# Changelog of Home Depot Product Reviews Scraper (`automation-lab/home-depot-product-reviews-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/automation-lab/home-depot-product-reviews-scraper/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/automation-lab/home-depot-product-reviews-scraper.md

## Changelog

### 2026-09-06

*Features*

- Added server-side sorting, star-rating selection, keyword search, and verified-purchase filtering for targeted review exports.
- New runs keep the existing newest/all-reviews behavior unless a filter is selected.

### 2026-08-20

*Reliability*

- Restored review exports by switching to Home Depot's public structured review service when protected product pages reject browser traffic.

### 2026-08-15

*Reliability*

- Restored review access after Home Depot began rejecting the previous browser fingerprint.

### 2026-08-05

*Reliability*

- Improved cloud reliability when Home Depot shows a slower JavaScript verification page before loading public reviews.

### 2026-08-04

*Reliability*

- Prevented delayed Home Depot page scripts from interrupting otherwise successful review exports after the structured review data is ready.

### 2026-08-01

*Reliability*

- Restored review extraction after an upstream browser compatibility regression caused protected Home Depot pages to crash during loading.

### 2026-07-16

*Features*

- Initial release for exporting individual public Home Depot US product reviews from product URLs, review URLs, or Internet item IDs.
- Includes review text, ratings, reviewer and trust signals, helpful votes, media, merchant responses, and product-level rating summaries in export-ready records.
- Supports bounded pagination, duplicate removal, date filtering, API runs, schedules, webhooks, datasets, and standard Apify export formats.

*Reliability*

- Uses isolated US residential browser sessions with bounded rotation for Home Depot's protected public review pages.