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Every meaningful change to the platform — features, fixes, performance work and the small things that make a tool feel cared-for.

Apr 22, 2026
New

Email Validation, in beta

The sixth tool joins the toolkit. Drop a list, get back deliverability scores with MX, SMTP, role, disposable and catch-all flags. Same credit, same export shape.

  • 500 free validations / month included on every account
  • Bulk uploads up to 100k addresses per run
  • Quality score (0-100) on every row
Apr 09, 2026
Improved

Faster Maps runs (~38s avg)

Rewrote the queue scheduler so larger queries spawn workers in parallel. Average run time on 1,000-row queries dropped from 1m 42s to 38s.

Mar 24, 2026
Fixed

Reviews scraper handles paginated locales correctly

The Korean and Japanese locales were truncating reviews after page 5. Pagination now respects the locale's preferred page size; we re-ran every affected schedule for free.

Mar 11, 2026
New

Webhooks for completed runs

Every run can now POST a JSON payload to your endpoint when it finishes — including the export URL. Configure on a per-run basis or default for the whole workspace.

  • Signed payloads (HMAC SHA256)
  • Automatic retries with exponential backoff
  • Delivery logs in the dashboard
Feb 28, 2026
Improved

Cleaner Excel exports

Fixed a quoting bug for fields containing line breaks (looking at you, Maps "About" sections). Excel now opens every export without that "this file is in a different format" prompt.

Feb 14, 2026
New

SDKs in PHP and Node

Official packages with full type definitions and built-in retry / backoff. Python SDK has been refreshed to v2.0 (async support, type hints throughout).

  • composer require livescraper/sdk
  • npm i livescraper
  • pip install livescraper==2.*
Jan 30, 2026
Improved

Owner replies on Reviews

Reviews now ship with owner_answer and owner_answer_timestamp fields where available — useful for sentiment dashboards and reputation triage.

Jan 12, 2026
Fixed

API key rotation now invalidates instantly

Previously cached up to 60 seconds. Now propagates across all regions in under 2s. Sorry to anyone who hit the gap.

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