# Changelog of YouTube Live Chat Scraper (`parsebird/youtube-live-chat-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/parsebird/youtube-live-chat-scraper/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/parsebird/youtube-live-chat-scraper.md

## Changelog

### v1.1 — 2026-08-21

- Enabled Apify Residential Proxy by default — YouTube served an incomplete page (missing video title, channel info, and stream timestamps) to some datacenter IP ranges

### v1.0 — 2026-08-21

- Initial release
- Scrape live chat from a video that's currently airing, or the chat replay of an ended stream
- Accept watch URLs, `youtu.be` links, `/live/` URLs, or bare video IDs, or discover streams from a channel `@handle`
- Two channel discovery modes: current live + recent replays, or latest replays only
- Capture messages, Super Chats, Super Stickers, membership events, and moderation/system notices
- Parse Super Chat and Super Sticker amounts into a numeric value and currency code
- Preserve replay position (`videoOffsetMsec` / `videoOffsetText`) and structured message runs with emoji image URLs
- Per-video message cap, whole-run item ceiling, and per-video time limit for cost control
- Three dataset views: Chat Events, Super Chats & Memberships, and All Fields