# Changelog of Google News Scraper with Publisher URLs (`zovo-one/google-news-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/zovo-one/google-news-scraper/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/zovo-one/google-news-scraper.md

## Changelog

### 0.1.1 (2026-11-05)

Fixes from independent review round 1.

- Duplicate removal by title and publisher now needs the two publication times to be less than 12 hours apart, so a daily column that reuses its headline is kept once per day. Days whose articles were all duplicates of other feeds no longer count toward the empty-day stop.
- A 400 or 404 for one feed (for example an unknown topic ID) no longer counts toward the 3-feeds-in-a-row breaker.
- Topic subsection URLs (`/topics/<id>/sections/<id>`) are skipped with a warning instead of failing the run.
- On the Apify platform, with no proxy set, a block, consent redirect or non-RSS page on the direct connection switches the run once to Apify Proxy (datacenter). OUTPUT has `proxyFallbackUsed`.
- The cookie consent error now suggests a US datacenter proxy.
- `queries` and `topics` refuse non-string items (schema `items.type: string` and in code).
- Runs without a cost cap save each page of rows with one `pushData` call and one `url-resolved` charge.

### 0.1.0 (2026-11-05)

First version.

- Google News search feeds (with full search operators) and topic feeds (top stories, 8 sections, topic IDs and topic URLs).
- Real publisher URLs: old article IDs decode offline; current IDs go through the article page signature and Google's `batchexecute` lookup, 10 per call.
- 85 editions (country + language), checked live.
- Date filters (absolute or relative) on exact UTC publication times, sent to Google as US Pacific-day `after:` / `before:` operators.
- More than 100 results per search, read one day at a time, with days at Google's cap reported (`fullDays`); at most 400 days per query and 5,000 feed pages per run.
- Duplicate removal by Google ID, publisher URL, and title + publisher.
- Related coverage from Google story clusters.
- Pay per event: `article` $0.0015 and `url-resolved` $0.0005 (only when found). Max-cost stop happens before resolution.
- Breakers for blocked resolution (5 failures in a row; any success resets) and failing feeds (3 in a row); restart-safe without double charges; per-feed run report in `OUTPUT`.