# Changelog of Instagram Scraper: Posts, Reels, Comments & Hashtags (`abdelrahman12_3/instagram-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/abdelrahman12\_3/instagram-scraper/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/abdelrahman12\_3/instagram-scraper.md

## Changelog

### 0.2 — 2026-10-03

- New: **Older posts from Google (beta)** for profiles. It finds older posts through Google image search, opens each one for full details, and keeps only the profile's own posts. Posts by other accounts are dropped and never charged.
- New: **Google searches per profile** sets the search budget. Searching stops early when Google runs out of results or when most results belong to other accounts.
- The coverage report shows searches, posts found and checked, and why searching stopped.
- Monitors search each profile on Google at most once every 30 days.

### 0.1.8 — 2026-10-03

- Date filters use a date picker with a relative option (for example 7 days).
- Dates typed through the API are read leniently. `7d`, `2 weeks ago`, `2026/9/1`, `1 Sep 2026` and Arabic digits all work.
- Dates that cannot be read safely stop the run before any request, with a message that says how to fix them. Swapped dates are corrected.
- Inputs pasted with commas, quotes, invisible characters, story links or search links are understood. Duplicate inputs are scraped once.
- Turning on comments now turns on full post details, so comments are no longer silently empty for profile, hashtag and location posts.
- Monitor names ignore upper and lower case and extra spaces. Existing monitors keep their memory.
- Each run's summary lists anything the scraper adjusted in your input.

### 0.1 — 2026-10-02

- First release.
- Scrapes profiles, posts, reels, comments, hashtags, keywords (any language) and locations without logging in.
- Merges profile posts and reels into one feed.
- Adds related keyword expansion.
- Adds monitoring mode with per-monitor memory.
- Adds a coverage report for every input.
- Filters are free.
- Never charges for empty, duplicate, filtered or already-monitored results.