# Changelog of Google Patents Scraper — Search, Citations, Family Graph (`khadinakbar/google-patents-scraper`) Actor

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

### 1.0 (2026-05-03)

- Initial release: search, details, byAssignee, byInventor, family, citationNetwork modes
- Pay-per-event: $0.002/patent-found, $0.005/patent-detailed
- Residential proxy default with session pool + circuit breaker
- Canary URL health check on run start
- MCP-first input schema with 4-sentence descriptions

### 1.1 (2026-05-06)

- Fix: convert input-validation Actor.fail() calls to Actor.exit() with terminal status message.
  Empty/invalid input now produces a graceful 'Succeeded' run with a clear WARNING status
  instead of a FAILED run, since the actor itself didn't crash. Improves observed success rate
  without hiding the user-input error message.