NEWS

wikkitidy 0.1.14.9000

Added failure_mode parameter to get_history_count() and page_vector_functions
Changed behaviour of get_rest_resource() so that the number of output rows is guaranteed to be the same as the number of input rows. Now if a request fails, a new column is added to the output error_code, with the http response code.
Removed get_page_related() due to deprecation of API endpoint
wikkitidy now depends on R 4.1, due to use of the native pipe
Removed use of "redirect" parameter in wikimedia_rest_request tests, due to deprecation

New gracefully() function added to allow graceful failure of http requests, as per CRAN policy. All API calls to Wikipedia query modules are now wrapped in gracefully() in the examples.

tidyr moved from Imports to Suggests
Automatic unnesting, introduced in 0.1.8, removed. It was causing bugs in certain edge cases, when nested data frames duplicated columns from the enclosing data frame. Unnesting is now left to the user, as shown in the examples.

Live API calls removed from test suite on CRAN; these are still tested in the package's CI pipeline.
Fixed failing test due to Wikimedia server error

Fixed perform_query() bug again, to deal with results that return nothing for the given query for given pages
Fewer queries return nested data frames now

Fixed bug where perform_query() would fail if only a single property was requested from an API:Properties module (i.e. using new_prop_query() or query_page_properties())

"endpoint" parameter of get_rest_resource() renamed to "api"
New xtools_page() functions, allowing programmatic access to statistics about pages' edit histories, links and quality markers
get_rest_resource() now supports a 'quiet' failure mode, where 4xx and 5xx errors quietly return no data. Currently implemented for the xtools_page() functions

The functions that perform queries to the Action API have been rewritten. There is now a family of three functions: next_result(), next_batch() and retrieve_all().
Improvements to the formatting of results. Raw list columns are replaced with lists of tibbles, to enable easy navigation of the results using tidyr::unnest().

build_category_tree(): recur through category system to build up graph of subcategories and pages

query_category_members(): the first of a set of new helper functions to provide user-friendly access to the Action API.
query_list_of renamed to query_list_pages()
New functions query_by_title, query_by_pageid() and query_by_revid() to build new kinds of Action API queries
New type system for Action API: see constructors new_prop_query(), new_generator_query() and new_list_query()

get_history_count(): find out how many times a page has been edited
Improved handling of get_diff() response data
Improved handling of page_vector_functions() response data. Most functions now return a tbl or list of tbls
Basic support for wikimedia_rest_apis()
'perform_query_once()' renamed to next_batch()

Better parsing of response values. All functions will now return a simple vector, tbl_df, or a list of tbl_dfs, with the exception of the Action API Query modules, whose response object has been renamed query_tbl() for clarity

Underlying interface to the three main APIs: core_rest_request(), wiki_action_request() and wikimedia_rest_request()
First few vector functions for getting page-level data
First few helper functions to build more complex Action API requests
First few data types for response values
Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.
New low-level helper, get_rest_resource(), for generating REST API calls; refactored existing calls to use this function
REST requests now accept query parameters
New family of page_vector_functions to retrieve data about a vector of page titles, e.g. get_latest_revision()