October 2024 Changelog

Changelog
November 26, 2024
Updated August 2026

October 2024 Changelog

October added AI columns to the CSV tool, so a spreadsheet of product names or addresses can generate its own descriptions from the fields already in it. Google Maps also stopped truncating: reviews are unlimited and the whole about tab comes back.

One change needs your attention if you wrote your own outline template. The outline tag no longer adds h3 headings for you.

Read this if you

Have a CSV you want to turn into content.
Scrape reviews or business details from Google Maps.
Wrote your own AI outline template.
Publish over XML-RPC.
Have had the app killed mid task.

Your CSV can write its own columns

Add an AI column to a CSV and it writes each row from the fields already in that row. A list of businesses becomes a list of descriptions without you pasting anything into a prompt.

Google Maps returns the whole listing

Review scraping is unlimited. You get every review on a listing rather than the first handful.
The entire about tab comes back, not a snippet of it.
Opening hours arrive as readable text, and reviews stop carrying stray symbols into your output.

Outlines do what your template says

This one changes existing templates. The outline tag used to insert h3 headings whether you asked or not, which made h2-only articles impossible.

An outline can be h2 only.
If you want h3 headings, put them in the tag content. They are no longer added behind you.
Every template that ships with SCM was updated to match. Your own templates need the h3 part adding by hand.
Macros can be given a priority, so you control which one resolves first.

More ways into WordPress

XML-RPC uploads images and can publish as a page, not just a post.
Point SCM at a custom xmlrpc.php path for sites that moved or renamed it.
The duplicate title check over WP JSON looks at drafts as well, so you stop re-posting something that is already sitting unpublished.

A killed app leaves tasks you can restart

After a forced restart, tasks that died stop showing as running, so you can start them again instead of hunting for a way to unstick them.
The restart button asks first, so a stray click does not throw away a part-finished run.
An AI error stops Article Creator instead of letting it carry on and write the rest of the article without the part that failed.

Small things

Page scraping accepts pages up to 5MB, up from 1.5MB, so long pages stop being skipped.
Dynamic Scraper scrolls the page while it waits for elements, and waits after load for content that fills in late. Lazy loaded results get picked up.
Spintax braces with no pipe in them, like {cat}, are left alone instead of throwing an error.
The AI writer, rewriter and spinner dropdowns show which AI is your default, and open on what you used last instead of blank.
Static scraper can save an article under its full url path, so files from different sites stop colliding.
XML scraper has keep line and remove line filters.
File then Locate opens the folder holding the article you are previewing.
Article folder: the select folder button loads the folder you picked, and word wrap can be turned off.
Using scraped titles names the file after the article being written, not the previous one.
The article preview fills the window height, forms are wider, and the XML and email posters have paging.
Groq waits properly when the retry time comes back in minutes, and the millisecond wait error is gone.

Related SCM guides and product history

Full developer changelog

The summary above is written for users. The original 42-item developer changelog is preserved below for exact release detail.

October 30, 2024

fix: Groq AI not waiting when retry time is minutes
fix: Image scraper this.log error message

October 28, 2024

feat: Article creator, ai outline supports just h2. Outline tag now requires h3 in the tag content, it is no longer automatically inserted for you (all scm default ai templates updated).

October 27, 2024

fix: Post upload wp-json can check titles of posts in draft status as well

October 26, 2024

fix: Groq AI ms wait time causing error
feat: Post uploader xmlrpc can also upload images and post as page
fix: On forced restart, scm did not correctly clear running status on dead tasks
feat: Allow post uploader to use custom xmlrpc.php filepath

October 25, 2024

feat: Add confirm on task restart button
fix: AI errors stop article creator from progressing.
fix: Auto restart tasks error

October 23, 2024

feat: AI user macro, ability to edit macros using the older textarea style.

October 22, 2024

style: Slightly wider max width of all forms
feat: article creator, ai macro change priority
feat: Static scraper can save articles using full url path name
style: striped table for url and keyword finder table

October 19, 2024

fix: article creator ai error
fix: Extra groq ai logging

October 16, 2024

style: xml and email poster has paging
style: article preview window scales to window height
style: Allow app layout to reach 100% height
style: Add missing bottom border in ai writer

October 15, 2024

feat: article creator ai writer selection remove empty default selection and instead uses last saved selection.
fix: Correctly display default ai names in spinner ai writer selection

October 13, 2024

fix: Page scraping size page size limit from 1.5mb to 5mb

October 12, 2024

fix: article creator, when using scraped_titles in AI writer, the %title% filename correctly uses the current article title.
fix: article creator, article folder, select folder button not loading selected folder
feat: article creator, local article folder, disable word wrapping
feat: XML scraper tool, add line keep and line remove filters
feat: Add file > locate, menu item to open containing folder of preview article

October 11, 2024

feat: Google maps scraper, unlimited review scraping

October 10, 2024

style: Fix extra line breaks in log messages
fix: Google maps scraper, cleaned up reviews containing unknown symbols

October 9, 2024

fix: Google map scraper, clean up opening time text
feat: Google map scraper, return entire about tab content

October 8, 2024

feat: AI csv tool, add extra AI columns that can generate new content based on csv fields

October 6, 2024

fix: Spintax error when using spintax braces without pipe. Now scm correctly leaves it alone. eg {cat}

October 4, 2024

feat: Print the name of default ai next to ai rewriter selection in rewriter dropdown box
feat: Dynamic scraper will auto scroll the page when waiting for page elements to load

October 2, 2024

feat: dynamic page wait time used after page load to give time for elements to load data

October 1, 2024

fix: user ai list visual glitch, deleting macro would cause gap in text area to appear
style: AI user macro list, allow it to scroll without hiding add macro button

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