# Changelog of Google Shopping Scraper — Product Prices & Merchants (`automation-lab/google-shopping-scraper`) Actor

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

## Changelog

This changelog highlights releases that materially changed Google Shopping Scraper for users. Dates use UTC; small internal refactors and routine maintenance are intentionally omitted.

### 2026-09-02

*Fixes*

- Corrected localized currency codes and numeric price parsing, including Brazilian real and comma-decimal prices.

### 2026-06-23

*Changes*

- Packaged market research workflow guidance in the Actor README for price and merchant analysis use cases.

### 2026-06-19

*Features*

- Added public Store task examples so users can start common Google Shopping scraping workflows faster.
- Refreshed Store copy for ecommerce price-monitoring use cases.

### 2026-05-28

*Changes*

- Improved input form labels, examples, and help text to make setup clearer.

### 2026-05-19

*Changes*

- Product URLs no longer fall back to Google Shopping search links when direct merchant URLs are exposed by Google.

### 2026-04-30

*Reliability*

- Restored Google Shopping extraction with updated selectors and Google SERP proxy handling.
- Fixed product image URL extraction and aligned pricing/architecture documentation.

### 2026-04-22

*Reliability*

- Added per-attempt timeouts and improved browser cleanup to reduce hung runs.
- Updated product-scraped pricing for the current cost model.

### 2026-04-08

*Reliability*

- Improved proxy rotation behavior when Google Shopping shows CAPTCHA or blocking responses.

### 2026-03-22

*Features*

- Initial release for comparing Google Shopping product prices across merchants, including titles, prices, numeric prices, merchants, ratings, delivery details, product URLs, and country/language targeting.