# Changelog of Podcast Directory Scraper — Host Contacts & Emails (`ryanclinton/podcast-directory-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/ryanclinton/podcast-directory-scraper/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/ryanclinton/podcast-directory-scraper.md

## Changelog

### 1.7 (2026-08-27) — Pay only for leads you can use

- Active podcasts only now excludes shows whose activity cannot be confirmed from their feed, and you are no longer charged for them
- New option: only charge for shows that have a host email
- New option: set a minimum lead score and skip anything below it
- Filtered shows are never saved and never charged, and the run status now shows how many were skipped and what that saved
- Run status now shows spend so far and a revised maximum once duplicate shows across your search terms have been merged

### 1.6 (2026-06-11) — Upfront cost estimate

- Pay-per-event runs now show the worst-case number of podcasts and estimated cost in the run status before scraping starts, so multi-term searches don't surprise you on spend.

### 1.5 (2026-06-10) — Clearer Apple-only runs

- Runs without Spotify credentials now flag Apple-only coverage in the run status and logs, so it's obvious when adding a Spotify Client ID and Secret would expand results.

### 1.4 (2026-06-06) — Reliability fix

- Runs no longer freeze when a single podcast feed stalls partway through downloading

### 1.3 (2026-05-30) — Faster first results

- The first podcast now appears in the dataset within seconds instead of after the first batch

### 1.3 (2026-05-30) — Added lead scoring and quality ranking

- Each podcast now has a 0-100 lead score so the best outreach targets appear first
- New 'Leads (best first)' table view and hasEmail / hasWebsite filter columns
- Results in each batch now sorted with the richest contacts at the top

### 1.2 (2026-04-24) — Fix: 120s-timeout runs now flush partial results cleanly instead of TIMED_OUT; RSS fetch timeouts trimmed; includeEpisodes=false no longer downloads full feeds

### 1.2 (2026-04-24) — Fix: short-timeout runs (e.g. 120s) now exit cleanly with partial results + clear status instead of TIMED_OUT

### 1.2 (2026-04-22) — Reliability fixes

### 1.2 (2026-03-31) — Data accuracy improvements

### 1.2 (2026-03-31) — UX polish

### 1.2 (2026-03-31) — Reliability and billing fixes

### 1.2 (2026-03-30) — Memory fix

### 1.1 (2026-03-25) — Major upgrade