# Changelog of Genius Scraper (`automation-lab/genius-scraper`) Actor

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

## Changelog

This changelog highlights releases that materially changed Genius Scraper for users. Dates use UTC; routine maintenance is intentionally omitted.

### 2026-09-16

*Reliability*

- Bulk search runs now process multiple queries through bounded concurrent queues, reducing timeouts while preserving query and relevance order.
- Large lyric and artist runs flush results in memory-bounded batches to prevent out-of-memory failures.

### 2026-09-08

*Improvements*

- Search results now prioritize the closest canonical song match, so exact-title queries return the expected original before translations, covers, and alternate versions while preserving all matches.
- Added complete dataset and output field descriptions for clearer API, Console, and AI-tool discovery.

### 2026-06-19

*Changes*

- Improved dataset table column labels in the Apify Console.
- Added ready-to-run public task examples for common song scraping workflows.

### 2026-04-26

*Reliability*

- Restored residential proxy routing and browser-like request headers to improve Genius extraction reliability.

### 2026-03-18

*Features*

- Initial release for extracting Genius song lyrics, metadata, release dates, media links, writer credits, and pageview statistics.