# Changelog of Lowe's Product Reviews Scraper (`automation-lab/lowes-product-reviews-scraper`) Actor

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

## Changelog

### 2026-09-12

*Reliability*

- Improved review collection with a bounded alternate public-route fallback when Lowe's primary endpoint is temporarily blocked or unavailable.
- Dual-route failures now report both exhausted routes clearly instead of returning an empty success.

### 2026-07-24

*Reliability*

- Restored review collection after Lowe's began blocking the former translated request route.
- Runs now fail clearly instead of reporting success when Lowe's returns no review records.

### 2026-07-14

*Features*

- Initial release for collecting public Lowe's product reviews by product URL or ID.
- Supports review limits, sorting, star filters, date cutoffs, and rating-only review controls.
- Returns product rating context, review text, recommendation and purchase signals, helpful votes, merchant responses, syndication source, and media URLs.

*Reliability*

- Uses Lowe's anonymous review feed with bounded retries, pagination, deduplication, and clear invalid-input errors.