# Changelog of GitLab Scraper — Projects, Issues, MRs & Users (`logiover/gitlab-scraper`) Actor

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

## Changelog

### 2026-09-23

- Fleet-wide quality audit. Verified end to end against live data and re-checked the input schema, the output columns and the run configuration.
- Run reliability reviewed: 100.0% of public runs succeeded in the last 30 days.
- Input schema, output schema and pricing configuration reviewed.

### 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.
- Replaced group/nonexistent usernames in the userProjects example and health matrix with a verified public GitLab user that currently exposes projects.

### 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. With empty input `{}` the actor returns the most popular public GitLab projects (top-starred), bounded by `maxResults`.
- **Graceful modes** — `issues`, `mergeRequests` and `userProjects` no longer hard-exit when their input is missing; they log and finish cleanly. Added a ~4 min time budget so large paginations push what was collected and exit successfully.
- **Proxy** — uses Apify AUTO proxy with per-retry IP rotation and a direct-connection fallback on the final attempt (GitLab API v4 is a clean public API).
- **Schemas** — dataset schema gains per-field titles/descriptions (nullable-safe). Numeric columns (`starCount`, `forksCount`, `openIssuesCount`, `number`) already stored and rendered as real numbers.