v3.0 — Two-Click Lists & On-Device AI

Released: October 19, 2026

What's New

Pick a list in two clicks, on slow computers too

The picker reads the section under your cursor and its own cards, and is 2–3× faster on slow machines.
Fields are typed (prices, ratings, review counts, IDs) and split where a site packs several values together. They're found again by their meaning when a site changes its layout.
Stop always ends a run and keeps the rows read so far. Runs that follow a Next link continue across pages reliably.

Same details from many pages, out of sight

Many URLs run in hidden background tabs, with no windows over your work.
Steps run in your recipe's order, clicks are checked for an effect, and Job details shows coverage per field.
CrawlPilot suggests how many tabs at a time suit your computer, and eases off when it struggles.

Page assistant (on-device AI)

A brief made for the kind of page (product, article, listing, job, recipe…), with every point checked against the page and shown on it.
Answers with citations, as tables you can save, in your language.
Ask about an image or chart on the page.
What changed since I saved this? and Does it fit me?

It runs on Gemini Nano, Chrome's built-in model. Nothing leaves your computer. See Page assistant.

New tools

Contacts from websites: emails, phones and social profiles from a list of company sites, one row per company.
API recipes: the Scraper Toolkit finds the JSON API behind a page, and Get every page calls it page by page with your session, without a tab per page.
Live Google Sheets sync: send a dataset to your own Google Sheet through an Apps Script you own, with no CrawlPilot account. New rows follow automatically. See Settings.
Image Downloader: full-size originals, duplicates removed, convert and resize.
Markdown of any page, and AI Extract with grounded values.

Faster and lighter

The side panel opens about 40% faster. Only English is bundled; other languages load when you choose them.

CrawlPilot collects nothing: no analytics and no account. Pages, extracted data, briefs and AI prompts stay on your device. Data goes only where you send it: your own Google Apps Script, webhooks you configure, and the sites you scrape (with your own session).

Upgrade Notes

Access to websites is asked for from a banner in the side panel: click Allow once. See Permissions.
The Text Summarizer is now the Page assistant. It no longer sends page text to an external API.
The Metadata Extractor is now Article text & details inside Same details from many pages.