This changelog highlights releases that materially changed Target Scraper for users. Dates use UTC; small internal refactors and routine maintenance are intentionally omitted.
Features
- Added an optional direct product URL mode for known Target products, with additive availability, UPC/DPCI, description, and feature-bullet fields when available.
- Product-URL-only runs now accept an empty
searchQueries list; runtime validation still requires at least one query or product URL.
- Existing keyword-search inputs, defaults, outputs, and charge events remain unchanged.
Reliability
- Added retries to the search-results fallback when Target temporarily returns an empty or blocked page.
Changes
- Added complete field descriptions and types for dataset and API consumers.
Reliability
- Added a search-results fallback to improve product extraction when Target pages use alternate result layouts.
Features
- Added public Store task examples for common Target product-search workflows.
Reliability
- Improved CAPTCHA retry handling for more resilient product searches.
Reliability
- Refreshed Target visitor identifiers on retries to improve recovery from blocked requests.
Reliability
- Improved CAPTCHA detection and proxy rotation for more reliable Target product extraction.
Features
- Initial release for extracting Target product prices, sale status, ratings, reviews, brands, images, and product URLs.
