jjjake/internetarchive v5.8.0

Version 5.8.0

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Features and Improvements

• Rewrote PostDataAction in CLI to accept both JSON strings and key:value format.
  Previously only JSON was accepted; now key:value pairs are also supported.
• Added "can be specified multiple times" hints to repeatable CLI flags.
• Standardized CLI help text capitalization across all subcommands.

Bugfixes

• Fixed CLI argument parsing bug where nargs="+" on options like --header,
  --metadata, and --format would greedily consume subsequent positional
  arguments (e.g. the identifier). Changed to nargs=1 with repeated flags.
• Fixed mutable default={} bug in custom argparse actions (PostDataAction,
  QueryStringAction, MetadataAction, FlattenListAction) that caused state
  leakage when parsers were reused across multiple invocations.
• Fixed RecursionError caused by socket.connect being monkey-patched on every
  ArchiveSession instantiation. Each new session would wrap the already-patched
  function, causing infinite mutual recursion after ~980 sessions. The patch is now
  applied once at module import time
  (#746 <https://github.com/jjjake/internetarchive/issues/746>_).