# Changelog of Instagram Reel Scraper (`fetch_cat/instagram-reel-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/fetch\_cat/instagram-reel-scraper/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/fetch\_cat/instagram-reel-scraper.md

## Changelog

- 2026-07-20 - Reliability: Moved extraction from Instagram's retired embed payload to validated public Reel page metadata; added strict pre-charge input validation, bounded retries, block and malformed-response classification, per-URL failure isolation, deadline-aware checkpoints, idempotent resume, and a structured `RUN_SUMMARY`.

- 2026-07-20 - Output contract: Kept `videoPlayCount` and `viewCount` distinct, documented direct-URL versus profile-grid visibility, added emitted identity, owner, and dimension fields to the dataset schema, and exposed summary/checkpoint links.

- 2026-07-20 - Proxy behavior: Removed the automatic Residential proxy default; proxy use is now explicit through `proxyConfiguration`.

- 2026-07-14 - Change: Removed unsupported comment sampling inputs and output field

- Initial public release.