# Changelog of IMDb Scraper — Movies, TV, Ratings, Reviews & Cast API (`logiover/imdb-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/logiover/imdb-scraper/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/logiover/imdb-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.
- Output verified on a live run: 15 columns returned, 93.3% of cells populated.
- Run reliability reviewed: 100.0% of public runs succeeded in the last 30 days.
- Input schema, output schema and pricing configuration reviewed.
- Noted that 1 column(s) came back empty in this sample (`endYear`); these are under review.

### 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.
- Declared 15 dataset fields from typed live cloud samples so the output contract is no longer an empty placeholder.
- Declared 19 nullable dataset fields from typed live cloud samples so the output contract is no longer an empty placeholder or brittle to sparse modes.

### 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 browses the most popular movies (advanced title search, sorted by popularity), bounded by `maxResults`.
- **Dropdown inputs** — Title types, Genres, Country and Language are now pick-lists (select menus) with human-readable labels instead of free-text, so you can't mistype a value. Sort field, sort order and search entity type were already dropdowns.
- **Graceful long runs** — paginated modes (advanced search, episodes, reviews) now stop after a ~4-minute time budget, push everything collected so far, and exit successfully instead of risking a timeout.
- Output field keys unchanged; numeric fields (rating, votes, year, runtime) remain real numbers.

### 2026-07-01

- Initial release. IMDb Scraper v1.0 with six modes: advanced title search, free-text search, title details, episodes, user reviews, and person/cast details.
- Powered by IMDb's public GraphQL endpoint — no API key, no login, no headless browser.
- Advanced title search filters by title type, genre, release-date range, IMDb rating and vote count, with popularity/rating/date/box-office sorting and full pagination.
- Flattened, CSV/Excel-friendly output with five dataset views (Overview, Titles, Episodes, Reviews, People) and a `_mode` tag on every row.