# Changelog of ⚡ Fast YouTube Channel Scraper (`data_minds/fast-youtube-channel-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/data\_minds/fast-youtube-channel-scraper/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/data\_minds/fast-youtube-channel-scraper.md

## Changelog

### v1.0 — 2026-09-02

First release.

- Channel-only YouTube scraping — Videos, Shorts and Live tabs, each with its own limit and sort order (Newest/Popular/Oldest) — no YouTube Data API key or quota required.
- Deep per-video enrichment (opt-in): exact view/like/comment counts, description, tags, category, publish date, playability.
- Channel About-panel enrichment: description, country, joined date, exact subscriber/view/video totals, resolved external links.
- Sponsor & affiliate signal detection from description phrasing and tracked/shortened links.
- Outlier score and engagement-rate insights computed for every video, for free.
- Comments and transcript/caption extraction (opt-in).
- Monitor mode: stop a channel's listing at a known video ID, with an optional per-channel webhook for new videos.
- Automatic network fallback: direct → datacenter proxy → residential proxy (3 retries, sticky).
- Also detects a quieter failure mode — a 200 OK with an incomplete video record (missing like count / category) — and escalates the network route automatically, even without an explicit block signal.
- Small randomized delay before each video's own enrichment requests, to avoid firing a synchronized burst.
- Live dataset writes with seven table views: Overview, Insights, Channel, Sponsors, Comments & Transcript, Media, Errors.
- The exact `{channel, videos[]}` JSON shape also saved live to the key-value store's `OUTPUT` record.