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kenneth_reitz

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About kenneth_reitz

Python Overlord for @heroku. Creator of Python-Requests. Photographer. Archivist. Curator of The GitHub Reflog™. Knows where his towel is.

http://github.com/kennethreitz

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    Thanks for the feedback, integrated w3lib!

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    Comment #16465407

    tag is now implemented as well. Thanks for bringing that to my attention — I wasn't aware of it!

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    Comment #16465337

    I addressed most of your issues, like not using urlparse in the latest release. With libraries like these, it's all about getting the API right first, them optimizing for perfectio…

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    GPL dependency removed. All of these improvements I'd like to be made to the software. It's all about getting a nice API in place first, then making it perfect second.

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    Comment #16460718

    I consider it a nice-to-have, but we can definitely remove it if deemed unnecessary. Want to open an issue about it?

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    Comment #16460593

    updated :)

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    Comment #16460510

    Looks like there's still some room for improvement though!

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    Comment #16460506

    That bug has been fixed, but the docs hadn't been. Fixed now :)

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    It wasn't at first, actually. It was originally a wrapper around urllib2 — Andrey and I collabed early on in both project's histories to make them what they are today.

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    Very different use cases, imo. MechanicalSoup emulates a web browser experience. This is more for scraping.

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    Aaron Swartz

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    My thoughts exactly :)

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    See also: pipenv :) http://docs.pipenv.org/en/latest/ Very different tools, but they cover the same surface area, in spots.

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    I'm bipolar!

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    I wrote it by hand with tufte-css :) I love Swagger.yaml, and considered it for this project, but it's small enough to do by hand... For example, all the queries on the homepage ar…

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    Comment #15106610

    I made this this week: https://coinbin.org/ In a similar vein.

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    Comment #15096645

    The data was stale, it turns out, for some coins — issue fixed now.

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    I like this idea! Want to add a PR?