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• New command line parameter ignore_urls (same command in the BEHAVIOR section of a configfile). Accepts URLs (in the form of comma separated string), that will not be checked. This is useful as some websites always return an error code if you do not use a browser.

• Bugfix: If called via the CLI without a searchpath, the searchpath now correctly defaults to the current working directory.
• Tests for Python 3.10 now run with Beta 4 instead of Beta 3.

• New features:
  • Salted can be called within a Python script as a library, or as a standalone script via the command line! Both ways support using a configuration file.
  • Check a specific file instead of all supported files within a folder.
  • Markdown reports now contain links (instead of bare URLs).
• BREAKING CHANGES:
  • The function check_links() has been renamed to check and the parameter path_to_base_folder is now named searchpath.
  • If a configfile is present, it overwrites the default settings. however, if salted is used standalone via the command line interface (CLI), arguments on the CLI overwrite the corresponding values in a config file.
  • Salted uses head requests as a fast and light query type to check an URL. Some servers do not like head requests. Therefore, salted tried a full request each time a head requests did return an error. This behavior has been tested using a large collection of URLs. In this collection 607 URLs answered a head request with an error code. Only in 5 cases a follow up with a full requests yielded a different result. In the face of this insignificant effect, the functionality for doing a second (full) request has been removed.
• New dependencies:
  • Updated versions of multiple dependencies.
  • Added the pybtext as a dependency to parse BibTeX files. (next release)
  • Added sqlalchemy as a dependency.
• Improved code tests:
  • Automatic tests now also run with Python 3.10 beta 3.
  • Although the code is designed to be platform independent, tests now also run in a MacOS and a Windows container to be sure there are no issues.

• Log file access errors (like missing permissions) and list them in reports.
• Add time stamp to reports.
• new dependency: compatibility

See CHANGELOG.md for details.

• Add basic support for checking links in Markdown and LaTeX (.tex) files
• Automatic tests with the pytest framework.

• Python 3.9 support
• Set custom user agent