3.3.2

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

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

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

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

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

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

⚠️ 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

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

• 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

Added

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

Changed

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