# Changelog of AliExpress Scraper: Products, Reviews & Stores (`studio_sussex/aliexpress-product-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/studio\_sussex/aliexpress-product-scraper/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/studio\_sussex/aliexpress-product-scraper.md

## Changelog

### 1.4.0 — Pre-launch multi-workflow release candidate

#### Added

- Auto-detect workflow and polished sectioned native Apify input UI.
- Responsive animated run dashboard with reduced-motion support.
- Keyword/category search, exact products, full product detail, reviews, monitoring, and store/supplier workflows.
- Browser-backed AliExpress PDP capture with variants, SKU price/inventory/purchase limits, availability, seller, shipping, specs, gallery, video and optional descriptions.
- Buyer review metadata, filters, review intelligence and incremental new-review monitoring.
- Resume from prior dataset without re-emitting already completed products.
- Official AliExpress short/share-link resolution.
- Store/supplier discovery with supplier profiles.
- Product monitoring with market+locale+research-scope state keys and SKU/shipping/seller deltas.
- Built-in market summary and focused dataset views, including one row per SKU.
- Separate PPE event plumbing for product, product-detail, review and product-change.

#### Hardened

- Global request pacing and bounded block handling.
- Partial PPE charge-limit accounting.
- Explicit source priority: exact products, then stores, then broad search under one hard product cap.
- Retry behavior for details, reviews and stores.
- Long URL handling, strict AliExpress host validation and proxy redirect URL preservation.
- GitHub Actions syntax/tests/schema gate.
- Reproducible lockfile installs and cloud image packaging for curl-based proxy transport.
- Dataset schema nullability aligned with the documented output contract.
- Private/unmonetized acceptance runs emit normally; PPE setups fail fast if required events are missing.
- Product-description requests restricted to trusted HTTPS AliExpress/CDN hosts.
- Encrypted Webshare proxy override with country-targeted rotation and sticky browser/monitoring sessions.
- Workflow presets remain authoritative when Apify injects false schema defaults.

#### Private cloud acceptance completed

- Restored live US/DE PDP capture with regional browser routes, locale-safe prices, current descriptions, and explicit partial-detail semantics.
- Added current signed supplier-store catalog discovery with bounded pagination and direct-first reliability fallback.
- Verified official AliExpress short links through bounded browser resolution.
- Verified current search, category, details, descriptions, reviews, incremental reviews, monitoring, resume, localization, stores, output views, and partial store/detail enrichment.
- Completed 1K, 5K, and 10K unique-product search runs with zero retries, blocks, or errors in the measured US input shape.
- Measured detail/review/store/search economics and refreshed live competitor pricing.

#### Still owner-gated before public launch

- Apify monetization/KYC and measured PPE event configuration.
- Original Store artwork, successful-run screenshots, and support ownership.
- Rotation of the exposed built-in Apify Proxy credential and final Publish action.