# Changelog of Ximalaya Scraper 喜马拉雅: Podcasts & Comments (`getascraper/ximalaya-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/getascraper/ximalaya-scraper/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/getascraper/ximalaya-scraper.md

## Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

### \[0.1.0] - 2026-07-19

#### Added

- 🎉 Initial release: scrape Ximalaya (喜马拉雅) album metadata - title, cover, category, play count, subscriber count, host/creator profile, tags, and intro - by album ID or URL.
- 🎧 Full paginated episode/track lists per album, including direct play URLs for free tracks.
- 💬 Full paginated per-track comments (content, commenter nickname/avatar, likes, replies, timestamps) - one validated track carried 2,904 comments across 106 pages, a data point most competing tools skip entirely.
- 🔁 Incremental comment monitoring mode: remembers the newest comment seen per track and resumes from there on the next run, for recurring sentiment/monitoring jobs.
- 🔒 Clean free/paid boundary: play URLs are only ever included when the source genuinely exposes them for a free track - paid/VIP tracks are never bypassed or faked, matching the platform's own access rules exactly.
- 💸 No proxy tier required: recon found zero anti-bot defenses across 9+ endpoint families and a 12-request burst, so this Actor runs on cheap datacenter proxy.
- ⚖️ Elevated legal disclosure: Ximalaya's own terms of service explicitly name crawler software as prohibited - documented prominently for users before they run this Actor.