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Public story · 2026-08-10 · high
Maintainers call it likely the last release before version 0.5, pairing it with 0.4.12's self-tuning crawl rate.
Why now: Scrapling shipped 0.4.13 on August 9, covered here in the August 10 briefing, with maintainers flagging it as the last release before v0.5.
Scrapling released version 0.4.13 on August 9 with XMLFeedSpider and companion classes that iterate feed entries directly, per the project's GitHub release notes. For anyone scraping feeds for an agent to read, that's one less spider to write by hand.
The release also reworks Scrapling's MCP server. Maintainers flagged 0.4.13 as likely the last release before version 0.5, per the GitHub changelog. That's a checkpoint to test before the interface changes again.
The update follows 0.4.12, which added AutoThrottle so a spider adjusts its own crawl rate. Before that, a developer had to hand-set a fixed download_delay and guess right. Pair the two and a scraper finds feed entries on its own, then slows down automatically when a site pushes back, no tuning required.
The feed spiders are convenience. The MCP rework is the bigger signal, a bet that Scrapling's next users are agents calling tools directly, not developers writing scrapy-style scripts. If v0.5 keeps expanding the MCP server rather than adding more spider types, that bet is paying off.
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