Improvement Update
- Performance improvements of up to 50% faster scraping times due to optimizations in the scraping logic and data processing, resulting in quicker data retrieval and reduced wait times for users.
Hotfix Update
- Resolved runs failing due to changes in the bot detection mechanism of the upstream API, ensuring continued functionality and reliability of our scraper.
Documentation Update
- Output will be automatically streamed to the dataset as soon as the data is available, allowing for faster access and processing of the scraped data.
- Improved documentation, enhancing user experience
Improvement Update
- Added two new output table views
Estimated Earnings and Projections to provide users with a more organized and focused view of the scraped data
- Added JSON Output schema for better data validation and easier integration with other systems, ensuring that the output data adheres to a defined structure and format
Improvement Update
- Support for Pay-per-Event base pricing model, allowing users to pay for specific events or actions within the scraper, providing more flexibility and cost control
- Overhauled logs and messages to provide clearer guidance and information to users, enhancing the overall user experience
- Overhauled documentation to provide clearer guidance
- General stability improvements and optimizations
Hotfix Update
- General stability improvements and optimizations
- Resolved top rankings data not being parsed correctly and no data being returned on successful runs
Hotfix Update
- General stability improvements and optimizations
- Resolved top rankings data not being retrieved on platforms YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Twitch and Facebook due to recent changes in the upstream API
Hotfix Update
- General stability improvements and optimizations
- Resolved issues with creator data not being retrieved when projections are disabled
- Resolved basic creator data not being retrieved on platforms YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Twitch and Facebook due to recent changes in the upstream API
Hotfix Update
- General stability improvements and optimizations
- Fixed fallbacks for recent proxy provider outage, ensuring continued service availability and reliability for our users
Improvement Update
- Improved log messages readability
- Improved documentation to provide better readability and clarity
- Deprecated proxy settings in the input as the actor uses our internal proxy configuration by default now, which is optimized for stability and performance.
- General stability improvements
Improvement Update
- Added support for limited Actor permissions for better security and control over the Actor's access to resources
- Improved log messages for better clarity on processing or missing creator data
- General stability improvements
Hotfix Update
- Improved log messages for better clarity on processing or missing creator data
- General stability improvements
- Resolved parsing issues for platforms TikTok, Facebook and Twitch causing incomplete or no data extraction in some cases due to partly missing creator data from the source
Hotfix Update
- General stability improvements
- Resolved parsing issues for Instagram platform causing incomplete or no data extraction in some cases
Hotfix Update
- General stability improvements
- Resolved issue of crashes for platforms youtube, instagram, twitch, tiktok and facebook during runs due to stricter rate limiting
- Resolved issues with Top 100 rankings searches
Hotfix Update
- General stability improvements
- Resolved issue of crashes for platforms youtube, tiktok and facebook during runs due to major changes in the upstream API
Maintenance Update
- Added user note to encourage users to open an issue for any problems or suggestions or to contact us directly for support
Hotfix Update
- Resolved issue of crashes for platforms instagram, tiktok, twitch and facebook during runs due to recent changes in the upstream API
- General stability improvements
Hotfix Update
- Resolved issue of crashes for platform youtube during runs due to recent changes in the upstream API, other platforms to follow
- General stability improvements
Hotfix Update
- Enabled projections by default again after upstream API performance has improved
- Resolved issue of crashes for platforms instagram, tiktok, twitch and facebook during runs due to recent changes in the upstream API
- General stability improvements
Hotfix Update
- Resolved issue of crashes for platform youtube during runs due to recent changes in the upstream API
- General stability improvements
Maintenance Update
- Revamped Documentation to provide better readability and clarity
- General stability improvements
Hotfix Update
- Resolved issue on creators not meeting the minimum requirements of Social Blade to display data resulting in a unexpected error
- General stability improvements
Maintenance Update
- Resolved issue on automated tests
- General stability improvements
Maintenance Update
- Improved logs and general error handling
- General stability improvements
Improvement Update
- Added support for cross social media searches, allowing users to scrape data across multiple platforms simultaneously.
- Added support for excluding specific platforms during scraping, allowing users to focus on desired platforms only for cross social media searches.
Issue Resolution Update
- Resolved some edge case parsing issues on YouTube creators newly on Social Blade without enough data points, ensuring more reliable data extraction.
Maintenance Update
- Added higher timeouts (600s [previously 300s]) to avoid actor crashes due to slow responses from the Social Blade API on projections
- Social Blade API is slow for projections. We have disabled projections by default to improve performance. Users can enable it if needed but should excpect slower response times
Major Improvement Update
- Added support for Instagram, Twitch and Facebook
- Added option to enable earnings data scraping
- Added Top 100 Rankings for all supported platforms
- Added Top 100 Rankings Filters
- Introduced new usage limits (for more information look into Usage Limits on the improved Documentation)
- Improved general stability & availability of the service
Bug Fix Update
- Improved general stability & availability of the service
- Resolved issue causing actor crashes when connecting to the data source
Improvement Update
- Added estimated earnings: quarterly average (paid only), half-yearly average (paid only)
Major Improvement Update
- Added estimated earnings: daily earnings for 14 days (3 days for free users), daily average, weekly average, monthly average (paid only), yearly average (paid only)
- Added more creator channel specific data
- Cleaned output format
- Improved actors general stability
Issue Resolving Update
- Resolved actor crashing when username / creator not found
Improvement Update
- Actor is now strict about proxy-only use
- Improved logging messages
Initial Release
- Extracts rich creator insights such as:
- creator_id
- creator_handle
- platform (YouTube, TikTok, etc.)
- profile_url
- profile_image
- verified_status
- subscriber_3, subscriber_7, subscriber_14, subscriber_30, subscriber_60, subscriber_90
- views_3, views_7, views_14, views_30, views_60, views_90
- total_subscribers
- total_views
- total_uploads
- estimated_earnings_daily, estimated_earnings_monthly
- daily_avg_views, monthly_avg_views
- socialblade_ranks (subscriber rank, video view rank, country rank)
- linked_socials (Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, etc.)
- account_type, channel_type, and other Social Blade metadata
- Outputs dataset as JSON, JSONL, Excel spreadsheet, HTML table, CSV, or XML for easy integration and analysis.
- Provides a clean and structured data output for further processing or direct use.
- 🛠️ Error Handling and Logging:
- Comprehensive error handling to manage site-specific issues and changes.
- Detailed logging to assist in debugging and tracking scraping activities.
- Initial release with all core features and functionalities fully tested.
- Users are encouraged to provide feedback for further improvements.
- Future updates will focus on continuing to improve and enhance searching capabilities.
- Users are encouraged to provide feedback for further improvements.
- Future updates will focus on continuing to improve and enhance searching capabilities.
For any issues or suggestions, please open up an issue on the platform.
This changelog entry documents the initial release of the Social Blade Scraper actor, detailing its core features, functionalities, and initial bug fixes.
