# Changelog of YouTube Video Downloader (`streamers/youtube-video-downloader`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/streamers/youtube-video-downloader/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/streamers/youtube-video-downloader.md

#### 2026-08-31

*Fixes*

- Audio download should now be fixed

*Changes*

- You are now charged according to the data volume downloaded, not the size of the final video.
  This might affect some of non-default video format inputs, either by increasing or decreasing the cost of the run -
  because these formats either inflated or deflated the size of the final video.

#### 2026-08-12

*Changes*

- Removed the Actor start fee; you are no longer charged for starting a run

#### 2026-03-09

*Features*

- Added possibility to transcribe downloaded videos through OpenAI

#### 2025-09-23

*Fixes*

- Somewhat reduced number of 403 blockings

#### 2025-09-22

*Features*

- Output items with links are now pushed to the dataset

#### 2025-08-27

*Fixes*

- Returned support for audio formats (gif is removed though).

#### 2025-08-25

*Changes*

- Temporarily removed audio and gif formats from input until they are fixed.

#### 2025-08-19

*Changes*

- Downloading to the KVStore has been temporarily hidden. Please, wait until ~September for a more complete implementation.

#### 2025-08-16

*Features*

- You can now download videos to an Apify-managed key-value store. They will be deleted automatically after around 3 days.

### 2025-08-08

*Fixes*

- Will under some circumstances re-download video info to better bypass 403 blocking.

### 2025-07-17

*Fixes*

- Removed a bug when the download of a long video would start from scratch.