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📝 New Feedback Widget: We’ve added a feedback widget to our developer portal to make it easier for you to share suggestions, report issues, and help us improve the API.
🛡️ Improved API Security & Error Handling: We’ve significantly enhanced our API’s error handling capabilities and implemented robust protection against potential DDoS attacks to ensure better service reliability and security.
Key Improvements:
What This Means for You:
These improvements are automatically active across all endpoints and require no changes to your existing integrations.
📝 Font Extraction Update: If you’re currently using the retrieve endpoint to extract font information from domains, we recommend migrating to our new styleguide endpoint for enhanced typography data.
Why Migrate?
What You’ll Get:
The styleguide endpoint provides much richer typography information compared to the basic font data in the retrieve endpoint, here’s a small example:
Migration Path:
Simply replace your retrieve endpoint calls with the styleguide endpoint when you need font/typography data. The styleguide endpoint requires the same authentication and accepts the same domain parameter.
🚀 Major Performance Boost: We’ve been working to make our styleguide and screenshot APIs faster and higher quality. We added distributed caching, so repeat requests to the same domain are under 500ms. We also completely rewrote our styleguide extraction and screenshot generation pipelines to be much more efficient, resulting in 40-60% faster response times across both APIs for cold hits.
Screenshot API Now Live (Beta): We’re excited to announce our new Screenshot API, now available in beta! This endpoint allows you to capture high-quality screenshots of any website programmatically, perfect for building visual brand libraries, competitive analysis tools, or automated documentation systems.
Key Features:
Perfect Use Cases:
This beta endpoint makes it incredibly easy to integrate website screenshot functionality into your applications without the complexity of managing headless browsers or image processing infrastructure.
Styleguide API Now Live (Beta): We’re excited to announce our new Design System & Styleguide API, now available in beta! This powerful endpoint automatically extracts comprehensive design system information from any brand’s website, giving you instant access to their visual DNA.
What You Get:
Example Use Cases:
This beta endpoint provides an unprecedented level of design system intelligence, automatically parsing complex CSS and extracting the core visual components that define a brand’s digital identity. Simply provide a domain and get back a complete design system breakdown ready for analysis or implementation.
Prefetch Endpoint Now Live: Our new prefetch endpoint is now available for all paid customers! This powerful optimization tool allows you to signal that you may need brand data for a particular domain soon, dramatically improving response times for subsequent API calls.
Key Features:
/brand/prefetch
with the domainIdeal Use Cases:
This endpoint requires a paid plan.
New API Parameters for Enhanced Control: We’ve added two powerful new parameters to give you more control over your API requests:
maxSpeed
Parameter (Fetch Brand endpoint only):
true
, the API skips time-consuming operations for faster responseClick here to view the documentation.
timeoutMS
Parameter (All endpoints):
AI Query API released: Our AI Query API is now officially live! This powerful new endpoint allows you to intelligently extract and query specific information from any website without the technical complexity of web scraping.
Perfect for populating customer accounts with key business information such as:
We handle all the heavy lifting including JavaScript rendering, bot protection bypass, and complex scraping challenges. Simply provide a URL and your query - our API will intelligently extract the relevant information and return structured data you can immediately use to populate customer profiles, CRM systems, or any other application.
Key Benefits:
Note: This has also been released to all of our SDKs.
New & Improved API Call History: We’ve released an improved API call history widget to the dashboard with enhanced filtering options. You can now filter your API calls by time periods including this month, last 3 days, last 7 days, last 3 months, last 6 months, last year, or view all time data for comprehensive historical analysis.
Zapier integration is now live!
Note: This is an v0 launch, we only released the retrieve endpoint for now with the rest to follow soon.
New python SDK released: https://pypi.org/project/brand.dev/
New typescript SDK released: https://www.npmjs.com/package/brand.dev
This is a complete re-write and now exposes the types for easy integration.
Database Migration: Transitioned to a more reliable database provider, resulting in a decrease of API call latency by approximately 50ms.