# Changelog of Crates.io Scraper — Rust Packages, Downloads & Metadata (`logiover/crates-io-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/logiover/crates-io-scraper/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/logiover/crates-io-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

- **Everything is now optional.** Removed the required `mode` field — running with empty input `{}` returns the most-downloaded Rust crates.
- **Search & Crate Detail no longer error on empty input.** With no `query` / `crateNames` they fall back to the top crates so the run still returns data.
- **Fixed the Sort dropdown.** Replaced the invalid `new-crates` / `updated` options (which silently fell back to alphabetical) with the values crates.io actually supports: `new` (newest) and `recent-updates` (recently updated). Options now have clear human-readable labels.
- **Numbers are real numbers.** Download counts are coerced to JSON numbers.
- **Proxy & resilience.** Proxy uses Apify's automatic selection when enabled; the last retry drops the proxy to connect directly to the public API. Added retry-with-backoff and a ~4-minute pagination time budget (pushes what was collected and exits successfully). Top-level handler now logs errors instead of hard-failing.
- **Schemas.** Added a full `fields` JSON-schema (title + description per field) to the dataset schema. Output and dataset schemas are linked in `.actor/actor.json`.