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polite (development version)

polite 0.1.2 (Release date: 2022-08-03)

• Released on CRAN. Initial release v0.1.2

polite 0.1.1.9020 (Release date: 2020-06-12)

• Added politely adverb
• Fixed bug related to incorrect calling of bow() inside the nod() function #31
• Added times argument to bow() to control default number of retries #36
• Fixed a bug on.exit() restoring the user-agent #29
• Switched to webmockr for testing infrastructure

polite 0.1.1.9010 (Release date: 2020-03-29)

• Replaced httr::GET with httr::RETRY (closing #24)
• Removed tests base on Wikipedia due to changed routing
• Removed dependency on here

polite 0.1.1 (Release date: 2019-11-22)

• Released on CRAN. Initial release v0.1.1

polite 0.1.0 (Release date: 2019-07-07)

• submitted to CRAN

polite 0.0.0.9007 (Release date: 2019-06-30)

• the param argument of scrape() is now softly deprecated. New argument query is introduced. (closing #16)
• dependency on urltools is removed in favor of native functions in httr
• new usethis-like function use_manners() for producing own polite scraping infrastructure is included

polite 0.0.0.9006 (Release date: 2018-08-10)

• added set_scrape_delay() and set_rip_delay() to adjust default scraping rate limit
• took httr_rate_ltd() out of bow() (closing #9)

polite 0.0.0.9005 (Release date: 2018-08-10)

• added html_attrs_dfr() - function for tidying html_attrs()
• added polite download function called rip()

polite 0.0.0.9004 (Release date: 2018-07-30)

• rate-limited GET function is now a method instantiated inside bow to allow for setting persistent delay argument
• messages (but not warnings) from robotstxt are suppressed for cleaner console
• added content parameter to scrape() for overriding default data type and encoding

polite 0.0.0.9003 (Release date: 2018-07-30)

• Argument for setting up crawl delay has been renamed from period to delay and moved from scrape to bow.
• Print method and warning messages reflect delay argument set for the session.

polite 0.0.0.9002 (Release date: 2018-07-29)

• Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.
• Added custom print method for polite session using crayon
• bow and nod now warn if the current path is not permitted to be scraped
• polite has gotten a sticker! png is stored in data-raw

polite v0.0.0.9001 (Release date: 2018-07-27)

• Implemented bow(), nod() and scrape()
• Added documentation and examples
• Updated README to include examples

polite v0.0.0.9000 (Release date: 2018-07-23)

• Polite is born!

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