Thank You for 300 stars 49 Forks and 206 repos using wptools ❣️

[siznax]

Hello Friends,

I would like to humbly thank all of the people who have found this package. I am grateful for your patience, helpful suggestions, and bug finding skills!

I must give special thanks to Sean (@lisongx) whose early suggestions helped make the tool much more useful to more people. Hand on heart, Sean—thank you.

I have recently found myself with a bit more free time, so I should be able to publish a new version soon.

This weekend I was able to connect with nature a little. While watching some birds play, I realized how to solve the difficulties with installing pycurl while also remaining more performant than python-requests. We can do that by replacing pycurl with urllib3 for HTTP requests. That should be very straightforward, so I'm looking forward to implementing it.

Since the pandemic I haven't been able to connect with nature much. Listening to the birds and trees this weekend I realized how very important it is to reconnect regularly.

Thank you again, my friends!

Take care and stay well,

Steve Sisney
@siznax 😷

[lisongx]

Hey Steve,

Congratulation! Feel so happy to witness the project grow into this stage today. It saved me loads of time dealing with Wikipedia & Wikidata (I'm sure many of us would feel this way), so big thanks to you.

And thanks for your very kind word! It's definitely my pleasure to have contributed to this project even in a very small way. Really good to hear you have more free time to work on this.

(BTW are you still using the old email address, Steve? I really want to share more things around wikidata with you recently! )

Take care and enjoy nature!

Sean

[applieddesign]

Steve and/or Sean:

Stepping back into wptools for a new project after a few months (and upgrading to Big Sur on Mac). wptools is a really great lib thanks, but I have evidently now run into "the pycurl problem". Any ETA or estimate of difficulty re: fixing this on the Mac? Would be happy to offer compensation if that might change where the fix sits in your stack of priorities.

Cheers,
Tim

[siznax]

Thanks for your interest @applieddesign, and for your offer! Issue #147 is attached to release v0.5, which I just put on a finish date of Jan 31 2021. I'm in the process of moving, and should be settled by 15 Jan. The new release will offer urllib3 as an alternative to pycurl by default.

https://github.com/siznax/wptools/milestone/9

Happy New Year!