# Changelog of Google Finance Scraper (`searchapi/google-finance-scraper`) Actor

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

## Changelog

### 3.1.0 - 2026-09-22

- Kept the existing HTTP and Cheerio extraction path and added a fallback for the current Google Finance page hierarchy.
- Added market, source type, data source, search URL, result type, page, and synchronized scrape metadata.
- Fixed after-hours fields so the regular intraday change is not mislabeled as an after-hours quote.
- Added output auditing and pinned local validation commands.

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

#### Changed

- Replaced the broken Firefox workflow with fast HTTP extraction from server-rendered Google Finance quote pages.
- Added explicit single and batch modes with bounded concurrency.
- Added correct support for `SYMBOL:EXCHANGE`, `EXCHANGE:SYMBOL`, bare ticker, and public quote URL inputs.
- Added `defaultExchange` so bare tickers no longer silently misrepresent non-NASDAQ securities.
- Converted prices, changes, percentages, market cap, volume, shares, employees, and other financial values to documented numeric types while preserving display text.
- Expanded the source-backed dataset to quote, after-hours, statistics, profile, localization, and related-stock fields.
- Added status/content-type validation, bounded retries, explicit challenge detection, clean no-results behavior, and stable deduplication.
- Added direct, standard Apify Proxy, Residential, and custom-proxy support; GOOGLE_SERP is rejected because Finance quote pages are not Search result pages.
- Removed unused browser, route, fallback, and local-auth helper code.
- Switched to the lightweight Node 22 Actor image and removed Playwright browser installation.
- Added complete input, dataset, output, QA input, unit-test, and dataset-audit coverage.

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

- Expanded the legacy output schema and added local validation files.

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

- Initial release.