changelog.md

10.3.2 [Jul 2024]

• [new] - support many new inline templates
• [new] - support recursive i18n category queries
• [update] - dependencies
• [update] - i18n and api plugins

10.3.1 [May 2024]

• [fix] - unicode glitch token #573
• [fix] - retire mixesdb wiki test
• [fix] - support birthdate template aliases #537
• [update] - dependencies

10.3.0 [Dec 2023]

• [new] - fallbackTemplateFn handler #509
• [new] - more i18n redirects and templates
• [new] - metadata methods .revisionID(), .description(), .timestamp(), .pageImage()
• [new] - i18n .isStub() method
• [new] - debug plugin for finding parsing errors

10.2.1 [Nov 2023]

• [change] - support more templates
• [change] - support multiple citations inside a ref tag
• [new] - add revisionID() - thanks Dag-Inge! #568

10.2.0 [Oct 2023]

• [change] - typescript export helpers

10.1.7 [Sep 2023]

• [fix] - don't crash on huge geojson blob #555

10.1.6 [Sep 2023]

• [change] - handle fetch data errors
• [fix] - template runtime error #550
• [update] - deps

10.1.5 [May 2023]

• [fix] - support inline templates
• [change] - dont overwrite duplicate props in infobox #530
• [update] - deps

10.1.4 [Apr 2023]

• [fix] - #528 template runtime errors
• [fix] - remove stray console.log (thank you @mxunknown)
• [update] - some work on gamelog template

10.1.3 [Mar 2023]

• [fix] - #519 date parsing issue
• [fix] - #518 support slash in infobox property
• [fix] - #516 better support {{br}} template

10.1.2 [Jan 2023]

• [fix] - #514 runtime error
• [update] - dependencies

10.1.1 [Jan 2023]

• [change] - support many more inline templates
• [fix] - wikitext newline join issue
• [update] - dependencies

10.1.0 [Dec 2022]

• [fix] - extra dots in interwiki links #510
• [new] - configure unsupported template behaviour - templateFallbackFn #509
• [update] - dependencies
• [change] - allow embedded infoboxes #506
• [change] - support :File and :Category syntax for #308
• [new] - support {{medalcount}} template #428

10.0.5 [Dec 2022]

• [fix] - broken cli script #504

10.0.4 [Dec 2022]

• [fix] - mangled interwiki link #502
• [fix] - tabs in infoboxes #435
• [update] - dependencies

10.0.3 [Oct 2022]

• [fix] - improved i18n infobox classification
• [update] - dependencies

10.0.2 [Jul 2022]

• [fix] - multiple inline templates in a heading #489
• [fix] - non-i18n list templates #475
• [fix] - don't print hatnotes in .text()
• [update] - api, i18n, sports plugins

10.0.1 [May 2022]

• [fix] - runtime error #484
• [new] - wtf-plugin-sports for tricky nhl and mlb templates
• [change] - .random() in api-plugin parses document
• [change] - update dependencies

10.0.0 [April 2022]

• [breaking] - drop IE11 support - target evergreen browsers
• [change] - convert to esmodules internally
• [change] - add blockquote template
• [change] - update dependencies

9.1.0 [March 2022]

• [change] - support inline templates inside section titles
• [change] - xml parsing fix
• [change] - increase arbitrary char limit on bold & italixs
• [change] - improve parsing for Image and File names
• [new] - add .license() method for image plugin
• [fix] - table parsing bugs
• [fix] - typescript fixes update deps huge thank you to @FFatur !!

9.0.3

• [fix] - typescript error
• [change] - update demos

9.0.1

• [fix] - runtime error in cli (thanks maxlath!)
• [fix] - linter fixes for regexes
• update deps

9.0.0

Tldr:

• .templates() now return Template objects, instead of json.
• cool new http library for .fetch()
• custom templates recieve pre-parsed json
• more development of plugins

detail:

• [breaking] - .templates() now returns Template objects, like other methods (call .json())

• [breaking] - change interpretation of reversed params in .fetch() method (thanks wouter!)

• [breaking] - change params for custom templates

• [breaking] - move .random() and .category() to plugin-api

• [breaking] - always return an array for plural methods, even with number param, like .links(3)

• [possibly-breaking] - cleanup null|undefined responses from methods

• [possibly-breaking] - remove .dates() method (prev deprecated)

• [possibly-breaking] - require node 10, ie > 11

• [change] - normalize table rows

• [change] - move wiktionary templates to wtf-plugin-wiktionary

• [change] - Link.text() now returns page

• [change] - improvements to 'soft' isDisambiguation detection

• [change] - deprecate wtf-plugin-category (move to wtf-plugin-api)

• [new] - api plugin

• [new] - disambig plugin

• [new] - person plugin

• [new] - Table.get() method

• [new] - set new infoboxes using .extend()

• plugin-api 0.1.0

• plugin-classify 1.0.0

• plugin-disambig 0.0.1

• plugin-image 0.3.0

• plugin-person 0.2.0

• plugin-summary 0.3.0

• plugin-wikitext 1.1.0

• plugin-wikinews 0.0.1

• plugin-wikivoyage 0.0.1

• plugin-wiktionary 0.0.1

8.5.1

• fix reference json encoding for mongodb

8.5.0

• fix for cross-domain 3rd-party wikis
• improved support for fetching non-wikipedia domains

8.4.0

• new wikidata() method
• new domain() method
• support image urls from 3rd-party wikis
• support for some html formatting tags #374
• support for sub and sup templates
• [fix] for link-parsing bug #375

8.3.0

• adds some wikivoyage templates
• fix cli help options
• change covid template again

8.2.0

• export http lib for plugin in .extend()
• stop exporting (huge) mapfile in builds
• deprecate .dates() from sentence class (didn't work)
• stop ignoring ref-list template, keep otherwise empty ==References== sections

8.1.2

• another fix for covid templates

8.1.1

• fix for covid templates

8.1.0

• [major] fix Link json object in .json() result
• [major] fix inconsistent response for singular method aliases like .template('foo')
• [major] change in rowspan behaviour to support covid table
• support <noinclude>
• add .url() and .language() methods
• • support setters on Link methods
• • add Link.href() method
• • support proper urls for interwiki links
• replicate wikipedia behaviour for apostrophe-s after link
• new plugins summary, classify, category, and i18n.
• Link hrefs are not titlecased anymore by default

8.0.0

• [breaking] move .html(), .latex(), and .markdown() to their respective plugins
• • drop header/footer boilerplate from outputs
• [breaking] .templates() and .links() return Template and Link objects, and not bare JSON (use .map(l=> l.json()))
• [breaking] refactor inputs for .fetch()
• • no longer support 'enwikiquote' etc format as input
• • use 'wiki' instead of undocumented 'wikiUrl' param
• • no more automatic throttling/rate-limiting
• [breaking] remove Image.exists() method to plugin
• [major] create seperate client/server-side build formats (use native fetch/node lib)
• [major] support deep (infinite) recursion in templates
• [major] much-stronger i18n support
• no-longer automatically titlecase links
• support adding template parsers through plugins in .extend()
• • support array, number, and string shorthand for template parsers
• deprecate .plaintext() in favour of .text()

7.8.0

• add .extend() method for authoring plugins

7.7.2

• bugfixes by suntala

7.6.0

• use rollup for builds, publish esm module

7.3.0

• more unicode support

7.2.10

• improved unicode support for sentence/paragraph splitting
• supporting more formatting templates, like Mono
• more flexible reference support in .json()

7.2.9

• few more sports templates,
• rowspan parsing fix
• no-longer include package.json in builds
• use full template-parser for image captions
• support manually setting doc.title()

7.2.0

• improved date templates, bugfixes

7.1.1

• support population, weatherbox templates

7.1.0

• some template fixes
• add a 'number' field in sentence json, when it looks like a number
• slight change in coordinate result format, support inline coordinate text
• handle fetching a large list of titles in sequence

7.0.0 🚨

• change result-format in a lot of templates, for more consistency.
• • notably: reference format, see also, IPA, main
• support colspan/rowspan in tables (a little!)
• support implicit first-row headers for some tables
• return templates even if they have no data
• begin support for some well-used {{foo start}}...{{foo end}} templates
• remove empty [] for some more section properties in .json() response

6.3.0

• support way (+20%?) more templates.

6.2.0

• support categories in redirects
• add mongo-encoding from dumpster-dive

6.1.0

• titlecase internal link destinations #192

6.0.0 🚨

• support .paragraphs()
• ⚠️ major changes to output of .json(). cleaning-up redundant data.:warning:
• • remove top-level templates data (found in section) - resume it with {templates:true}
• • remove top-level coordinates data (found in templates) - resume it with {coordinates:true}
• • remove top-level citations data (found in section) - resume it with {citations:true}
• return empty arrays in .json() again ¯_(:/)_ /¯
• remove h1 title on html output
• change ambiguous options.title for sections to options.headers
• support lists of 1
• begin removing empty references section by default
• begin support for rendering citations at the bottom of documents
• begin first-class references-parsing as objects at paragraph-level
  • use this: .citations() --> .citations().map(c => c.json());
• remove .wikitext() and .reparse() methods - keeping wikitext stateful caused too many issues
• turn Image.file into a function
• include interwiki() results in .links()
• support follow_redirects option to fetch
• hide object data in console.logs
• move ALL image urls from upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons to wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Redirect/file/ via 86
• image captions are now Sentence objects
• rename citation → reference internally, and in json output
• remove references inside section titles

5.3.0

• add infobox html back into html output (tentative)
• redirect support in .json(), .html() output
• remove empty [] properties in .json() results (saves disk space!)
• keep # anchor data in .links()
• show links default-on in latex output, like in md and html
• render html/latex/json 'soft redirect', instead of blank pages

5.2.0

• make .json() results return proper json for tables

5.1.0

• improved support for gallery tag
• more support for wiktionary grammar templates
• tweak some regexes

5.0.0

• new Table class and List classes
• improved table-parser - generate name col1 instead of col-0
• support options.verbose_template for debugging
• support recursive tables

4.6.0

• <gallery> tag support in .images()
• support pageids again in .fetch()
• better disambiguation-page detection in english
• remove wikitext from caption titles
• support 3-level templates (whew!)

4.5.0

• support section(0).wikitext()
• support inline {{marriage}} template
• dangling semi-colons in first-sentence parentheses

4.2.2

• support dollar templates

4.2.0

• return a result or undefined for sentences.bolds(0), and the like

4.1.0

• remove repeated/redundant text in .links() results
• don't automatically titlecase link srcs anymore

4.0.0

• 🚨 non-api changing, but large result-format change
• add .wikitext() method to Document, Section, Sentence (thanks @niebert)
• move infobox, citation parser/data to Section class
• .templates() are now an ordered array, instead of an object, and include infoboxes and citations
• add (early) support for 'generic' key-value template parsing
• normalize/lowercase template/infobox properties - add loose .get('key') method to Infobox class
• mess-around with citation-template formatting
• beginning to support unknown template forms
• move date data from Sentence to Section object.
• rollback of awkward+undocumented options param in parser (but keep options param for output methods)
• add support for about a hundred new templates
• templates, including citations, try to be flat-text, and no-longer return Sentence objects

3.1.0

• improved .json() results
• guess a page's title based on bold formatting in first sentence
• make section.title a function

3.0.0

• BIG API RE-WRITE!
• move .parse() to main wtf() method
• allow repeated processes without a pre-parse of the document
• wtf.fetch() uses promises, and native fetch() method (when available)
• allow per-section images, lists, tables + templates
• section depth values now start at 0
• infobox values now return sentence objects
• latex output (thanks @niebert!)
• refactor shell scripts to wtf_wikipedia Toronto --plaintext
• use babel-preset-env cause it's new-new
• update deps

2.6.1

• better html output tables/infoboxes

2.6.0

• support for markdown output
• support for html output
• add page 'title' to response, where possible.
• better support for capturing the [[link]]'s syntax
• opt-out of citation, infobox, image ... parsing
• support a whack of date/time/age templates

2.5.0

• co-ordinate parsing fix
• support longer ref tags
• smarter disambiguation for interwiki links vs pages containing ':'
• more support for various list syntaxes

2.2.0

• support for {{coords}} geo-coordinate parsing+conversion
• early-support for custom template-parsing

2.1.0

• support table '! row' row heading syntax, and other forms

2.0.0

• move possibly-repeatable data into the sections object, list 'lists' and 'tables'
• change library export name to wtf
• turn infobox into 'infoboxes' array
• moved 'infobox_template' to infobox.type
• change initial depth to 0
• change 'translations' property to 'interwiki'
• support {{main}} and {{wide image|}} templates

1.0.0

• make sections into an ordered array, instead of an es6 Map thing. - add 'depth' too