# Changelog of TikTok Shop Competitor & Product Monitor (`thescrapelab/tiktok-shop-competitor-product-monitor`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/thescrapelab/tiktok-shop-competitor-product-monitor/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/thescrapelab/tiktok-shop-competitor-product-monitor.md

## Changelog

### 0.1.0 - 2026-07-23

- Added keyword, product URL, shop URL, and category discovery inputs.
- Added validated US discovery plus clearly labeled best-effort handling for supplied non-US public URLs.
- Added product, shop, review, creator-signal, change, and error dataset views.
- Added public SSR-first extraction with residential proxy and Playwright fallbacks.
- Added Task- and key-scoped field-level change monitoring.
- Added transparent GMV estimates, field coverage, typed schemas, API examples, and client-facing documentation.
- Added run-level data-quality counts after cloud validation of exact and masked price responses.
- Added explicit product-detail coverage and discovery-row warnings when live enrichment is temporarily unavailable.
- Preserved actionable TikTok response classifications when a later fallback encounters a transport failure.
- Added stable keyword-relevance ranking for mixed TikTok Shop merchandising pages.
- Front-loaded Store-facing input/output guidance and added descriptive output links, limitations, and troubleshooting.
- Replaced the 18-control Console form with one universal keyword/URL field and an optional five-product limit while preserving advanced API compatibility.
- Added an exact-product discovery fallback when TikTok returns an empty HTTP 200 response for a public product detail URL.
- Added pay-per-event billing for listing products, detail-enriched products, and reviews, with free shop, creator-signal, change, and error rows.
- Added strict monetization configuration and run-budget guards to prevent double charging or unbilled paid output.
- Made paid-row accounting derive from the preflight budget and rows submitted, avoiding misleading SDK return counts while preserving exact platform charges.
- Introduced low launch pricing with automatic Apify-plan discounts: from $3.49 per 1,000 listing products, $5.59 per 1,000 detailed products, and $0.35 per 1,000 reviews; lowered the minimum run budget to $0.01.