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archiveRetriever 0.4.0

• Replace deprecated functions of dependencies
• Fix bugs in archive_overview() and retrieve_urls()
• New option nonArchive added to retrieve_links() and scrape_urls(). This option allows users to scrape internet pages not stemming from the Internet Archive.
• New feature added to the collapse option of scrape_urls(). collapse can now also take a Xpath as input, to collapse results based on a structuring Xpath. Unfortunately, this works only with Xpaths and not with CSS selectors. If used, Paths refers only to children of the structuring Xpath given in collapse.

archiveRetriever 0.3.1

• Changes to the testing environment.
• Disable progress bar in non-interactive use.

archiveRetriver 0.3.0

• Fixes to filtering of links in retrieve_links() to enable link scraping from domains with more than one domain ending.
• New option filter added to retrieve_links(). This options allows to disable the filtering of links to be sub-domains of the top-level domain.
• New option pattern added to retrieve_links(). This option allows for custom patterns by which links are filtered before output.

archiveRetriever 0.2.0

• New option collapseDate added to retrieve_urls(). This option allows users to choose whether retrieve_urls outputs all or just one memento per requested day.

archiveRetriever 0.1.2

• Fixes to ignoreErrors option for html reading-errors in scrape_urls()
• Fixes to retrieve_links() for Errors occurring in last Url
• Improve compatibility between retrieve_links() and scrape_urls()

archiveRetriever 0.1.1

• Fixes to ignoreErrors option for encoding errors in retrieve_links()

archiveRetriever 0.1.0

• Fixes to function behavior in case of timeout.
• Changes to the preliminary output printed by scrape_urls() function in case of error.
• Integration of more flexibility for using the scrape_urls() option attachto
• New option collapse added to scrape_urls(). This option allows users to choose whether html elements retrieved via the archiveRetriever are collapsed into a single observation or are kept as different observations in the output dataset.
• Update of the package documentation.

archiveRetriever 0.0.2

• Minor fixes and adjustments to Error-Messages
• More stable testing environment

archiveRetriever 0.0.1

• Final version for Cran submission

archiveRetriever 0.0.0.9000

• Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.

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