# Changelog of Instagram Scraper API on Apify: Posts, Comments & Stories +++ (`socialhz/instagram-scraper-api`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/socialhz/instagram-scraper-api/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/socialhz/instagram-scraper-api.md

## Changelog

### 1.0 — 2026-09-05

Initial release.

- Posts by account, 12 per page, paging to any requested depth
- Photos, videos, reels and carousels, each labelled by type, with full carousel expansion
- Optional comment threads per post, with cursor paging, up to 500 comments per post
- Optional live Stories capture, billed per account checked rather than per Story
- Accounts that are private, empty or missing return an identified record explaining why, rather than silence
- Usernames accepted as a bare handle, an @handle or a full profile URL; post, reel, Story and hashtag links are rejected before any billable lookup, as are duplicates and malformed entries
- Up to 200 accounts per run; a longer list is rejected by the input form
- Posts already retrieved are delivered even when paging fails part-way, marked with postsPartial
- Automatic retry with exponential backoff on transient failures
- Duplicate and stalled-pagination detection on both posts and comments