August 2024 Changelog
August 2024 broadened SCM source collection and cleaned up several integration workflows. The month included webhook validation improvements, Google Sheets guardrails, translation fixes, Groq wait handling, and browser-task stability.
For users, this made connected workflows less fragile: webhooks became easier to test, Google Sheet exports gave clearer warnings, and AI provider waits behaved more predictably.
Who this update helps
- Users sending scraper output to webhooks or Google Sheets.
- Users relying on Groq and other AI services.
- Users scraping with browser-based tasks.
- Users working across translated UI and source workflows.
Webhook workflows became easier to test
SCM improved the editing and validation path for webhook payloads.
- A webhook test service button was added.
- Webhook validation was renamed and clarified.
- Webhook text areas can be cleared correctly.
- Webhook placeholders and related help links were added around this period.
Google Sheets task setup became safer
Tasks that require a Google Sheet became harder to misconfigure.
- Dynamic Scraper will not save if a required Google Sheet is missing.
- Google Maps tasks show a better error if no sheet is selected.
- Google Maps also refuses bad saves when the required sheet is absent.
AI provider waits became more reliable
Groq and related AI calls received fixes around long waits and retry timing.
- Groq waits longer than one minute are allowed.
- Retry wait timing became less likely to fail when delays are returned in minutes.
- AI-generated text can include spintax when it passes sanity checks in later work.
Browser and scraper stability improved
Several source collectors were repaired after upstream changes or edge cases.
- YouTube subtitle scraping recovered after a YouTube change.
- Bing search returned link results again.
- SerpApi wait and retry behavior improved.
- Browser-task logs became faster and easier to follow.
Related SCM guides and product history
Full developer changelog
The summary above is written for users. The original 75-item developer changelog is preserved below for exact release detail.
September 1, 2024
- style: Shorten some ui labels
August 31, 2024
- fix: SCM UI translation not working
August 29, 2024
- feat: webhooks added test service button
- fix: webhook validate renamed to pretty json
- fix: webhook validate renamed to validate json
- fix: webhook textarea can not be cleared of data
August 28, 2024
- fix: groqai allow wait > 1 min
August 27, 2024
- other: dynamic scraper, dont allow task save if google sheet is not selected
- other: google maps, dont allow task save if google sheet is not selected
- other: google maps, display better error message if you didn't select a sheet
- fix: google maps, faster exit while scrolling for results
August 23, 2024
- feat: Article creator, import local content and use it with AI prompts
- other: article creator image insert, moved around settings to more logical sections, specifically insert type moved to bottom as it should always be 'cached'
- feat: article creator, ai user macro insert button will insert macro with =
- feat: article creator, display default ai being used in dropdown
- feat: article creator, insert image, display current default ai image service name
- fix: article creator, macro missing showing regex codes
August 22, 2024
- fix: post uploader title detection accepts newlines
August 21, 2024
- fix: soft spinner will not spin html attributes, and is html safe
- feat: ai image stable diffusion added
- feat: article creator, url filter, url box to filter results
August 20, 2024
- fix: article creator, link sentence, removing last character of words in spintax groups.
- feat: article creator, new ai macro '%previous_content%' which can be used in prompts to send previously generated content to the ai as context
- fix: Article creator, contextual link, will not insert links into headers
- fix: Article creator, contextual link, use the keywords from link as list of words to match instead of default article keyword
- feat: Article creator, contextual link, allow partial matching of keywords
August 19, 2024
- feat: article creator, insert contextual link, will search entire article for main article keyword to replace with link. If that fails it will choose random word length.
- feat: image scraper, ai image service selector drop down added
August 17, 2024
- fix: post uploader, better duplicate post title detection
- feat: post uploader, allow posting as page
- fix: Article creator, custom titles, images, videos will remember last used position when going to next article keyword
August 16, 2024
- feat: ai image model selection in api settings
- feat: article creator, custom images a loaded sequentially, first if mixed with scraped images
- feat: Webhooks for AI prompts
August 15, 2024
- fix: article creator, no longer inserts content like lists at end of article
August 13, 2024
- fix: Article creator insert random link always at first line
August 10, 2024
- feat: WP xml gen, add post status draft
- fix: article creator, insert custom list items not working
August 9, 2024
- feat: post uploader, set post to draft
August 8, 2024
- fix: dynamic scraper, range select applied correctly to data:image
- fix: Article creator, articleSubheadingMinLength wasn't being correctly used
- fix: Article creator, image insert default is no longer base64 images as wp poster is able of uploading all images in a post directly to wp blog.
- fix: article creator, default image insert is 'cache' renamed from 'hotlinked'. Images are cached locally so that WP uploader can correctly access images when uploading them.
- fix: Article creator, duplicated tasks, upload post button will open new task if required
- fix: article creator, link insert, empty display has message
- fix: post uploader removing all image when using featured image
August 7, 2024
- fix: Google maps unable to find website details
- feat: wp upload post, uses the alt tag to assign an image filename to WP
- other: article creator, img tag string writes src attribute last
- feat: post uploader, featured image is removed from post after upload.
August 6, 2024
- fix: Google maps not finding all content
August 5, 2024
- fix: article creator, large links more than 512kb are automatically spun down
- fix: article creator, insert links, random links will insert as many links as you request. No longer limited to 1 per paragraph
- fix: article creator, insert links better random location
- fix: dynamic scraper, more task logs
- fix: article creator, if too many urls in link, it will not insert them as spun group
- fix: article creator, insert random links will not insert inside spun brackets.
August 4, 2024
- fix: Re-enabled auto db compact on scm app startup. Will crunch big db sizes for faster startup. Can also run compact manually inside settings utilities.
- feat: article creator, url filter, various enhancements https://forum.seocontentmachine.com/t/article-creator-url-filter-add-button-to-quick-add-urls/428/3
August 3, 2024
- fix: ai writer, syntax highlight of service|model failing on multiline prompts
- fix: ai prompt, inline service matching incorrectly on prompts with : inside it
- fix: dynamic scraper, rolled back a change that removed empty items in rules
- fix: Allow clear google spreadsheet selection
- fix: google translate free failing silently
- other: Tutorial link for dynamic scraper filter modal
- feat: dynamic scraper, range select to pick out individual items from a css selection
- style: All regex replace boxes use monospace font for readability
- feat: dynamic scraper, global filters at the bottom of task run after individual rule filters run
- feat: dynamic scraper, data + filter combined into 1 modal
August 2, 2024
- fix: article creator, url filter long lines breaking table display
- feat: article creator, url filter, italic rows that you click copy button on
- feat: article creator, new RAG based ai template
- feat: article creator, allow multiple different ai services and models to be called inline inside prompts
August 1, 2024
- feat: Google maps, scrape about, services text
- style: article creator, filter url, wider modal width 75%, more space for action buttons to avoid wrapping
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