This changelog highlights releases that materially changed Clutch.co Scraper for users. Dates use UTC; routine maintenance is intentionally omitted.
Features
- Added optional minimum rating, minimum review count, verified-only, and sponsored-exclusion filters. The Actor filters before saving and charging, and continues pagination until it reaches the requested number of matching companies or the source ends.
Features
- Added
placementType so explicit Clutch sponsor, Featured Listing, and organic provenance can be distinguished; routes without provider-bound provenance return unknown.
Fixes
- Stopped treating names in the page-level “Recommended” text as sponsored without per-provider evidence.
Reliability
- Hardened Clutch access with browser-like text requests, lightweight residential rotation, and a mobile-browser fallback for persistent Cloudflare challenges.
Reliability
- Improved Cloudflare recovery by rotating the browser fingerprint together with each blocked residential session while avoiding unnecessary challenge-page transfers.
Reliability
- Improved Cloudflare challenge recovery by broadening residential session rotation and waiting for the directory document to finish loading.
Reliability
- Rotates blocked Cloudflare sessions faster so directory runs are more likely to complete within the platform test window.
Reliability
- Improved Cloudflare retry handling to reduce failed and empty directory runs.
Reliability
- Restored live Clutch directory extraction and made blocked pages fail clearly instead of returning static fallback data.
Features
- Added company website links to results when Clutch exposes them.
Features
- Initial release for extracting Clutch company profiles, ratings, reviews, locations, rates, project sizes, and service details.
