# Changelog of YouTube Hashtag Extractor (`w3crawler/youtube-hashtag-extractor`) Actor

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

## Changelog

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

#### Changed

- Rebuilt extraction around public YouTube watch-page HTML and embedded player/initial data.
- Added description hashtags, public tags, channel metadata, thumbnails, dates, category, duration, view/like counts, live/Shorts flags, and explicit provenance fields.
- Added strict input validation, bounded direct/proxy transport, exact diagnostics, run summaries, dataset/KVS schemas, contract tests, and dataset validation.
- Removed browser automation, private request clients, fingerprint modules, and stale router/error modules.

### \[1.2.0] - 2026-06-01

#### Changed

- Refactored the previous browser implementation into route and handler modules.

### \[1.1.0] - 2026-05-22

#### Changed

- Added modular error and filtering helpers to the previous implementation.

### \[1.0.0] - 2026-05-22

#### Added

- Initial Playwright-based actor release.