v1.7.2

Enhancement

• Skip checking if ScraperAPI works by pinging a test URL. Instead, this is inferred from ScraperAPI's account API.

Bugfix

• Changes introduced in v1.7.1 are reverted, since they increased the changes of getting blocked by Google Scholar.

v1.7.1

Enhancement

• Reduce the usage of premium proxies by up to a factor of 2.

v1.7.0

Features

• Add a new citation entry to pub fetched from an author profile with formatted citation entry #423.

Bugfixes

• Fix pprint failures on Windows #413.
• Thoroughly handle 1000 or more publications that are available (or not) according to public access mandates #414.
• Fix errors in download_mandates_csv that may occassionally occur for agencies without a policy link #413.

v1.6.3

Bugfix

search_pubs method did not respect include_last_year, which is now fixed.

Improvements

Unit tests involving funding agency mandates are a bit more robust.

v1.6.2

Update setup.py

v1.6.1

Bugfix

Handle 1000 or more publications that are available (or not) according to public access mandates

Improvement

Fetch 20+ coauthors without requiring geckodriver/chrome-driver to be installed.

v1.6.0

Features

• Download table of funding agencies as a CSV file with URL to the funding mandates included
• Downlad top-ranking journals in general, under sub-categories and in different languages as a CSV file

Bugfixes

#392
#394

v1.5.1

Features

Support chromium (chrome-driver) as an alternative to geckodriver #387

Improvements

• Firefox/Geckodriver operates in headless mode
• Increase test coverage to include all public APIs
• Clean up legacy code and improve coding styles
• Remove the use of deprecated functions in dependency packages

Bugfix

• Stop attempting to reuse a closed webdriver

v1.5.0

Features

• Fetch the public access mandates information from a Scholar profile and mark the publications whether or not they satisfy the open-access mandate.
• Fetch an author's organization identifer from their Scholar profile
• Search for all authors affiliated with an organization
• Fetch homepage URL from a Scholar profile

Enhancements

• Make FreeProxies more robust
• Stop the misleading traceback error message #313

Bugfixes

• Fix bug in exception handling #366

v1.5.0-alpha

Features

• Fetch the public access mandates information from a Scholar profile and mark the publications whether or not they satisfy the open-access mandate.
• Fetch an author's organization identifer from their Scholar profile
• Search for all authors affiliated with an organization
• Fetch homepage URL from a Scholar profile

Enhancements

• Make FreeProxies more robust
• Stop the misleading traceback error message #313

Bugfixes

• Fix bug in exception handling #366