# Changelog of Google Ads Transparency Scraper - Competitor Ads (`logiover/google-ads-transparency-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/logiover/google-ads-transparency-scraper/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/logiover/google-ads-transparency-scraper.md

## Changelog

### 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

- **Regions is now a dropdown** — the free-text region list is replaced by a select of ~120 supported countries with human-readable labels (plus "Anywhere (global)"), so users can't mistype an ISO code. Multiple selections still act as an OR filter.
- **No mandatory input** — nothing is required. Running with empty input `{}` returns a sample batch of ads (defaults to mode=domain, domain=nike.com), bounded by Max Ads.
- **Proxy control exposed** — added the `proxyConfiguration` input (Apify Proxy AUTO by default, direct-connection fallback on the final retry). Ad-format and search-mode filters are dropdowns; the format labels now show friendly names.
- **Richer dataset views** — the dataset schema now describes every real output field (advertiser, format, surface, first/last shown, impressions, variations, preview URLs) with two table views (Ads Overview + Creative Details) instead of placeholder columns; numeric columns render as numbers.
- Numbers already stored as real numbers (ad counts, impressions, image dimensions, variation count) via `toNum()`.
- Cleaned template placeholder metadata from the actor manifest.

### 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.