# Firecrawl v2.1.0 is here

Introducing Search Categories, Image Extraction, Data Attribute Scraping, Hash-Based Routing and more

- Published: August 29, 2025

![v2.1.0 Launch](/images/v21.png)

### New Features

* **Search Categories**: Filter search results by specific categories using the `categories` parameter:
  * `github`: Search within GitHub repositories, code, issues, and documentation
  * `research`: Search academic and research websites (arXiv, Nature, IEEE, PubMed, etc.)
  * More coming soon
* **Image Extraction:** Added image extraction support to the v2 scrape endpoint.
* **Data Attribute Scraping:** Now supports extraction of `data-*` attributes.
* **Hash-Based Routing:** Crawl endpoints now handle hash-based routes.
* **Improved Google Drive Scraping:** Added ability to scrape TXT, PDF, and Sheets from Google Drive.
* **PDF Enhancements:** Extracts PDF titles and shows them in metadata.
* Map endpoint supports up to **100k results**.

Read the full changelog [here](https://github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl/releases/tag/v2.1.0)

_Canonical HTML: https://www.firecrawl.dev/changelog/v21_

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### On This Topic
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- [Newer entry: Firecrawl v2.2.0 is here](/changelog/v22.md)
- [Older entry: Introducing Firecrawl v2](/changelog/v2.md)