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

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

## Changelog

### 2026-09-15

*Features*

- Added direct `itemIds` input for Home Depot Internet item IDs.
- Item IDs are validated and deduplicated across direct IDs, URLs, and keyword discoveries while preserving existing outputs and per-item charging.

### 2026-09-07

*Reliability*

- Switched product extraction to Home Depot's reliable public product catalog while retaining sitemap keyword discovery.
- Runs now fail clearly when no useful catalog products can be returned.

*Changes*

- Product identity, descriptions, images, catalog attributes, status, ratings, and review counts remain available.
- Current price, promotions, localized inventory, and fulfillment are unavailable in containment mode; store and ZIP inputs remain accepted only for compatibility.

### 2026-08-29

*Reliability*

- Proxy connection failures now receive bounded replacement residential sessions instead of consuming Home Depot anti-bot attempts.
- Stabilized the fingerprint-resistant browser integration against malformed upstream page-error events.
- Residential browser fingerprints now use the packaged proxy geolocation database for coherent US locale, timezone, and location signals.

### 2026-08-25

*Reliability*

- Improved Home Depot anti-bot recovery by preserving browser cookies for a same-session retry before rotating residential sessions.

### 2026-08-22

*Reliability*

- Restored product-detail extraction when Home Depot serves its current JSON-LD product data without the legacy Apollo state, while preserving the richer legacy extraction path when available.

### 2026-07-14

*Features*

- Initial release with Home Depot keyword search and product URL extraction.
- Returns product identifiers, live pricing, promotions, ratings, images, specifications, category paths, and store/ZIP fulfillment details.
- Supports JSON, CSV, Excel, API, webhook, and MCP workflows through Apify datasets and integrations.

*Reliability*

- Uses US residential sessions and a fingerprint-resistant browser to handle Home Depot's public anti-bot layer while avoiding login requirements.

*Safety*

- Validates supplied source URLs before navigation and accepts only HTTPS Home Depot pages.