# Changelog of Google Play Scraper — App Data, Reviews & ASO API (`logiover/google-play-data-api`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/logiover/google-play-data-api/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/logiover/google-play-data-api.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.
- Declared 21 dataset fields from typed live cloud samples so the output contract is no longer an empty placeholder.
- Declared 21 nullable dataset fields from typed live cloud samples so the output contract is no longer an empty placeholder or brittle to sparse modes.

### 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

- **Dropdown inputs** — Country (52 storefronts), Language (32), Category (52 codes incl. all game sub-genres), plus Collection, Age band and Review sort order are now pick-lists with human-readable labels instead of free-text codes. No more guessing exact enum strings.
- **No mandatory input** — nothing is required anymore. Running with an empty input `{}` now returns the **Top-Free apps** chart for the default country (previously an empty search errored with zero results). All modes and filters stay optional.
- Added a sensible default of 100 to **Max results** so empty/quick runs are fast and cheap; raise it to pull more.
- Numeric fields (rating, ratings count, reviews count, price, installs bands) continue to be stored as real numbers; dataset views render them as numeric columns.
- No output field keys changed; existing integrations keep working.

### 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.