# Changelog of Google Maps Scraper (`betterdevsscrape/google-maps-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/betterdevsscrape/google-maps-scraper/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/betterdevsscrape/google-maps-scraper.md

## Changelog

All notable changes to Google Places Scraper.

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### \[2.1.0] - 2026-02-22 🎯 Reliable Reviews + Real Images

**Major reliability upgrade!** Reviews and images now work consistently.

**Reviews:**

- 🔁 **Automatic retry** — if first attempt fails, tries again automatically
- 📄 **Pagination** — Fetch 25, 50, or even 500 reviews per place (no more 20-review limit)
- 📷 **Review photos** — Images from reviews automatically included
- 🎯 **95%+ success rate**

**Images:**

- 🖼️ **5-20 high-res images** per place
- 🔄 **Smart fallbacks** — always tries to find at least one image
- 🔍 **No duplicates**

**Other:**

- 📊 **End-of-run summary** — see total places, reviews, and images at a glance

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### \[2.0.0] - 2026-02-22 ⚡ Lightning Fast + Review Counts

**Massive performance upgrade!** 10x faster, 90% less memory.

**What's new:**

- ⚡ **10x faster** — 50 places in ~4 seconds (was 10+ minutes!)
- 📝 **Review counts are back!** Every place now includes the total number of Google reviews
- 💰 **Lower prices** — Places now cost $0.0035 each (was $0.005). Reviews and images dropped to $0.0004 each
- 🧠 **90% less memory** — Runs on 128MB instead of 4GB. Your runs cost less compute too
- 🔄 **Better pagination** — Gets 50+ results reliably without missing any

**Cost comparison (100 places, basic info):**

- Before: ~$0.51 + compute costs for 10+ minutes
- **Now: ~$0.36 + compute costs for ~10 seconds**

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### \[1.0.20] - 2026-02-21 🚀 Launch Ready

**Fair billing, faster scraping, and publish-ready!**

**Billing fixes:**

- You're no longer charged for places that get filtered out (closed, low stars, no website, etc.) — filtered places now cost just $0.001 instead of the full place price
- Contact enrichment only charges when contacts are actually found
- Review/image detail charges only apply when data is actually extracted
- Actor start cost reduced to $0.005

**Speed improvements:**

- Smart tile splitting — searches now use only the tiles needed (3 tiles for 50 places instead of 100)
- Contact page fetches run in parallel instead of one by one
- Direct place URLs now work reliably with language support

**Reliability:**

- Fixed consent dialog handling for EU regions
- Increased timeout from 60s to 180s for heavy extractions
- Concurrency limit raised to 5 for faster runs on Apify
- Empty input now exits cleanly instead of hanging

**Publishing:**

- Updated pricing tables in README
- Added Python, Node.js, and cURL integration examples
- Added timeout troubleshooting FAQ

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### \[1.0.19] - 2026-02-01 💰 Pricing Fix

**Pay-per-event now works correctly!** Reviews and images are now charged per item as intended.

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### \[1.0.18] - 2026-02-01 ⚡ Performance

**Faster and more stable!** Reduced memory usage for smoother scraping.

**What's new:**

- ⚡ Better performance with less memory
- ⚙️ New `maxConcurrency` option to control speed vs resources

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### \[1.0.17] - 2026-02-01 📝 Documentation

**Cleaner documentation!** Removed unverified pricing claims.

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### \[1.0.16] - 2026-02-01 🐛 Modal Fix

**Review popups no longer block extraction!** Fixed issue where Google's "Write a review" popup would prevent image and review extraction.

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### \[1.0.15] - 2026-02-01 🐛 Extractor Fixes

**More reliable extraction!** Fixed issues with image and Q\&A extraction.

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### \[1.0.14] - 2026-02-01 📍 Better Addresses

**Addresses now formatted properly!** Full street addresses and standard Google Place IDs.

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### \[1.0.13] - 2026-02-01 🏠 Parsed Addresses

**Addresses broken down into fields!** Get street, city, state, country, and postal code separately.

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### \[1.0.12] - 2026-01-31 🎉 Full Features

**All features now available!** Matches competitor functionality.

- 📱 Social media filtering
- 🔍 Review keyword filter
- 📸 Image author extraction
- ❓ Q\&A extraction
- 🍽️ Table reservation provider
- ⭐ Minimum stars filter
- 🌐 Website filter
- 🎯 Exact search matching

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### \[1.0.11] - 2026-01-30

**Contact enrichment** - Get emails and phones from business websites

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### \[1.0.10] - 2026-01-29

**Social media extraction** - Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Twitter

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### \[1.0.9] - 2026-01-28

**Review extraction** - Full review text, ratings, dates, and owner responses

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### \[1.0.8] - 2026-01-27

**Image extraction** - Photo URLs from Google Maps

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### \[1.0.7] - 2026-01-26

**Opening hours** - Full weekly schedule with current status

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### \[1.0.6] - 2026-01-25

**Location tiling** - Get more than 120 results by splitting search area

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### \[1.0.5] - 2026-01-24

**Deduplication** - No more duplicate places in results

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### \[1.0.4] - 2026-01-23

**First release** - Basic place extraction (name, address, phone, website, ratings, categories, coordinates)