# Changelog of Y Combinator Scraper (`michael.g/y-combinator-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/michael.g/y-combinator-scraper/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/michael.g/y-combinator-scraper.md

### 2026-05-03

#### 🚀 Features

- Enhanced Company data fields:
  - Added `stage` for company growth stage.
  - Added `top_company` for top company status.
  - Added `nonprofit` for nonprofit company status.

### 2026-03-29

#### 🚀 Features

- Enhanced Company data fields:
  - Added `industry` for company primary industry.
  - Added `subindustry` for company sub-industry.

- Enhanced Open Jobs data fields:
  - Added `equity` for equity compensation range.

#### 🛠 Fixes

- Normalized output formatting for `batch`, `industry`, `subindustry`, `status`, and `tags`:
  - Values now use readable title casing (e.g. `SAN FRANCISCO` → `San Francisco`, `WINTER 2026` → `Winter 2026`).
  - Common abbreviations (e.g. `AI`, `B2B`) are preserved.

### 2026-03-11

#### 🚀 Features

- Added new company social profile fields:
  - Added `company_crunchbase` for сompany Crunchbase profile URL.
  - Added `company_facebook` for сompany Facebook profile URL.
  - Added `company_github` for сompany GitHub profile URL.

### 2026-01-28

#### 🚀 Features

- Enhanced Founders email data fields:
  - Added `available` for founder email availability (true/false).
  - Added `email` for founder email address.
  - Added `email status` for founder email status (verified/risky).

- Added an output schema.

- Added new input parameter `max_companies` to limit results.

### 2025-01-23

#### 🚀 Features

- Enhanced Founders data fields:
  - Added `title` for founder job title/role.
  - Added `bio` for founder biography/description.

- Enhanced Open Jobs data fields:
  - Added `remote` for remote work availability.
  - Added `type` for job type (e.g., Full-time, Part-time).
  - Added `role` for job role/department (e.g., Engineering, Sales, Design).
  - Added `skills` for required skills.
  - Added `visa` for visa requirements.

### 2025-09-16

#### 🚀 Features

- Added support for scraping companies from Launch YC pages in the format `https://www.ycombinator.com/launches` or `https://www.ycombinator.com/launches?tag={parameters}`

- Added support for scraping companies from Y Combinator industry pages in the format `https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/industry/{parameters}`

### 2025-06-12

#### 🚀 Features

- Enhanced Open Jobs data fields:
  - Added `id` for job identifiers.
  - Added `title` for job position title.
  - Added `description_url` for job posting URL.
  - Added `description` for job requirements.
  - Added `location` for job location.
  - Added `salary` for salary range.
  - Added `years_experience` for experience level.

- Added new Company data fields:
  - Added `company_image` for company image URL.
  - Added `company_id` for company identifier.
  - Added `url` for company profile URL.

- Added new Founders data fields:
  - Added `id` for founder identifier.

- Updated `scrape_founders` to collect all available founders.

#### 🛠 Fixes

- Renamed `location` to `company_location` for better clarity.

### 2025-05-27

#### 🚀 Features

- Added `scrape_all_companies` option to scrape all companies from all batches, ignoring the URL parameter when enabled.

### 2025-04-15

#### 🚀 Features

- Added `scrape_open_job` functionality to scrape information about open job positions at companies.

#### 🛠 Fixes

Input:

- Updated `p` to `number_of_founders` for better clarity.

Output:

- Updated `group_partner` to `primary_partner` to ensure consistency with the terminology used on the official website.