# Changelog of Google Maps Scraper API – Places, Phones & Ratings, No Login (`k-data-lab/google-maps-scraper`) Actor

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

## Changelog

### 0.4 (2026-11-10)

- Reliability: a run no longer fails when the account can't use Apify Proxy (the proxy setup error used to stop every request after Google's first refusal); it continues direct. A proxy 407 also switches the run to direct.
- Reliability: targets that Google Maps didn't answer are asked again once, after a 15 s pause from fresh sessions, before the run is called failed.
- Input: numbers written as text are read, out-of-range filter values are clamped, `website`/`phone` accept yes/no/true/false, and a half-filled circle is ignored instead of failing. Each change is listed in `RUN_SUMMARY.inputAdjusted`. Empty input still fails with "Invalid input".

### 0.3 (2026-11-08)

- Reliability: input that used to fail with "Invalid input" now runs. Field names from other Maps actors and AI agents (`searchStringsArray`, `locationQuery`, `startUrls`, `placeIds`, `maxCrawledPlacesPerSearch`, `maxResults`, `countryCode`, `scrapeContacts`, `skipClosedPlaces`) are read as ours; language and country names become codes, and an unknown code falls back to `en` / `us`; a search typed only into Locations is searched as written; Deep area scan without an area runs a normal search; a circle without a radius uses 5 km; an out-of-range max is clamped; links that aren't Google Maps places are skipped instead of failing the run. Every change is logged and listed in `RUN_SUMMARY.inputAdjusted`. Empty input still fails with "Invalid input".

### 0.2 (2026-11-07)

- New: **Find emails and social profiles** (`includeContacts`) reads the business's own website and adds `email`, `emails`, `socialProfiles` and `contactsStatus`, included in the place price. Off unless you turn it on, so existing API calls return what they did before.
- New: **Only places with an email** (`onlyWithEmail`), a free filter.
- New Leads dataset view; MCP section with a pinned-tool URL and a full sibling list.

### 0.1 (2026-11-06)

- First release: Google Maps places by search term, location, link, place ID or CID, with no login. Deep area scan past the ~140 places of one search, free filters, new-place monitoring, and a place details add-on with rating breakdown, review topics and the reviews Maps shows signed out.