pygbif v0.6.6

• updated matching in occurrences.name_backbone to api v2 #176
• added checklistKey support to occurrences.search #178
• added support for collection.search and institution.search

pygbif v0.6.5

• added support for occurrences.download_citation #158
• added support for occurrences.download_sql #157
• added support for occurrences.download_describe #142
• added support for literature.search #149

pygbif v0.6.4

• fixed a bug in building the documentation with readthedocs #138 , #129
• tests now run against live GBIF APIs #101 , #128
• updated caching.py since the remove_expired_responses method is deprecated #126 , #127

pygbif v0.6.3

• added support for predicates: isNull, isNotNull, in and not (#92)
• added support for nested queries/dictionaries (#104)
• deprecated the add_predicate function and added add_pred_dict to accomodate for newly supported predicates to ensure that the arguments that are sent are added in the payload function (#108)
• added support for multiple download formats (#105)
• updated operators and look-up tables (#107)
• included documentation on newly supported predicates and dictionaries (#106)

pygbif v0.6.2

• update to fix requesting GBIF downloads (gbif/portal-feedback#4526)
• minor documentation updates (#95, #99)

pygbif v0.6.1

• update to fix broken dependencies (#93)
• minor documentation updates

pygbif v0.6.0

• Fixe for occurrences.download when giving geometry as a string rather than using add_geometry; predicates were being split on whitespace, which doesn't work for WKT (#81) (#84)
• Moved to using the logging module instead of print() for giving information on occurrence download methods (#78)
• Clarify that occurrences.count for length 1 inputs only; see occurrences.search for > 1 value (#75) (#77)
• Improved documentation for species.name_usage method, mostly for the language parameter (#68)
• Gains download method download_cancel for cancelling/deleting a download request (#59)

pygbif v0.5.0

• occurrences.search now supports recordedByID and identifiedByID search parameters (#62)
• clean up the Contributing file, thanks @niconoe (#64)
• clean up internal imports in the library, thanks @niconoe (#65)
• fix usage of is and ==, was using them inappropriately sometimes (via https://realpython.com/python-is-identity-vs-equality/), (#69)
• remove redundant parameter in a doc string, thanks @faroit (#71)
• make a test for internal fxn gbif_GET_write more general to avoid errors if GBIF changes content type response header slightly (#72)

pygbif v0.4.0

• changed base url to https for all requests; was already https for maps and downloads in previous versions
• occurrences, species, and registry modules gain docstrings with brief summary of each method
• pygbif gains ability to cache http requests. caching is off by default. See ?pygbif.caching for all the details (#52) (#56) via @nleguillarme
• made note in docs that if you are trying to get the same behavior as the GBIF website for name searching, species.name_backbone is likely what you want (#55) thanks @qgroom
• for parameters that expect a bool, convert them to lowercase strings internally before doing HTTP requests

pygbif v0.3.0

0.3.0 (2019-01-25)

• pygbif is Python 3 only now (#19)
• Gains maps module with maps.map method for working with the GBIF maps API (#41) (#49)
• Gains new module utils with one method wkt_rewind (#46) thanks @aubreymoore for the inspiration
• Fixed bug in registry.installations: typo in one of the parameters identifierTyp instead of identifierType (#48) thanks @data-biodiversity-aq
• Link to GitHub issues from Changelog 🎉
• Fix a occurrence download test (#47)
• Much more thorough docs (#25)