# Changelog of Google Play Reviews Scraper Pro (`zenomastro/google-play-reviews-pro`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/zenomastro/google-play-reviews-pro/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/zenomastro/google-play-reviews-pro.md

## Changelog

### 2026-10-14

- Several languages and countries in one run: new **Languages (several)** (`languages`) and **Countries (several)** (`countries`). Every combination is read, a review that two storefronts both show is delivered and charged once, and Maximum reviews per app applies to each combination. Language and Country keep working as before.
- Every review row now says its `language` and `country`; insights rows carry them too, one per app and language/country.
- New **Only the last N days** (`lastDays`) rolling window for schedules; with Newest order, paging stops once reviews get older.
- New filters: **App versions** (`appVersions`, `9.1` matches 9.1.0 and 9.1.23) and **Exclude reviews with these keywords** (`excludeKeywords`).
- Richer free insights row: developer reply rate per star and reply time (average and median hours), monthly and app-version trends with average stars, and top complaint (1-2 stars) and praise (4-5 stars) keywords. Plain word counting, no AI; the existing insight fields are unchanged.
- New output views: Review insights and App details.
- Input names of other Google Play review Actors are accepted: `startUrls`, `sort`, `maxItems`, `recentDays`.
- A language/country that fails while others work gets its own free error row instead of hiding the problem; the app is not counted as failed. App metadata is still fetched and charged once per app.

### 2026-10-10

Google Play Reviews Scraper API (google-play-reviews-reliable) is merged into this Actor. Its input works here unchanged: change only the Actor name.

- Find apps by name: new App names to search (`appQueries`) and Apps per search (`maxSearchResultsPerQuery`), with a free `search_summary` row. Up to 200 apps per run (was 50).
- Monitor new reviews: Monitor name (`monitorName`) remembers delivered reviews across scheduled runs and marks each review `isNew`; Emit only new reviews (`onlyNew`) outputs and charges only reviews not delivered before. Existing monitors of Google Play Reviews Scraper API continue from the same key-value store.
- New filters: review contains any / all of a keyword list (`containsAny`, `containsAll`); date bounds also accept ISO 8601 timestamps.
- Oldest-first sort, and a single star value (minimum = maximum) is now filtered by Google Play itself, so far fewer pages are read.
- Richer free insights row: app-version and monthly distributions, keyword mentions (`insightKeywords`), and scan details (reviews read, pages, why the scan stopped).
- Richer app metadata row: star histogram, category, icon, content rating, ads and in-app purchase flags, release date and last update time. Pricing is unchanged.
- Reliability: per-request timeout (`requestTimeoutSecs`), retries with growing waits (`retries`), direct access with automatic Apify Proxy fallback (`autoProxyFallback`) or your own proxy (`proxyConfiguration`), a scan budget per app (`maxPagesPerApp`), reviews streamed to the dataset page by page, and a clean stop before the run timeout.
- Bad input never fails the run: mistakes such as a minimum star rating above the maximum are reported in error rows and the status message, with nothing scraped or charged.
- Input names of Google Play Reviews Scraper API are accepted as aliases (`appIdsOrUrls`, `minRating`, `maxRating`, `developerReply`, `includeAppMetadata`, `monitorKey`, `searchCountry`); with them, rows also carry that Actor's output field names. Option Add Google Play Reviews Scraper API field names (`reliableFieldNames`) turns those names on for any input.

### 2026-10-03

- Lower run start fee: $0.0001 per GB of run memory (was higher), so short runs and AI-agent calls cost less.
- Clearer title and description, and README cleaned up (no duplicated sections).
- Input form: the essential fields come first; optional settings are grouped under "Advanced settings".

### 2026-10-01

- Lower price per review.
- Simpler pricing: Apify platform usage is now included in the per-result price, so you only pay per result plus a small start fee.
- Subscriber discounts on paid Apify plans: Bronze −10%, Silver −15%, Gold and higher −20% per result.
- Prefilled example input, so the first run works with one click.
- New Output tab with a results table and a JSON link for APIs and AI agents.
- README section on using the Actor from AI agents (Apify MCP server) and the REST API.
- Safer memory limits to keep runs fast and costs predictable.
- At the end of a run, the status message now links to the reviews and issues pages, so you can rate the Actor (1–5 ★) or suggest improvements.