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 stale health-check/default examples with current public Instagram media: two live Reels for the bulk variation and a mixed eight-asset carousel for field/type coverage.
Made Instagram's public shortcode embed the direct-first media and metadata route, retaining the downloader only as a Story/embed fallback; verified the resulting signed CDN URLs return real image/jpeg and video/mp4 content.
Deduplicated repeated fallback responses by decoded source asset, preventing the verified eight-item carousel from being emitted and billed as 64 duplicate rows; duplicate source URLs are normalized and skipped too.
Made all-invalid, private, deleted, expired, blocked, or otherwise zero-media batches fail explicitly instead of reporting a misleading successful empty dataset.
Hardened Instagram URL/hostname validation and aligned the 11-field dataset schema, table view, README, signed-link lifetime guidance, media-type enum, and previously undocumented productType field with live output.
Pinned patched transitive releases for adm-zip, axios, brace-expansion, and form-data, reducing the production dependency audit from five high-severity advisories to zero.
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 {} now returns data: when no links are given the Actor downloads a couple of popular public posts as a sample instead of exiting empty.
startUrls is no longer required — the input is fully optional.
Fixed the output "Results" link to point at the dataset items endpoint.
Added per-field titles/descriptions to the dataset schema (likes/views formatted as numbers). No output field keys were renamed.
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.
