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dateparser

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Date parsing library designed to parse dates from HTML pages

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03 Sep 2026
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37 releases · first in 2014

Release timeline

37 releases since 2014

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Releases

1.4.33 Sept 20263 sources agree
Make parsing thread-safe: parsing from several threads no longer raises an intermittent KeyError from the shared language caches, and a DATE_ORDER or
Fixes:

Make parsing thread-safe: parsing from several threads no longer
raises an intermittent KeyError from the shared language caches,
and a DATE_ORDER or RELATIVE_BASE value meant for one parse no
longer leaks into the settings that other parses read, where it could
make them return a wrong date (#1346)

Do not share the language detector and the detected locale between
search_dates() calls, so concurrent searches over text in
different languages no longer return None or a date read in the
wrong locale (#1371)

Resolve the BST and HDT timezone abbreviations to the offsets
the tz database gives them, UTC+1 (British Summer Time) and UTC-9
(Hawaii-Aleutian Daylight Time), instead of +11 and -9:30, which no
zone goes by those names today; abbreviations that the tz database
maps to more than one offset, such as CST and IST, keep their
current offset. Text carrying these abbreviations keeps its wall clock
but moves by 10 hours for BST and 30 minutes for HDT, which can
put the parsed instant on a different day (#1366)

Reject a %j (day of year) value that the parsed year does not
have, instead of rolling it over into the next year, so "1999366" with
date_formats=["%Y%j"] returns None rather than 2000-01-01. A
format with no year directive is checked against the year strptime
defaults to, 1900, which is not a leap year, so "366" with
date_formats=["%j"] now returns None where it used to return
January 1 (#1370)

Cleanups and internal improvements:

Add CodSpeed benchmarks and a workflow that runs them, so a
performance regression such as the quadratic backtracking fixed in
1.4.1 is reported on the pull request that introduces it (#1365)

One column per quarter.

1.4.24 Aug 20263 sources agree

Add an IGNORE_SURROUNDING_TEXT setting that, when enabled, retries parsing after ignoring leading and trailing words the language does not recognize,

New features

Add an IGNORE_SURROUNDING_TEXT setting that, when enabled, retries parsing after ignoring leading and trailing words the language does not recognize, so a date wrapped in extra text such as "Published on 16/04/2019" is parsed (#1356)
Add a strategy argument to search_dates() to choose the search strategy: the default "split" keeps the current behavior, while the new "ngram" strategy parses the longest sequences of tokens as dates for more predictable results on noisy text (#1351)

Fixes

Do not read a two-digit number as a year once a later component has been found in year-first date orders, so the day in Japanese dates such as "4月20日" is no longer consumed as the year (#1358)
Parse ISO 8601 dates (those starting with a four-digit year) in month-day order even when an explicit day-first language such as it or fr is given, without needing to set PREFER_LOCALE_DATE_ORDER to False (#1352)
Honor PREFER_DATES_FROM and RELATIVE_BASE when parsing with custom date_formats that use a two-digit year (%y) (#1342)
Honor the %j (day of year) directive in date_formats instead of overwriting the parsed month and day with the current date (#1345)

Improvements

Update the bundled CLDR locale data to 44.1.0, adding many newly recognized date forms across locales and a standalone hour/duration unit (e.g. Catalan "2 hores"), while keeping previously supported forms parseable (#1343)
Add the Italian expressions "un ora fa" and "un'ora fa", and skip "alle" so phrases like "oggi alle 11:00" parse (#1049)
Expand Czech date translations with month locative/dative forms (e.g. "v lednu 2023"), the July abbreviation "črv", and relative expressions such as "za týden", "za měsíc" and "za rok" (#1172)
Specify the README header content as RST rather than raw HTML (#1360)

Open source →

1.4.115 Jun 20263 sources agree

Remove fastText language detection support: the fasttext extra is dropped and detect_languages() now raises ImportError. Migrate to the langdetect ext

Breaking changes:

Remove fastText language detection support: the fasttext extra is dropped and detect_languages() now raises ImportError. Migrate to the langdetect extra, which also unblocks numpy 2.x compatibility (#1315)

Security fixes:

Make digit quantifiers possessive in the relative-date regexes to prevent quadratic backtracking (ReDoS) on long digit runs (#1335)

New features:

Add the USE_GIVEN_LANGUAGE_ORDER setting to try languages and locales in the order given rather than by frequency (#789)

Fixes:

Preserve explicit signs on individual components when parsing relative dates that combine decades with years, such as "-1 decade +2 years" (#1330)
Fall back to other provided languages in search_dates when the detected language yields no dates (#1331)
Parse relative date expressions with spaces between the sign and number, such as "now - 2 hours" and "now + 1 day" (#1327)
Use the parser-relative now for the current month when filling in incomplete dates so the month and day stay consistent (#1332)
Fix Norwegian Bokmål (nb) parsing of relative date expressions such as "3 måneder siden" and "om 2 måneder" (#1334)
Parse abbreviated English month expressions such as "1mon ago" and "3mons ago" (#1329)
Preserve surrounding whitespace when removing skip tokens during translation to avoid spurious double spaces (#1324)

Improvements:

Move project metadata and build configuration to pyproject.toml (#1311)
Add alternative Korean date expressions for today, yesterday, tomorrow, and "N months ago/later" (#1289)
Expand Czech date translations with additional inflections, word numbers, decade and century expressions, and clock phrases like "čtvrt na tři" (#1325)
Replace internal OrderedDict usage with the built-in dict (#1328)

Open source →

1.4.026 Mar 20263 sources agree

Remove import-time loading of timezone offset data from pickle to prevent unsafe deserialization from packaged data

Security fixes:

Remove import-time loading of timezone offset data from pickle to prevent unsafe deserialization from packaged data
Replace eval() use when parsing no_word_spacing with strict boolean parsing to prevent code execution from locale metadata (#1056)

New features:

Add support for expressions like "N {interval} from now" in English (#1271)
Add support for the en-US locale (#1222)

Fixes:

Honor REQUIRE_PARTS for ambiguous month-number inputs by retrying with a year-biased DATE_ORDER (#1298)
Fix parsing word-number relative phrases such as "two days later" (#1316)
Allow md5hash to work in FIPS environments (#1267)

Improvements:

Add Bosnian Cyrillic (ijekavica) date translations (#1293)
Add a new browser-based demo to the project documentation (#1306)
Update installation documentation to replace setup.py install guidance (#1310)
Add a project security policy (#1318)

Open source →

1.3.04 Feb 20263 sources agree

search_dates() can now detect time spans from expressions like “past month”, “last week”, etc. For details, see the “Time Span Detection” section and

Dropped Python 3.9 support. (#1296)

New features:

search_dates() can now detect time spans from expressions like “past month”, “last week”, etc. For details, see the “Time Span Detection” section and the RETURN_TIME_SPAN, DEFAULT_START_OF_WEEK and DEFAULT_DAYS_IN_MONTH settings in the documentation. (#1284)

Fixes:

Assume the current year if not specified (#1288)
Support expressions like “yesterday +1h” (#1303)
English: Support most 2-letter day-of-the-week names (#1214)
English: Support “in N weeks' time” (#1283)
Finnish: Support dates with “klo” (#1301)
Russian: Support compound ordinals (#1280)

Cleanups and internal improvements:

Fixed year expectation issues in tests. (#1294)

Open source →

1.2.226 Jun 20253 sources agree

Handle the Russian preposition “с”

Fixes:

Handle the Russian preposition “с” (#1261)
Fix weekday search (#1274)

Improvements:

Add Python 3.14 support (#1273)
Cache timezone offsets to improve import time (#1250)

Open source →

1.2.15 Feb 20253 sources agree

Fix date_parser with prefer_month_of_year wrong results

1.2.1

Fixes:

Fix PytzUsageWarning (#1109)
Fix date_parser with prefer_month_of_year wrong results (#1224)
Fix skipped day when UTC and tz are different days (#1183)

Improvements:

Avoid repeated loop over timezones (#1238)
Proofread README.rst (#1234)
Check for derived types for configuration (#1223)
Parse some abbreviated strings as relative dates (#1219)
Migrate from hijri-converter to hijridate (#1211)
Fixed ClusterFuzz build error by adding dateparser.data as a binary (#1208)
Fix an issue detected by OSSFuzz (#1203)
Support two-digit years in non-Gregorian calendars (#1187)
Refactored CI to run extras separately and test minimum versions of dependencies, replaced flake8 with ruff, fixed tests (#1248)
Set minimum versions for dependencies (#1248)
Limited numpy to 1.x when installing dateparser[fasttext] (#1248)

Open source →

1.2.017 Nov 2023Deprecated3 sources agree

Removed the use of datetime.utcnow, deprecated on Python 3.12

New features:

New PREFER_MONTH_OF_YEAR setting (#1146)

Fixes:

Absolute years in Russian are no longer being treated as a number of years in the past (#1129)

Cleanups and internal improvements:

Removed the use of datetime.utcnow, deprecated on Python 3.12 (#1179)
Applied Black formatting to the code base (#1158)
Initial integration with OSSFuzz (#1198)
Extended test cases (#1191)

Open source →

1.1.823 Mar 20233 sources agree

Improved date parsing for Chinese

Improvements:

Improved date parsing for Chinese (#1148)
Improved date parsing for Czech (#1151)
Reorder language by popularity (#1152)
Fix leak of memory in cache (#1140)
Add support for "\d units later" (#1154)
Move modification in CLDR data to yaml (#1153)
Add support to use timezone via settings to get PREFER_DATES_FROM result (#1155)

Open source →

1.1.72 Feb 20233 sources agree

Add an “ago” synonym for Arabic

Improvements:

Add an “ago” synonym for Arabic (#1128)
Improved date parsing for Czech (#1131)
Improved date parsing for Indonesian (#1134)

Open source →

1.1.612 Jan 20233 sources agree

Fix the bug where Monday is parsed as a month

Improvements:

Fix the bug where Monday is parsed as a month (#1121)
Prevent ReDoS in Spanish sentence splitting regex (#1084)

Open source →

1.1.529 Dec 20223 sources agree

Parse short versions of day, month, and year

Improvements:

Parse short versions of day, month, and year (#1103)
Add a test for “in 1d” (#1104)
Update languages_info (#1107)
Add a workaround for zipimporter not having exec_module before Python 3.10 (#1069)
Stabilize tests at midnight (#1111)
Add a test case for French (#1110)

Cleanups:

Remove the requirements-build file (#1113)

Open source →

1.1.421 Nov 20223 sources agree

Improved support for languages such as Slovak, Indonesian, Hindi, German, and Japanese (#1064, #1094, #986, #1071, #1068)

Improvements:

Improved support for languages such as Slovak, Indonesian, Hindi, German, and Japanese (#1064, #1094, #986, #1071, #1068)
Recursively create a model home (#996)
Replace regex sub with simple string replace (#1095)
Add Python 3.10, 3.11 support (#1096)
Drop support for Python 3.5, 3.6 versions (#1097)

Open source →

1.1.33 Nov 20223 sources agree

Add support for fractional units

New features:

Add support for fractional units (#876)

Improvements:

Fix the returned datetime skipping a day with time+timezone input and PREFER_DATES_FROM = 'future' (#1002)
Fix input translation breaking keep_formatting (#720)
English: support "till date" (#1005)
English: support “after” and “before” in relative dates (#1008)

Cleanups:

Reorganize internal data (#1090)
CI updates (#1088)

Open source →

1.1.220 Oct 20223 sources agree

Added support for negative timestamp

Improvements:

Added support for negative timestamp (#1060)
Fixed PytzUsageWarning for Python versions >= 3.6 (#1062)
Added support for dates with dots and spaces (#1028)
Improved support for Ukrainian, Croatian and Russian (#1072, #1074, #1079, #1082, #1073, #1083)
Added support for parsing Unix timestamps consistently regardless of timezones (#954)
Improved tests (#1086)

Open source →

1.1.117 Mar 2022

Fixed issue with regex library by pinning dependencies to an earlier version (< 2022.3.15, https://github.com/scrapinghub/dateparser/pull/1046).

Improvements:

Fixed issue with regex library by pinning dependencies to an earlier version (< 2022.3.15, https://github.com/scrapinghub/dateparser/pull/1046).
Extended support for Russian language dates starting with lowercase (https://github.com/scrapinghub/dateparser/pull/999).
Allowed to use_given_order for languages too (https://github.com/scrapinghub/dateparser/pull/997).
Fixed link to settings section (https://github.com/scrapinghub/dateparser/pull/1018).
Defined UTF-8 encoding for Windows (https://github.com/scrapinghub/dateparser/pull/998).
Fixed directories creation error in CLI utils (https://github.com/scrapinghub/dateparser/pull/1022).

Open source →

Additional notes2 sources agree

Improvements:

Fixed issue with regex library by pinning dependencies to an earlier version (< 2022.3.15, #1046).
Extended support for Russian language dates starting with lowercase (#999).
Allowed to use_given_order for languages too (#997).
Fixed link to settings section (#1018).
Defined UTF-8 encoding for Windows (#998).
Fixed directories creation error in CLI utils (#1022).

Open source →

1.1.04 Oct 20213 sources agree

Support language detection based on langdetect, fastText, or a custom implementation (see #932)

New features:

Support language detection based on langdetect, fastText, or a custom implementation (see #932)
Add support for 'by <time>' (see #839)
Sort default language list by internet usage (see #805)

Improvements:

Improved support of Chinese (#910), Czech (#977)
Improvements in search_dates (see #953)
Make order of previous locales deterministic (see #851)
Fix parsing with trailing space (see #841)
Consider RETURN_TIME_AS_PERIOD for timestamp times (see #922)
Exclude failing regex version (see #974)
Ongoing work multithreading support (see #881, #885)
Add demo URL (see #883)

QA:

Migrate pipelines from Travis CI to Github Actions (see #859, #879, #884, #886, #911, #966)
Use versioned CLDR data (see #825)
Add a script to update table of supported languages and locales (see #601)
Sort 'skip' keys in yaml files (see #844)
Improve test coverage (see #827)
Code cleanup (see #888, #907, #951, #958, #957)

Open source →

1.0.029 Oct 2020Deprecated3 sources agree

Changes in dateparser.utils: normalize_unicode() doesn't accept bytes as input and convert_to_unicode has been deprecated (see #749)

Breaking changes:

Drop support for Python 2.7 and pypy (see #727, #744, #748, #749, #754, #755, #758, #761, #763, #764, #777 and #783)
Now DateDataParser.get_date_data() returns a DateData object instead of a dict (see #778).
From now wrong settings are not silenced and raise SettingValidationError (see #797)
Now dateparser.parse() is deterministic and doesn't try previous locales. Also, DateDataParser.get_date_data() doesn't try the previous locales by default (see #781)
Remove the 'base-formats' parser (see #721)
Extract the 'no-spaces-time' parser from the 'absolute-time' parser and make it an optional parser (see #786)
Remove numeral_translation_data (see #782)
Remove the undocumented SKIP_TOKENS_PARSER and FUZZY settings (see #728, #794)
Remove support for using strings in date_formats (see #726)
The undocumented ExactLanguageSearch class has been moved to the private scope and some internal methods have changed (see #778)
Changes in dateparser.utils: normalize_unicode() doesn't accept bytes as input and convert_to_unicode has been deprecated (see #749)

New features:

Add Python 3.9 support (see #732, #823)
Detect hours separated with a period/dot (see #741)
Add support for "decade" (see #762)
Add support for the hijri calendar in Python ≥ 3.6 (see #718)

Improvements:

New logo! (see #719)
Improve the README and docs (see #779, #722)
Fix the "calendars" extra (see #740)
Fix leap years when PREFER_DATES_FROM is set (see #738)
Fix STRICT_PARSING setting in no-spaces-time parser (see #715)
Consider RETURN_AS_TIME_PERIOD setting for relative-time parser (see #807)
Parse the 24hr time format with meridian info (see #634)
Other small improvements (see #698, #709, #710, #712, #730, #731, #735, #739, #784, #788, #795 and #801)

Open source →

0.7.612 Jun 20203 sources agree

Rename scripts to dateparser_scripts to avoid name collisions with modules from other packages or projects (see https://github.com/scrapinghub/datepar

Improvements:

Rename scripts to dateparser_scripts to avoid name collisions with modules from other packages or projects (see https://github.com/scrapinghub/dateparser/pull/707)

Open source →

0.7.510 Jun 2020

Add Python 3.8 support (see https://github.com/scrapinghub/dateparser/pull/664)

New features:

Add Python 3.8 support (see https://github.com/scrapinghub/dateparser/pull/664)
Implement a REQUIRE_PARTS setting (see https://github.com/scrapinghub/dateparser/pull/703)
Add support for subscript and superscript numbers (see https://github.com/scrapinghub/dateparser/pull/684)
Extended French support (see https://github.com/scrapinghub/dateparser/pull/672)
Extended German support (see https://github.com/scrapinghub/dateparser/pull/673)

Improvements:

Migrate test suite to Pytest (see https://github.com/scrapinghub/dateparser/pull/662)
Add test to check the yaml and json files content (see https://github.com/scrapinghub/dateparser/pull/663 and https://github.com/scrapinghub/dateparser/pull/692)
Add flake8 pipeline with pytest-flake8 (see https://github.com/scrapinghub/dateparser/pull/665)
Add partial support for 8-digit dates without separators (see https://github.com/scrapinghub/dateparser/pull/639)
Fix possible OverflowError errors and explicitly avoid to raise ValueError when parsing relative dates (see https://github.com/scrapinghub/dateparser/pull/686)
Fix double-digit GMT and UTC parsing (see https://github.com/scrapinghub/dateparser/pull/632)
Fix bug when using DATE_ORDER (see https://github.com/scrapinghub/dateparser/pull/628)
Fix bug when parsing relative time with timezone (see https://github.com/scrapinghub/dateparser/pull/503)
Fix milliseconds parsing (see https://github.com/scrapinghub/dateparser/pull/572 and https://github.com/scrapinghub/dateparser/pull/661)
Fix wrong values to be interpreted as 'future' in PREFER_DATES_FROM (see https://github.com/scrapinghub/dateparser/pull/629)
Other small improvements (see https://github.com/scrapinghub/dateparser/pull/667, https://github.com/scrapinghub/dateparser/pull/675, https://github.com/scrapinghub/dateparser/pull/511, https://github.com/scrapinghub/dateparser/pull/626, https://github.com/scrapinghub/dateparser/pull/512, https://github.com/scrapinghub/dateparser/pull/509, https://github.com/scrapinghub/dateparser/pull/696, https://github.com/scrapinghub/dateparser/pull/702 and https://github.com/scrapinghub/dateparser/pull/699)

Open source →

Additional notes2 sources agree

New features:

Add Python 3.8 support (see #664)
Implement a REQUIRE_PARTS setting (see #703)
Add support for subscript and superscript numbers (see #684)
Extended French support (see #672)
Extended German support (see #673)

Improvements:

Migrate test suite to Pytest (see #662)
Add test to check the yaml and json files content (see #663 and #692)
Add flake8 pipeline with pytest-flake8 (see #665)
Add partial support for 8-digit dates without separators (see #639)
Fix possible OverflowError errors and explicitly avoid to raise ValueError when parsing relative dates (see #686)
Fix double-digit GMT and UTC parsing (see #632)
Fix bug when using DATE_ORDER (see #628)
Fix bug when parsing relative time with timezone (see #503)
Fix milliseconds parsing (see #572 and #661)
Fix wrong values to be interpreted as 'future' in PREFER_DATES_FROM (see #629)
Other small improvements (see #667, #675, #511, #626, #512, #509, #696, #702 and #699)

Open source →

0.7.46 Mar 2020Deprecated

Resolve DeprecationWarning related to raw string escape sequences (see https://github.com/scrapinghub/dateparser/pull/596)

New features

Extended Norwegian support (see https://github.com/scrapinghub/dateparser/pull/598)
Implement a PARSERS setting (see https://github.com/scrapinghub/dateparser/pull/603)

Improvements

Add support for PREFER_DATES_FROM in relative/freshness parser (see https://github.com/scrapinghub/dateparser/pull/414)
Add support for PREFER_DAY_OF_MONTH in base-formats parser (see https://github.com/scrapinghub/dateparser/pull/611)
Added UTC -00:00 as a valid offset (see https://github.com/scrapinghub/dateparser/pull/574)
Fix support for “one” (see https://github.com/scrapinghub/dateparser/pull/593)
Fix TypeError when parsing some invalid dates (see https://github.com/scrapinghub/dateparser/pull/536)
Fix tokenizer for non recognized characters (see https://github.com/scrapinghub/dateparser/pull/622)
Prevent installing regex 2019.02.19 (see https://github.com/scrapinghub/dateparser/pull/600)
Resolve DeprecationWarning related to raw string escape sequences (see https://github.com/scrapinghub/dateparser/pull/596)
Implement a tox environment to build the documentation (see https://github.com/scrapinghub/dateparser/pull/604)
Improve tests stability (see https://github.com/scrapinghub/dateparser/pull/591, https://github.com/scrapinghub/dateparser/pull/605)
Documentation improvements (see https://github.com/scrapinghub/dateparser/pull/510, https://github.com/scrapinghub/dateparser/pull/578, https://github.com/scrapinghub/dateparser/pull/619, https://github.com/scrapinghub/dateparser/pull/614, https://github.com/scrapinghub/dateparser/pull/620)
Performance improvements (see https://github.com/scrapinghub/dateparser/pull/570, https://github.com/scrapinghub/dateparser/pull/569, https://github.com/scrapinghub/dateparser/pull/625)

Open source →

Additional notes2 sources agree

New features:

Extended Norwegian support (see #598)
Implement a PARSERS setting (see #603)

Improvements:

Add support for PREFER_DATES_FROM in relative/freshness parser (see #414)
Add support for PREFER_DAY_OF_MONTH in base-formats parser (see #611)
Added UTC -00:00 as a valid offset (see #574)
Fix support for “one” (see #593)
Fix TypeError when parsing some invalid dates (see #536)
Fix tokenizer for non recognized characters (see #622)
Prevent installing regex 2019.02.19 (see #600)
Resolve DeprecationWarning related to raw string escape sequences (see #596)
Implement a tox environment to build the documentation (see #604)
Improve tests stability (see #591, #605)
Documentation improvements (see #510, #578, #619, #614, #620)
Performance improvements (see #570, #569, #625)

Open source →

0.7.217 Sept 20193 sources agree

Added timezone information to dates found with search_dates()

Features:

Extended Czech support
Added time to valid periods
Added timezone information to dates found with search_dates()
Support strings as date formats

Improvements:

Fixed Collections ABCs depreciation warning
Fixed dates with trailing colons not being parsed
Fixed date format override on any settings change
Fixed parsing current weekday as past date, regardless of settings
Added UTC -2:30 as a valid offset
Added Python 3.7 to supported versions, dropped support for Python 3.3 and 3.4
Moved to importlib from imp where possible
Improved support for Catalan
Documentation improvements

Open source →

0.7.112 Feb 20193 sources agree

Added detected language to return value of search_dates()

Features/news:

Added detected language to return value of search_dates()
Performance improvements
Refreshed versions of dependencies

Improvements:

Fixed unpickleable DateTime objects with timezones
Fixed regex pattern to avoid new behaviour of re.split() in Python 3.7
Fixed an exception thrown when parsing colons
Fixed tests failing on days with number greater than 30
Fixed ZeroDivisionError exceptions

Open source →

0.7.08 Feb 20183 sources agree

Features added during Google Summer of Code 2017:

Harvesting language data from Unicode CLDR database (https://github.com/unicode-cldr/cldr-json), which includes over 200 locales (#321) - authored by Sarthak Maddan. See full currently supported locale list in README.
Extracting dates from longer strings of text (#324) - authored by Elena Zakharova. Special thanks for their awesome contributions!

New features:

Added (independently from CLDR) Georgian (#308) and Swedish (#305)

Improvements:

Improved support of Chinese (#359), Thai (#345), French (#301, #304), Russian (#302)
Removed ruamel.yaml from dependencies (#374). This should reduce the number of installation issues and improve performance as the result of moving away from YAML as basic data storage format. Note that YAML is still used as format for support language files.
Improved performance through using pre-compiling frequent regexes and lazy loading of data (#293, #294, #295, #315)
Extended tests (#316, #317, #318, #323)
Updated nose_parameterized to its current package, parameterized (#381)

Planned for next release:

Full language and locale names
Performance and stability improvements
Documentation improvements

Open source →

0.6.013 Mar 20173 sources agree

Consistent parsing in terms of true python representation of date string. See #281

New features:

Consistent parsing in terms of true python representation of date string. See #281
Added support for Bangla, Bulgarian and Hindi languages.

Improvements:

Major bug fixes related to parser and system's locale. See #277, #282
Type check for timezone arguments in settings. see #267
Pinned dependencies' versions in requirements. See #265
Improved support for cn, es, dutch languages. See #274, #272, #285

Packaging:

Make calendars extras to be used at the time of installation if need to use calendars feature.

Open source →

0.5.118 Dec 20163 sources agree

Safer loading of YAML. See #251

0.5.1 (2016-12-18)

New features:

Added support for Hebrew

Improvements:

Safer loading of YAML. See #251
Better timezone parsing for freshness dates. See #256
Pinned dependencies' versions in requirements. See #265
Improved support for zh, fi languages. See #249, #250, #248, #244

Open source →

0.5.026 Sept 20163 sources agree

DateDataParser now also returns detected language in the result dictionary.

New features:

DateDataParser now also returns detected language in the result dictionary.
Explicit and lucid timezone conversion for a given datestring using TIMEZONE, TO_TIMEZONE settings.
Added Hungarian langauge.
Added setting, STRICT_PARSING to ignore imcomplete dates.

Improvements:

Fixed quite a few parser bugs reported in issues #219, #222, #207, #224.
Improved support for chinese language.
Consistent interface for both Jalali and Hijri parsers.

Open source →

0.4.016 Jun 20163 sources agree

Support for Language based date order preference while parsing ambiguous dates.

New features:

Support for Language based date order preference while parsing ambiguous dates.
Support for parsing dates with no spaces in between components.
Support for custom date order preference using settings.
Support for parsing generic relative dates in future.e.g. tomorrow, in two weeks, etc.
Added RELATIVE_BASE settings to set date context to any datetime in past or future.
Replaced dateutil.parser.parse with dateparser's own parser.
Little/no tolerance for invalid dates

Improvements:

Added simplifications for 12 noon and 12 midnight.
Fixed several bugs
Replaced PyYAML library by its active fork ruamel.yaml which also fixed the issues with installation on windows using python35.
More predictable date_formats handling.

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0.3.527 Apr 20163 sources agree

Support for parsing date strings with accents.

New features:

Danish language support.
Japanese language support.
Support for parsing date strings with accents.

Improvements:

Transformed languages.yaml into base file and separate files for each language.
Fixed vietnamese language simplifications.
No more version restrictions for python-dateutil.
Timezone parsing improvements.
Fixed test environments.
Cleaned language codes. Now we strictly follow codes as in ISO 639-1.
Improved Chinese dates parsing.

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0.3.43 Mar 20163 sources agree

Fixed broken version 0.3.3 by excluding latest python-dateutil version.

Improvements:

Fixed broken version 0.3.3 by excluding latest python-dateutil version.

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0.3.329 Feb 20163 sources agree

Faster parsing with switching to regex module.

New features:

Finnish language support.

Improvements:

Faster parsing with switching to regex module.
RETURN_AS_TIMEZONE_AWARE setting to return tz aware date object.
Fixed conflicts with month/weekday names similarity across languages.

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0.3.225 Jan 20163 sources agree

Added settings for better control over parsing dates.

New features: - Added Hijri Calendar support. - Added settings for better control over parsing dates. - Support to convert parsed time to the given timezone for both complete and relative dates.

Improvements: - Fixed problem with caching datetime.now in FreshnessDateDataParser. - Added month names and week day names abbreviations to several languages. - More simplifications for Russian and Ukranian languages. - Fixed problem with parsing time component of date strings with several kinds of apostrophes.

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0.3.128 Oct 20153 sources agree

Extended support for Russian and Polish.

New features:

Support for Jalali Calendar.
Belarusian language support.
Indonesian language support.

Improvements:

Extended support for Russian and Polish.
Fixed bug with time zone recognition.
Fixed bug with incorrect translation of "second" for Portuguese.

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0.3.029 Jul 20153 sources agree

Compatibility with Python 3 and PyPy.

New features:

Compatibility with Python 3 and PyPy.

Improvements:

languages.yaml data cleaned up to make it human-readable.
Improved Spanish date parsing.

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0.2.113 Jul 2015

Support for generic parsing of dates with UTC offset.

Support for generic parsing of dates with UTC offset.
Support for Filipino dates.
Improved support for French and Spanish dates.

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Additional notes2 sources agree

Support for generic parsing of dates with UTC offset.
Support for Tagalog/Filipino dates.
Improved support for French and Spanish dates.

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0.2.017 Jun 20152 sources agree

Languages definitions using YAML.

Easy to use parse function
Languages definitions using YAML.
Using translation based approach for parsing non-english languages. Previously, dateutil.parserinfo was used for language definitions.
Better period extraction.
Improved tests.
Added a number of new simplifications for more comprehensive generic parsing.
Improved validation for dates.
Support for Polish, Thai and Arabic dates.
Support for pytz timezones.
Fixed building and packaging issues.

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0.1.024 Nov 20142 sources agree

* First release on PyPI.

First release on PyPI.

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