# Changelog of Federal Register Scraper — Rules, Notices & Regulations (`logiover/federal-register-scraper`) Actor

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

## Changelog

### 2026-10-15

- Every request now has a hard time limit, so a proxy connection that stalls can no longer hold up the run or push it past its timeout.
- A run that reaches its maximum cost per run now stops cleanly with its results saved and a status message, instead of ending as aborted.
- A proxy group your account cannot use no longer stops the run at start-up; it falls back to the default Apify Proxy.
- Runs with a short timeout (API and AI-agent calls) now finish inside it with what they collected, instead of being cut off.
- Memory is managed within the run's own limit, which removes a rare out-of-memory crash on large pages.
- The default used when the field is left out for `maxResults` is now 6,666 (was 200).

### 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: 11 columns returned, 72.1% 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 3 column(s) came back empty in this sample (`effectiveDate`, `pageLength`, `citation`); 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

- **All filters are now optional.** Running with empty input `{}` returns the most recent Federal Register documents (newest first), bounded by `maxResults`.
- **Dropdown inputs.** Document Types and Agencies are now searchable multi-select dropdowns with human-readable labels; added a Sort Order dropdown (newest / oldest / relevance / executive order number).
- **Removed the `agencyDocs` mode** that could error on empty input — keyword and agency filters now combine freely in a single flow.
- **New numeric field `pageLength`** (document page count) stored as a real number.
- **Proxy:** defaults to Apify Proxy (Automatic) with an automatic direct-connection fallback on the final retry. The dead DATACENTER-only group is no longer forced.
- **Graceful runs:** fetch errors are logged instead of hard-failing the run, and pagination stops after a ~4 minute time budget, pushing everything collected so far.
- Default `maxResults` lowered to 200 for fast, cheap default runs (raise it to pull more).
- Added dataset field titles/descriptions and linked schemas.