# Changelog of Youku Scraper — Chinese Video Search, Details & Creators (`sian.agency/youku-video-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/sian.agency/youku-video-scraper/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/sian.agency/youku-video-scraper.md

## Changelog

All notable changes to Youku Scraper will be documented in this file.

### \[2026-06-20]

- 🧯 **Graceful gateway-error handling.** Temporary upstream error pages are now retried and routed cleanly instead of surfacing as confusing parsing failures.

### \[2026-05-26]

#### 🎉 Youku Scraper — Launch!

- **Keyword Video Search** - Discover Youku (优酷) shows and videos by Chinese keyword across drama, documentary, variety, and anime categories.
- **Deep Video Detail** - Pull full long-form metadata: title, category, show name, episode totals, duration, publish time, like/comment counts, and VIP/paid flags.
- **Creator Profile Extraction** - Get uploader nickname, follower count, total likes, verification, and bio for any Youku creator.
- **Self-Contained Discovery Chain** - Go from a search keyword to creator analytics with no pre-existing IDs: search returns a showId, detail returns the uploader UID, profile resolves it.
- **Clean Structured Exports** - Flat JSON, CSV, Excel, and XML rows — no raw nested Youku JSON to untangle.

#### 💎 User Benefits

- The first and only Youku scraper on Apify — own a data pipeline no other tool offers.
- No Youku login or API key required — pick an operation and run.
- Long-form-native fields that short-video scrapers never expose.
- Pay-per-result pricing — error rows are never billed.

#### 🎯 Use Cases

- Media researchers building catalogs of Chinese dramas and documentaries.
- IP-licensing analysts tracking episode counts and VIP status across Chinese series.
- Content-localization teams shortlisting Chinese long-form titles for export.
- Academic media scholars studying Chinese streaming trends at scale.