# Changelog of Google Maps Lead Scraper: Emails, Phones & Socials (`vaunted/google-maps-lead-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/vaunted/google-maps-lead-scraper/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/vaunted/google-maps-lead-scraper.md

## Changelog

### 1.1

A correctness release. Several fields were returning wrong values rather than
missing ones, which is harder to notice — if you have exports from version 1.0,
the notes below tell you which columns to re-pull.

#### Fixed

- **`rating` was not the star rating.** It was being read from an internal
  ranking score that sits in a narrow 3.7–3.9 band for every result regardless
  of how a business is actually rated. Eight Seattle coffee shops came back
  between 3.77 and 3.82 while their real ratings ranged from 4.4 to 5.0. Every
  row produced by 1.0 carried a wrong rating, and the **Minimum Star Rating**
  filter was thresholding that same meaningless number — a minimum of 4.0 could
  reject businesses rated 4.8. Both are correct now.

- **Coordinates were wrong in the southern hemisphere.** Latitude was not
  sign-corrected, so Sydney came back as `395.62` instead of `-33.87`.
  Australia, New Zealand, most of South America, southern Africa and parts of
  Asia were all affected. Longitude was always correct.

- **`openingHours` was wrong when present and missing most of the time.** It
  was read from the wrong part of the response: a pharmacy open 08:30–18:30
  returned "Monday 09:30–10:30". Hours are now read from the right place, cover
  the full week including split shifts, and appear on essentially every
  business that publishes them.

- **Reviews were returning nothing.** Google stopped serving the endpoint this
  Actor used. Reviews now work again, with text, star rating, author, profile
  link, publish date and language, and all four sort orders. No one was ever
  charged for the missing reviews — the add-on bills per review delivered.

- **`maxPhotosPerPlace` above 20 had no effect.** The cap was hardcoded at 20
  even though the field accepts up to 100. The same businesses now return 40–60
  photos where Google has them.

- **Google Maps URLs with coordinates searched for the wrong thing.** A pasted
  `/@40.67,-73.94,13z` URL was turned into the literal search text
  `"pizza in @40.6782,-73.9442"`. Coordinates now set the search area, so a
  Brooklyn URL returns Brooklyn businesses.

- **`categoryFilter` did nothing for uncategorised places.** Any business Google
  returned without a category passed every filter. It is now applied properly.

- **Pagination skipped results** when a request was trimmed to the remaining
  count, so large searches quietly returned fewer businesses than available.

- **`minRating` let unrated places through.** The input schema said places
  without reviews are excluded once a threshold is set above 0; now they are.

#### Changed

- **`popularTimes` has been removed.** It was present on every row and
  contained nothing usable — Google does not return popular-times data to this
  Actor, and the field was an empty shell that looked like data.

- **`priceLevel` added** in its place: `$` to `$$$$`, or `null` where Google
  shows no price band. Populated for restaurants, bars, hotels and retail; not
  for professional services, where Google has no price level to show.

- **Default memory lowered from 4 GB to 2 GB.** Measured peak usage across runs
  up to 120 businesses with photo extraction was 276 MB. Because the Actor Start
  event is charged per gigabyte of selected memory, this also halves that part
  of the cost. You can still raise it per run.

#### Improved

- Runs that get migrated to another server mid-run now resume instead of
  starting over, so the same business is never delivered — or charged for —
  twice.
- A failed write to the dataset is now reported in the run log and the run
  summary instead of passing silently.
- When reviews cannot be fetched, the run log says so and why, rather than
  returning an empty list that looks like a business with no reviews.

### 1.0

Initial release. Google Maps search with email, phone and social profile
extraction from business websites, plus optional reviews and photos.