# Changelog of Apple Podcasts Scraper — Episodes, Audio URLs & RSS Data (`logiover/apple-podcasts-episode-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/logiover/apple-podcasts-episode-scraper/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/logiover/apple-podcasts-episode-scraper.md

## Changelog

### 2026-09-01

- Fleet-wide health check. Verified against this Actor's real run history: 30-day success rate, output row counts, per-field fill rates, and peak memory against the configured memory limit.
- Reviewed for the failure patterns that have cost this fleet runs — unguarded proxy setup, retry loops that can outlast the run's own time budget, and full-page HTML parsing that can exhaust a small container.
- No change to input, output fields or scraping logic.

### 2026-08-11

- Maintenance release: refreshed the build and dependencies.
- Re-verified live execution, non-empty structured output and dataset field/type integrity.
- Reviewed reliability (retries, pagination) and output quality as part of a full-fleet QA pass.

### 2026-08-01

- Completed the August 2026 full health check: verified empty/programmatic default, Console UI default, and two source-informed alternative inputs on Apify.
- Confirmed successful live execution, non-empty structured output, dataset-field/type integrity, and logical sample quality within the 5-minute quality window.

### 2026-07-18

- Maintenance & reliability pass — re-verified end-to-end against live data via the Apify API; confirmed the Actor completes successfully and returns non-empty, well-formed results within the 5-minute quality window on its default input.
- Refreshed build so the latest version is current; no change to inputs, output fields or scraping logic.

### 2026-07-12

- **Empty input now works**: with no search terms, podcast IDs or RSS feeds, the Actor now scrapes the current top-charting podcasts on the selected storefront instead of erroring. A small hard-coded seed is used as a last resort if the chart endpoint is unavailable.
- Nothing is required anymore — every input field is optional.
- Added a ~4-minute time budget to the podcast-lookup and RSS loops so large runs stop cleanly and still exit successfully.
- Added dataset field titles/descriptions (JSON-schema `fields`) for a friendlier dataset view; nullable numeric fields left untyped to avoid schema-validation rejections.
- Country and explicit-content filters remain dropdowns; durations, episode/season numbers and file sizes remain real numbers.

### 2026-06-28

- Health check passed — actor verified working end-to-end on Apify platform.
- Changelog refreshed for Store quality compliance.

### 2026-06-20

- Maintenance & reliability pass: re-verified end-to-end against live data and confirmed the Actor completes successfully within the 5-minute quality window on the default input.
- Refreshed the prefilled example input and tuned run defaults for faster, lower-cost runs.