# Changelog of Discogs Scraper — Vinyl, Music Releases, Artists & Labels (`logiover/discogs-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/logiover/discogs-scraper/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/logiover/discogs-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.
- Expanded the dataset contract to 45 nullable and exhaustive list/detail fields, including release marketplace metrics and artist/label profiles already used by the views.
- Verified release and artist detail semantics against the live Discogs API, added targeted detail-mode variations, and removed the unsupported `numVersions` README claim.

### 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

- **Runs with empty input** — no field is required anymore. An empty run now returns the most-collected (most popular) releases via the new **browse** mode, instead of erroring for a missing artist ID. Running `artistReleases` without an artist ID also falls back to this popular-releases browse.
- **Browse mode** — new keyless popular/recent feed (`/database/search` with no query, sorted by Have/Want/Year/etc.), bounded by `maxResults`.
- **Dropdown inputs** — Sort field, Sort order and Search entity type are now select menus with clear labels. Sort field covers both browse (Have/Want/Year/Title/Format/Cat#/Country) and artist-discography sorting.
- **Real numeric years** — the `year` field is now a real number when the source value is a plain 4-digit year (release/master/search/browse rows); full-date strings are preserved as-is. Year columns render as numbers.
- **Graceful long runs** — paginated modes stop after a ~4-minute time budget, push everything collected, and exit successfully.
- Output field keys unchanged.

### 2026-07-01

- Initial release. Discogs Scraper v1.0 with eight modes: artist discography, label catalog, master versions/pressings, free-text search, and release / master / artist / label details.
- Powered by the public Discogs API — no API key, no login, no headless browser.
- List modes (artistReleases, labelReleases, masterVersions, search) paginate through the full result set up to `maxResults`; detail modes accept single IDs or batches.
- Respects the keyless ~25 requests/minute rate limit with request spacing and HTTP 429 backoff, and sets the required Discogs User-Agent header on every request.
- Flattened, CSV/Excel-friendly output with four dataset views (Overview, Releases, Artists, Labels) and a `_mode` tag on every row.