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Version 2.0.0

New major release coinciding with the release of v2.0 of the Petfinder API! The legacy version of the Petfinder API, v1.0, will be retired in January 2020, therefore, the petpy library has been updated almost from the ground up to be compatible as possible with the new version of the Petfinder API! The new version of the Petfinder API is a huge improvement over the legacy version, with many changes and additions to the design of the API itself. As such, several methods from earlier releases of petpy that wrapped these endpoints will be deprecated over the next few releases.

Below is a summary of all the changes made in the release of petpy 2.0.

  • petpy now supports the latest release of Python 3.7
  • Support for Python 2.7 is discontinued as Python 2.7 will be officially discontinued in January 2020.
  • The following methods have been added to petpy to make it compatible with v2.0 of the Petfinder API.
    • animal_types() is used to getting animal types (or type) available from the Petfinder API. The release of v2.0 of the Petfinder API added several endpoints for accessing animal types in the Petfinder database. This method wraps both Petfinder API endpoints for getting animal types. More information on the animal type endpoints in the Petfinder API can be found in its documentation:
    • breeds() is the new method for getting available animal breeds from the Petfinder database. The API endpoint documentation is available on the Petfinder API documentation page.
    • animals() is the method for extracting animal data available on the Petfinder API and deprecates the pets() related methods. The method wraps both the animals and animal/{id} endpoints of the Petfinder API. The documentation for these endpoints can be found in the Petfinder API documentation:
    • organizations() is now the method for extracting animal welfare organization data available on Petfinder and deprecates previous shelter() related methods and endpoints. The organizations() method wraps both the Petfinder API organizations and organizations/{id} endpoints. The Petfinder API documentation for these two endpoints can be found below:
  • The following methods have been removed as they are no longer valid endpoints with the release of v2.0 of the PetFinder API.
    • pet_get_random()
    • shelter_list_by_breed()
    • shelter_get_pets()
  • General refactoring and code clean-up.

Version 1.8.2

  • Add pandas back as an installation requirement as it is included in top-level imports. pandas is still not necessary to use the primary functionality of petpy.

Version 1.8.1

  • Implement check to make sure count parameter is not larger than 1,000 records (per the Petfinder API limits). If count exceeds 1,000 a ValueError is raised.
  • Add check for ensuring the number of total records to return does not exceed 2,000 when paging results with the pages and count parameters. If the desired amount of records is higher than 2,000, a ValueError is raised.
  • Remove Python 3.3 support. Although petpy should work fine for those still using Python 3.3, testing for 3.3 has been discontinued.

Version 1.8.0

  • General refactoring of the petpy library to remove unneeded methods from being exposed when importing the library. The best way to import and begin using petpy is from petpy import Petfinder or, less optimally, import petpy, then calling the Petfinder class by petpy.Petfinder.

Version 1.7.2

  • There is now a proper message when the daily API call limit is exceeded. Before the change, methods would return a JSONDecodeError.
  • The Python 2 to 3 compatibility package six, has been added as a requirement for package installation. The six library is lightweight and ensures the petpy package works properly for Python 2 and 3.
  • Numpy is no longer required for installing the package. Numpy's nan was initially used to denoted shelters animals that were not found in the Petfinder database. The value returned when a shelter or animal is not found is now 'na'.

Version 1.7.1

  • Fix to the shelter_get() method for handling empty responses when no shelters returned for when the parameter return_df = True.
  • Fix to getting pets available at a shelter with shelter_get_pets() when the parameter return_df = True when the given shelter does not return any available animals.

Version 1.7.0

  • Refactoring of the library to clean up code files.
  • Fixed a bug with the shelter_get_pets() method that caused an error to be thrown when there is only one pet record and the parameter return_df = True.
  • Many changes to simplify expressions and internal code within methods.
  • The Petfinder class method names and parameters have been renamed to be PEP8 compatible. I apologize as this will cause backward compatibility issues upon updating for anyone using previous versions. The original intention of the naming was to reflect the Petfinder API's method names as closely as possible, but after further consideration and given the relatively short life of the library, I think the change is necessary for the future growth and maturity of the package.
  • How the methods interact with the Petfinder API is unchanged. Thus there is no immediate need to update your version of petpy if it will break any current code.
  • The Github repo README has been updated with the new API methods.
  • Below is a table detailing the changed method names:
Previous Method Name New Method Name
pet_getRandom() pet_get_random()
shelter_getPets() shelter_get_pets()
shelter_listByBreed() shelter_list_by_breed()
  • The following lists the method parameter names that have changed with the release:
Previous Parameter Name New Parameter Name
petId pet_id
shelterId shelter_id

Version 1.6.0

  • This release removes pandas as an installation requirement for the package. Although pandas is required to convert the API results into a DataFrame, this is optional and not necessary to the building or use of the package itself.

Version 1.5.995

  • Calls that return JSON results when using the pet_find() method when return_df=True are now adequately handled and an empty pandas DataFrame is returned. This result can happen when searching for a particular breed of animal that is currently not available in the Petfinder database.

Version 1.5.92

  • The paged results should now cap at Petfinder's 2,000 search limit consistently.
  • The methods shelter_get() and shelters_get() now handle shelters that have opted-out of having their information available in the Petfinder API.

Version 1.5.91

  • Paged results will now reach Petfinder's 2,000 records per search limit. Before, if the next paged result would equal or exceed 2,000 results the call would end, and the results would be returned. For example, if the parameters pages is 10 and count is 200, 2,000 records will now be returned, whereas previously 1,800 would be returned.

Version 1.5.9

  • Paging results that exceed Petfinder's limit of 2,000 records returned per search with return_df = True will now correctly exit the loop and return the results as a DataFrame.

Version 1.5.7

  • The fix to returning a DataFrame when paging results is now implemented in this release. Apologies for the oversight, the code change was not made before releasing the previous version.
  • The contact information returned with a DataFrame when return_df = True now has the prefix 'contact.' removed to make the results cleaner.

Version 1.5.6

  • Paging results now returns the stated number of pages in the pages parameter. Before, pages + 1 results were returned.
  • Returning pandas DataFrames with methods pet_find() and shelter_find() should no longer throw ValueError (duplicate column name was causing an error in concatenating a list of results into a DataFrame).

Version 1.5.5

  • shelter_getPets() method now returns a complete flattened pandas DataFrame when the parameter return_df = True.

Version 1.5.4

  • Slight fix to pet_getRandom() method. Before, if the method parameter return_df = True, but the parameter output was not one of 'basic' or 'full', the return_df parameter was overridden and set as False. Now, if return_df = True and output None, then output is set to 'full' to return the complete DataFrame.
  • Added records parameter to pet_getRandom() to allow multiple random results to be returned in the same method call. Please note each record returned counts as one call made to the Petfinder API.
  • Added API convenience methods pets_get() and shelters_get() for pulling multiple results given a list or tuple of IDs. These methods are essentially wrappers of the API methods pet_get() and shelter_get().
  • More code cleanup, formatting, and simplification.

Version 1.5.0

  • Add option to convert returned results into a pandas DataFrame.
  • Formatting and code cleanup.
  • Updated docstrings

Version 1.0.0

First major release.