# Changelog of NPI Registry Scraper - US Healthcare Provider Data (`logiover/npi-registry-scraper`) Actor

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

- **Empty input now works.** Running with `{}` returns a broad national sample across the most common provider specialties. Previously a bare state-only query was rejected by the NPPES API ("state requires additional search criteria"), so default runs could come back empty — fixed by always driving the search from a taxonomy/specialty.
- **All filters are now optional.** Nothing is required. States are optional and only narrow the search; when omitted, the search runs nationally.
- **Taxonomy / Specialty is now a dropdown** with a comprehensive, verified list of common healthcare specialties (plus "All common specialties" for a broad sample).
- **States are now a multi-select dropdown** with human-readable labels (50 states + DC + US territories).
- **Provider Type** dropdown labels clarified (individuals / organizations / both).
- **More output fields** added: middle/prefix/suffix name parts, second address line, license state, country code, mailing address (city/state/postal), and a numeric `taxonomyCount`. No existing field keys were renamed.
- **Proxy:** now uses Apify Proxy (AUTO) with a direct-connection fallback on the final retry (no more forced DATACENTER group). Fresh IP per retry.
- **Graceful runs:** added a ~4-minute time budget for large sweeps (saves what was collected and exits successfully) and top-level error handling so a transient failure no longer fails the whole run.
- Added dataset field schema (titles + descriptions) and refreshed the output view.

### 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.