# Changelog of TikTok Hashtag Scraper - Scrape Videos by Tag (`logiover/tiktok-hashtag-video-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/logiover/tiktok-hashtag-video-scraper/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/logiover/tiktok-hashtag-video-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.
- Merged the Console Region field into proxy-editor settings and added per-attempt TikTok feed diagnostics with residential-exit rotation.
- Made all-term blocked or unreadable feeds fail explicitly, while allowing a genuinely empty result after user-selected minViews/verified filters to remain a valid outcome.
- Declared the full typed output contract, pinned dependencies, and replaced the empty strict keyword variation with the live-verified bounded #cooking check.

### 2026-07-23

- Reliability fix: reduced overall time budget from 240 s to 200 s and per-term deadline from 180 s to 120 s — prevents multi-term runs from accumulating past the 300 s task default.
- Reduced scroll loop cap from 120 to 40 iterations and stagnation threshold from 8 to 6 — each term now finishes within its time slice instead of potentially exhausting the entire run budget.

### 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 works: an empty run harvests a popular default hashtag instead of erroring. No field is required anymore.
- Added a **Region (proxy country)** dropdown (defaults to US, which serves the hashtag feed most reliably) and an **Interface language** dropdown.
- Engagement metrics (views, likes, comments, shares, saves, follower count) are returned as real numbers.
- Added a dataset field schema (titles + descriptions) and an overall time budget so long runs exit successfully with whatever was collected.

### 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.