# Changelog of Google News Scraper (`data_xplorer/google-news-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/data\_xplorer/google-news-scraper/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/data\_xplorer/google-news-scraper.md

## Changelog

### 2026-09-09 / v2.1.0

- 🪟 Added multi-window mode: automatically splits long timeframes into sub-periods to retrieve more than 100 articles per keyword
- 🖼️ Added `extractImages` option to enable/disable image extraction
- 🛡️ Improved proxy/consent handling and RSS fallback reliability
- 🗓️ Added "Last month" (30d) timeframe option

### 2026-02-26 / v2.0.2

- 🔧 Fixed 407 Proxy Authentication error on HTTPS
- 🔧 Fixed proxy type
- 🌍 Added GDPR consent page bypass
- ♻️ Replaced synchronous RSS fetch (blocking event loop) with async `_fetch_url()` via curl\_cffi

### 2026-02-14 / v1.9.2

- 🛠️ Fixed an issue where descriptions were not extracted if "Decode URLs" was disabled.

### 2025-12-05 / v1.8.4

- 🛡️ Proxy simplification: Google News requests now always use Apify Datacenter proxy when enabled

### 2025-12-04 / v1.6.2

- 🛡️ Proxy: Fixed Apify proxy usage in Python SDK
- 📰 Parser: Updated Google News search parser to current markup

### 2025-11-24 / v1.5.3

- 🔐 Limited permissions compatibility
- 📤 Output schema integrated: added `.actor/output_schema.json`
- 🧹 Logs cleanup: removed account plan detection and related logs; clearer proxy status messages; reduced noisy warnings.

### 2025-03-26 / v1.4.5

- 🐛 Fixed NoneType errors in article processing
- 🌐 Optimized proxy configuration handling
- 🧹 Cleaned up duplicate logs and improved logging clarity

### 2025-03-24 / v1.3.14

- 🎪 New technical architecture to improve the speed and reliability of data retrieval

### 2025-01-26 / v1.0.17

- 🔍 Enhanced metadata extraction reliability with improved fallback mechanisms
- 🖼️ Improved image URL handling with more flexible validation
- 📊 Standardized output format according to Apify specifications

### 2025-01-19 / v0.4.40

- ⚡️ Major performance improvements with optimized parallel processing
- 🛡️ Enhanced data retrieval reliability with improved error handling

### 2025-01-15 / v0.3.2

- ⚡️ Optimized performance with reduced timeouts and improved concurrency
- 🖼️ Enhanced image URL processing with ordered extension testing
- 🔄 Implemented progressive results delivery with batches of 10 articles
- 💾 Added debug logging for better monitoring and troubleshooting