# Changelog of 📍 Google Maps Leads Scraper (`data_minds/google-maps-leads-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/data\_minds/google-maps-leads-scraper/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/data\_minds/google-maps-leads-scraper.md

## Changelog

### 1.0.5 — 2026-08-01

#### Fixed

- 👀 Results now show up in the **Output** panel of the run — the output definition pointed at row fields instead of the result links.
- 🔗 Google Maps links that carry only an id (`…/maps?cid=…`, `?place_id=…`) and short `maps.app.goo.gl` links now resolve to the right business instead of being skipped, and the exact business from the link is preferred in the results.
- 🌐 Businesses with no website of their own are no longer given one — Google's own helper links were being read as a website, which also made the "only places WITHOUT a website" filter return nothing.
- 🔗 Social profiles no longer pick up share buttons, tracking pixels or page-markup links, and stray trailing characters are trimmed from every link.
- 📧 Emails and social links written in escaped form (`https:\/\/…`) on script-rendered sites are now found too.

### 1.0 — 2026-07-30

First public release.

#### Added

- 🗺️ Bulk search input — many terms per run, deduplicated by place across the whole run.
- 📍 Location targeting by free text or city / state / county / postal code, with country and language selection.
- 🔗 Google Maps place URLs as an alternative input.
- 🏪 Full business profile — name, description, categories, rating, address parts, coordinates, timezone, today's hours, open status, attributes and photo.
- 📧 Website contact discovery — emails, phone numbers and 8 social networks, homepage plus contact/about pages.
- ✅ Built-in email verification — free / role / disposable flags, mail-server lookup and deliverability probe, no external key.
- 🎯 Filters — category keywords, name-match strictness, minimum rating, website presence, closed places, big chains.
- 🚦 Automatic network fallback: direct ➜ datacenter ➜ residential, sticky after the first switch, with a last-resort browser session.
- 📦 Live dataset writes and seven prebuilt table views.
- 📊 Run summary with per-search totals stored in the key-value store.