# Changelog of Local Business Database Scraper (`sian.agency/local-business-database-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/sian.agency/local-business-database-scraper/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/sian.agency/local-business-database-scraper.md

## Changelog

### 2026-10-15

#### 🎉 Local Business Database Scraper: initial release

- **US business samples**: Request a city and full state name for a small stored directory sample.
- **Business records**: Export names, addresses and available phone, website and category fields.
- **Locality validation**: Reject mismatched city, state or country records before business-result billing.
- **Processing Report**: Review delivered records, accepted charges and retry input.
- **JSON exports**: Preserve the complete returned business object for inspection.
- **Record timestamps**: Export processing time, retrieval time and success/error status with each record.

#### 💎 User Benefits

- Keep one dataset row per returned business.
- Request up to five businesses on paying plans and one on free-plan runs.
- Empty lists and retrieval failures have no business-result charge; a separate run-start fee applies.

#### 🎯 Use Cases

- Sales researchers inspecting a small city business directory sample.
- Local marketers reviewing available public contact fields.
- Agencies saving business observations for a research brief.