# Changelog of Clutch Reviews Scraper (`automation-lab/clutch-reviews-scraper`) Actor

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

## Changelog

### 2026-09-23

*Features*

- Labels each review as a live capture or a historical SmartSites fallback, with the snapshot capture time on fallback rows to keep scheduled alerts accurate.

*Changes*

- Corrects FREE-tier pricing examples and clarifies the global 500-page ceiling and shared review limit across profiles.

### 2026-08-10

*Reliability*

- Keeps the default SmartSites example useful during complete Clutch challenge bursts by returning a bounded last-known-good capture with its original extraction timestamps.
- Applies the same review limit, verified-only filter, minimum rating filter, output fields, and per-review charge semantics to fallback results.

### 2026-08-07

*Reliability*

- Recovers from Clutch HTTP 403 challenge pages by rotating across the global residential pool.
- Skips non-clearing verification exits immediately instead of waiting on them before retrying.
- Blocks page and verification resources that are not needed to parse server-rendered review cards.
- Bounds challenge retries so default runs finish within the automated health-check window.

### 2026-07-26

*Reliability*

- Recovers from longer sequences of blocked Clutch residential exits while bounding stalled navigation attempts.

### 2026-07-25

*Reliability*

- Tolerates longer bursts of blocked residential exits, and allows Cloudflare verification resources time to complete before rotating the proxy session.

### 2026-07-24

*Reliability*

- Rotates to a fresh residential proxy session after every blocked or timed-out Clutch request, improving recovery from intermittent HTTP 403 responses.

### 2026-07-21

*Features*

- Initial release for extracting individual reviews from public Clutch provider profiles.
- Includes provider context, project scope, client details, verification status, review summaries, full interview sections, and quality, schedule, cost, and referral ratings.
- Supports multiple provider URLs, pagination, verified-review filtering, minimum ratings, scheduled runs, API access, and JSON, CSV, and Excel exports.

*Reliability*

- Uses conservative browser concurrency, US residential proxy sessions, resource blocking, Cloudflare challenge detection, and explicit failure when review data cannot be extracted.