# Changelog of YouTube Hashtag Video & Shorts Scraper (`w3crawler/youtube-hashtag-video-shorts-scraper`) Actor

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

## Changelog

### 2.1.0 - 2026-09-08

- Replaced browser/session identity manipulation and private continuation calls with bounded public YouTube HTML search parsing.
- Added rich video/Shorts fields, exact diagnostics, OUTPUT summaries, strict proxy/input validation, schemas, tests, and dataset validation.
- Removed Crawlee and Playwright from the runtime and switched to the lean Apify Node image.