# Changelog of Lazada Scraper (`automation-lab/lazada-products-scraper`) Actor

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

## Changelog

### 2026-09-14 — Reliability

- Replaced slow browser challenge recovery with bounded residential HTTP catalog identities, reducing startup latency and compute while preserving structured product output and per-search limits.

### 2026-09-13 — Features

- Added an optional per-search item limit so multi-query and multi-country runs can reserve coverage for later searches while still respecting the global maximum.

### 2026-08-24 — Reliability

- Increased bounded catalog-session and residential-geography rotation so the default search can recover from a larger burst of Lazada challenge pages while still failing clearly when every route is exhausted.

### 2026-08-21 — Reliability

- Improved challenge recovery by rotating residential proxy geographies and browser search routes instead of retrying one blocked route.
- Shortened challenge detection and request budgets so unavailable upstream pages fail clearly within the Actor timeout.
- Preserved useful results from successful searches when another query exhausts all bounded routes; runs still fail clearly when no products can be returned.

### 2026-08-01 — Reliability

- Added an automatic, resource-blocked residential browser fallback when Lazada challenges the catalog JSON route.
- Restored useful product search output across all six supported storefronts while preserving clear failures for unusable pages.

### 0.1.0

- Added public Lazada catalog search for Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam.
- Added product, price, seller, brand, availability, rating, and review-count records with typed dataset output.
- Added catalog URL input, pagination, deduplication, sponsored-result control, minimum-rating filtering, and exact seller filtering.
- Added bounded transient retries and explicit challenge-page failure detection.
- Individual review text and protected product-detail enrichment are not included in this release.