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

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

## Changelog

### 1.1 — 2026-09-06

#### Added

- **Grid / area coverage** (`areaSearch`, `customGeolocation`, `gridCellKm`, `zoom`) via the engine's
  `-grid-bbox/-grid-cell/-zoom`, breaking Google's ~120-results-per-area limit. Location is geocoded
  to a bounding box with Nominatim when no explicit area is given.
- **Contact enrichment** (`scrapeContacts`, `scrapeSocialMediaProfiles`): crawls each place's website
  for emails, extra phones and social-media profile links (Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, X/Twitter,
  YouTube, TikTok, Pinterest, WhatsApp).
- **Email MX verification** (`verifyLeadsEnrichmentEmails`) → `emails_verified` field.
- **`startUrls`**: scrape Google Maps place/search URLs directly.
- **Structured location** fields: `city`, `state`, `county`, `postalCode`.
- **Post-filters**: `placeMinimumStars`, `categoryFilterWords`, `searchMatching`.
- **`maxConcurrency`** input; deep review pagination (`extraReviews`, on by default).
- Full ISO-3166 country list and full language list in the input schema.
- Rows tagged with `search_term` / `search_query`; global de-duplication by `place_id`.
- Pay-per-event hooks (`place-scraped`, `contact-enrichment`) — no-op until a PPE pricing model is enabled.

#### Changed

- `maxCrawledPlacesPerSearch` is now enforced **per search term / URL** (one engine invocation each),
  not across the combined result set.
- Apify Proxy is wired to the engine via `-proxies-file` (15 rotating sessions).
- Chromium is shared across tabs (`-pages-per-browser 4`, `-browser-pool-size 2`) — peak memory
  dropped from ~3.1 GB to ~1.1–1.7 GB in tests.
- Base image pinned by digest instead of `:latest`.
- `Actor.pushData` is batched.

#### Removed

- Dead `scrapeOrderOnline` / `scrapeTableReservationProvider` toggles (the engine never emitted those fields).