# Changelog of YouTube Scraper & Monitor ($0.50/1K) (`hydedata/youtube-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/hydedata/youtube-scraper/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/hydedata/youtube-scraper.md

## Changelog

### 0.1

- Scrape YouTube with no account, API key or quota: search results, channels (Videos, Shorts and Live tabs), playlists, and single videos, Shorts and live streams.
- Video details at no extra cost: exact views and likes, comment count, publish date, length, full description, tags, hashtags, and the channel's subscribers and verified check.
- YouTube's search filters: sort by relevance or views, upload date, length, Shorts only, and features like subtitles, 4K and live.
- Filters checked before you're charged: posted after a date or within a number of days, and minimum views.
- Transcripts add-on: captions as plain text, timestamped lines, SRT or WebVTT, in the languages you choose, with a fallback to the spoken language.
- Comments add-on: top or newest comments with likes, replies, date, pinned and edited flags. No commenter names.
- Monitor mode: only videos that are new since the last run, from channels, searches and playlists. Quiet runs are free.
- Alerts: post each run's videos to a Discord or Slack webhook with thumbnails, or any URL as JSON.
- Input from other YouTube scrapers (`searchQueries`, `startUrls`, `maxResultsShorts`, `youtube_url` and more) works as is.
- Runs that Apify moves to another server mid-run carry on without sending or charging any video twice.
- A run where every transcript failed ends as failed, so scheduled runs and alerts catch it. The videos are still delivered.
- Ready-made examples for transcripts, channels, filtered search, comments and new video alerts.