# Changelog of YouTube Transcript Scraper (`lergassy/youtube-transcript-scraper`) Actor

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

## Changelog

### 2026-10-02

- Default memory now scales with your input, so small runs start faster and use less memory.

### 2026-09-29

- Videos are now a required input, so a run never starts empty.

### 2026-09-27

- Runs stop cleanly at your maximum cost instead of being aborted; nothing beyond your limit is written or charged.

### 2026-09-26

- Caption files are now downloaded directly first, so transcripts arrive faster.

### 2026-09-18

- New `language: auto` mode returns whatever captions a video has: English first, then the video's own language, then other manual tracks, then automatic ones, in a fixed, predictable order.
- Transcript text is cleaned of caption formatting tags and HTML entities, ready for search, summaries or RAG.
- Dropped connections from YouTube are now retried instead of failing the video.
- Error rows no longer suggest auto-caption languages when auto-captions are turned off.
- The first dataset view now shows `segmentCount`, which is filled on every row.

### 2026-09-05

- Initial release: full YouTube transcripts with timecodes for single videos, playlists or whole channels, plus title, channel, publish date, duration, views, likes, tags and chapters on the same row.