# Changelog of Public Profile Research Tool — Spokeo Alternative (`khadinakbar/spokeo-alternative`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/khadinakbar/spokeo-alternative/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/khadinakbar/spokeo-alternative.md

## Changelog

### 0.2

- Added cost-ranked, owner-managed public-search recovery: ScrapeCreators first, HarvestAPI for LinkedIn when needed, then SociaVault.
- Kept GitHub and Wikipedia source-native APIs as their primary routes and DuckDuckGo Lite with optional Apify Residential as the final recovery tier.
- Added provider-attempt, failure, selected-route, and fallback-recovery telemetry without exposing API keys or copying private contact fields.
- Added a documented `retrievalStrategy` input for automatic cost-ranked routing, public-web-only discovery, and deterministic provider-first recovery testing.

### 0.1

- Initial private build for bounded public-profile evidence search.
- Added source URL, title, snippet, relevance signal, collection time, and route provenance.
- Added direct public-search retrieval with an Apify Residential fallback route.