# Changelog of Devpost Hackathon Scraper (`automation-lab/devpost-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/automation-lab/devpost-scraper/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/automation-lab/devpost-scraper.md

## Changelog

### 2026-09-19

*Features*

- Added direct submission URLs, Devpost-managed badges, and invite-only eligibility notes to hackathon results.

*Reliability*

- Runs now fail clearly when Devpost returns a malformed or incomplete paginated response instead of publishing a partial dataset.
- Added typed dataset field definitions and clarified that `maxResults` must be at least 1.

### 2026-06-22

*Fixes*

- Improved result billing reliability so successfully saved hackathon records consistently register their per-result charge events before a run finishes.

### 2026-05-01

*Features*

- Introduced Devpost Hackathon Scraper for extracting public competitions with names, themes, prizes, deadlines, locations, and registration details.