# Changelog of Google Maps Scraper: Places, Emails, Phone Numbers & B2B Leads (`fit_melon/google-maps-scraper-cheap`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/fit_melon/google-maps-scraper-cheap/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/fit_melon/google-maps-scraper-cheap.md

## Changelog

### 1.8 (2026-10-21)

- Faster email extraction (linear-time scan, no slowdowns on huge pages) and cleaner results: generic emails and social profiles of website builders, booking and delivery platforms are filtered out.
- Smarter Google pagination: small searches use half the requests; results are delivered in Google's order as soon as they arrive.
- Each website is crawled in a single slot with a hard time cap per page, so slow sites no longer hold up the run.
- Faster recovery from slow Google responses (10 s timeout, then retry).
- The run stops cleanly about 60 s before its time limit and can be resurrected to continue, with no double charge.
- `placeMinimumStars` accepted as an alias of `minRating`. New Contacts and Location table views. Detailed run statistics (RUN_STATS).

### 1.7 (2026-10-21)

- `additionalOpeningHours`: secondary hours shown on the listing (kitchen, happy hours, takeout, delivery, drive-through…).

### 1.6 (2026-10-20)

- `county`, `country`, `neighborhoods` and `administrativeAreas`; `state` filled in every country.

### 1.5 (2026-10-19)

- `imagesCount` and `reviewsUrl`.

### 1.4 (2026-10-18)

- `plusCode` for every place, `bookingLinks` / `reserveTableUrl`.

### 1.3 (2026-10-08)

- Search a city, ZIP/postal code, county, region or whole country by name (real OpenStreetMap boundaries), several locations per run, custom GeoJSON areas, automatic resume without double charge.

### 1.2 (2026-10-07)

- Main photo, attributes, closure flags, Knowledge Graph ID; filters: minimum rating, with/without website, category.

### 1.1 (2026-10-07)

- Emails and social profiles from business websites, included in the price. About 2x faster.

### 1.0 (2026-10-06)

- First release: Google Maps places with phone, website, rating, reviews count, opening hours; adaptive grid beyond 120 results.