# Changelog of YouTube Comments Scraper (`fetch_cat/youtube-comments-scraper`) Actor

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

## Changelog

- 2026-09-25 - Improved the input form by keeping everyday controls visible and grouping specialized settings under Advanced options.

### 0.3

- Validate every URL, ID, limit, and filter before charging run startup.
- Distinguish empty/disabled comments from unavailable, private, age-restricted, and failed sources.
- Preserve mixed-source results with `PARTIAL` summaries and fail honestly when every source fails.
- Retry transient YouTube blocks with fresh proxy sessions and a configurable safe deadline.
- Bound inspected comments separately from stored results so selective filters finish predictably.
- Add top-and-newest sampling, comment-text filters, minimum likes, bounded replies, and run tags.
- Add direct comment URLs, channel IDs, owner/verified flags, pins, edit signals, and creator hearts when YouTube exposes them.
- Couple each dataset write to its `comment` charge event and publish `RUN_SUMMARY`/`OUTPUT` records.

### 0.2

- Improved examples, documentation, and reliability.

### 0.1

- Initial version with configurable inputs and structured results.