# Changelog of SoundCloud Scraper: Tracks, Playlists & Users (`fetch_cat/soundcloud-tracks-search-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/fetch\_cat/soundcloud-tracks-search-scraper/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/fetch\_cat/soundcloud-tracks-search-scraper.md

## Changelog

- 2026-07-21 - Feature: Added public playlist and album search with standalone playlist records.
- 2026-07-21 - Feature: Added direct public user URL lookup as standalone user records.
- 2026-07-21 - Improvement: Increased the maximum saved records per run to 1,000 and added an opt-in 600-second work budget for proven high-volume runs.
- 2026-07-21 - Improvement: Published five ready-to-run Store examples for track search, playlist search, playlist tracks, direct user lookup, and New & hot charts.
- 2026-07-21 - Fix: High-volume searches now continue cleanly with remaining queries when one broad query reaches its bounded result window.
- 2026-07-20 - Feature: Added direct track URLs, playlist and album track extraction, separate public user search, and New & hot chart discovery with genre matching.
- 2026-07-20 - Feature: Added playlist context, user-record fields, chart rank fields, and dedicated users, playlists, and charts dataset views.
- 2026-07-20 - Fix: Playlist exports now save progress per track so interrupted runs can resume without duplicate paid rows.
- 2026-07-20 - Fix: Large playlists now return complete public track records beyond the first embedded details.
- 2026-07-20 - Fix: Playback access filters now recognize SoundCloud web playback policies and stop bounded scans after 20 pages.
- 2026-07-20 - Improvement: The complete dataset view now labels and formats all available track and artist fields.
- 2026-07-20 - Fix: Optional unpublished track and artist values now save correctly instead of failing dataset validation.
- 2026-07-20 - Change: Public track searches and profile-track exports no longer require SoundCloud API credentials.
- 2026-07-20 - Feature: Added genre, tag, tempo, duration, upload-date, and playback-access filters.
- 2026-07-20 - Feature: Added stable URNs, tempo, key, release, label, access, availability, high-resolution media, and expanded artist fields.
- 2026-07-20 - Fix: Improved reliability for rate limits, transient failures, duplicate results, malformed responses, and runs approaching their time limit.
- 2026-07-20 - Fix: Added progressive paid-result storage, pending-work checkpoints, and run summaries.

#### 0.1

- Initial public release.