# Changelog of VK Posts Scraper (`automation-lab/vk-posts-scraper`) Actor

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

## Changelog

### 2026-10-10

*Reliability*

- Replaces the unavailable anonymous profile-feed example with an accessible public community wall, so the prefilled first run collects useful posts. Access failures still fail honestly; extraction and billing behavior are unchanged.

### 2026-10-05

*Reliability*

- Recognizes VK homepage URLs as missing targets. Runs with no usable target return an explicit invalid-input diagnostic and no result rows, so callers can correct their configuration.
- Reports explicit login-only wall requirements in terminal errors while preserving useful mixed/partial output and honest access failures.

### 2026-09-27

*Reliability*

- Stops slow multi-source batches before the platform timeout, keeping already-collected posts and clearly reporting sources skipped due to the run time budget. Runs with no usable posts still fail.

### 2026-09-26

*Reliability*

- Keeps already-collected posts when a later VK pagination request fails, and reports the affected source as partial rather than failing the entire useful run.

### 2026-09-21

*Reliability*

- Isolated transient retry allowances per VK source so one noisy profile or pagination request cannot prevent later batch sources from recovering.

### 2026-09-19

*Reliability*

- Stabilized public profile, community, and direct-post extraction by avoiding VK's intermittently malformed negotiated transport responses.
- Normalized attachment and thumbnail links to absolute public URLs and omitted VK emoji/reaction UI assets.

### 2026-09-09

*Reliability*

- Retries transient VK/network errors with bounded backoff.
- Continues multi-source watchlists when one source fails and reports a structured source summary in the run log.
- Fails clearly instead of reporting success when no usable public posts can be collected.

### 2026-07-10

*Features*

- Initial release of VK Posts Scraper for public VK user and community wall posts.
- Extracts post text, canonical post URLs, author/profile metadata, raw publish dates, likes, reposts, views, and optional public attachment links.
- Supports pagination through public VK mobile wall pages with configurable per-source limits.

*Safety*

- Public-only implementation with no login, cookies, or private VK account access.