# Changelog of TVMaze Scraper — TV Shows, Episodes, Cast & Schedule API (`logiover/tvmaze-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/logiover/tvmaze-scraper/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/logiover/tvmaze-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: 24 columns returned, 98.1% 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.

### 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 24 dataset fields from typed live cloud samples so the output contract is no longer an empty placeholder.
- Declared 33 nullable dataset fields from typed live cloud samples so the output contract is no longer an empty placeholder or brittle to sparse modes.
- Added the source-emitted conditional cast/person and schedule fields claimed by the README, with nullable scalar types and typed showGenres arrays.

### 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

- **Zero-config runs**: no field is required anymore. Running with empty input `{}` now returns data immediately — it defaults to the high-volume `showIndex` mode and pulls the TVMaze catalogue (250 shows).
- **Friendlier schedule country picker**: the `country` field (schedule mode) is now a searchable dropdown of 50+ ISO country codes with human-readable labels, instead of free text.
- **Safer long runs**: the `showIndex` catalogue crawl now respects a ~4-minute time budget — it pushes everything collected so far and exits successfully rather than risking a timeout on very large `maxResults`.

### 2026-07-01

- Initial release. TVMaze Scraper v1.0 with seven modes: show index, search shows, show details, episodes, cast, schedule, and people.
- Powered by the open TVMaze REST API — no API key, no login, no headless browser.
- Show index paginates the full TVMaze catalogue at 250 shows per page; episodes and schedule modes return 100+ rows in a single run.
- Flattened, CSV/Excel-friendly output with six dataset views (Overview, Shows, Episodes, Cast, Schedule, People) and a `_mode` tag on every row.