# Changelog of CourtListener Scraper — Opinions, Dockets & Courts (`logiover/courtlistener-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/logiover/courtlistener-scraper/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/logiover/courtlistener-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: 20 columns returned, 71.3% 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.
- Noted that 4 column(s) came back empty in this sample (`caseNameFull`, `dateArgued`, `attorney`, `cause`); these are under review.

### 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

- 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.

### 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.** Removed the guard that exited when no search query was given. With empty input `{}` the Actor now returns the most recent court opinions (ordered by filing date, newest first), bounded by `maxResults`.
- **Court is now a dropdown.** The `court` field became a select with a comprehensive list (Supreme Court, all 13 federal circuits, major federal district courts, and major state supreme courts). You can still type any CourtListener court ID.
- **New `orderBy` dropdown** (newest/oldest filing date, best relevance, most cited, most recently argued); defaults to Auto.
- **Numbers are real numbers.** Added `citeCount` as a numeric field (how many times an opinion has been cited). Added `dateArgued`.
- **AUTO proxy.** Uses automatic Apify Proxy and falls back to a direct connection on the final retry (CourtListener is a public API).
- **Graceful & bounded.** Top-level errors are now logged instead of failing the run; long paginations stop after ~4 minutes and exit successfully with whatever was collected.
- Added per-field `fields` JSON-schema (titles + descriptions) to the dataset schema.

Note: existing output field keys are unchanged; `citeCount` and `dateArgued` were added.