# Changelog of App Store & Google Play Review Monitor (`astraedus/app-review-monitor`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/astraedus/app-review-monitor/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/astraedus/app-review-monitor.md

## Changelog

### Unreleased

- The example `apps` list now includes one high-volume third-party Google Play app, so the demo run's non-empty result no longer depends on Apple's public feed (which intermittently refuses to serve data) or on our own low-traffic apps.

- The zero-config demo input now keeps its state in the run's own storage instead of the shared named store, so pressing **Start** with nothing configured returns reviews every time rather than going quiet once the first run has been remembered. Changing anything that shapes the output — `apps`, `countries`, `maxReviewsPerApp`, `onlyNew`, a rating filter, or `stateStoreName` — switches back to the persistent named store and true incremental behaviour. A demo run is capped at 10 reviews per app and says so in its run note.

- Output: `.actor/dataset_schema.json` now declares a full draft-07 field schema, so the dataset renders as a documented table and the Actor satisfies the Store's output-schema requirement.

- Security: `webhookUrl` is validated against an SSRF guard at input time and again immediately before the POST. Loopback, private, link-local, cloud-metadata and internal hosts are refused in every notation (`0xa9.0xfe.0xa9.0xfe`, `0251.0376.0251.0376`, `127.1`, `0177.0.1`, `::1`, `::ffff:127.0.0.1`, `localhost`, `*.internal`), as are embedded credentials and non-standard ports. Outbound requests no longer follow redirects blindly: at most three hops, each re-checked.

### 1.0 — 2026-09-14

First release.

- Google Play and Apple App Store reviews in one normalised dataset schema.
- Automatic store detection from package names, numeric app IDs, or store URLs from either store.
- Incremental mode (`onlyNew`, on by default): review IDs already emitted are remembered in a named key-value store, so a scheduled run returns only what is new.
- `minRating` / `maxRating` filters — set `maxRating: 2` to be alerted only about angry reviews.
- Optional `webhookUrl`: a JSON summary (per app: new count, average rating, worst reviews) is POSTed after every run.
- Pay-per-event pricing: `app-checked` and `review-emitted`. Already-seen reviews are free.