# Changelog of Instagram Carousel Trends: Trending Content & Reel Trends (`afanasenko/instagram-trend-finder`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/afanasenko/instagram-trend-finder/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/afanasenko/instagram-trend-finder.md

## Changelog

### 0.0.7 — 2026-10-24

#### Changed

- **A one-time request to rate the Actor.** After your second successful run you may see a short note asking for a star rating, with a button that opens the rating dialog. It appears once, and at most once more a month later if you keep using the Actor; it is never shown on demo, failed or empty runs, and never to runs started by an AI agent. Results, columns and price are unchanged.

### 0.0.6 — 2026-10-23

- Creators found through Instagram's own reel search are now remembered for later runs as well, not only the creators whose posts were read. Results and price are unchanged.

### 0.0.5 — 2026-10-23

- Creators are now checked against your niche from their profile before their posts are read. An account whose profile clearly shows another subject is skipped, so more of each run goes to creators of your niche and the trends are found with fewer reads.
- A creator whose profile already shows your niche is kept even when their latest captions say little (a call to comment a keyword, a one-word caption). Creators you list yourself are always kept.

### 0.0.4 — 2026-10-23

- New name: Instagram Carousel Trends: Trending Content & Reel Trends. The actor works the same way.

### 0.0.3 — 2026-10-23

- Reels are now read from their first seconds — the text on screen, or the first spoken line when there is none — instead of the cover image, which often carries a brand name or nothing. Only the start of each reel is fetched. A reel that cannot be read falls back to its cover.

### 0.0.2 — 2026-10-23

- Faster runs: the headline images are fetched with a short wait and read in a larger batch, so a slow image no longer holds up the run; a post whose image cannot be fetched keeps its caption's first line.
- A run that is close to its time limit stops reading more creators and delivers the trends it already found, instead of running out of time.

### 0.0.1 — 2026-10-23

- First release. Finds the carousel and reel headline formats that at least 3 creators of a niche used in the last 7, 14 or 21 days. New and growing formats come first, measured by how many creators used each one 3, 2 and 1 week ago; every trend shows how much better its posts did than their authors' usual results, a fill-in template, an example for your niche and up to 5 example posts.
- Free plan: 2 trends per run in full, every other trend found shown locked, 3 runs a month.