# Changelog of Facebook Video Transcript Extractor (`automation-lab/facebook-video-transcript-extractor`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/automation-lab/facebook-video-transcript-extractor/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/automation-lab/facebook-video-transcript-extractor.md

## Changelog

### 0.1.5 — 2026-09-22

- **Reliability:** Saves and charges each successful transcript as soon as it finishes, preserving completed batch results when a later video fails, stalls, or stops the worker.
- **Reliability:** Adds a bounded per-video deadline with an actionable diagnostic and safe continuation for later URLs.
- **Fix:** Deduplicates Facebook URL variants that differ only by tracking parameters, fragments, or trailing slashes while preserving the first submitted source URL.
- **Guidance:** Documents the 30-minute batch budget for reliable unattended runs.

### 0.1.1

- Added automatic, isolated Python dependency setup for reliable local Actor runs.

### 0.1.0

- Added AI speech-to-text extraction for public Facebook videos and Reels without login cookies or an external transcription API key.
- Added detected language, plain text, timestamped segments, optional word timing, public video metadata, and source provenance.
- Added per-URL diagnostics, batch deduplication, and configurable item and duration limits.
- Private, deleted, login-only, silent, or region-restricted videos are reported as failures and are not charged as successful transcripts.