# Changelog of Expedia Reviews Scraper (`parsebird/expedia-reviews-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/parsebird/expedia-reviews-scraper/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/parsebird/expedia-reviews-scraper.md

## Changelog

### v1.4 — 2026-09-16

- Switched default proxy back to the RESIDENTIAL group with a homepage warm-up step, and added automatic retry with a fresh proxy session when Expedia's bot check blocks a run
- Stopped hardcoding an internal API header that Expedia rotates on frontend deploys; it's now read live from the page each run

### v1.3 — 2026-09-16

- Increased default memory to reduce browser crashes on heavy hotel pages
- Blocked images, fonts, and third-party ad/analytics requests to speed up page loads and cut memory use

### v1.2 — 2026-09-15

- Fixed hotel ID detection when a hotel page redirect could not be confirmed
- Added a short settle period before requesting reviews to improve reliability

### v1.1 — 2026-09-15

- Fixed a startup crash when running behind certain proxy configurations

### v1.0 — 2026-09-15

- Initial release
- Scrape Expedia hotel guest reviews by hotel URL or hotel ID
- Extract rating, title, review text, published date, stay date, traveler name, language, helpful votes, sentiment themes, guest photos, and management responses
- Sort reviews by default order, most relevant, most recent, highest rating, or lowest rating
- Configurable max reviews and max review pages