotation, and persistent 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.

High-Bandwidth Proxies for video download

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.

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.

Introducing Oxylabs' new product - E-Commerce Web Data Platform. With this platform you will be able to get clean data from Walmart, Amazon, Shopee, and other top marketplaces.

Clean data with E-Commerce Web Data Platform

We’ve launched Unblocking Browser, a headless, fully managed browser that mimics real user behavior to bypass anti-bot systems, solve CAPTCHAs automatically, and handle complex, JavaScript-heavy sites with ease.

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.

30 new parametrized sources for Web Scraper API

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.

Usage limit email notifications for Web Scraper API and Web Unblocker

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 AI Overviews response schema update

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.

Google related searches schema improvement

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.

OxyCopilot prompts and code samples' library

Web Scraper API now supports multimodal video data extraction with four new sources, which you can check in the documentation. Users can now retrieve video, audio, transcripts, and metadata for AI applications and advanced analytics.

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). 

New endpoints for Web Scraper API Scheduler

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.

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.

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 this feature, simply go to My Account > Email Notifications in your dashboard.

Dashboard: Usage alerts for Residential and Mobile Proxies

You can now transfer team ownership in three steps through the dashboard under "My Account" -> "Team": select the new owner, confirm the transfer, and have the new owner accept the invitation.

You can now set a 'delivery_zip' code to specify precise delivery locations and use the 'fulfillment_type' parameter to choose the preferred order method, including ship, pickup, delivery, or in_store.

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.

Amazon has started displaying more reviews on product pages, which we now parse using the 'amazon_product' source.

Scrape Kroger marketplace search and product pages with dedicated sources. You can also set Store IDs to get localized data.

We’ve developed improved parsers for Walmart product and search pages, offering better-structured data and more points.

The context:udm parameter can now be added to scraping requests, allowing you to specify and switch between Google SERP tabs, such as Images, Places, or Videos. This parameter tailors the type of results retrieved to match your specified tab, refining the search to suit your requirements.

We’ve refined positional scoring for the AI Overviews feature to ensure consistency with other SERP features. The pos_overall value now accurately represents the position of the AI Overviews result among all available Google SERP results.

New positional scoring for AI Overviews in SERP results

Streamline your projects with our new open source tools, designed for the developer community to use and adapt freely. 

Meet OxyCopilot, the first AI-powered assistant that generates code for scraping and parsing requests, using advanced LLMs to tackle complex patterns. Access it via the Scraper API Playground, enter a prompt, and get ready-to-use code in seconds.

Our Web Scraper API now combines three products into one, offering a unified solution for web data collection. From crawling to delivering structured data to your cloud, it ensures precise, reliable results for scraping search engines, e-commerce, and more. All plans are now 30% more affordable, with more targets and advanced features.

You can now choose your preferred product billing type - Datacenter Proxies per IP or per traffic. Starting from $0.65/GB or $1.20 /IP. 

Built to provide superior performance, bypassing toughest targets with unlimited-duration sessions. Pricing: from $2.10/IP. Best for: Ad verification, Cybersecurity, Market research

These sources have been decommissioned: baidu, baidu_search, yandex, yandex_search, wayfair, and wayfair_search. Now, please use the universal source for scraping Yandex and Baidu, or the universal_ecommerce source for Wayfair.

Scraper APIs now support submitting up to 5,000 query or URL parameter values within a single batch request, an increase from the previous limit of 1,000.

Our Web Unblocker and Scraper APIs now maximize website unblocking efficiency by using exclusively our team's predefined cookies. This update ensures improved results, offering the flexibility to include custom cookies alongside our predefined set if necessary. Explore further details in our documentation:  Web Unblocker, Scraper APIs.

Dedicated Datacenter Proxies now support SOCKS5 protocol - both TCP and UDP connections. Enjoy enhanced flexibility and security in your proxy usage.

Dedicated Datacenter Proxies now support SOCKS5 

Get all three output types from a single scraping job – HTML, Parsed JSON, PNG (rendered page screenshot). Learn more in our documentation: Realtime and Push-Pull.

You can now purchase Dedicated Datacenter Proxies starting from just $8.25/month. Fully customize your IP list with various countries - all done in a user-friendly Oxylabs dashboard.

Dedicated Datacenter Proxies: new pricing plan

Now our SERP Scraper API streamlines the process of scraping Google Lens data, making it easier to extract valuable insights from the search results and product pages across various E-commerce sites.

Explore improved statistics for Residential Proxies and Mobile Proxies on Oxylabs dashboard. Customize your data view by target or country, and experience quick load times with access to historical data for up to 90 days.

Advanced Residential and Mobile Proxies statistics

We’ve introduced continent targeting to give you more control over localization. This upgrade is available for Residential Proxies, Mobile Proxies, and Rotating ISP Proxies.

We have renamed the google_hotels source to google_maps. This source is designed to retrieve Google Local search results. It scrapes various location-based data, such as restaurants, hotels, coffee shops, gas stations, grocery stores, and more. Going forward, please utilize the google_maps source for your scraping tasks.

Invite team members to join your dashboard, granting them full access to its features, except for subscription and team management. See how it works in this video.

We've introduced data dictionaries for Google services such as Web Search, Image Search, News Search, and Reverse Image Search. These dictionaries include brief description, screenshot, parsed JSON code snippet, and a table defining each parsed field to help you understand the data better. Explore these resources in the sub-pages of our Google documentation.

Replace all your Dedicated Datacenter Proxies IPs in a couple of clicks on the Oxylabs dashboard for a one-time fee of 10% of your monthly subscription. Follow a step-by-step video on how to do it.

Dedicated Datacenter Proxies - replace all IPs

Add or remove countries, and re-allocate your Dedicated Datacenter IPs per country on the Oxylabs dashboard. Do it for a one-time fee of 10% of your monthly subscription or for free, when upgrading the plan.

Dedicated Datacenter Proxies - change IP locations 

Introducing an integration of browsing instructions with our existing JavaScript rendering capability, forming the ultimate Headless Browser feature for Web Unblocker and Scraper APIs.

Use ip.oxylabs.io/location to check the parameters of your IPs - this domain delivers information from four geolocation databases: MaxMind, IP2Location, DB-IP, and IPinfo.io.

Web Unblocker and Scraper APIs maximize website unblocking efficiency by utilizing predefined headers, therefore our system automatically filters out client-sent headers to enhance success rates.

Purchase Dedicated Datacenter Proxies directly from Oxylabs' dashboard, bundling dedicated IPs from 7 countries with no bandwidth limitations.

Dedicated Datacenter Proxies available on self-service

You can now create usage limit rules for Residential, Mobile, and Shared Datacenter proxy users directly from the dashboard. This empowers our clients to take control of their spending by setting daily, monthly, or lifetime limits.

Select IPs in the exact location based on just a few simple parameters - latitude, longitude, and radius. With this feature, you can obtain IPs from a particular area at no extra cost.

Our SERP Scraper API has been enhanced! You can now access AI Bing search results by adding a "render": "html" parameter.

Bing search generative AI result scraping

Refine Mobile proxies targeting with a city or state parameter for more accurate results.

City and state targeting for Mobile Proxies

Release Notes

August 24, 2026

Granular parsed results for Google Travel: Hotels

August 20, 2026

Enhanced parsing for Google search news

August 18, 2026

Improved session consistency in Headless Browser

August 17, 2026

New dedicated parser for Google Books

August 11, 2026

New audio parameter for Video Data API

August 04, 2026

Broader global coverage with new proxy locations