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Octoparse AI Release Notes

Written by Sophie
Updated over 2 weeks ago

Release Notes for v2.4.121.228

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed several known issues to improve stability and performance.


Release Notes for v2.4

New Features

  • Excel Enhancements: Supports content filtering and range screenshots

  • Custom Command Management: Added right-click menu to quickly Release, Copy to Enterprise, or Group commands in the library.

  • Smart Input Memory: Use "Remember input" to save and reuse parameters from history for faster execution.

  • Default Parameter Values: Set default values for App and Custom Command parameters.

Improvements

  • Advanced Excel Deletion: Now support bulk deletion and filtering for visible or hidden rows/columns.

  • Flexible Search: Added "Ignore Case" option to the "Find/Replace data" command.

  • Upgraded Log Search: Locate logs with full context visibility.

  • New "Switch" Widget: Boolean input variables can now be displayed as a Switch control.

  • Intelligent Dropdowns: When using "single-select dropdown" variables, available options will show when the variable is used in the flow.

  • Optional Outputs: Output variables are now optional to keep your workflow clean.

  • Dynamic Descriptions: Custom command descriptions now update based on parameters.

  • Better Debugging: Click error messages to fix the error or reconfigure the command.

  • Workflow Preview: Hover over EmailMessageInstance variables to preview the Email Subject during test runs.

  • UI Optimization: Improved display for long variable values.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed several known issues to improve overall stability and performance.


Release Notes for v2.2.2072-beta

What's New

New Features:

  • Added the reCAPTCHA V2 command for enhanced CAPTCHA handling.

  • Introduced a new API interface to batch-run apps via bots.

  • Added Smart Locator to Web Element Editor for more accurate element detection.

  • Expanded LLM integration to include Gemini and Grok, supporting images, audio, video, and PDFs.

Improvements:

  • Custom commands can now include subflows, enabling you to structure complex logic into smaller reusable parts when building custom command libraries.

  • Run logs are now displayed in Bot Client’s execution history

  • Dialogs can now be resized for easier viewing of extended content.

  • The Delete Excel Image command now supports removing embedded images in cells.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed several known issues to improve stability and performance.


Release Notes for 10/10/2025

What's New

AI Copilot - Build automation workflows with AI!

  • Describe what you want to automate in natural language, and AI Copilot will generate a ready-to-run workflow for you.

  • Chat with AI Copilot to refine your request and adjust the workflow as needed.

  • Currently supports web and Excel automation.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed several known issues to improve stability and performance.


Release Notes for 29/08/2025

What's New

New Features:

  • Image-based actions are now resolution-independent. Commands such as Click Image, Hover on Image, and Wait for Image run reliably regardless of desktop resolution.

  • Added new Excel automation command: Set row height/column width.

  • Added OCR command: General Text Recognition, which recognizes text and its coordinates from images.

Improvements:

  • Input parameters can now be configured with dependencies.

  • Data extraction now supports adding fixed columns with variables in the datatable.

  • Python command now supports DataTable input/output for handling structured data.

  • Time triggers now support running a specific app version.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed several known issues to improve stability and performance.


Release Notes v2.0.2129-beta

What's New

  • AI Workflow Wizard (open beta): Create AI workflow drafts using natural language

  • New basic commands: Set/Clear cell format, Create/Set variables

  • Zero-config App Python Environment: App recipients no longer need to install libraries dependencies manually for downloaded apps

  • Custom command libraries: Package frequently used subflows as reusable custom commands

  • Smart copying: Related elements automatically copy with commands

  • Login with Google/Apple accounts

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed some known issues from the previous version


Release Notes for 17/03/2025

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed some known issues.


Release Notes for 10/24/2024

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed some known issues.


Release Notes for 10/17/2024

What's New

  • Added the ability to capture shadow-root elements.

  • Added the ability to manually refresh the app list.

  • Enabled LLM-related commands to get access to major global LLM models, including OpenAI's GPT, Anthropic's Claude, and Moonshot's Kimi.

  • Enhanced the “If web element is visible” command to include checks for whether elements are obstructed.

  • Optimized feature interactions and improved the overall UI experience.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed some known issues.


Release Notes for 07/19/2024

What's New

  • Added the ability to process column data, enabling users to process data in the preview dashboard (e.g. removing spaces, replacing letters, and extracting phone numbers).

  • Added the ability to append data, consolidating multiple scraping results into one Excel file or data table.

  • Support for capturing and interacting with elements in multi-layer Iframe structures.

  • Added web page monitoring-related commands to parse chart data.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed some known issues.


Release Notes for 05/21/2024

What's New

  • Adapts for and allows automation in adsPower browser.

  • Enhanced the algorithm of Data extraction command, allowing users to edit XPath to locate extraction targets.

  • Added ability to attach current row number to output variables when committing Loop through Excel command.

  • Added the ability to solve more CAPTCHA types: double gap slider & path drawing CAPTCHA.

  • Added an option to set start/end time and cron expression in Time trigger, allowing a more flexible task execution time, frequencies, and intervals.

  • Added access to the task interface, to view task running status or to stop running.

Bug Fixes

  • Addressed some known issues.


Release Notes for 05/07/2024

What's New

  • Added the ability to scrape data from web page tables and listing page through one click.

  • Added the ability to add/remove super administrators from the Admin Console.

  • Add an option to switch on Get beta version mode to experience the latest update.

  • Added option to enable or disable update notifications.

  • Added a resource panel to display value-added service prices, account balance, usage details, etc.

  • Added option in Time trigger to specify the frequency in minutes.

  • Added the ability to set input Intervals for the Fill textbox on webpage command.

  • Added more Control type for startup parameters, such as drop-down menus, date, time, password, etc.

  • Added detailed pricing for CAPTCHA-related commands.

  • Enhanced certain feature interactions and optimized product UI experience.

Bug Fixes

  • Addressed some known issues.

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