Changelog
2025-09-13 / v1.3.3
💸 Pay‑per‑result compliance: enforce ACTOR_MAX_PAID_DATASET_ITEMS
🧠 Memory safeguards
⚙️ DefaultRunMemoryMbytes=1024 and defaultRunTimeoutSecs=120
🛑 Forcefully exit the process right after the SDK’s clean exit to prevent residual “RUNNING” time and extra costs.
2025-06-25 / v1.2.36
2025-03-26 / v1.2.3
🚀 Added timeout and retry mechanism for page fetching
📊 Optimized logging to reduce noise and improve readability
🛠️ Fixed errors related to timeouts and dependencies
2025-03-18 / v1.1.6
⚡ Apify Proxy Default 'Datacenter' to improve results extraction
2025-03-15 / v1.0.6
🛡️ Improved Description Extraction: Added multi-step fallback system with three methods to extract article descriptions
☁️ Implemented cloudscraper as a third fallback option to handle Cloudflare-protected websites
⚡ Optimized timeouts and error handling for better stability
🔧 Fixed Actor.fail() method error for proper error reporting
2025-03-03 / v0.9.13
🚀 Optimized extraction performance with parallel processing for faster scraping
✨ New feature : Article description extraction with advanced anti-blocking technology for major news sites
2025-03-02 / v0.6.15
💰 Implemented cost optimization measures to reduce resource consumption
🌐 Simplified proxy options (datacenter, residential, none) with datacenter as default
⏱️ Added global timeout of 120 seconds to prevent runaway executions
🔢 Limited maximum keywords to 5 to optimize performance and costs
🧠 Set memory limit to 4GB for more efficient resource utilization
2025-02-27 / v0.6.7
🌐 Default time period set to "Last hour" (1h)
🕒 Updated time period options to match Google News format (1h, 1d, 7d, 1y, all)
2025-02-24 / v0.4.8
⚖️ Added limitation of 10 articles per keyword for free users
💰 Unlimited articles for paid users
🔄 Improved proxy handling with better support for DATACENTER and RESIDENTIAL groups
2025-02-22 / v0.2.40
🌐 Added URL decoder option to get original article URLs from Google News redirections
2025-02-22 / v0.1.9
🎯 First stable release with comprehensive Google News data extraction
🏗️ Structured data format with standardized fields
