# Changelog of Equity Crowdfunding Leads Scraper (`devilscrapes/equity-crowdfunding-leads`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/devilscrapes/equity-crowdfunding-leads/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/devilscrapes/equity-crowdfunding-leads.md

## Changelog

All notable changes to this Actor are documented here.

### \[0.3.0] — 2026-06-09

#### Fixed

- **403 retry regression**: `client.py` `RETRY_STATUSES` was missing `403`,
  causing Republic and StartEngine to fail immediately on any 403 response
  with a `RuntimeError("non-retryable")` instead of retrying. Root cause of
  \~36% run failures observed in 30-day stats.
- **Proxy architecture**: restored per-attempt `AsyncSession` creation with
  IP rotation via `ProxyConfig` callback pattern. The previous architecture
  created a single shared `AsyncSession` at startup (fixed proxy URL), which
  meant all retry attempts within `_get_with_retry` used the same exit IP —
  defeating the block-rotation mechanism entirely.
- **Proxy group fallback**: `main.py` now tries `RESIDENTIAL` first, then
  falls back to `BUYPROXIES94952` (5 provisioned USA IPs). On FREE plan,
  `RESIDENTIAL` has `availableCount=0`; without this fallback the actor ran
  with direct datacenter routing which all three targets block.

### \[0.1.0] — 2026-05-16

#### Added

- Initial release: three equity-crowdfunding sources (Wefunder, Republic, StartEngine) unified into one schema.
- Wefunder primary path via `/-/companies/explore` JSON API — full founder + tagline + raise-progress + valuation payload per row.
- Republic secondary path via SSR shell anchor extraction + JSON-LD breadcrumb name resolution.
- StartEngine secondary path via `sitemap-private-offerings.xml` slug enumeration (detail-page render is JS-gated; v2 Camoufox upgrade documented).
- Pay-Per-Event pricing: `$0.05` actor-start + `$0.005`/result-row; ~$5.05 per 1k rows (6x cheaper than Crunchbase scrapers).
- Per-source failure non-fatal — one source blocking does not abort the run; only all-sources-blocked exits non-zero.
- Exponential backoff on `429 / 503` (honours `Retry-After`); max 5 attempts.
- `curl-cffi` `chrome131` browser TLS impersonation per ADR-0002; Apify Proxy `BUYPROXIES94952` enabled by default.
- Status-filter knob maps to Wefunder `tagFilters` (`active`→`status_funding`, `funded`→`status_funded`, `all`→no filter).
- Industry-filter knob applies a case-insensitive substring over `tagline` OR `industry`.