# Changelog of Google Shopping Price Tracker — Offers & Price History (`sian.agency/google-shopping-price-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/sian.agency/google-shopping-price-scraper/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/sian.agency/google-shopping-price-scraper.md

## Changelog

All notable changes to Google Shopping Price Tracker will be documented in this file.

### \[2026-08-31] — Free-plan result cap is now visible

#### 🔧 Changes

- **The 25-result-per-run Free-plan cap is now announced in the run log and the final stats.** It always existed, but a run that hit it just stopped — a Store Reviews run with `maxPages: 50` returned 25 rows with no explanation. The log now says when the cap is reached, confirms the dropped rows were **not** charged, and links the upgrade path. Documented in the README and on the `Max pages` / `Reviews per page` input fields.

### \[2026-06-09] — Paywall hardening

#### 🔐 Changes

- **Paywall integrity fix** — the internal smoke-test override is now ignored on the platform; only your actual plan tier governs access to the paid Product Details operation. No change for paying users; all other operations remain free on every plan.

### \[2026-06-08] — Product Details: paid-plan only

#### 🔧 Changes

- **Product Details is now a paid-plan feature.** Free-tier runs receive a single, no-charge upgrade notice and the lookup is skipped entirely — no upstream request is made, so a blocked run costs nothing and finishes instantly. Paid plans get unlimited product detail lookups. All other operations — product search, light search, deals, offers, price history, product reviews, and store reviews — remain fully available on every plan.
- **Product Details pricing updated** to reflect its true single-lookup cost (one product per billable result).

### \[2026-06-08]

#### 🎉 Google Shopping Price Tracker — Launch!

- **Cross-Retailer Price History** — get a per-store price time series for any product, the exclusive column for real price-history tracking and price-drop detection.
- **Cross-Store Offers** — pull every retailer's offer for a product in one call for instant cross-store price comparison.
- **8 Operations in One Actor** — product search, light search, deals, product details, product offers, price history, product reviews, and store reviews.
- **Multi-Market Coverage** — target any Google Shopping country and language for global price intelligence.
- **Pay-Per-Result Pricing** — only charged for successful rows, with a free tier to test and clean camelCase JSON out.

#### 💎 User Benefits

- See what every store charges for a product — and how that price moved over time.
- Power repricing, MAP-compliance, and price-drop alerts with real historical price data.
- One actor instead of three — search, offers, and reviews in a single, query-ready dataset.
- No account or API key to manage; export to JSON, CSV, or Excel.

#### 🎯 Use Cases

- E-commerce analysts running cross-retailer price comparison to find the cheapest seller.
- Repricing and MAP-compliance tools using price history to detect drops and validate pricing.
- Brand managers tracking competitor prices on a schedule across their category.
- Affiliate and deal-site builders surfacing on-sale products and discounts.
- Trust and product teams analyzing product and merchant reviews for sentiment and seller risk.