# Changelog of YouTube Hashtag Scraper (`w3crawler/youtube-hashtag-scraper`) Actor

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

## Changelog

### 2.1.0 - 2026-09-08

- Replaced rotating headers and direct hashtag-page assumptions with bounded ordinary public YouTube HTML search parsing.
- Added rich video/Shorts fields, exact diagnostics, OUTPUT summaries, strict input/proxy validation, schemas, tests, and dataset validation.