# Changelog of AP News Articles Scraper (`automation-lab/ap-news-articles-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/automation-lab/ap-news-articles-scraper/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/automation-lab/ap-news-articles-scraper.md

## Changelog

### 0.1.6 — 2026-09-27

#### Reliability

- Recognize challenge pages even when returned with HTTP 200 and try alternate public article views instead of silently treating the challenge as an empty result.
- Persist accepted articles before charging each item event; a failed dataset write no longer bills an unsaved article.

#### Changes

- Clarified direct, mirror, and proxy recovery behavior and distinguished Console prefill from API defaults.

### 0.1.5 — 2026-09-25

#### Reliability

- Added an English-language public article-view fallback when AP News challenges direct requests, preserving canonical AP URLs, article bodies, and the existing browser recovery path.

### 0.1.4 — 2026-09-25

#### Reliability

- Bound challenge recovery by the run's time limit so a slow article cannot time out an otherwise useful extraction; runs still fail visibly when no articles can be extracted.

### 0.1.3 — 2026-09-13

#### Reliability

- Increased browser recovery headroom and added one bounded fresh-identity attempt so transient AP News challenge timeouts recover without exhausting the run.

### 0.1.2 — 2026-09-12

#### Reliability

- Added bounded public discovery and rendering fallbacks so keyword, topic-page, and direct-article runs continue returning useful AP News records when AP presents a browser challenge to direct requests.
- Preserved non-empty-result validation so blocked or malformed upstream responses fail visibly instead of producing false-success empty datasets.

### 0.1.1 — 2026-08-14

#### Reliability

- Reduced peak memory while extracting articles so combined query and topic-page runs remain reliable with the standard 256 MB allocation.
- Made the prefilled run a bounded five-article, one-page query while keeping topic URLs and larger limits available when explicitly requested.

### 0.1.0

- Added AP News keyword search, topic-page discovery, and direct article URL extraction.
- Added complete article records with headline, summary, author byline, publication dates, image, sections, keywords, and body text.
- Added pagination limits and inclusive publication-date filters for recurring research workflows.