Changelog

[0.7.0—beta] — 2025-07-23

Added

• Custom Request Headers: Added defaultRequestHeaders input to allow custom HTTP headers for all requests
• Language Filtering: Added languageCountryCode input to specify language/country codes for URL filtering
• Improved Error Handling: Added more robust error handling throughout the pipeline

Changed

• Code Refactoring: Restructured codebase for better maintainability and clarity
• Name Extraction Improvements: Enhanced name validation and extraction logic to reduce false positives
• Email Matching Optimization: Improved accuracy of email-person matching algorithm
• URL Processing: Optimized URL processing and domain extraction logic
• HTML Parsing: Enhanced BeautifulSoup parsing with better context detection

[0.6.0—alpha] — 2025-07-19

Added

• New user inputs for explorationMode, depth, pagecount, priorityLinkKeywords, useCstomJobTitles and customJobTitles.

Chnaged

• Improvements to the name extraction and validation.

[0.5.1—alpha] — 2025-07-15

Fixed

• Minor Bug Fixes: Addressed issues in name extraction logic to ensure more consistent and accurate results.

[0.5.0—alpha] — 2025-07-13

Added

• New Input Settings: Introduced jobTitles and obeyRobotstxt settings to enhance customization and compliance.
  • jobTitles: Allows users to specify target job titles for more precise extraction.
  • obeyRobotstxt: Ensures adherence to website robots.txt files for ethical crawling.

Changed

• Updated Job Title Lists: Refined and expanded the internal job title database to improve accuracy and relevance of extracted decision-maker information.

Fixed

• Extraction and Processing Improvements: Resolved multiple bugs affecting data extraction and processing, resulting in more reliable and accurate outputs.

[0.4.0—alpha] — 2025-07-11

Changed

• Enhanced Name Processing: Optimized the handling of extracted names to improve accuracy, reduce false positives, and better support complex name formats.

Fixed

• Minor Bug Fixes: Addressed issues in name extraction logic to ensure more consistent and accurate results.

[0.3.0—alpha] — 2025-07-11

Changed:

• Expanded FALSE_POSITIVE_SELECTORS to include broader matching for testimonial-like content, including elements with class or ID containing "customer", "client", "review", "quote", "press", and related keywords.

[0.2.0—alpha] — 2025-07-09

Changed:

• Replaced the NER model with a slightly smaller one from Hugging Face. This new model offers better performance and improved support for multilingual names, paving the way for future internationalization features.

Added:

• Support for bulk URL input. Each URL is processed independently.

[0.1.0—alpha] — 2025-07-08

Added:

• Initial alpha release of the Decision Maker Name & Email Extractor.