# Changelog of YouTube Comments Scraper — Export Comments & Replies (`logiover/youtube-comments-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/logiover/youtube-comments-scraper/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/logiover/youtube-comments-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: 20 columns returned, 95.0% 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 (`parentCommentId`); 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.

### 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 mandatory input** — `videos` is now optional. Running with empty input `{}` scrapes comments from a popular default video instead of erroring, so the Actor always produces data.
- **New filter as dropdown** — added a **Language** select (20 languages, YouTube `hl`). Existing Sort comments by remains a dropdown.
- **Time budget** — long comment paginations now stop after ~4 minutes, push everything collected, and exit successfully.
- **Graceful run** — top-level errors are logged instead of hard-failing the run; data already collected is kept.
- **Dataset schema** — added per-field titles/descriptions (nullable-safe union types so comments with empty text/date are never rejected); numeric columns (likes, replies, video views) render as numbers and verified/creator/reply flags as booleans.

### 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.