Launch Week II - Day 2: Introducing Location and Language Settings
Blog post from Firecrawl
Firecrawl's second Launch Week introduces a new feature called Location and Language Settings, allowing users to specify a country and preferred languages to access content tailored to their target location and linguistic preferences. This feature leverages appropriate proxies to emulate the corresponding language and timezone settings, defaulting to the United States if no country is specified. Users can incorporate these settings into their web scraping projects by including a location object in their request body, specifying properties such as the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code and an array of preferred languages. By setting the location as Brazil and the language as Brazilian Portuguese, for example, users receive content as it appears to Brazilian users in Portuguese. This enhancement offers relevance, localization, and customization for web scraping, aiming to provide users with more precise and localized data for their projects. Firecrawl encourages feedback on this feature to continue improving and personalizing their services, and hints at more exciting releases to come during their Launch Week.