# Changelog of Instagram Post Scraper Ultra (`qaseemiqbal/instagram-post-scraper-ultra`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/qaseemiqbal/instagram-post-scraper-ultra/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/qaseemiqbal/instagram-post-scraper-ultra.md

## Changelog

### 1.0.1 - 2026-06-15

- Optimized runtime for the lowest practical Apify cost.
- Replaced Playwright live crawling with HTTP-first Crawlee `CheerioCrawler`.
- Switched Docker base image from Playwright Chrome to regular Node.
- Lowered default memory to 512 MB.
- Disabled Apify Proxy, comments, tagged-user enrichment, coauthor enrichment, and music enrichment by default.
- Reduced default concurrency, retries, timeout, and delay settings.

### 1.0.0 - 2026-06-15

- Initial Apify Actor implementation.
- Added mixed username/profile/post/reel inputs.
- Added normalized output schema version `1.0.0`.
- Added profile discovery, direct post/reel handling, fixture-mode smoke path, run summary storage, and skipped/failed source reporting.
- Added optional comments preview, media download hooks, compatibility output, flattened output, dataset schema, output schema, and Store-ready README.
- Added Vitest coverage for core normalization, filtering, extraction, dataset writing, and Actor smoke behavior.