# Changelog of MusicBrainz Scraper — Artists, Releases & Recordings (`logiover/musicbrainz-scraper`) Actor

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

- **No required inputs** — `mode` and `query` are now optional. Running with empty input `{}` returns a broad recent listing of releases (uses a MusicBrainz wildcard query) instead of erroring.
- **Numbers as numbers** — `score` is now emitted as a real number instead of a string.
- **Graceful runs** — top-level errors are logged, not thrown, so a partial dataset still finishes as a successful run.
- **Time budget** — pagination stops after ~4 minutes and pushes whatever was collected, keeping runs fast and cheap.
- **Friendlier input** — `mode` dropdown now shows human-readable labels (Artists / Releases / Recordings / Labels).
- **Proxy** — recommends automatic Apify Proxy (no forced datacenter group).
- **Schemas** — added a `fields` JSON-schema (title + description per field) to the dataset schema; output/dataset schemas remain linked in `actor.json`.