Release v3.0.0 · KTS-o7/better_bing_image_downloader

What's New in v3.0.0

bbid CLI command — installed automatically, no more python -m ...
Resume support — re-running skips existing files and downloads only what's missing
Download manifest — _manifest.json written per run mapping filenames to source URLs
MD5 image deduplication — same image from different URLs saved only once
bbid --version flag

Removed input() and sys.exit() from library API (were blocking programmatic use in scripts, CI, Jupyter)
Fixed broken relative imports in multidownloader.py (was crashing on installed package)
Fixed urllib.request.urlopen missing timeout parameter (could hang indefinitely)
Fixed thread-safe download_count increment with threading.Lock
Fixed mutable default argument badsites=[] (shared state across calls)
Removed global socket.setdefaulttimeout() side-effect from helperdownload
Atomic file writes in helperdownload (write to temp → move on success, no orphaned files)
Exponential backoff on download retries
Updated stale Google Images Selenium selectors
Fixed resolve_dependencies(driver=str) broken default
Lazy-load chromedriver_autoinstaller (only imported when Chrome driver is needed)

filter parameter renamed to image_filter in downloader() — old filter= still works with a DeprecationWarning

Migrated to pyproject.toml with proper install_requires and python_requires=">=3.8"
Selenium dependencies moved to optional [google] extra — pip install better-bing-image-downloader is now lightweight
Full test suite: 41 tests (was 0 working tests before)

pip install better-bing-image-downloader
# For Google/Selenium support:
pip install "better-bing-image-downloader[google]"