March 2025 Changelog
March was about waiting less. The web crawler can run up to 100 threads instead of one, so a site that took an afternoon takes minutes. Google Maps stopped getting stuck in a loop on reviews and halved the time it waits for them.
You also get separate thread counts for articles and prompts, so you can push one without pushing the other.
Read this if you
- Crawl whole sites for links.
- Scrape Google Maps reviews, hotels included.
- Run big article jobs and want more control over speed.
- Need royalty free images.
- Schedule posts across several blogs.
Crawling a site takes minutes, not an afternoon
- Set the crawler up to 100 threads. A large site that used to crawl one page at a time now runs a hundred at once.
- Crawl results come back split into internal and external links, so you can go straight to an outbound audit or an internal link map without sorting the list yourself.
Google Maps reviews stopped hanging
- The bug that left review collection spinning forever is fixed, so a task that used to need killing now finishes.
- Waiting for reviews is capped at 15 seconds instead of 30, which halves the dead time on every listing in a big run.
- Hotels return their reviews.
- Pick the map language and the reviews come back in it, rather than in whatever mix the listing has.
Two thread counts instead of one
- Articles and prompts have their own thread settings, so you can run several articles at once without hammering your AI provider with every prompt inside them, or the other way round.
- OpenAI calls support the newer completion token limit, so the models that require it work.
Free image libraries
- Pixabay and Pexels are available in the image scraper and as image sources, so you can illustrate an article without paying per picture.
One schedule across your blogs
- Share a posting schedule between upload tasks, so posts going to several blogs spread out on one timetable instead of all landing at once.
Small things
- An interrupted Google search is retried rather than ending the task with an error.
- The keyword question tool stopped erroring on its removed Quora source.
- LibreTranslate has the languages that were missing from its list.
Related SCM guides and product history
Full developer changelog
The summary above is written for users. The original 18-item developer changelog is preserved below for exact release detail.
March 28, 2025
- fix: google maps, bad loop code on review loading causing task to get stuck in inf loop.
- fix: google maps, reduced time spent waiting for reviews from 30s to 15s
March 27, 2025
- fix: Google maps able to find reviews for hotels
March 25, 2025
- feat: Added both ai article/prompt thread counts url='https://forum.seocontentmachine.com/t/ai-prompt-threads/628/7'
March 20, 2025
- feat: Google maps allow selecting a map language to force reviews into specific language
- feat: Add missing language selections from libre translate
March 13, 2025
- feat: web crawler task threads added
- feat: web crawler max threads to 100
- feat: Web crawler output is split into external and internal links. https://forum.seocontentmachine.com/t/how-to-crawl-a-website-for-internal-and-external-links/651
- feat: You can change the number of crawler threads when using the web crawler task, https://forum.seocontentmachine.com/t/how-to-increase-the-number-of-threads-of-the-web-crawler/650
March 12, 2025
- feat: Add both pixabay api and pexels api to the image scraper
- feat: Add pixabay api to image sources
- feat: openai api supports max_completion_tokens
- fix: keyword question quoraResults is not defined
- fix: Google search ERR_ABORTED will pass page to captcha breaker instead of ending in an error
March 4, 2025
- feat: Shared posting schedule option for post upload tools. See more here https://forum.seocontentmachine.com/t/how-to-schedule-posts-using-a-shared-schedule/643
March 1, 2025
- fix: Tooltips for content insert buttons missing
- fix: html inserts not being located at bottom of article
See all monthly updates in the SCM changelog archive. New users can also try SCM from the trial signup page.