scrapinghub / scrapinghub/dateparser
Feature Request: get_date_data add key-value signifying a relative date?
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Description
Wow. This package is great!
Feature request here:
Parsing "1 day ago" will return a datetime set to one day before now. The granularity key-value will return a period="day". It would be very helpful is the date data response also notified that the datetime was compiled from a relative date string (e.g., relative=True), and possibly even the basis of the datetime used (e.g., relative_to=datetime(..now..))
Thanks, again!
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Research direction
Start at the get_date_data entry point and inspect how relative strings such as "1 day ago" are represented in its returned date data. Define the intended metadata for relative dates, including whether the reference datetime is exposed, then add tests that specify the response and confirm existing absolute-date behavior remains unchanged.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- backend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100