Changelog
All notable changes to the YouTube Transcript Scraper will be documented in this file.
[1.0.0] - 2025-08-02
Added - 🎯 Complete Proxy Configuration System
✅ Proper Residential Proxy UI Support : Using standard Apify editor: "proxy"
configuration
🏠 Automatic Residential Proxy Default : Pre-filled RESIDENTIAL proxy group
🔧 Standard Proxy Handling : Using actor_proxy_input
to handle user selection
📋 Complete Input Schema : Contains all necessary proxy configuration fields
Features
🌐 Multi-language Subtitle Extraction : Support for all YouTube available languages
🔄 Smart Proxy Rotation : Automatic IP address switching on errors
📊 Complete Error Statistics : Tracking 13 types of errors
⏱️ Smart Rate Limiting : Avoid triggering YouTube restrictions
🎯 Multi-format Output : JSON, SRT, VTT, plain text
Technical
YouTube Transcript API 1.2.1
Apify SDK 2.0+ standard proxy configuration
GenericProxyConfig residential proxy support
Complete error handling and retry mechanisms
Updates
Removed references to "captions" - now using only "subtitles" or "transcripts"
Removed emphasis on translation features to avoid overpromising
Clarified output structure with two types of outputs per video