# Changelog of Snapchat Scraper: Profiles, Stories, Highlights, Spotlight +++ (`socialhz/snapchat-scraper`) Actor

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

## Changelog

### 1.0 — 2026-09-18

Initial release.

- Profiles by username, with display name, bio, subscriber count, verified badge, Snapchat's own category and subcategory, website, Snapcode image and profile creation date
- Spotlight posts with views, likes, comments, shares, saves and video URLs at each quality, included in the profile price
- AR Lenses published by the account, with preview image and preview video, included in the profile price
- Related accounts with their own subscriber counts, included in the profile price
- Live Stories snap by snap, with media URL, preview image, timestamp and location where Snapchat attaches one
- Saved Highlight collections, each with its title and its own snaps
- Optional Spotlight lookup adds each video's length and pixel dimensions, merged into the posts already returned
- Optional lookups are skipped for accounts with no public profile, since they cannot return anything and would still be charged
- Usernames are accepted as a bare handle, an @handle or a full profile link, and are normalised before any billable lookup
- Entries that cannot be a Snapchat username are rejected before any lookup, as are duplicates
- Requests time out at 15 seconds and retry up to 5 times with capped backoff, so a slow source costs a slower run rather than a dead one
- A five-minute collection deadline delivers whatever has been gathered instead of returning nothing
- Up to 500 usernames per run; a longer list is rejected by the input form