# Changelog of Google Search Results Scraper (`apify/google-search-scraper`) Actor - **URL**: https://apify.com/apify/google-search-scraper/changelog.md - **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/apify/google-search-scraper.md #### 2026-09-29 *Features* - The LLM search engines (ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, AI Mode, Perplexity) now use `countryCode`. Without it, they default to United States, same as Google. ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot and AI Mode don't support every country; an engine returns no result for a country it doesn't support. #### 2026-08-24 *Changes* - Removed the `resultsTotal` field. It was Google's internal estimate and never matched the actual number of results, which confused users. #### 2026-07-28 *Features* - Added Ukrainian search language #### 2026-07-15 *Features* - SEO Tools Add-on: Scrapes each organic result's page with the Website Content Crawler and attaches the content as markdown via `websiteContent.markdown`. Enable it via the `websiteContentScraper.enable` input option. #### 2026-06-30 *Features* - Scrape full AI Overview Add-on: Ensures the full AI Overview is extracted when one is present. Enable it via the `aiOverview.scrapeFullAiOverview` input option. An extra cost applies per query when an AI Overview is successfully captured. #### 2026-06-29 *Features* - Link Prospecting Tool Add-on: Find websites that mention your topic but not your brand, and get business contacts for outreach. The tool collects cited URLs from all enabled search engines (Google Search, AI Overview, AI Mode, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Copilot, Gemini), scrapes each page to check for brand mentions, and fetches marketing and C-suite contacts for domains where your brand is absent. Results are output to a separate `linkProspecting` dataset. #### 2026-05-18 *Features* - Added Thai search language - Added `websiteTitle` field to organic search results, containing the name of the website as displayed in the SERP. #### 2026-05-15 *Features* - Gemini Search Add-on: Enable scraping of Google Gemini Search results. This allows you to retrieve Gemini Search results alongside or independently of other results. - Added a new output field for all LLM Search providers: `engine`, indicating which engine was used. #### 2026-04-28 *Features* - Copilot Search Add-on: Enable scraping of Microsoft Copilot Search results. This allows you to retrieve Copilot Search results alongside or independently of other results. #### 2026-04-20 BREAKING CHANGE - removed the deprecated `csvFriendlyOutput` option in the input. #### 2026-04-15 *Features* - Added new option in the Leads Enrichment section, allowing to enable verification of the leads emails. #### 2026-03-20 *Fixes* - Replaced obsolete `cs` (Serbia and Montenegro) country code with separate entries for Montenegro (`me`) and Serbia (`rs`). #### 2026-01-27 *Features* - ChatGPT Search Add-on: Enable scraping of ChatGPT Search. This allows you to retrieve ChatGPT Search results alongside or independently of other results. #### 2025-12-05 *Features* - Perplexity AI Search Add-on: Enable scraping of Perplexity AI Search. This allows you to retrieve Perplexity AI Search results alongside or independently of other results. #### 2025-09-02 *Features* - Add Business leads enrichment feature, which allows users to scrape leads for the websites found from queries, including employee names, job titles, emails, phone numbers, LinkedIn profiles, and company data. #### 2025-08-19 *Features* - Google AI Mode Add-on: Enable scraping of Google’s AI Mode. This allows you to retrieve AI Mode results alongside or independently of organic search results. #### 2025-08-07 *Features* - Add ability to enter hours in the `quickDateRange` input field. #### 2024-08-22 (0.0.128) *Fixes* - Renable exluding results based on `:site` filter parameter as there were several reports when Google didn't respect this filter. #### 2024-06-14 (0.0.122) *Fixes* - Disable excluding results based on `:site` filter parameter. The actor was checking whether all results from Google match the `site:` filter and excluded those that didn't match. This feature was buggy so we decided to disable it. #### 2024-06-03 (0.0.121) *Fixes* - Don't distinguish `http` vs `https` when filtering results with the `:site` clause. *Features* - Add `includeIcons` to input to extract result icons in base64 format. The image data is relatively large so we decided not to include it by default. #### 2024-04-23 (0.0.119) *Fixes* - Fixed extracting `personalInfo` from linkedin sites #### 2024-04-08 (0.0.118) *Fixes* - Fixed `personalInfo` extraction in mobile results - Fixed `relatedQueries` extraction in mobile results - Store the results suggested by Google to `suggestedResults` instead of `organicResults` #### 2024-02-12 (0.0.113) *Improvements*: - Actor continues scraping the next page if number of organic and paid results is greater than 80% of `resultsPerPage`. #### 2023-12-23 (0.0.109) *Fixes* - Improve handling of potentially non-matching `site:` filters. We check for a correct format and track any inconsistencies if there would be any. Users often use the filter in wrong format (e.g. `-site:` or multiple `site:` which doesn't work) #### 2023-12-23 (0.0.108) *Fixes* - Fix problem that sometimes not all `relatedQueries` were extracted #### 2023-10-30 (0.0.106) *Fixes*: - Fixed extraction of `companyName` field #### 2023-09-25 (0.0.103) *Fixes*: - Updated css selector for result's description #### 2023-08-21 (0.0.100) *Fixes*: - Fixed issue with pagination, where some pages Google returned didn't have the next page (depending on IP used). The actor will now visit every page it ever saw in pagination which fixes this issue #### 2023-08-11 (0.0.99) *Fixes*: - Updated mobile selectors #### 2023-07-08 *Fixes*: - Retry requests where some result domains don't correctly match the `site:` restriction. This happened very rarely and we are still investigating why Google would provide such results. #### 2023-06-26 (0.0.84) *Fixes*: - Correctly parse new result type with one full result-like site link #### 2023-05-31 (0.0.82) *Features* - Added output schema formats to download organic and paid results separately with one result per row format. For API access, add `&view=paid_results` or `&view=organic_results` to the URL. - Added `type`: `organic` or `paid` and `position` or `adPosition` to all organic and paid results for consistency. *Changes* - Deprecated input field `csvFriendlyOutput`, please migrate to using the new output schema formats. We will keep supporting `csvFriendlyOutput` for some time. #### 2023-05-29 (0.0.81) *Fixes* - Replaces `\t` characters in queries with spaces. Previously, they were briefly ignored which broke some queries. #### 2023-04-06 *Fixes* - Fixed personal info for LinkedIn results #### 2023-03-7 *Changes* - Updated to version 3 *Fixes* - Updated ads URLs selectors for desktop and mobile #### 2023-02-15 *Fixes* - Updated `relatedQueries` selectors to work with the new layout #### 2023-01-20 *Fixes* - Log proper error is `customDataFunction` throws an error - Log an error if a request fails all retries *Changes* - If `customDataFunction` throws an error, normal output is still returned, instead of crashing #### 2023-01-19 *Fixes* (new layout) - Fixed organic desktop results - Fixed organic mobile missing title and displayUrl - Fixed organic mobile missing top results - Deduplicate results #### 2022-11-17 - Fixed mobile extractor, paidResults, siteLinks, and description #### 2022-11-16 - Fixed mobile extractor paidResults, paidProducts, organicResults #### 2022-08-24 - Fixed organic results sometimes missing top result and twitter based results #### 2022-05-03 - Added `personalInfo` to output containing `name`, `location`, `jobTitle`, `companyName`, `cleanDescription`. These are available mainly for LinkedIn results. #### 2022-01-31 - Implemented `csvFriendlyOutput` option - Handled missing `www.` on domains #### 2022-01-21 - Fixed organic results for desktop (new layout) #### 2021-02-25 - Hotfixed `relatedQueries` and `peopleAlsoAsk` in the new layout #### 2021-01-19 - Fixed extractor to work on new Google layout - Added parsing emphasized text #### 2020-11-19 - Fixed new layout for mobile paid ads #### 2020-10-01 - Hotfix after Google changed the page layout for desktop - Fixed main selector for paid results - Fixed `description` for paid results - Fixed `description`, `url` and `siteLinks` for organic results #### 2020-07-15 (beta) - Fixed site links being present in a title of paid results - Better explanation about max limit of results - Added [Apify](https://sdk.apify.com/docs/api/apify) to `customDataFunction` - Added `includeUnfilteredResults` option - Parsing of product info - rating, number of reviews and price - Fixed `unmatched pseudo-class :first` error on desktop paid products