# Changelog of Google News Scraper (`lhotanova/google-news-scraper`) Actor

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

#### 2025-02-21

*Features*

- Added support for topic-based search (see new input fields `topics` and `topicsHashed`). Specific topic sections are also supported through `topicsHashed` field.

#### 2025-02-14

*Features*

- Added a new input field, `openEndedDateRange`, to enable searching for news published within the last specified hours, days, or years.
  For example, `1h` retrieves news from the past hour, `7d` fetches news from the last week, and `1y` filters articles published in the past year.

#### 2025-02-13

*Deprecations*

- Input field `extractImages` was deprecated in favor of `fetchArticleDetails`.
  This should better reflect the state of the Actor. Additional requests to article pages are needed to fetch not only images but also article links decoded from the format of RSS feed: `https://news.google.com/rss/articles/`.

#### 2024-08-30

*Features*

- Added date filter (new input fields `dateFrom` and `dateTo`)

#### 2024-08-06

*Fixes*

- Fixed decoding and redirects of target news URLs
- Fixed extraction of news images
- Increased maximum allowed request retries

*Features*

- Added new output fields: `guid`, `sourceUrl` and `loadedUrl`

#### 2023-10-16

*Fixes*

- Fixed crawling of detail pages with an additional redirect request
  - applies for `"extractImages": true` input
  - `image` field holds a correct image again
  - `link` field stores a source URL
  - `rssLink` field was introduced for cases when `link` stores the source URL

#### 2023-10-16

*Fixes*

- `maxItems` limit