# Changelog of Clutch.co Scraper (`automation-lab/clutch-scraper`) Actor

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

## Changelog

This changelog highlights releases that materially changed Clutch.co Scraper for users. Dates use UTC; routine maintenance is intentionally omitted.

### 2026-09-02

*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.

### 2026-08-25

*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.

### 2026-08-12

*Reliability*

- Hardened Clutch access with browser-like text requests, lightweight residential rotation, and a mobile-browser fallback for persistent Cloudflare challenges.

### 2026-08-09

*Reliability*

- Improved Cloudflare recovery by rotating the browser fingerprint together with each blocked residential session while avoiding unnecessary challenge-page transfers.

### 2026-08-07

*Reliability*

- Improved Cloudflare challenge recovery by broadening residential session rotation and waiting for the directory document to finish loading.

### 2026-07-24

*Reliability*

- Rotates blocked Cloudflare sessions faster so directory runs are more likely to complete within the platform test window.

### 2026-06-21

*Reliability*

- Improved Cloudflare retry handling to reduce failed and empty directory runs.

### 2026-06-13

*Reliability*

- Restored live Clutch directory extraction and made blocked pages fail clearly instead of returning static fallback data.

### 2026-05-26

*Features*

- Added company website links to results when Clutch exposes them.

### 2026-03-20

*Features*

- Initial release for extracting Clutch company profiles, ratings, reviews, locations, rates, project sizes, and service details.