# Changelog of YouTube Channel Scraper (`w3crawler/youtube-channel-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/w3crawler/youtube-channel-scraper/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/w3crawler/youtube-channel-scraper.md

## Changelog

### \[2.1.0] - 2026-09-08

#### Changed

- Rebuilt the actor as a Node 22 Apify Actor using public YouTube channel HTML, embedded `ytInitialData`, and public RSS only.
- Added rich channel, video, Shorts, stream, playlist, and diagnostic records with explicit provenance and cleaned optional fields.
- Added public About-page counts, descriptions, keywords, external links, avatars, banners, join dates, and country when exposed.
- Added exact `OUTPUT` run summaries, safe diagnostics, strict credential-free proxy validation, local/cloud QA fixtures, tests, and dataset validation.
- Removed the old Python/yt-dlp/browser bootstrap and stale source modules.