# Changelog of Podcast Host Contact Scraper — Email, Website & Socials (`haketa/podcast-contact-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/haketa/podcast-contact-scraper/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/haketa/podcast-contact-scraper.md

## Changelog

### 1.0.1 — 2026-11-01

- **Memory hardening (bug fix).** RSS feeds whose hosts ignore the HTTP `Range` header (e.g. omny, spreaker, acast) returned the full multi-MB feed, and the in-memory OUTPUT mirror grew unbounded — a large multi-hundred-show job could climb to the memory ceiling and be OOM-killed on low-memory runs. Feed responses are now truncated to the channel header on read, and the inline OUTPUT mirror is capped, so memory stays flat at any scale. The dataset (`pushData`) remains the complete source of truth and no output fields changed.
- **Verified** 284 unique, 0-duplicate podcasts across 5 broad topics on a fresh run, with core-field coverage of 100% (podcastName, author, category, genres, episodes, latestEpisode, artwork, feedUrl, appleUrl, podcastId), website 95%, ownerName 95%, language 99%, type 98%, description 99% and host email ~86%. No value bugs (no `[object Object]`, all URLs normalized to `https://`, all emails valid, `episodes` numeric, `genres` an array).
- **README refreshed** to the gold standard: Output example and field table now match a real fresh-run record, coverage numbers are the measured figures, and the Pagination & scale section documents the parallel batched fetch, defensive truncation and 4 GB default memory.

### 1.0.0

- Initial release: discover podcasts by keyword/topic via the public iTunes Search API or scrape specific shows by RSS feed URL. Extracts host/owner email, website, author, owner name, primary category, full genre list, language, episodic/serial type, episode count, latest-episode date, description excerpt, cover art and Instagram/Twitter/Facebook/YouTube handles. De-duplicated by feed URL / podcast ID, with per-term and total caps, country targeting and JSON/CSV/Excel/API export.