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GrabzIt: Enhanced Web Scraping, PDF Generation, Infrastructure, and Security Updates

18 March 2025

We're excited to share some significant improvements and updates designed to elevate your GrabzIt experience! We've been working hard to enhance our services, infrastructure, and security to provide you with the best possible online data capture tools.

New Web Scraping Template: Extract Full HTML

We've introduced a powerful new web scraper template that expands your data extraction capabilities. This template provides a comprehensive crawl of a website. It follows all internal links, visiting each page and extracting the fully rendered HTML source code. This gives you complete access to the website's underlying structure and content.

Enhanced Web Scraping Control: Set CSS with Navigation Command

We're giving you greater control over web page appearance during scraping. A new web scrape instruction command allows you to set the CSS of a web page. For example: Navigation.css('body:{background:red}'). Use this to modify a page's styling before extracting data, improving element visibility or simplifying layouts.

Improved PDF Compression for Smaller Files

We've enhanced our PDF generation across the Screenshot Tool, Web Scraper, and API. The quality parameter now delivers much better compression, mitigating the issue of large PDF files, especially those with high-resolution images. To change the compression level, just specify the quality parameter when generating the PDF.

Infrastructure Upgrade: Enhanced Performance, Security, and Scalability

We've migrated to a more advanced, secure, and faster infrastructure, bringing major benefits:

  • Scalability: Our web capture servers now scale on demand, handling any load you send and ensuring consistent performance.
  • Redundancy: We've added further redundancy to our web servers, minimizing downtime and maximizing availability.

Cyber Essentials Certification: Security at Our Core

Security is paramount at GrabzIt. To demonstrate this commitment, we have passed Cyber Essentials, a UK Government scheme.

This certification underscores our dedication to providing you with a secure and reliable service.

We are committed to constantly improving and expanding our services to meet our users' evolving needs.

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