v4.0:

Breaking changes

• Drop Python 3.5 support. Python 3.6 is now the minimum required version.

Non-breaking changes

• Add new include_shares kwarg to get_activities, implemented for Twitter and Mastodon. Defaults to True. If False, shares (retweets in Twitter, boosts in Mastodon) will be discarded and not returned. Also add a corresponding shares query param to the REST API.
• RSS:
  • Add support for RSS input via new rss.to_activities function.
• Instagram (scraping):
  • Handle media items with no user object, add new fetch for comments.
  • Add Instagram.merge_scraped_comments().
• ActivityStreams 2:
  • Handle error when type isn't a string.
• Reddit:
  • Implement get_activities() to fetch posts by the current user or a user specified with user_id.
• Facebook scraping:
  • Skip "Suggested for you" posts.
  • Add log_html kwarg to get_activities; defaults to False.
  • Miscellaneous bug fixes.
• JSONFeed:
  • Handle malformed items.author element.