Changelog

We’re constantly improving the platform. See here notable changes in our lineup of products & improvements over the time.

July 2026

Microlink: Redesigned features with a unified showcase across all capability pages.
Microlink: Published RFC 9116 security.txt and expanded the security disclosure policy.
Browserless v13.6: Fixed screenshots failing when quality is set without jpeg/webp.
Microlink API: Improved pdf for SPA pages, tall documents, and pageRanges.
Microlink: Added antibot and isolation feature landings.
Microlink API: Added EPDFTOOLARGE when a document is too large to render as PDF.
Microlink: Redesigned skills page.
Microlink: Added Handinger customer story.
unavatar.io: Improved DuckDuckGo favicon resolution for www/apex host variants.
Microlink: New homepage hero with an interactive natural-language API console.
Microlink: Added Chrome extensions landings for website screenshot and PDF.
Browserless v13.6: Improved cookie consent dismissal across multilingual CMPs.
Microlink: Updated MCP integrations page to the full 20-tool surface.
Microlink API: Improved YouTube caption and transcript resolution.

June 2026

Microlink: Added builder to generate link preview component code.
Microlink: Added use cases landing with the first story.
Microlink Blog: Published Faster WebGL Screenshots.
Microlink API: Improved antibot resolution for Reddit, Weibo, Dribbble, and Douban.
unavatar.io: Added PayPal, Wise, Venmo, Cash App, Tidal, and Deezer support.
unavatar.io: Added Bilibili, Gitee, Juejin, NetEase Music, QQ, Tieba, Weibo, and Zhihu support.
unavatar.io: Added Primal, Hevy, Cursor, Strava, and Raycast support.
Microlink: Added pricing currency auto-detection and adaptive pricing.

May 2026

Microlink: Added CLI page.
Microlink: Added search landing and search guides.
Microlink: Expanded embed provider directory to 380+ providers.
Microlink API: Added function guide.
Microlink API: Added cacheKey query parameter.
Microlink: Added link-preview page.
Browserless v13: Upgraded to Puppeteer 25.
Microlink: Added embed tool.
Microlink: Added customers page.
unavatar.io: Added npm, Product Hunt, Docker Hub, CodePen, Hugging Face, Thingiverse, and Cults3D support.
Microlink: Added feature landings for proxy, ttl, and headers.
Microlink API: Improved Twitter/X URLs resolution.

April 2026

Microlink: Added detailed pricing page.
Metascraper v5.50: Added Reddit integration.
Microlink API: Added JSON data extraction support.
Microlink API: Improved markdown table and code block rendering.
Microlink API: Improved Reddit, Instagram, and LinkedIn URLs resolution.
Microlink CLI: Added headers support.
unavatar.io: Added Pinterest, Snapchat, Discord, Behance, Threads, Steam, Tumblr, Facebook, Flickr, Stack Overflow, Buy Me a Coffee, Google Play, Apple Store, Xbox Gamertag, and PSN Profiles support.
unavatar.io: GitHub now supports email avatar lookup.
unavatar.io: Gravatar now accepts pre-computed MD5/SHA256 hash as input.

March 2026

Optimo: Introduced Optimo.
Microlink: Added skills page.
Microlink API: Added guides.
unavatar.io: Added Mastodon support.
unavatar.io: Added LinkedIn support.

February 2026

Microlink: Added markdown page.
Microlink Blog: Published Documentation as markdown.
Microlink Blog: Published Microlink AdBlock now handles cookie banners.

January 2025

Microlink API: Improved Dribbble URLs resolution.
Microlink API: Better Bluesky support.
Microlink Tools: Added sharing-debugger page.

December 2025

Microlink API: Improved infrastructure for transparent antibot resolution.
Metascraper: Improved X integration (formerly Twitter).

November 2025

Microlink API: Migrated from regional to global Redis for better performance and consistency.

October 2025

Microlink API: Improved markdown.microlink.io rendering by cleaning up DOM elements.
Microlink API: Performance and scalability optimizations.

September 2025

Microlink API: Added markdown.microlink.io alias.

August 2025

Microlink API: Improved pdf with waitUntil=auto.
unavatar.io Released unavatar.io/pay-as-you-go.

Jul 2025

Microlink: Added security page.
Microlink: Added subprocessors page.
Microlink API: Added meta configurable support.

Jun 2025

Microlink: Released fonts.microlink.io.
Microlink API: Improved font rendering.
Microlink API: Minor improvements for extension detection.
Microlink API: Added text.microlink.io alias.

January 2025

Microlink API: When proxy is provided it takes preference.

December 2024

Microlink OSS: Released splashy v6.
Microlink API: The query parameter meta returns redirects as part of the response payload.

October 2024

Microlink OSS: Added rewriting capabilities to html-get.
react-json-view: Project revamp.
unavatar.io Added OnlyFans as provider.

July 2024

Microlink: Released website refactor.
Microlink API: Improved favicon.ico detection.

May 2024

Metascraper v5.45.7: Improved x.com support.

April 2024

Openkey: Draft release.

February 2024

Microlink API: Improved favicon detection.
Microlink CDN: Released new UI.

January 2024

Microlink: Released logo.microlink.io.
Microlink OSS: Released top-user-agents.
Microlink OSS: Released @microlink/ua.

December 2023

unavatar.io Crossed 1,000 stars on GitHub.
Microlink OSS: Released tinyspawn.
Metascraper v5.43: Added video detection inside iframes.
Metascraper v5.43: Improved audio detection inside iframes.
Metascraper v5.42: Added TypeScript types.
Metascraper v5.40: Added m3u8 support.

October 2023

Microlink API: Improved protection against SSRF attacks.
Microlink API: Better Chrome Headless flags.

September 2023

Microlink MQL: Added ESM support. Edge bundle isn't necessary anymore.
Microlink API: All logos are square.
Microlink API: Improved iframe resolution.

August 2023

Microlink MQL: Added TypeScript types; Added edge installation details.

July 2023

Microlink API: Upgraded to use the new Chrome Headless engine.
Microlink Geolocation: Added asn support.
Browserless v10: new headless by default & better error handling.

June 2023

Browserless v9.12: Added screencast package.
html-get: Added cancelable support.

February 2023

Browserless v9.9: Upgraded to Lighthouse v10.

January 2023

Metascraper: Crossed 2,000 stars on GitHub.
Metascraper v5.33.7: Improved YouTube integration.

December 2022

Microlink: Added logo page.
Metascraper v5.33: Improved Twitter integration.
Metascraper v5.32.4: Improved Spotify integration.

November 2022

Microlink MQL: Added nested selectorAll support.
Microlink API: Improved logo detection.
Microlink OSS: Released nanoclamp 2.0
Microlink MQL: Added ESM bundle and demo site.

October 2022

Microlink: Improved website accessibility.
Microlink: Added /formats benchmarking page.

September 2022

Microlink API: Added function query parameter.
Microlink API: Improved file detection.

August 2022

Microlink Recipes: Added youtube-dl recipe.
Microlink API: Added integrity verification for assets.
Microlink: Released Microlink Edge Proxy.
Microlink API: Added countryCode support.
Browserless v9.6: Improved evasion techniques.
Microlink Cards: Added workos-docs preset.

July 2022

Microlink: Released geolocation.microlink.io.
Microlink API: Implemented Server-Timing response header.
Metascraper v5.30.0: Added data URI detection for web app manifests.

June 2022

Microlink API: The query parameters remove and hide has been removed; use styles instead.
Microlink API: All DNS queries are now resolved via DNS-over-HTTPS.
Browserless v9.4: Better management for killing browser process groups.

May 2022

Microlink API: Rewrite relative non root URLs into absolutes.
Microlink Cards: Added workos preset.
Microlink Cards: Added workos-changelog preset.

April 2022

Metascraper v5.29.0: Added support for graph detection for JSON+LD markup.
Browserless v9.3.14: Performance improvements for spawning & kill a process group.

March 2022

Microlink API: Improved palette detection for more image formats, such as ICO, BMP, HEIC, PSD.
Metascraper v5.28.0: Fallbacking favicon detection to root domain in case URL provided is a subdomain.
Metascraper v5.27.0: General performance improvements dealing with network calls.
Microlink Cards: Added saraostech preset.

February 2022

Microlink Cards: Added dashboard preset.
Microlink Cards: Added github-org preset.
Microlink Cards: Added just-javascript preset.

January 2022

unavatar.io Crossed 50 millions requests per month.
Microlink Cards: Added github-repo preset.
Microlink Cards: Added accesibility preset.
Microlink Cards: Added mikesanroman preset.
Microlink Cards: Added netlify preset.
Microlink Cards: Added draculashop preset.
Microlink Cards: Added apple preset.
Microlink Cards: Added thebootstrappedfounder preset.

December 2021

Microlink OSS: Released ffprobe.

November 2021

unavatar.io Crossed 30 millions requests per month
Microlink API: Added iframe Twitter player detection.
Microlink Functions: Added HTML markup of the target website as function parameter.
Microlink Recipes: Added healthcheck recipe.
Microlink API: Added filename query parameter.
Microlink: Revamped recipes.
Microlink API: Added BMP, WebP & AVIF support for palette.
Microlink Security: Special thanks to Haaris B for improving service security.
Browserless v9.3.0: Upgraded to Lighthouse v9.

October 2021

Metascraper v5.25.0: Improved highest resolution logo detection and PWA manifest integration.
Microlink Recipes: Added emails recipe.
Microlink MQL: Added email as type.
Microlink Security: Special thanks to Daniel Wang for improving service security.
Microlink API: Added efatalclient and eforbiddenurl error codes.

September 2021

Microlink API: Added preset support for lighthouse.
Microlink Cards: Added dracula preset.
Microlink Recipes: Added excerption recipe.
Microlink API: Improved evaluate performance.
Keyv: Released @keyvhq/multi
Keyv: Released @keyvhq/offline
Keyv: Released @keyvhq/compress
Keyv: Released @keyvhq/memoize

August 2021

unavatar.io crossed 20 millions requests per month
Microlink OSS: Released metatags.
Microlink API: Added staleTtl query parameter.

July 2021

Microlink OSS: Sponsored unavatar.io.
Microlink Recipes: Added Instagram recipe.
Microlink Recipes: Added Telegram recipe.
Microlink Recipes: Added Reddit recipe.
Microlink OSS Released keyv.
Metascraper v5.22.0: Added more heuristic cases for logo detection.
Microlink Proxy: Added Wallmart URLs support.

June 2021

Microlink: Added Microlink Enterprise plan.
Browserless v9: Official release.
Microlink Blog: Added Microlink Proxy post.
Metascraper v5.22.0: Added Instagram integration.

May 2021

Microlink OSS Added spotify-url-info.
Browserless v9 beta: A total rework improving how Chromium's process are managed.
Microlink Function: Added more allowed NPM packages.
Microlink Cluster: Improve stability, better k8s autoscaling setup.

April 2021

Microlink API: Added better default fonts and improved font rendering.
Microlink CLI: Released v2.0.0.
Microlink Function: Released @microlink/local for running them locally.

March 2021

Microlink API: The query parameter ping now accepts an object interface.
Microlink Recipes: Added CodePen recipe.
Microlink Cards: Added richhaines and m1guelpf presets.

February 2021

Microlink Cards: Added meta preset.
Microlink API: The service now relies on CloudFlare DNS for domain resolution.
Microlink OSS: Created youtube-dl-exec repository.

January 2021

Microlink Cards: Added conference, frame and twitter presets.
Metascraper v5.16.17: Improved audio detection from HTML and JSON+LD markup.
Metascraper v5.16.9: Improved description casuistic detection.
Browserless v8.7.0: Upgraded to Lighthouse v7.
Browserless v8.6.0: Ensure to wait images on viewport before taking a screenshot.

December 2020

Microlink API: The query parameter meta will return headers and statusCode as part of the response payload.
Microlink Cluster: The infrastructure has been upgraded from Redis v5 to Redis v6 using a master + slave + sentinel cluster.

November 2020

Metascraper v5.15: Improved Telegram integration.
Microlink API: Added evaluate data extractor.
Microlink API: Added retry query parameter.
Microlink Cluster: Upgraded to Node.js 14 LTS.

October 2020

Microlink: Refreshed pricing plans with inclusive VAT.
Microlink Cluster is now using high availability Redis instances with automatic failover.

September 2020

Microlink Cluster Setup TLS version for *.microlink.io is now TLS 1.2.
Microlink API: Deprecate waitFor, use waitForSelector or waitForTimeout instead.

August 2020

Microlink: Refreshed website design.
Metascraper v5.14.0: Improved Spotify integration.

July 2020

Microlink: Launched Microlink Changelog.
Microlink: Launched Microlink Recipes.
Browserless v8: Official release.

June 2020

Microlink: Launched Microlink OSS.
Microlink SDK Added CSS variables support.