# Changelog of News Intelligence Scraper — AI Agent Real-Time News API (`logiover/news-intelligence-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/logiover/news-intelligence-scraper/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/logiover/news-intelligence-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 — v1.1 (snippet parser fix)

- **Fixed Google News snippets (parser drift):** Google News now wraps each `<description>` in entity-encoded anchors pointing at `news.google.com/rss/articles/…` redirect URLs. The previous cleanup stripped tags *before* decoding entities, so the raw redirect URL leaked in as the article `snippet`. Snippets are now decoded first, then the anchor's **inner text** (the readable headline, or headlines joined with `·` for multi-outlet items) is extracted; a bare redirect URL is never emitted, and empty/URL-only descriptions fall back to the cleaned `<title>`. Bing/DuckDuckGo snippets are unaffected. Verified live: 101/101 Google items now carry readable snippet text, 0 redirect URLs leaked.
- **Visible monetization warning:** the pay-per-result charge call was wrapped in a silent empty `catch`, hiding the repeated `Attempting to charge for an unknown event 'result'` message. It now logs a single clear warning when the charge event name does not match the Actor's configured monetization event, so the mismatch is diagnosable. The event name and pricing are unchanged (owner's domain).

### 2026-07-12 — v1.1

- **Zero-config runs:** no field is required anymore. Running with empty input `{}` now returns recent top-headline news on a default topic instead of erroring.
- **Dropdown for sources:** `News sources` is now a multi-select (Google News / Bing News / DuckDuckGo News) instead of free text.
- **New field:** each article now carries `imageUrl` (from RSS media/enclosure/thumbnail) when available.
- **Time budget:** bulk runs stop starting new topics after ~4 min and exit successfully with everything collected so far.
- Sentiment scored once per item (small perf tidy). Proxy uses Apify AUTO group (no forced datacenter). Pay-per-result event unchanged.

### 2026-07-02 — v1.0

- Initial release: 3 modes (topic/company/bulk), 3 sources (Google/Bing/DuckDuckGo News), two-stage dedup, lexicon sentiment, time filter, localization, datacenter proxy default. Pay-per-result.