# Changelog of Google Scholar Public Profiles Scraper (`searchapi/google-scholar-public-profiles-scraper`) Actor

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

## Changelog

### 2.0.0

- Replaced the slow browser-only path with server-rendered HTTP extraction.
- Added direct ID, URL, deduplicated batch, and public author-search modes.
- Added bounded structured pagination up to 1,000 publications per profile.
- Added stable IDs, citation-history pairs, all/since metrics, homepage, image, rich publication fields, co-author profiles, and explicit provenance.
- Added strict response/challenge/authentication checks, clean optional-field omission, sessions, bounded retries, atomic writes, typed schemas, fixtures, and regression tests.
- Rejected the incompatible `GOOGLE_SERP` transport and documented access boundaries.
- Pinned deterministic dependencies and remediated production dependency advisories.