# Changelog of OpenAlex Scraper (`automation-lab/openalex-scraper`) Actor

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

## Changelog

### 2026-09-08

*Quality*

- Overlapping searches now return each OpenAlex work once and include `matchedSearchQueries`, so literature-review exports stay clean and users are not charged twice for the same paper in one run.

### 2026-07-02

*Reliability*

- Added an optional `openAlexApiKey` and a fallback for temporary anonymous search limits so searches can still return paper metadata.
- Ensured fallback results respect `publicationYear`, `minCitations`, and `openAccessOnly` filters before records are saved.

### 2026-06-23

*Changes*

- Reduced the default `maxResults` to 20 for faster, lower-cost starter runs; explicit custom limits up to 500 continue to work.

### 2026-03-03

*Features*

- Initial release for searching OpenAlex papers and extracting citations, authors, institutions, open-access links, DOIs, and publication metadata.