Releases

New Webshrinker Categories: Hate, Government, and Trackers
Peter Lowe
March 24, 2021

We curate our sets of categories very carefully, and only update them after thorough consideration. Here are the newest Webshrinker categories.

Enhanced automated deceptive and phishing site detection
Adam Spotton
October 16, 2018

Today we are pleased to announce a welcome enhancement to the Website Category API which boosts our deceptive and phishing site detection! The initial “deceptive” category was released back in March of 2018 and is actively being used to protect users from zero-day phishing attacks. This latest update adds a new layer of protection against…

Hosts API updated for July and August
Adam Spotton
September 5, 2018

The latest domain name and IP address data for July and August 2018 is now live. If you are already using the Hosts API, no additional changes are needed to start using the latest data. New queries will use this data automatically. While some of the Web Shrinker APIs have data that is updated in...