# Changelog of GitHub Scraper (`automation-lab/github-scraper`) Actor

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

## Changelog

This changelog highlights user-visible GitHub Scraper releases. Dates use UTC; routine maintenance is omitted.

### 2026-09-19

*Features*

- Added GitHub user search with full public profile rows and an optional encrypted GitHub token for higher API limits.

*Fixes*

- Added strict GitHub URL validation and first-seen deduplication across URL-driven modes.
- Rate-limit retries now follow GitHub timing headers and exhausted API or empty Trending responses fail clearly instead of succeeding with misleading empty output.

### 2026-08-27

*Features*

- Added an opt-in `contributors` mode that turns public GitHub repository URLs into contributor rows with profile URLs and repository contribution counts.

### 2026-04-22

*Fixes*

- Restored GitHub Scraper builds after repairing missing runtime dependencies, so GitHub repository and profile scraping runs can start successfully again.