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Release notes for week ending Mar 20, 2025

AI-Powered Support
- BrightAI now serves as the first responder to support tickets for small and new customers, providing immediate assistance while maintaining our commitment to quality service. You’ll receive faster initial responses, but rest assured that you can request a human support specialist at any point during your conversation if needed.

Easier Filtering with Auto-Complete
- Filtering datasets is now faster and more intuitive with auto-complete suggestions. For example, when selecting an Amazon category, you can now choose from a predefined list instead of searching manually on Amazon.
New API for Dataset Metadata
- Developers can now access dataset metadata through our API, making it easier to integrate with automation tools like Zapier, Make.com, and n8n.io. This allows you to retrieve dataset details and schema to set up automated workflows and get the exact data you need. 👉 View API Documentation (link)

Better Search in the Marketplace
- Searching for datasets is now more flexible, allowing for slight variations and even typos. This makes it easier to find what you need, even if your search isn’t perfectly accurate.
Clearer Messages for Filter Limits
- Reaching the daily filtering limit now triggers a clear message explaining the limit and next steps. You can also submit a request to our data experts for help in refining your dataset filters.
Helpful Tooltips for Date Columns
- Date columns now include tooltips that explain the date format, ensuring you understand that records for the selected dates are inclusive.

Improved Usability and UI
- We’ve made several design and usability improvements, including fixing typos, to make your experience smoother.

New endpoint allows sync calls to retrieve the scraped data to the requested origin
- We’ve introduced a new endpoint that enables synchronous calls to retrieve scraped data directly from the requested origin, improving efficiency and streamlining the process. This enhancement alongside the upcoming design changes that will be implemented in the next weeks will allow users to access and test their scraped data more quickly and reflect the potential value (link)
New “Wikipedia articles” scrapers
- Users can now discover (by keyword) and collect article information from Wikipedia.

Search and navigation
- We’ve made several improvements to enhance search results and navigation, making it easier for users to find relevant data and explore related products. Search results will now prioritize domain-only results, ensuring more accurate and streamlined discovery. Additionally, Dataset (DS) results will be displayed below Scraper results and vice versa, providing a more structured and intuitive search experience.
A new banner in SERP to redirect users interested in Chat GPT and perplexity search results
- This banner redirects users to additional search engine results data, making it easier to access the AI-powered result searches

Refresh Token Fix
- We’ve resolved an issue affecting the token refresh option to ensure seamless authentication and session continuity.
Scraper Request Call Scheduled Notification Fix
- Fixed a bug where scheduled notifications for new custom scraper requests were not triggering correctly, ensuring timely and accurate alerts to the relevant personnel