Release 2023.07.27

Add --timeout CLI option to change or turn off httpx request timeouts. See issue #5.

Release 2022.11.24

A major release with new features and significant changes.

New Features

• All Wikidata items returned in query results will be downloaded if --items is set, regardless of their variable name.
• Set the language for individual items using the --language option and a Wikimedia language code

Backwards Incompatible Changes

• By default the query result will be downloaded as a single CSV file.
• To download individual Wikidata items, you need to set the --items flag.
• Items will be stored in a language directory, en by default.
• The CLI option --cache-lifetime was renamed to --cache-time, -t can be used as a short form.
• Command output is printed to the console and not saved in a log file.
• Requires Python 3.9 or higher.
• Modules and functions were renamed or removed.

Release 2022.03.04

• Add ValueError exception when trying to fetch wikidata.

Release 2021.02.05

• Handle LookupError when calling get_wikidata.

Release 2019.20.11

• Print number of results returned by query before download starts.
• Add --dry-run option to only print number of results.

Release 2019.10.04

First release of wikidata-dl.