# Changelog of Scale Google Maps Scraper (`huncho/google-maps-scraper`) Actor

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

## 2026-03-17

#### *Features*

- Reduced image size
- Optmized scraper to run with less memory
- Reworked extra fields scraping logic to be significantly faster
- Extra fields enabled by default

## 2026-03-06

#### *Fixes*

- Fix rate limiting on grid generation

## 2026-01-25

#### *Features*

- Improved capture speed on extra details

#### *Fixes*

- Updated extra detail capture to adhere to changes made on Google's backend

## 2026-01-09

#### *Features*

- Added ability to toggle off the extra fields (reviews, reviews distribution, hours of operation, and price) for faster scraping

#### *Fixes*

- Fixed logic that prevented partial data pushes if the reviews, reviews distribution, hours of operation, and price level did not exist

## 2026-01-04

#### *Features*

- Remove duplicates is always on
- Added back (reviews, reviews distribution, hours of operation, and price level)

## 2025-12-18

#### *Fixes*

- Updated parser for change in scraped payload
- Temporarily removed (reviews, reviews distribution, hours of operation, reservations, and price level)

## 2025-12-11

#### *Features*

- Added ability to change grid cell size

## 2025-11-24

#### *Fixes*

- Fix date on old grid expiry

## 2025-11-15

#### *Features*

- Speed up polygon grid generation

## 2025-10-30

#### *Fixes*

- Fixed grid sizing

## 2025-10-27

#### *Features*

- Changed bounding box to polygon for more accuracy

## 2025-08-05

#### *Features*

- New input option to remove duplicates (actor will be slightly slower if toggled)

## 2025-07-31

#### *Features*

- Queue loading and scraping will now run in parallel

## 2025-07-28

#### *Features*

- Added additional logging for transparency on the queue loading process
- Added streetview url as an output field

## 2025-07-22

#### *Fixes*

- Scraper no longer includes results outside the location bounding box set by the user

## 2025-07-21

#### *Housekeeping*

- Updated packages

## 2025-07-10

#### *Fixes*

- No longer pushing empty batches which speeds up the scraper

## 2025-07-04

#### *Features*

- Cache optimized coordinates/grid instead of pre-optimized grid

## 2025-07-03

#### *Features*

- Automatic avoidance of uninhabited areas like bodies of water, deserts, forests, etc.

## 2025-06-26

#### *Features*

- City coordinates/grids will now cache for 30 days to save on compute time

#### *Fixes*

- Reclaim and refetch request if it hangs in processing for 10 seconds

## 2025-06-25

#### *Features*

- New auto-pagination algorithm so `max_results` will no longer default to 120