Improvements

• Handle redirects from using approximate or outdated scholar_id values in search_author_id query (#469)

Bugfix

• ScraperAPI premium parameters are now respected

Bugfix

• Handle any gap years when filling citation counts per year (#481)

Improvement

• Use a default, fixed user agent if fake-useragent cannot be imported.

Improvement

Handle errors that may come from old version of fake-useragent.

Bugfix

Changes in v1.7.7 made the library incompatible with ScraperAPI method. This patch fixes this issue (https://github.com/scholarly-python-package/scholarly/issues/477)

Improvements

Change the underlying library from requests to httpx. This largely solves #465 for the time being at least.

#Bugfix

• Handles the breaking change in a dependence (free-proxy) (https://github.com/scholarly-python-package/scholarly/issues/454 , https://github.com/scholarly-python-package/scholarly/issues/458 )
• Fixes the bug in citedby function (https://github.com/scholarly-python-package/scholarly/issues/453) thanks the fix from @guicho271828

Bugfix

• fix sameSite cookie issue (#196)
• version limit free-proxy in setup.py

Bugfixes

• includes a hotfix for backward incompatibility for one of the dependencies
• minor reorganization to unit tests

Improvement

• search_citedby can fetch more than 1000+ citations. The improved implementation gets around Google Scholar's limitation of displaying only 1000 citations. Thanks to @jjshoots for noticing this problem and raising a PR. #449 #446
• url_related_articles will be populated with the more useful link when more than one are available on Google Scholar.

Bugfix

• search_keyword and search_keywords can take labels that are composed of multiple words. #437

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.

Enhancement

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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