# Changelog of YouTube Shorts Media Downloader (`w3crawler/youtube-shorts-downloader`) Actor

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

## Changelog

### \[2.0.0] - 2026-09-08

#### Changed

- Removed explicit alternate/private extractor clients, rotating User-Agents, proxy identity fields, and proxy-route fields.
- Kept the media-download workflow on yt-dlp's default public extractor with fixed ordinary headers, bounded retries, and ffprobe verification.
- Expanded records with submitted input, canonical URL, public channel/uploader metadata, hashtags, format inventory, metadata provenance, diagnostics, and safe storage references.
- Added strict input and credential-free proxy validation, exact diagnostics, OUTPUT run summaries, and schema-aligned storage contracts.

#### Reliability

- Proxy is used only when explicitly configured, or when the compatibility fallback is explicitly enabled.
- Direct failures can retry once through the configured Apify Proxy fallback, and blocked-error diagnostics are sanitized safely.
- Does not implement fingerprint spoofing, stealth patches, CAPTCHA/login bypass, or private/alternate client selection.

### \[1.0.0] - 2025-01-01

#### Added

- Initial YouTube Shorts media downloader.