# Changelog of 🔥Instagram Profile Finder🔥 (`instagram-scraper/instagram-profile-finder`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/instagram-scraper/instagram-profile-finder/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/instagram-scraper/instagram-profile-finder.md

### 0.0.34 - 2026-11-01

- Retire searchMode and always discover public Profile URLs. Legacy searchMode
  input values are ignored. Remove Post/Reel discovery and owner-resolution
  tasks, along with the searchPostResults dataset and output link. Consumers
  using that dataset must switch to searchProfileResults and the default Profile
  dataset. Profile fields and optional enrichments remain unchanged.

### 0.0.33 - 2026-10-31

- Read latest_posts from first-page previews embedded in the public Profile HTML
  instead of requesting IGProfileTimelineQuery. Share HTML requests with post_count
  when both enrichments need the page. Keep skipLatestPosts enabled by default.
- Decode the complete polaris_ordered_timeline_connection object without a fixed
  slice length. Missing, malformed, or truncated preview data returns \[] without
  retrying or failing the main Profile result or preventing its Dataset write.
- Preserve the preview field contract. Fields unavailable in the HTML, including
  publication times, statistics, video URLs, and carousel children, stay null or \[].
- Use HTML for local CLI post previews; --posts applies a local output limit.
  Remove the Timeline request, its dedicated configuration and CLI override;
  post previews no longer support cursor pagination.

### 0.0.29 - 2026-10-22

- Add shortcode, is_video, image, video_url, and dimensions to latest_posts and
  carousel_media items. Keep code and shortcode equal; a valid shortcode takes
  precedence when both values differ.
- Add taken_at_timestamp and url to carousel_media items when absent, preserving
  existing taken_at and caption types.
- Add crawled_at to each latest_posts item, using the same timestamp for all
  posts in one batch.
- Add nullable is_private and profile_pic_id fields to tagged_user objects in
  latest_posts and carousel_media items.
- Use null for known missing scalar and object fields, including
  clips_music_attribution_info, and \[] for known empty lists, including
  tagged_user.