# Changelog of GitHub Repository Scraper - Stars, Topics, Trending (`logiover/github-repository-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/logiover/github-repository-scraper/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/logiover/github-repository-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 works out of the box.** Running with `{}` returns the most-starred (trending / popular) repositories via the default `stars:>1000` query.
- **All fields optional.** Nothing is required.
- **New Language dropdown** — pick a programming language (or "Any language") without hand-writing `language:` in the query; it's appended automatically when you don't already specify one.
- **Sort By / Order dropdowns** now show human-readable labels (e.g. "Stars (most starred)", "Descending (highest first)").
- **More output fields** added: `size`, `defaultBranch`, `isFork`, `isTemplate`, `hasIssues`. Counts (`stars`, `forks`, `openIssues`, `watchers`, `size`, `id`) are stored as real numbers and booleans as booleans. No existing field keys were renamed.
- **Proxy:** now uses Apify Proxy (AUTO) with a direct-connection fallback on the final retry (no forced DATACENTER group). Handles GitHub rate limits with automatic back-off.
- **Graceful runs:** added a ~4-minute time budget and top-level error handling so transient failures no longer fail the whole run.
- Added dataset field schema (titles + descriptions) with numeric column formatting.

### 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.