# Changelog of 🚀 Y Combinator Jobs & Company Scraper (`mikolabs/y-combinator-jobs-company-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/mikolabs/y-combinator-jobs-company-scraper/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/mikolabs/y-combinator-jobs-company-scraper.md

## Changelog

### 2.0.0

#### Architecture overhaul

- **Browser-only source:** [`corralm/yc-scraper`](https://github.com/corralm/yc-scraper) approach
  - Playwright scrolls `ycombinator.com/companies` listing page
  - Collects all company URLs with infinite scroll handling
- **Per-company enrichment via Playwright:**
  - Founders extracted from avatar + name + bio DOM pattern
  - Social links: LinkedIn, X, Facebook, Crunchbase, GitHub
  - Long description from rendered prose blocks
- **Jobs scraping:**
  - Visits `ycombinator.com/companies/{slug}/jobs` per hiring company
  - Extracts: title, salary, location, remote, skills, visa, experience
- **Data merge:** company page and jobs page data merged into one record per slug
- **Resilience:** failed requests save partial data so nothing is lost
- **Dataset view:** Apify Console table with logo, name, batch, hiring status
- **Proxy support:** optional proxy config input

### 1.0.0

- Initial release with basic Algolia + Playwright approach