What changed for you, release by release. Every entry is something you can see in a run: a new
field, a fix that makes runs finish, a change to what you are charged.
Clutch began answering some requests with a browser challenge instead of a page — the kind no
plain HTTP scraper can pass. The actor now opens a real browser once per proxy session, passes
the challenge, and keeps scraping over the fast HTTP path with the pass it earned, so the slow
step happens once per run rather than once per page. If the challenge cannot be passed, the run
says so and you are charged nothing.
The automatic proxy-tier fallback also works on any Apify account now; it previously named a
proxy group most accounts do not have, so it could never actually take over.
A first run is now 5 agencies (about a cent) instead of 25, so trying the actor costs nothing
worth thinking about, and a small trial run winds down after 3 minutes instead of sitting on a
slow day. Real harvests are unaffected — above 10 agencies there is no time limit.
Reviews get their own table view: one row per review, ready for a spreadsheet or sentiment
analysis. Nine reliability and data-quality fixes from an external code review ship with it.
Retry patience per page now has a hard ceiling, so one stubborn profile can no longer eat the
run's time budget and starve the agencies queued behind it.
Block-aware backoff: when the site throttles the scraper, the actor waits and rotates its exit IP
instead of giving up. Since v0.2.3, every profile the actor skips also states why in the run
report, instead of disappearing silently.
Exit IPs are sticky and pinned to the US, with an automatic fallback to a cheaper proxy tier. A
run that is fully blocked now fails loudly instead of reporting success on an empty dataset —
you never receive an empty result dressed up as a finished job.
scrapedAt on every agency row, so you can tell fresh data from stale, and an accurate
reviewsIncluded count next to the site-wide review total.
Initial release: category/search and direct-URL input, a guaranteed-complete agency schema,
public client reviews, an optional AI agency-intelligence artifact, fair per-event billing (never
charged for an empty, not-found or failed result), and webhooks.
