scrapinghub / scrapinghub/python-scrapinghub
Return timestamp values as datetime objects
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- Python
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Description
Several Scrapinghub API endpoints accept or return timestamps, currently as UNIX timestamp in milliseconds.
It would be great to have those values as datetime.datetime objects in the results so that consumers of python-scrapinghub calls do not have to convert them for interpretation.
Passing datetime.datetime objects in methods allowing filtering on timestamps, e.g. where startts and endts arguments are supported, would be very handy too.
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- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by locating the Scrapinghub API endpoint wrappers that return UNIX millisecond timestamps and the methods accepting startts or endts filters. Trace how response values and filter arguments are currently passed through; done means supported timestamp results are datetime.datetime objects and datetime.datetime filters work consistently across the relevant endpoints.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- api
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100