Changelog

2025-03-26 / v1.2.3

• 🚀 Added timeout and retry mechanism for page fetching
• 📊 Optimized logging to reduce noise and improve readability
• 🛠️ Fixed errors related to timeouts and dependencies

2025-03-18 / v1.1.6

• ⚡ Apify Proxy Default 'Datacenter' to improve results extraction

2025-03-15 / v1.0.6

• 🛡️ Improved Description Extraction: Added multi-step fallback system with three methods to extract article descriptions
• ☁️ Implemented cloudscraper as a third fallback option to handle Cloudflare-protected websites
• ⚡ Optimized timeouts and error handling for better stability
• 🔧 Fixed Actor.fail() method error for proper error reporting

2025-03-03 / v0.9.13

• 🚀 Optimized extraction performance with parallel processing for faster scraping
• ✨ New feature: Article description extraction with advanced anti-blocking technology for major news sites

2025-03-02 / v0.6.15

• 💰 Implemented cost optimization measures to reduce resource consumption
• 🌐 Simplified proxy options (datacenter, residential, none) with datacenter as default
• ⏱️ Added global timeout of 120 seconds to prevent runaway executions
• 🔢 Limited maximum keywords to 5 to optimize performance and costs
• 🧠 Set memory limit to 4GB for more efficient resource utilization

2025-02-27 / v0.6.7

• 🌐 Default time period set to "Last hour" (1h)
• 🕒 Updated time period options to match Google News format (1h, 1d, 7d, 1y, all)

2025-02-24 / v0.4.8

• ⚖️ Added limitation of 10 articles per keyword for free users
• 💰 Unlimited articles for paid users
• 🔄 Improved proxy handling with better support for DATACENTER and RESIDENTIAL groups

2025-02-22 / v0.2.40

• 🌐 Added URL decoder option to get original article URLs from Google News redirections

2025-02-22 / v0.1.9

• 🎯 First stable release with comprehensive Google News data extraction
• 🏗️ Structured data format with standardized fields