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

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

## Changelog

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

#### Changed

- Rebuilt the actor around the current public channel Shorts HTML and embedded `ytInitialData` model.
- Added channel identity, short identity, titles, accessibility text, thumbnails and dimensions, displayed and parsed view counts, duration fields, live/upcoming flags, stable positions, and source provenance.
- Added exact diagnostic records, `OUTPUT` run summaries, strict credential-free proxy validation, local/cloud QA fixtures, tests, and dataset validation.
- Removed browser automation and stale route, extractor, filter, utility, and error modules.
- Switched to the Node 22 Apify base image and `got-scraping` for bounded public requests.

### \[2.0.0] - 2026-07-29

#### Changed

- Previous public Shorts payload rebuild.