# Changelog of ConsumerAffairs Reviews Scraper (`blackfalcondata/consumeraffairs-com-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/blackfalcondata/consumeraffairs-com-scraper/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/blackfalcondata/consumeraffairs-com-scraper.md

## Changelog

All notable changes to this Actor are documented here.

### \[Unreleased]

#### Added

- Sort by: newest first, top reviews, most helpful or oldest first.
- Star ratings filter: collect only 1- to 5-star reviews you choose.

#### Fixed

- Incremental mode: a temporary connection error while checking a run's ownership no longer allows duplicate review charges after another run takes over.
- Incremental mode: Max Reviews now counts reviews delivered, so a repeat run reaches the newer reviews and the next company instead of stopping on ones you already have.
- Incremental mode: a narrower run (per-company limit or Reviews Since) no longer makes the next broad run deliver and charge the same reviews again.
- Incremental mode: a finished or stopped run no longer leaves the next runs on the same state reporting "busy" with zero reviews.
- Incremental mode: when another run takes over the same state mid-run, this run now stops without charging for reviews it cannot record, and no longer removes the other run's lock.
- When ConsumerAffairs cannot be read at all, the run now fails with a clear message instead of reporting that the company has no reviews; a partly failed run says its results may be incomplete.

### \[0.1.0] — 2026-10-10

Initial release.

#### Added

- Scrape records from consumeraffairs.com.

- Max Reviews per Company: stop after N reviews for each company.

- Reviews Since: only reviews dated on or after a given day.

- Company ID and star-rating breakdown (number of 1- to 5-star ratings) on every review.

- Your maximum cost per run is respected: the run returns as many reviews as it covers and finishes cleanly.

#### Fixed

- Each review now names the company or URL it was collected for, also in runs with several companies.
- Review pages load again after the site tightened access on 2026-10-13.
- A slow connection no longer drops a whole company from the run; the request is retried.