# Changelog of Google About This Result Scraper (`searchapi/google-about-this-result-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/searchapi/google-about-this-result-scraper/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/searchapi/google-about-this-result-scraper.md

## Changelog

All notable changes to the Google About This Result Scraper are documented here.

### \[3.0.0] - 2026-08-29

#### Changed

- Replaced browser scraping and fabricated domain classifications with source-backed Google **About this result** panel extraction.
- Added `search`, fair `batch`, and exact `url` modes, pagination, canonical deduplication, bounded concurrency, and recursive empty-value removal.
- Uses GOOGLE_SERP over HTTP for result discovery and Residential sessions for Google's specialized panel and opaque redirect endpoints.
- Resolves current `/goto` links and decodes length-delimited panel targets before associating titles, URLs, and panel data.
- Added stable input, dataset, and output schemas plus run-level dataset audits.

#### Security and reliability

- Removed local Apify authentication-file access, browser dependencies, unsupported ownership/bias/rating claims, and opaque request URLs from output.
- CAPTCHA/challenge responses fail closed and are never stored or solved.
- Production dependency audit now reports zero known vulnerabilities.

### \[2.0.0] - 2026-06-12

#### Added

- **Schema expanded** from 22 to **44 fields**.
- **New fields**: `type`, `resultType`, `link`, `host`, `favicon`, `thumbnail`, `description`, `sourceDescription`, `sourceType`, `sourceName`, `sourceLogo`, `firstSeen`, `lastSeen`, `indexedCount`, `onlineSince`, `siteOwner`, `country`, `serverLocation`, `language`, `topicsCovered`, `topEntities`, `corroboration`, `sourcePerspective`, `sourceBias`, `ratingCount`, `reputation`, `isEncyclopediastic`, `isGovernment`, `isAdvertorial`, `isUserGenerated`, `isAd`, `query`.
- **New view**: `fullDetails` — all 44 fields.
- **INPUT.json** added at project root for local validation.

### \[1.0.0] - 2025-05-20

#### Added

- Initial production release of the Google About This Result Scraper.
- `PlaywrightCrawler`-based architecture using Chrome.
- Modular project structure.
- `validate-datasets.js` for local dataset output validation.
- `Dockerfile` using `apify/actor-node-playwright-chrome` image.
- `README.md` with full Apify usage guide.