CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes to this project are documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning (as of version 1.5.0).

[Unreleased]

Added

• zimwriterfs script that mimics zim-tools's zimwriterfs

Changed

• Simplify type annotations by replacing Union and Optional with pipe character ("|") for improved readability and clarity

[3.3.2] - 2024-03-25

Added

• Add support for disable_metadata_checks and ignore_duplicates arguments in make_zim_file function ("zimwritefs-mode")

Changed

• Relaxed constraints on Python dependencies
• Upgraded optional dependencies used for test and QA

[3.3.1] - 2024-02-27

Added

• Set a user-agent for handle_user_provided_file #103

Changed

• Migrate to generic syntax in all std collections #140

Fixed

• Do not modify the ffmpeg_args in reencode function #144

[3.3.0] - 2024-02-14

Added

• New disable_metadata_checks parameter in zimscraperlib.zim.creator.Creator initializer, allowing to disable metadata check at startup (assuming the user will validate them on its own) #119

Changed

• Rework the VideoWebmLow preset for faster encoding and smaller file size #122
  • preset has been bumped to version 2
  • when using an S3 cache, all videos using this preset will be reencoded and uploaded to cache again (it will replace the same file encoded with preset version 1)
• When reencoding a video, ffmpeg now uses only 1 CPU thread by default (new arg to reencode allows to override this default value)
• Using openZIM Python bootstrap conventions (including hatch-openzim plugin) #120
• Add support for Python 3.12, drop Python 3.7 support #118
• Replace "iso-369" by "iso639-lang" library
• Replace "file-magic" by "python-magic" library for Alpine Linux support and better maintenance

Fixed

• Fixed type hints of zimscraperlib.zim.Item and subclasses, and zimscraperlib.image.optimization:convert_image

[3.2.0] - 2023-12-16

Added

• Add utility function to compute/check ZIM descriptions #110

Changed

• Using pylibzim 3.4.0

Removed

• Support for Python 3.7 (EOL)

[3.1.1] - 2023-07-18

Changed

• Fixed declared (hint) return type of download.stream_file #104
• Fixed declared (hint) type of content param for Creator.add_item_for #107

[3.1.0] - 2023-05-05

Changed

• Using pylibzim 3.1.0
• ZIM metadata check now allows multiple values (comma-separated) for Language
• Using yt_dlp instead of youtube_dl

Removed

• Dropped support for Python 3.6

[3.0.0] - 2023-03-31

⚠️ Warning: this release introduce several API changes to zim.creator.Creator and zim.filesystem.make_zim_file

Added

• zim.creator.Creator.config_metadata method (returning Self) exposing all mandatory Metdata, all standard ones and allowing extra text metdadata.
• zim.creator.Creator.config_dev_metadata method setting stub metdata for all mandatory ones (allowing overrides)
• zim.metadata module with a list of per-metadata validation functions
• zim.creator.Creator.validate_metadata (called on start) to verify metadata respects the spec (and its recommendations)
• zim.filesystem.make_zim_file accepts a new optional long_description param.
• i18n.is_valid_iso_639_3 to check ISO-639-3 codes
• image.probing.is_valid_image to check Image format and size

Changed

• zim.creator.Creator main_path argument now mandatory
• zim.creator.Creator.start now fails on missing required or invalid metadata
• zim.creator.Creator.add_metadata nows enforces validation checks
• zim.filesystem.make_zim_file renamed its favicon_path param to illustration_path
• zim.creator.Creator.config_indexing language argument now optionnal when indexing=False
• zim.creator.Creator.config_indexing now validates language is ISO- 639-3 when indexing=True

Removed

• zim.creator.Creator.update_metadata. See .config_metadata() instead
• zim.creator.Creator language argument. See .config_metadata() instead
• zim.creator.Creator keyword arguments. See .config_metadata() instead
• zim.creator.Creator.add_default_illustration. See .config_metadata() instead
• zim.archibe.Archive.media_counter (deprecated in 2.0.0)

[2.1.0] - 2023-03-06

Added

• zim.creator.Creator(language=) can be specified as List[str]. ["eng", "fra"], ["eng"], "eng,fra", "eng" are all valid values.

Changed

• Fixed zim.providers.URLProvider returning incomplete streams under certain circumstances (from openzim/kolibri#40)
• Fixed zim.creator.Creator not supporting multiple values in for Language metadata, as required by the spec

[2.0.0] - 2022-12-06

• Using pylibzim v2.1.0 (using libzim 8.1.0)

Added

• [libzim] Entry.get_redirect_entry()
• [libzim] Item.get_indexdata() to implement custom IndexData per entry (writer)
• [libzim] Archive.media_count

Changed

• [libzim] Archive.article_count updated to match scraperlib's version
• Archive.article_counter now deprecated. Now returns Archive.article_count
• Archive.media_counter now deprecated. Now returns Archive.media_count

Removed

• [libzim] lzma compression algorithm

[1.8.0] - 2022-08-05

Added

• download.get_session() to build a new requests Session

Changed

• download.stream_file() accepts a session param to use instead of creating one

[1.7.0] - 2022-08-02

Added

• zim.Creator now supports ignore_duplicates: bool parameter to prevent duplicates from raising exceptions
• zim.Creator.add_item, zim.Creator.add_redirect and zim.Creator.add_item_for now supports a duplicate_ok: bool parameter to prevent an exception should this item/redirect be a duplicate

[1.6.3] - 2022-08-02

Added

• download.stream_file() supports passing headers (scrapers were already using it)

[1.6.2] - 2022-07-29

Changed

• Fixed filesystem.get_content_mimetype() crashing on non-guessable byte stream

[1.6.1] - 2022-07-26

Changed

• Wider range of accepted lxml dependency version as 4.9.1 fixes a security issue

[1.6.0] - 2022-05-23

Added

• Archive.get_metadata_item() to retrieve full item instead of just value

Changed

• Using pylibzim v1.1.0 (using libzim 7.2.1)
  • Adding duplicate entries now raises RuntimeError
  • filesize is fixed for larger ZIMs

[1.5.0] - 2022-05-09

Added

• zim.Archive.tags and zim.Archive.get_tags() to retrieve parsed Tags with optionnal libkiwix param to include libkiwix's hints
• [tests] Counter tests now also uses a libzim6 file.

Changed

• zim.Archive.article_counter follows libkiwix's new bahavior of returning libzim's article_count for libzim 7+ ZIMs and returning previously returned (parsed) value for older ZIMs.

Removed

• Unreachable code removed in imaging module.
• [tests] “Sanskrit” removed from tests as output not predicatble depending on plaftform.

[1.4.3]

• zim.Archive.counters wont fail on missing Counter metadata

[1.4.2]

• Fixed leak in zim.Archive's .counters
• New .get_text_metadata() method on zim.Archive to save UTF-8 decoding

[1.4.1]

• New Counter metadata based properties for Archive:
  • .counters: parsed dict of the Counter metadata
  • .article_counter: libkiwix's calculation for nb or article
  • .media_counter: libkiwix's calculation for nb or media
• Fixed i18n.find_language_names() failing on some languages
• Added uri module with rebuild_uri()

[1.4.0]

• Using new python-libzim based on libzim v7
  • New Creator API
  • Removed all namespace references
  • Renamed url mentions to path
  • Removed all links rewriting
  • Removed Article/CSS/Binary seggreation
  • Kept zimwriterfs mode (except it doesn't rewrite for namespaces)
  • New html module for HTML document manipulations
  • New callback system on add_item_for() and add_item()
  • New Archive API with easier search/suggestions and content access
• Changed download log level to DEBUG (was INFO)
• filesystem.get_file_mimetype now passes bytes to libmagic instead of filename due to release issue in libmagic
• safer inputs.handle_user_provided_file regarding input as str instead of Path
• image.presets and video.presets now all includes ext and mimetype properties
• Video convert log now DEBUG instead of INFO
• Fixed image.save_image() saving to disk even when using a bytes stream
• Fixed image.transformation.resize_image() when resizing a byte stream without a dst

[1.3.6 (internal)]

Intermediate release using unreleased libzim to support development of libzim7. Don't use it.

• requesting newer libzim version (not released ATM)
• New ZIM API for non-namespace libzim (v7)
• updated all requirements
• Fixed download test inconsistency
• fix_ogvjs mostly useless: only allows webm types
• exposing retry_adapter for refactoring
• Changed download log level to DEBUG (was INFO)
• guess more-defined mime from filename if magic says it's text
• get_file_mimetype now passes bytes to libmagic
• safer regarding input as str instead of Path
• fixed static item for empty content
• ext and mimetype properties for all presets
• Video convert log now DEBUG instead of INFO
• Added delete_fpath to add_item_for() and fixed StaticItem's auto remove
• Updated badges for new repo name

[1.3.5]

• add stream_file() to stream content from a URL into a file or a BytesIO object
• deprecated save_file()
• fixed add_binary when used without an fpath (#69)
• deprecated make_grayscale option in image optimization
• Added support for in-memory optimization for PNG, JPEG, and WebP images
• allows enabling debug logs via ZIMSCRAPERLIB_DEBUG environ

[1.3.4]

• added wait option in YoutubeDownloader to allow parallelism while using context manager
• do not use extension for finding format in ensure_matches() in image.optimization module
• added VideoWebmHigh and VideoMp4High presets for high quality WebM and Mp4 convertion respectively
• updated presets WebpHigh, JpegMedium, JpegLow and PngMedium in image.presets
• save_image moved from image to image.utils
• added convert_image optimize_image resize_image functions to image module

[1.3.3]

• added YoutubeDownloader to download to download YT videos using a capped nb of threads

[1.3.2]

• fixed rewriting of links with empty target
• added support for image optimization using zimscraperlib.image.optimization for webp, gif, jpeg and png formats
• added format_for() in zimscraperlib.image.probing to get PIL image format from the suffix

[1.3.1]

• replaced BeautifoulSoup parser in rewriting (html.parser –> lxml)

[1.3.0]

• detect mimetypes from filenames for all text files
• fixed non-filename based StaticArticle
• enable rewriting of links in poster attribute of audio element
• added find_language_in() and find_language_in_file() to get language from HTML content and HTML file respectively
• add a mime mapping to deal with inconsistencies in mimetypes detected by magic on different platforms
• convert_image signature changed:
  • target_format positional argument removed. Replaced with optionnal fmt key of keyword arguments.
  • colorspace optionnal positional argument removed. Replaced with optionnal colorspace key of keyword arguments.
• prevent rewriting of links with special schemes mailto, 'tel', etc. in HTML links rewriting
• replaced imaging module with exploded image module (convertion, probing, transformation)
• changed create_favicon() param names (source_image -> src, dest_ico -> dst)
• changed save_image() param names (image -> src)
• changed get_colors() param names (image_path -> src)
• changed resize_image() param names (fpath -> src)

[1.2.1]

• fixed URL rewriting when running from /
• added support for link rewriting in <object> element
• prevent from raising error if element doesn't have the attribute with url
• use non greedy match for CSS URL links (shortest string matching url() format)
• fix namespace of target only if link doesn't have a netloc

[1.2.0]

• added UTF8 to constants
• added mime_type discovery via magic (filesystem)
• Added types: mime types guessing from file names
• Revamped zim API
  • Removed ZimInfo which role was tu hold metadata for zimwriterfs call
  • Removed calling zimwriterfs binary but kept function name
  • Added zim.filesystem: zimwriterfs-like creation from a build folder
  • Added zim.creator: create files by manually adding each article
  • Added zim.rewriting: tools to rewrite links/urls in HTML/CSS
• add timeout and retries to save_file() and make it return headers

[1.1.2]

• fixed convert_image() which tried to use a closed file

[1.1.1]

• exposed reencode, Config and get_media_info in zimscraperlib.video
• added save_image() and convert_image() in zimscraperlib.imaging
• added support for upscaling in resize_image() via allow_upscaling
• resize_image() now supports params given by user and preservs image colorspace
• fixed tests for zimscraperlib.imaging

[1.1.0]

• added video module with reencode, presets, config builder and video file probing
• make_zim_file() accepts extra kwargs for zimwriterfs

[1.0.6]

• added translation support to i18n

[1.0.5]

• added s3transfer to verbose dependencies list
• changed default log format to include module name

[1.0.4]

• verbose dependencies (urllib3, boto3) now logged at WARNING level by default
• ability to set verbose dependencies log level and add modules to the list
• zimscraperlib's logging level now aligned with scraper's requested one

[1.0.3]

• fix_ogvjs_dist script more generic (#1)
• updated zim to support other zimwriterfs params (#10)
• more flexible requirements for requests dependency

[1.0.2]

• fixed return value of get_language_details on non-existent language
• fixed crash on resize_image with method height
• fixed root logger level (now DEBUG)
• removed useless console=True getLogger param
• completed tests (100% coverage)
• added ./test script for quick local testing
• improved tox.ini
• added create_favicon to generate a squared favicon
• added handle_user_provided_file to handle user file/URL from param

[1.0.1]

• fixed fix_ogvjs_dist

[1.0.0]

• initial version providing
• download: save_file, save_large_file
• fix_ogvjs_dist
• i18n: setlocale, get_language_details
• imaging: get_colors, resize_image, is_hex_color
• zim: ZimInfo, make_zim_file