# Changelog of ClinicalTrials.gov Scraper — Trials Data, No API Key (`logiover/clinicaltrials-gov-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/logiover/clinicaltrials-gov-scraper/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/logiover/clinicaltrials-gov-scraper.md

## Changelog

### 2026-09-23

- Fleet-wide quality audit. Verified end to end against live data and re-checked the input schema, the output columns and the run configuration.
- Output verified on a live run: 28 columns returned, 90.2% of cells populated.
- Run reliability reviewed: 100.0% of public runs succeeded in the last 30 days.
- Input schema, output schema and pricing configuration reviewed.

### 2026-09-01

- Fleet-wide health check. Verified against this Actor's real run history: 30-day success rate, output row counts, per-field fill rates, and peak memory against the configured memory limit.
- Reviewed for the failure patterns that have cost this fleet runs — unguarded proxy setup, retry loops that can outlast the run's own time budget, and full-page HTML parsing that can exhaust a small container.
- No change to input, output fields or scraping logic.

### 2026-08-11

- Maintenance release: refreshed the build and dependencies.
- Re-verified live execution, non-empty structured output and dataset field/type integrity.
- Reviewed reliability (retries, pagination) and output quality as part of a full-fleet QA pass.

### 2026-08-01

- Scoped sponsor searches to the registered lead-sponsor name and refreshed the Moderna probe to `ModernaTX, Inc.`; live verification returned 30 completed lead-sponsored studies.
- First-page API and dataset-write failures now fail explicitly rather than being logged as a successful empty run.
- Completed the August 2026 full health check: verified empty/programmatic default, Console UI default, and two source-informed alternative inputs on Apify.
- Confirmed successful live execution, non-empty structured output, dataset-field/type integrity, and logical sample quality within the 5-minute quality window.
- Scoped the sponsor input to ClinicalTrials.gov's lead-sponsor field, eliminating collaborator-only matches and documented the registered-name semantics; refreshed the stale Moderna variation to the verified official name ModernaTX, Inc.
- Made first-page API and dataset-write failures fail explicitly when no studies were preserved; the exact ModernaTX completed-study probe returned 30 validated rows.

### 2026-07-18

- Maintenance & reliability pass — re-verified end-to-end against live data via the Apify API; confirmed the Actor completes successfully and returns non-empty, well-formed results within the 5-minute quality window on its default input.
- Refreshed build so the latest version is current; no change to inputs, output fields or scraping logic.

### 2026-07-12

- Empty input `{}` now returns data: with no filters the Actor browses all studies ordered by most-recently-updated.
- Added a **Recruitment status** multi-select and a **Study type** dropdown (Interventional / Observational / Expanded access) with human-readable labels.
- Added a **Sort order** dropdown (most recently updated / newest first / largest enrollment / best match); "best match" auto-falls back to recency when no keyword is given.
- No filters are required anymore; every field is optional.
- `enrollmentCount` is always emitted as a real number.
- Added a ~4-minute time budget so long paginations exit gracefully with everything collected.
- Added per-field titles/descriptions to the dataset schema (numeric columns formatted as numbers). No output field keys were renamed.

### 2026-06-28

- Health check passed — actor verified working end-to-end on Apify platform.
- Changelog refreshed for Store quality compliance.

### 2026-06-20

- Maintenance & reliability pass: re-verified end-to-end against live data and confirmed the Actor completes successfully within the 5-minute quality window on the default input.
- Refreshed the prefilled example input and tuned run defaults for faster, lower-cost runs.