# Changelog of Google Search Scraper — Organic SERP, PAA & Related (`automation-lab/google-search-scraper`) Actor

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

## Changelog

### 2026-09-21

*Reliability*

- Large or heavily blocked query batches now stop accepting new upstream work early enough for 300-second API runs as well as default Actor runs, preserving useful completed results instead of losing the run to a hard timeout.

### 2026-08-31

*Features*

- Every result now includes analysis-ready `domain`, `page`, `country`, and `language` fields for scheduled rank tracking and multi-market exports.

### 2026-08-28

*Reliability*

- CAPTCHA responses now trigger bounded fresh-exit retries and live transport fallback through residential HTTP and browser routes instead of failing after one request.
- Google SERP responses with opaque redirect links now preserve useful native result URLs only from credible displayed hostnames; malformed UI text is omitted instead of being exported as a guessed destination, while unrecognized empty/interstitial pages still fail truthfully.

### 2026-08-21

*Reliability*

- Runs now fail clearly when every Google Search request times out or otherwise fails before any results are saved, while preserving useful partial output.

### 2026-08-09

*Reliability*

- Runs now fail explicitly when Google returns a CAPTCHA or block page instead of silently succeeding with an empty dataset.

### 2026-06-27

*Pricing*

- Search result items are now recorded against the current search-page pricing event so usage reporting matches saved output.

### 2026-06-11

*Fixes*

- Fixed Google result extraction when normal SERP pages include benign CAPTCHA-related markup.

### 2026-05-28

*Changes*

- Improved input labels, examples, and help text to make Google Search runs easier to configure.

### 2026-05-12

*Reliability*

- Improved the proxy fallback chain to try Google SERP proxy coverage before residential fallback for country-targeted inputs.

### 2026-03-22

*Features*

- Launched Google Search scraping for organic results, People Also Ask questions, related searches, country/language targeting, and paginated SERP collection.