Changes in version 0.5.1.9000 Changes in version 0.5.1 (2026-05-02) - Fixed an issue where gutenberg_download() duplicated every line for works with multiple authors (@fditraglia, #148; @jrdnbradford, #149) Changes in version 0.5.0 (2026-03-15) - A new gutenberg_add_sections() function is available to create forward-filled section markers (@jrdnbradford, #138) - gutenberg_download() now adds a User-Agent string to identify itself to the Project Gutenberg mirror (@jrdnbradford, #139) - Documentation now includes two vignettes that detail advanced usage (@jrdnbradford, #142, #143, #144) Changes in version 0.4.1 (2026-01-19) - cli messaging has been improved (@jrdnbradford, #134) - gutenbergr now has a logo (@jrdnbradford, #133) - gutenberg_get_all_mirrors() now provides helpful instructional messaging instead of erroring if https://www.gutenberg.org/MIRRORS.ALL is not unavailable or cannot be parsed (@jrdnbradford, #132) - gutenberg_get_mirror() now falls back to a known stable mirror (https://aleph.pglaf.org) if there is no gutenberg_mirror option set and gutenberg_get_all_mirrors() cannot determine a mirror (@jrdnbradford, #132) - The package startup message now only appears if interactive() (@jrdnbradford, #128) Changes in version 0.4.0 (2026-01-12) - gutenbergr now caches works downloaded with gutenberg_download(). They are saved in a temporary directory by default, but they can be configured to persist in your OS-specific application cache directory across sessions (@jrdnbradford, #112, #123). - A new family of gutenberg_cache_* functions are now available. These allow users to list and delete items in their cache, as well as update their cache type (@jrdnbradford, #112, #123). - The package index reference in the pkgdown site now separates functions and data by type (@jrdnbradford, #114). - Jordan Bradford (@jrdnbradford) is now the primary maintainer of this package. Thanks for taking the lead, Jordan! (#95). Changes in version 0.3.1 (2025-12-14) - The language column in gutenberg_languages is now properly merged with the language column (#94). - The default mirror is now determined from the available mirrors in gutenberg_get_all_mirrors(), rather than trying to be clever and find a local mirror. - All datasets have been updated as of 2025-12-14. Changes in version 0.3.0 (2025-05-29) - gutenberg_download() tries the .txt version of files when the .zip is unavailable (@jrdnbradford, #55, #70). - New function gutenberg_get_all_mirrors() retrieves all mirror data (@jrdnbradford, #58). - The package infrastructure has been updated to make the package more robust and maintainable (#60, #64, #69). - We now verify that the gutenberg_mirror option is a URL to a working Gutenberg mirror (@jrdnbradford, #83). - We now use the base R pipe (|>) in code and examples, not the magrittr pipe (%>%) (@jonthegeek, #75). - Some fields (gutenberg_languages$language, gutenberg_metadata$language, and gutenberg_metadata$rights) are now factors to reduce object size. Changes in version 0.2.4 (2023-11-12) - Update data scraping process to use R end-to-end (@jonthegeek, #36). Changes in version 0.2.3 (2022-12-14) - minor patches for broken urls to comply with CRAN checks. Changes in version 0.2.2 - Updated metadata (#32, #29) - minor bug fixes and improvements, including removing broken url and updating documentation to comply with CRAN roxygen2 requirements (#30, #31, #35, #28). - Changed maintainer (#30). Changes in version 0.2.0 (2020-09-22) - Changed to comply with CRAN policies for API packages. Tests that do connect to Project Gutenberg are skipped on CRAN, and are supplemented with tests that mock the connection. - Added gutenberg_languages dataset with one-row-per-language-per-work, which substantially speeds up gutenberg_works. - This adds a files argument to gutenberg_download that is generally used only for testing. - Made changes to work with dplyr 1.0.0, removing filter_ and distinct_. - Fixed links to https Changes in version 0.1.5 (2019-09-10) - Make compatible with tidyr v1.0.0 - data_frame is deprecated, use tibble (thanks @evanodell for #21) - rOpenSci updates to README (thanks @maelle for #23) Changes in version 0.1.4 (2018-01-26) - Added curl to SUGGESTS, since if it's not installed readr::read_lines could fail Changes in version 0.1.3 (2017-06-19) - The Project Gutenberg mirror in Maryland Public Libraries (http://www.gutenberg.lib.md.us) has been broken for months. When it is provided from robot/harvest, replaces with http://aleph.gutenberg.org. - Changed test of .zip capability not to run on CRAN - Removed rvest dependency Changes in version 0.1.2 (2016-06-24) - Made compatible with change to distinct in dplyr 0.5 (which is about to be submitted to CRAN) - Removed xml2 dependency Changes in version 0.1.1 (2016-05-16) - Transferred repo ownership to ropenscilabs - The license was changed from MIT to GPL-2. This is based on the realization that the catalog data is licensed under the GPL, and the package includes a processed version of the catalog data. (See here). - Updated datasets to 5/5/2016 and added a "date_updated" attribute to tell when they were last updated - Added all_languages and only_languages arguments to gutenberg_works, allowing fine-grained control of languages. (For example, "either English or French" or "both English and French") - Changed get_gutenberg_mirror to use xml2 directly, in order to handle AppVeyor - Removed use of data() in gutenberg_works, since it slows down gutenberg_works about 2X - Various documentation, vignette, and README adjustments in response to rOpenSci feedback. - Added AppVeyor for Windows continuous integration - Added code coverage information through codecov.io and covr, along with tests to improve coverage Changes in version 0.1 (2016-05-03) - First version of package, including - gutenberg_download function, for downloading one or more works from Project Gutenberg using Gutenberg IDs - Datasets of Project Gutenberg metadata: gutenberg_metadata, gutenberg_subjects, gutenberg_authors - gutenberg_works function to retrieve filtered version of gutenberg_metadata - Introductory vignette including basic examples of downloading books - Unit tests for gutenberg_download and gutenberg_works - Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.