# Changelog of Ecommerce · Universal (`extralt/ecommerce-universal`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/extralt/ecommerce-universal/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/extralt/ecommerce-universal.md

## Changelog

We are pushing **daily** updates and improvements.\
Notable changes to this actor and our webscraping framework will be documented here.

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### 2026-03-07

#### 🚀 Features

- Improve AI agent harness for website navigation and extraction.
- Release actors v1.0 with many performance and accuracy improvements.

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### 2026-02-08

#### 🚀 Features

- Release new extraction schema for more detailed and accurate product data.

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### 2026-01-27

#### 🚀 Features

- Added graph mode to all crawler. This allows combining structured extraction for item pages as well as capturing the relashionship between all pages of the website

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### 2026-01-20

#### 🚀 Features

- Improved extracted item metadata to always include the page title, page kind (home/list/item/other) and the list of outbound links, in addition to the url and extraction timestamp

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### 2026-01-17

#### 🚀 Features

- Implemented direct API scraping for item pages to replace JS rendering. This combines the speed of simple http requests with the richness of a fully rendered page

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### 2026-01-10

#### 🚀 Performance

- Reduced cold start time for new jobs
- Increased extraction speed by ~10%

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### 2025-12-30

#### 🚀 Improvements

- Improved crawler stealth
  - Improved chrome fingerprint spoofing
  - Improved http client impersonation

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### 2025-12-17

#### 🚀 Features

- Added direct API scraping for paginated list pages (alternative to chrome rendering with infinite scroll), resulting in 10x speedup for crawling catalog pages

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### 2025-12-10

#### 🚀 Improvements

- Improved URL detection logic for different page types

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### 2025-12-08

#### 🚀 Features

- Added universal extraction modes, in addition to structured (schema-driven) extraction

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### 2025-12-07

#### 🚀 Improvements

- Improved crawler stealth and robustness to Anti-Bot scripts

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### 2025-12-03

#### 🚀 Features

- 🔥 Initial release 🔥