# Changelog of YouTube Music Song Scraper (`w3crawler/youtube-music-song-scraper`) Actor

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

## Changelog

### 2.0.0 – 2026-09-08

- Replaced private service requests, alternate client profiles, and rotating request identities with ordinary public YouTube/YouTube Music page requests.
- Added richer song fields for artists, albums, durations, views, release/publication data, badges, thumbnails, channels, provenance, locale, and public URLs.
- Added optional safe public watch-page enrichment for descriptions, keywords, tags, captions metadata, playability, and format counts without retaining signed URLs.
- Added strict input/proxy validation, bounded retries/pacing/fallback, exact four-field diagnostics, OUTPUT summaries, schemas, tests, QA inputs, and a dataset validator.