Change log - Brand.dev

Developer Portal Design: We’ve completely revamped the developer portal with a modern, intuitive interface that better reflects our brand identity. The new design features improved navigation, enhanced documentation readability, and a more cohesive visual experience across all pages.
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Data pipeline has been improved dramatically, on-demand API latency has dropped by 30% across the board.

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:
- Zero credit usage - Prefetch calls are completely free for subscribed customers
- Lightning-fast subsequent calls - Pre-warm our systems for instant data retrieval
- Perfect for user onboarding - Prefetch as soon as a user signs up for optimal experience
- Simple integration - Just POST to /brand/prefetch with the domain
Ideal Use Cases:
- Pre-load brand data during user registration flows
- Optimize performance for high-priority domains
- Reduce latency in real-time applications
- Enhance user experience with instant data availability
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):
- Optional boolean parameter that optimizes API calls for maximum speed
- When set to true, the API skips time-consuming operations for faster response
- Perfect for use cases where speed is prioritized over comprehensive data collection
- Trade-off: Faster response times at the cost of less detailed information
Click here to view the documentation.

timeoutMS Parameter (All endpoints):
- Optional timeout control in milliseconds for all API requests
- Set custom timeout values from 1ms up to 300,000ms (5 minutes maximum)
- Requests exceeding the specified timeout will be aborted with a 408 status code
- Ideal for applications with strict response time requirements or custom retry logic

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:
- Use cases and service offerings
- Case studies and success stories
- Mission statements and company values
- Legal frameworks and compliance information
- Team information and company background
- Product details and specifications
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:
- No need to build complex scraping infrastructure
- Handles dynamic content and JavaScript-heavy sites
- Bypasses common bot detection systems
- Returns clean, structured data ready for integration
- Perfect for onboarding automation and data enrichment workflows
CHECK IT OUT HERE!

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 Ruby SDK released: https://rubygems.org/gems/brand.dev
Docs updated to show SDK usage.
We now return a third value for “mode” under images: has_opaque_background, this means the image has its own background and can be used in dark mode or light mode.

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.