# Changelog of YouTube Data Scraper Pro (`mfttt11/youtube-data-scraper-pro`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/mfttt11/youtube-data-scraper-pro/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/mfttt11/youtube-data-scraper-pro.md

## Changelog

### 7.0.0 - 2026-09-19

#### Added

- Bounded security, fuzz, parser-contract, concurrency, Dataset-integrity, network-chaos, and synthetic stress suites.
- Strict input complexity limits, outbound redirect policy, centralized secret redaction, and spreadsheet-safe exports.
- Seven customer-focused Dataset views, eleven ready-to-use presets, complete Store copy and FAQ, API retrieval examples, and original icon/cover assets.
- Release, security, stress, large-stress, and soak commands with evidence-oriented reports.

#### Changed

- Upgraded the product and Actor metadata to 7.0.0 and polished the Input UI for customer-facing use.
- Made retry classification testable and deterministic while preserving bounded adaptive behavior.
- Restricted hidden compatibility and diagnostic fields in the public Input UI.

#### Fixed

- Prevented inherited-property reads in declarative output paths.
- Revalidated every outbound redirect and stripped credentials on cross-origin redirects.
- Stopped normal PPE charge-limit events from being miscounted as billing errors.

### 5.0.0 - 2026-09-19

#### Added

- Mixed-source video, Shorts, search, channel/handle, playlist, and popular-feed discovery.
- Native search filters, exact global/per-source limits, balanced/sequential distribution, and adaptive concurrency.
- Public caption/transcript, channel, streaming-format, contact/link, language, and derived-metric enrichments.
- Incremental state, partial-result recovery, isolated error Dataset, performance statistics, and workload metadata.
- Strict Dataset/input/output schemas, four Dataset views, PPE observability, pricing calculator, benchmark scripts, and live smoke tests.

#### Changed

- Unified V1–V4 aliases through a single validated V5 input normalization layer.
- Replaced executable mapping with restricted declarative field selection and output mapping.

#### Fixed

- Concurrency-safe exact `maxItems` enforcement.
- Cross-source deduplication and duplicate billing prevention.
- Prototype-pollution path rejection, secret-safe errors, bounded retries, and charge-limit termination.