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1.0.0 - 2025-10-31

  • update to use uv, and release what had clearly become a stable version otherwise unchanged from 0.9.1

0.9.1 - 2024-07-10

  • add support for new versions of lxml and Python

0.9.0 - 2022-02-10

  • add Page.accept_response method that can be overriden to trigger custom retry logic
  • add preliminary spatula.config for setting/overriding global defaults (this feature is not yet considered stable, it likely will be modified before 1.0)

0.8.10 - 2022-01-31

  • update click dependency

0.8.9 - 2021-12-14

  • fix for --rmdir not recreating directory

0.8.8 - 2021-12-09

  • add --rmdir flag to spatula scrape

0.8.7 - 2021-11-09

  • add support for raising SkipItem from a detail page to resume processing without yielding data from the page

0.8.6 - 2021-10-13

  • add timeout argument to URL source
  • add --subpages argument to spatula test which runs similarly to spatula scrape but writes output to the terminal

0.8.5 - 2021-08-09

  • add verify argument to URL source
  • improve messaging when using spatula test
  • add --dump flag to spatula scrape to control output format

0.8.4 - 2021-07-15

  • self.skip is deprecated in favor of raising SkipItem
  • add experimental support for module arguments to scrape command

0.8.3 - 2021-06-23

  • fix bug where default headers were cleared by default
  • update to scrapelib 2.0.6 which contains a bugfix for a redirect follow bug

0.8.2 - 2021-06-22

  • fix spatula --version to report correct version
  • allow --data command line flags to override example_input values
  • add caching of dependencies
  • fix pagination on non-list pages
  • add advanced documentation & anatomy of a scrape

0.8.1 - 2021-06-17

  • remove undocumented page_to_items function
  • added Page.do_scrape to programmatically get all items from a scrape
  • added --source parameter to scout & scrape commands

0.8.0 - 2021-06-15

  • remove undocumented Workflow
  • allow using Page instances (as opposed to just the type) for scout & scrape
  • add check for get_filename on output classes to override default filename
  • improved automatic pydantic support
  • add --timeout, --no-verify, --retries, --retry-wait options
  • add --fastmode option to use local cache
  • fix all CLI commands to obey various scraper options

0.7.1 - 2021-06-14

  • remove undocumented default behavior for get_source_from_input
  • major documentation overhaul
  • fixes for scout scrape when working with raw data returns

0.7.0 - 2021-06-04

  • add spatula scout command
  • make error messages a bit more clear
  • improvements to documentation
  • added more CLI options to control verbosity, user agent, etc.
  • if module cannot be found, search current directory

0.6.0 - 2021-04-12

  • add full typing to library
  • small bugfixes

0.5.0 - 2021-02-04

  • add ExcelListPage
  • improve Page.logger and CLI output
  • move to simpler Workflow class
  • spatula scrape can now take the name of a page, will use default Workflow
  • bugfix: inconsistent name for process_error_response

0.4.1 - 2021-02-01

  • bugfix: dependencies are instantiated from parent page input

0.4.0 - 2021-02-01

  • restore Python 3.7 compatibility
  • add behavior to handle returning additional Page subclasses to continue scraping
  • add default behavior when Page.input has a url attribute.
  • add PdfPage
  • add page_to_items helper
  • add Page.example_input and Page.example_source for test command
  • add Page.logger for logging
  • allow use of dataclasses in addition to attrs as input objects
  • improve output of HTML elements
  • bugfix: not specifying a page processor on workflow is no longer an error

0.3.0 - 2021-01-18

  • first documented major release