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v0.0.9

snarktank/ralphv0.0.9Jun 26, 2026by paulpierre

AI Summary

Resolves six open issues and introduces community-requested features including URL filtering, configurable markdown headings, and proper dependencies for `uvx` support.

Key Highlights

  • Fixed `UnicodeEncodeError` on non-ASCII content by using UTF-8 encoding.
  • Bypass JavaScript checks by sending a browser-like User-Agent header.
  • Added `exclude_paths` parameter to URL filtering functions and CLI.
  • Added configurable `heading_style` for markdownify (ATX, UNDERLINE, etc.).
  • Comprehensive test suite added with 95% coverage.

Breaking Changes

  • Minimum Python version bumped to 3.8.
  • `pyproject.toml` now uses `[project.scripts]` instead of `[tool.poetry.scripts]`.

New Features

  • `exclude_paths` parameter for URL filtering.
  • Configurable `heading_style` for markdownify.
  • Proper `dependencies` in `pyproject.toml` for `uvx` support.
  • Dev dependencies (`pytest`, `pytest-cov`) for contributors.

Full Release Notes

## What's New

This release resolves **6 open issues** and introduces several community-requested features.

### Fixed
- **#7** — `UnicodeEncodeError` on non-ASCII content. All file writes now use `encoding='utf-8'`.
- **#8** — Bypass JavaScript checks. A browser-like `User-Agent` header is now sent on all `requests.get` calls.
- **#10** — `target_content` CSS selector handling. Null `href` links are now skipped in `get_target_links`.
- **#11** — `UnboundLocalError` in `get_target_content` when no tags are found. `main_content` is now initialized to `None` and checked before `str()` conversion.

### Added
- **#9** — `exclude_paths` parameter for URL filtering. Available in `crawl()`, `get_target_links()`, `worker()`, `md_crawl()`, and the CLI (`-x` / `--exclude-paths`).
- **#20** — Configurable `heading_style` for markdownify (`ATX`, `ATX_CLOSED`, `UNDERLINE`, `SETEXT`). CLI flag: `-s` / `--heading-style`.
- **#17** — Proper `dependencies` in `pyproject.toml` (`beautifulsoup4`, `markdownify`, `requests`) enabling `uvx` support out of the box.
- Comprehensive test suite — 60 tests with 95% coverage across `__init__.py` (96%) and `cli.py` (88%).
- `dev` optional dependencies (`pytest`, `pytest-cov`) for contributors.

### Changed
- Minimum Python version bumped to 3.8.
- `pyproject.toml` now uses `[project.scripts]` instead of `[tool.poetry.scripts]`.

**Full changelog:** https://github.com/paulpierre/markdown-crawler/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md