Changelog

Documentation mirrors the library changelog. Full details: news-fetch CHANGELOG.

[1.0.0]

Added

• Production-stable independent extraction engine.
• Evidence → rank → confidence (article.confidence, article.extraction).
• Page-type detection (page_type, is_article).
• Strict / threshold gates (strict=True, LowConfidenceExtractionError).
• Public API: fetch, extract, fetch_many, fetch_iter, discover, async variants, NewsFetcher.
• CLI: news-fetch, batch (JSONL), discover.
• Proxy / proxy pools, rotation, request_delay, 429 Retry-After.
• Strategy plugins (register_strategy).
• Optional [async] (httpx) and [browser] (Playwright).
• Disk cache (cache=True) and respect_robots=True.
• Fixture tests and benchmark harness.

Changed

• Breaking vs 0.4.x: core no longer depends on newspaper4k / BeautifulSoup / Unidecode.
• Preferred API is from newsfetch import fetch (not Newspaper).
• Classifier: Production/Stable.

Deprecated

• newsfetch.news.Newspaper — shim retained for one cycle.

[0.6.0] / [0.5.x]

Internal pre-1.0 milestones introducing the independent engine, confidence model, and bulk/proxy support. Folded into the 1.0.0 public release.

[0.4.1]

Last release of the newspaper4k-wrapper era (JSON-LD @graph fixes, meta description, discovery limits, typing). See GitHub history for details.

[0.4.0] and earlier

See GitHub commits.