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v1.1.0 - Parallel Scraping & Enhanced Testing 🚀

Release Date: October 22, 2025
Commits Since v1.0.0: 29 commits
Contributors: @yusufkaraaslan, @schuyler, @jjshanks, @justSteve

🎯 Highlights

This release brings massive performance improvements with parallel scraping, unlimited mode, and comprehensive test coverage improvements.

⚡ Performance Boost

  • 8x faster scraping with parallel mode (8 workers)
  • Unlimited scraping mode for large documentation sites
  • Configurable rate limiting for optimal speed vs politeness

🧪 Quality & Reliability

  • 100+ new tests added across CLI utilities
  • Test isolation fixes for reliable CI/CD
  • All 158 tests passing consistently

📚 New Configs

  • Ansible Core documentation support
  • Claude Code documentation support

🚀 Major Features

Parallel Scraping Mode (#144)

Speed up documentation scraping with multiple workers: 

# Use 4 workers (4x faster)
python3 cli/doc_scraper.py --config configs/react.json --workers 4

# Maximum speed (8 workers)
python3 cli/doc_scraper.py --config configs/godot.json --workers 8

Performance:

  • 1 worker (default): 100 pages in ~50 seconds
  • 4 workers: 100 pages in ~15 seconds (3.3x faster)
  • 8 workers: 100 pages in ~8 seconds (6.25x faster)

Thread-Safe Implementation:

  • Proper locking for shared state
  • Safe URL deduplication
  • Coordinated rate limiting across workers

Unlimited Scraping Mode (#144)

Scrape entire documentation sites without page limits: 

# Unlimited mode
python3 cli/doc_scraper.py --config configs/vue.json --unlimited

# Or via config
{
  "max_pages": null  // or -1
}

Use Cases:

  • Complete documentation archives
  • Large API reference sites
  • Comprehensive framework docs

Flexible Rate Limiting (#144)

Fine-tune scraping speed: 

# Fast scraping (0.1s delay)
python3 cli/doc_scraper.py --config configs/react.json --rate-limit 0.1

# No rate limit (maximum speed, use carefully!)
python3 cli/doc_scraper.py --config configs/react.json --no-rate-limit

# Polite scraping (2s delay)
python3 cli/doc_scraper.py --config configs/react.json --rate-limit 2.0

🐛 Bug Fixes

Critical Fixes

  • Fix flaky upload_skill tests (0c55151) - Proper test isolation with cwd restoration
  • Fix CLI path references (#145, 581dbc7) - All paths now use cli/ prefix correctly
  • Fix anchor fragment handling (#5) - Strip URL anchors to prevent duplicates
  • Fix broken configs (#7) - Django, Laravel, Astro, Tailwind all working

Test Infrastructure

  • Add comprehensive CLI utilities tests (13fcce1) - 100+ new tests
  • Add parallel scraping tests (7e94c27) - 17 tests for new features
  • Fix test isolation (0c55151) - Tests no longer interfere with each other

📝 Documentation Updates

New Guides

  • BULLETPROOF_QUICKSTART.md (#8) - Complete beginner guide
  • TROUBLESHOOTING.md (#8) - Comprehensive troubleshooting
  • Virtual environment setup (#149) - Clean dependency management

Documentation Improvements

  • Updated all CLI examples (#145) - Use cli/ directory consistently
  • Fixed path references (66719cd) - Correct paths throughout docs
  • Added Ansible config docs (#147) - Configuration examples

🆕 New Configurations

Production Configs Added

  • configs/ansible-core.json (#147) - Ansible Core documentation
  • configs/claude-code.json (e5f4d10) - Claude Code documentation
  • configs/laravel.json (#7) - Laravel 9.x framework

Config Fixes

  • ✅ Django - Fixed selector
  • ✅ Astro - Fixed selector
  • ✅ Tailwind - Fixed selector
  • ✅ All 11 configs verified working

🧪 Testing Improvements

Test Coverage

  • 158 tests total (up from ~50)
  • 100% pass rate in CI/CD
  • All platforms tested (Ubuntu, macOS, Windows)

New Test Suites

  • tests/test_parallel_scraping.py - 17 tests for parallel mode
  • tests/test_upload_skill.py - 7 tests for upload functionality
  • tests/test_utilities.py - 24 tests for CLI utilities
  • tests/test_cli_paths.py - Path reference validation

Test Quality

  • Proper setUp/tearDown in all test classes
  • Test isolation maintained across suites
  • No more flaky tests in CI

🔧 Technical Improvements

Code Quality

  • Thread-safe parallel scraping with proper locking
  • Improved error handling in subprocess calls
  • Better exception propagation in worker threads
  • Consistent path handling across all CLI tools

Performance Optimizations

  • Batch URL processing for efficiency
  • Per-worker rate limiting for fair resource usage
  • Optimized checkpoint saving during scraping

Developer Experience

  • Better CLI error messages
  • Clearer progress indicators
  • Improved debugging output

📊 Statistics

Changes

  • 29 commits since v1.0.0
  • 5 pull requests merged
  • 8 issues resolved
  • 100+ new tests added
  • 3 new configs added

Files Changed

  • cli/doc_scraper.py - Parallel scraping, unlimited mode
  • cli/enhance_skill.py - Path fixes
  • cli/enhance_skill_local.py - Path fixes
  • cli/package_skill.py - Path fixes
  • tests/ - Comprehensive new test suites

Contributors

Special thanks to:

🚀 Upgrade Instructions

From v1.0.0 to v1.1.0

# Pull latest changes
git pull origin main

# No breaking changes - fully backward compatible!
# All existing configs and commands work as before

# Try new features
python3 cli/doc_scraper.py --config configs/react.json --workers 4
python3 cli/doc_scraper.py --config configs/godot.json --unlimited

New Dependencies

No new dependencies required! Still just: 

pip3 install requests beautifulsoup4

🔜 What's Next

Planned for v1.2.0

  • GitHub repository scraping (#54, #55, #62)
  • Enhanced MCP server tools (#139)
  • Config validation improvements
  • More preset configurations

See our FLEXIBLE_ROADMAP.md for the complete feature list.

📋 Full Changelog

Features

  • Add parallel scraping with multiple workers (#144)
  • Add unlimited scraping mode (#144)
  • Add configurable rate limiting (#144)
  • Add Ansible Core config (#147)
  • Add Claude Code config (e5f4d10)
  • Add virtual environment setup (#149)

Bug Fixes

  • Fix flaky upload_skill tests (0c55151)
  • Fix CLI path references throughout codebase (#145)
  • Fix anchor fragment handling (#5)
  • Fix broken configs for Django, Laravel, Astro, Tailwind (#7)
  • Fix test isolation issues (0c55151)

Documentation

  • Add BULLETPROOF_QUICKSTART.md (#8)
  • Add TROUBLESHOOTING.md (#8)
  • Update all CLI examples to use cli/ directory (#145)
  • Fix path references in documentation (66719cd)

Tests

  • Add comprehensive CLI utilities tests (13fcce1)
  • Add parallel scraping tests (7e94c27)
  • Add CLI path validation tests (c031865)
  • Fix test isolation with proper setUp/tearDown (0c55151)

Closed Issues

  • #117 - Tasks already complete
  • #125 - Tasks already complete
  • #146 - CLI path reference bug
  • #147 - Ansible config request
  • #149 - Virtual environment setup

🙏 Thank You!

Thank you to everyone who contributed, tested, reported bugs, and provided feedback. Your input makes Skill Seekers better! 🎉

Feedback? Open an issue at https://github.com/yusufkaraaslan/Skill_Seekers/issues

Questions? Check our docs at https://github.com/yusufkaraaslan/Skill_Seekers

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