# Changelog of Instagram Hashtag Analytics Scraper (`automation-lab/instagram-hashtag-analytics`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/automation-lab/instagram-hashtag-analytics/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/automation-lab/instagram-hashtag-analytics.md

## Changelog

### 0.1.1 - 2026-08-22

#### Reliability

- Detects Instagram login/challenge walls quickly and tries both public hashtag surfaces before failing with a clear transient upstream-access error.
- Keeps anonymous access direct-only by default and never silently enables residential routing; an explicitly selected standard Apify Proxy remains supported.
- Blocks image, font, and media downloads during sampling and detail enrichment while retaining public metadata URLs.

### 0.1.0

- Added per-hashtag snapshots with observed engagement totals and averages, post/reel mix, top posts, top authors, and underlying public records.
- Added hashtag text and URL inputs, bounded sampling, optional detail enrichment, and explicit proxy configuration.
- Added bounded fallback between Instagram's current and legacy public hashtag URLs when one surface does not render media cards.
- Documented that analytics represent the observed public sample rather than Instagram's complete historical corpus.