# Changelog of Walmart Reviews Scraper - All Reviews by URL, ID or Keyword (`khadinakbar/walmart-reviews-scraper`) Actor

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

### 0.1 - 2026-06-18

- Initial release. Dedicated Walmart customer-reviews scraper built on the proven walmart-data-extractor anti-bot stack (PlaywrightCrawler + Chromium, Apify Residential US, fingerprint + session pool, SessionError rotation with exponential backoff).
- Three input modes auto-routed to reviews: keyword search (top products -> reviews), direct product URLs, raw item IDs.
- Deep review pagination: every review per product up to maxReviewsPerProduct, with sort (most recent / helpful / highest / lowest / relevant) and an exact client-side star-rating filter.
- Per-review fields: rating, title, text, author, verified-purchaser, helpful/unhelpful votes, photos, pros/cons, syndication flag, submitted date. Optional per-product summary row (overall rating, total count, 1-5 star histogram).
- SerpApi `walmart_product_reviews` managed fallback fires only on anti-bot block-exhaustion so a transient Akamai/PerimeterX block returns real reviews instead of an empty run; recovered reviews go through the same cap/charge/dedup path and the run exits SUCCEEDED.
- Success-rate hardening: soft-fail on empty/invalid input, honest soft-success diagnostic row on block-exhaustion, safePushData null-stripping + schema fallback, upfront cost-cap log, RUN\_SUMMARY in KV.
- Pay-per-event: actor-start $0.00005, review-extracted $0.003 (primary), product-summary $0.001.