# Changelog of YouTube Transcript Enhanced (`automation-lab/youtube-transcript-enhanced`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/automation-lab/youtube-transcript-enhanced/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/automation-lab/youtube-transcript-enhanced.md

## Changelog

### 2026-09-19

*Reliability and diagnostics*

- Added per-video `status` and stable `errorCode` diagnostics while preserving existing output fields.
- Fixed subtitle timestamp rollover, overlap-based time-range filtering, and numeric HTML entity decoding.
- Added input limits and range validation, normalized duplicate handling, bounded session-rotating retries, and clearer malformed-caption errors.
- Expanded the dataset overview and documentation to make failed batch items, selected language, and caption limitations visible.
- Replaced the unavailable default sample with a verified public video whose English captions produce a useful transcript.

### 2026-06-22

*Pricing*

- Lowered paid-tier rates for successfully enriched transcripts; current rates are shown in the actor pricing table.

### 2026-04-24

*Reliability*

- Fixed production startup and refreshed YouTube consent handling to restore transcript dataset output.

### 2026-03-01

*Features*

- Introduced enhanced YouTube transcript extraction with SRT/VTT export, paragraph chunking, keyword search, time-range filtering, and text analytics.