# Changelog of AliExpress Products & Seller Catalog Scraper (`automation-lab/aliexpress-products-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/automation-lab/aliexpress-products-scraper/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/automation-lab/aliexpress-products-scraper.md

## Changelog

### 2026-09-19

- Reduced timeout risk with a 510-second extraction budget, two-attempt live listing escalation, shared Chromium process, isolated proxy contexts, and an eight-candidate seller navigation limit.
- Search extraction now prefers useful live listing rows before falling back to public-index product identities.
- Added `imageUrls` and normalized variant SKU, price, currency, stock, availability, and option attributes while preserving all existing fields.
- Updated schemas, examples, route diagnostics, limitations, and troubleshooting guidance.

### 0.1.0

- Added crawler-facing direct search data, public indexed product-identity recovery, and bounded rotation across up to eight fresh residential listing sessions so intermittent empty client shells no longer fail after one residential route.
- Prevented non-purchasable zero-price card fragments from appearing as current seller-catalog prices; unavailable prices are now null.
- Clarified that item snapshots always preserve core identity while deeper structured fields depend on what AliExpress exposes.
- Added AliExpress keyword search extraction with prices, ratings, sales counts, images, and canonical product URLs.
- Added product-detail extraction for stock, variants, specifications, and public seller information, with a rendered-page fallback for useful core fields when structured data is unavailable.
- Added public seller-catalog extraction for supplier assortment snapshots.
- Added bounded sticky datacenter session rotation for AliExpress challenge and empty-shell responses, without an automatic residential fallback.