# Changelog of Indeed Company Reviews Scraper — Employee Reviews (`kestrel/indeed-company-reviews`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/kestrel/indeed-company-reviews/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/kestrel/indeed-company-reviews.md

## Changelog

### 2026-08-30

- Reliability: a run that cannot act on its input — a URL from the wrong site, a name nothing resolves to, an empty target list, a number outside the documented range — now ends cleanly with the reason on the run card instead of as a failed run. Nothing is charged in either case; a blocked or throttled source still fails loudly.
- Store listing: moved into the categories buyers actually browse (the old `Business` category has no Store page).

### 1.0 — 2026-08-29

First release.

- Every Indeed employee review of a company from `/cmp/<Company>/reviews`: overall 1-5 rating, the five sub-ratings (work-life balance, compensation and benefits, job security and advancement, management, culture), headline, full text, pros, cons, job title, location, current/former status, publication date, helpful and unhelpful votes, the employer's reply and a direct link.
- Free `company` row per company: Indeed's own rating, the worldwide review count, the 1-5 star histogram, the five category averages, the Work Happiness score, the topic breakdown, the pros and cons Indeed extracts, plus industry, size, headquarters, website, founded year, revenue band and CEO from the company overview page.
- Free `status` row per company and country domain, so a refusal is always `status='error'` with a reason and never an empty company.
- 44 Indeed country domains, plus `all` — `www.indeed.com` with Indeed's own `fcountry=ALL`, which returns nearly every review of a company in one walk. Reviews served by more than one domain are delivered and charged once.
- Dates are read in the domain's own language (English US and UK forms, German, French, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Turkish, Greek, Hungarian, Czech, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese and Chinese), and the raw string Indeed printed is kept alongside as `review_date_text`.
- Pre-billing filters: `minRating`, `maxRating`, `requireText`, `jobTitleContains`, `locationContains`, `sinceDate` (relative dates allowed). Filtered reviews are never charged.
- Paging guards Indeed's silent wrap-around: a `start` past the last page answers HTTP 200 with page 1 again, so the walk is bounded by the declared review count, by the page number Indeed reports and by review ids already seen.
- Early stops that save requests: `sinceDate` with newest-first, `maxRating` with lowest-rated-first and `minRating` with highest-rated-first each end the walk at the first page entirely past the cut.
- Pay per review, $0.002. Companies with no reviews, unknown companies, company rows, status rows and filtered reviews are free.