Essential updates

Release notes:

• Fixes a bug causing requests for latest data - i.e. with the latest_by argument defined - to fail.
• Updates metric names in documentations.
• Implements an exception where request structure is nested - a feature that has now been deprecated in APIv1.

New features and essential updates

Release notes:

• Adds .get_release_timestamp() static method to obtain the website timestamp (see the docs before use).
• Adds .as_dataframe() method to retrieve the data as a Pandas DataFrame object (see the docs before use).
• Adds comprehensive documentations.
• Development: Adds depandabot to ensure that all dependencies are kept up to date.
• Development: Adds new unit tests.
• Other minor improvements.

New features and essential updates

Release notes:

• Adds .get_release_timestamp() static method to obtain the website timestamp (see the docs before use).
• Adds .as_dataframe() method to retrieve the data as a Pandas DataFrame object (see the docs before use).
• Adds comprehensive documentations.
• Development: Adds depandabot to ensure that all dependencies are kept up to date.
• Development: Adds new unit tests.
• Other minor improvements.

General improvements

Release notes:

• Produces more informative errors for unsuccessful requests.
• Improves the README file.
• Development: Adds new unit tests.

Essential updates

Release notes:

• Fixes the issue with as_string option in .get_json() method not working as expected.
• Adds as_string option to the .get_xml() method.
• Removes excess dot from message for wrong file extensions.
• Development: Adds test suite and build CI - all pushes are now tested in Windows, OSX, and Ubuntu (in Py 3.7 and 3.8).

Minor update

Release notes:

• Implements a workaround for missing SSL certificates in some Python distributions, which causes a SSLCertVerificationError to be raised.
• Alters keywords in the setup file for improved search results.
• Adds LGTM badge for code quality to the README file.

Minor patch

Release notes

• Minor patch to remove an incorrect input argument in the XML tostring() function.

Minor updates

Release notes

• Verifies the structure for the .get_csv() method to ensure that it is flat - raises a ValueError if it is hierarchical.
• Improves documentations.

New features and improved README file

Release notes

• Adds an option to get JSON data as str
• Adds several examples to the README file