# Changelog of Google Scholar Scraper (`automation-lab/google-scholar-scraper`) Actor

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

## Changelog

### 2026-09-18

*Reliability*

- Valid searches with no matching papers now finish successfully with an empty dataset, while CAPTCHA and request-exhaustion responses still fail clearly.

### 2026-09-10

*Features*

- Added an optional minimum citation-count filter that keeps paginating until the requested number of matching papers is saved or Google Scholar runs out of pages.

### 2026-07-27

*Reliability*

- Restored Google Scholar result extraction after a request-header compatibility change caused valid searches to return misleading server-error pages.

### 2026-07-15

*Reliability*

- Improved search reliability with direct requests, US residential fallback, and more default retries, reducing CAPTCHA, rate-limit, and access-denied failures.

### 2026-04-18

*Reliability*

- Reduced retry delays and refreshed request identities so blocked searches fail faster instead of timing out.

### 2026-04-10

*Reliability*

- Added stronger Google Scholar block and CAPTCHA detection, safer retries, and clear run failures when no papers can be extracted.

### 2026-03-18

*Features*

- Launched Google Scholar Scraper with keyword, author, and publication searches that return paper titles, authors, abstracts, citation counts, publication details, and PDF links when available.