# Changelog of Blinkit Products & Prices Scraper (`zapticx/blinkit-products-prices-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/zapticx/blinkit-products-prices-scraper/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/zapticx/blinkit-products-prices-scraper.md

## Changelog

### 1.1 — 2026-08-27

Pre-publication review pass.

- **Removed `category` and `reviewCount` from the output.** Blinkit returns an empty category hierarchy in both search and category responses, and its web API exposes no review count, so both were permanently null. `subcategory` (Blinkit's product type) and `sourceTerm` (which search or category a row came from) cover the same ground with real values.
- Pricing set to $0.0015 per product scraped ($1.50 per 1,000), plus the existing $0.00005 run-start charge.
- Rewrote the README around what the data is worth, with verified multi-location and sponsored-placement measurements.
- Regrouped the input form: search terms, locations and the result limit come first and are enough on their own; categories, product URLs, filters and advanced options follow.
- Added a fourth dataset view, **Organic results only**, for separating paid placements from organic ranking. The default view now leads with inventory, rating and delivery ETA alongside pricing.

### 1.0 — 2026-08-27

First release.

- Search Blinkit by keyword, browse categories by name or URL, and fetch products by product URL
- Multi-location scraping with city name, PIN code or coordinate input
- Numeric pricing with MRP, discount amount/percent and per-unit price normalisation
- Live per-store inventory counts, stock status and delivery ETA
- Ratings and sponsored-placement (`isSponsored`) detection
- Serviceability validation per location, with unserviceable locations skipped rather than failing the run
- Bounded retries with exponential backoff and residential proxy rotation; a failure on one query or category does not end the run
- Pure HTTP collection — no browser — running comfortably in 256 MB