PetfindeR 2.1.0 Release

• The animals() method has been updated to include new parameters provided by Petfinder's animal
  endpoint. This parameters include:
  • good_with_cats: Boolean for filtering animals that are designated as good with cats.
  • good_with_children: Boolean for filtering animals that are designated as good with children.
  • good_with_dogs: Boolean for filtering animals that are designated as good with dogs.
  • before_date: Returns results published before the specified time.
  • after_date: Returns results published after the specified time.
• organization_id parameter in the animals method should now only return animals from specified organization IDs.

PetfindeR 2.0.0 Release!

New major release coinciding with the release of v2.0 of the Petfinder API! The legacy version of the Petfinder API, v1.0, will be retired in January 2020, therefore, the PetfindeR library has been updated almost from the ground up to be compatible as possible with the new version of the Petfinder API! The new version of the Petfinder API is a huge improvement over the legacy version, with many changes and additions to
the design of the API itself.

Below is a summary of all the changes made in the release of PetfindeR 2.0.

• The following methods have been added to PetfindeR to make it compatible with v2.0 of the Petfinder API.
  • animal_types() is used to getting animal types (or type) available from the Petfinder API. The release of v2.0 of the Petfinder API added several endpoints for accessing animal types in the Petfinder database. This method wraps both Petfinder API endpoints for getting animal types. More information on the animal type endpoints in the Petfinder API can be found in its documentation:
    • Get Animal Types
    • Get Single Animal Type

• breeds() is the new method for getting available animal breeds from the Petfinder database. The API endpoint documentation is available on the Petfinder API documentation page.
  • Get Animal Breeds
• animals() is the method for extracting animal data available on the Petfinder API and deprecates the
  pets() related methods. The method wraps both the animals and animal/{id} endpoints of the Petfinder API. The documentation for these endpoints can be
  found in the Petfinder API documentation:
  • Get Animal
  • Get Animals
• organizations() is now the method for extracting animal welfare organization data available on Petfinder
  and deprecates previous shelter() related methods and endpoints. The organizations() method wraps both
  the Petfinder API organizations and organizations/{id} endpoints. The Petfinder API documentation for
  these two endpoints can be found below:
  • Get Organizations
  • Get Organization

• The following methods have been removed as they are no longer valid endpoints with the release of v2.0 of the Petfinder API.
  • pet.getRandom
  • shelter.getPets
  • shelter.listByBreed

PetfindeR 1.1.3 Release

The API and internal functionality is unchanged from previous releases. Versioning has been changed in accordance with CRAN submission (and re-submission) policies. The PetfindeR package has been available on CRAN for some time. This release is to mark the successful deployment of the package to CRAN and to reconcile any versioning/release differences on Github and CRAN.

Previous version release notes are given below and can also be found in the NEWS.md file in the Github repo.

PetfindeR 1.1.0

• The pet.find method now correctly extracts results into a data.frame when the parameter return_df = TRUE.
• The check for results exceeding 2,000 records for an individual search now only stops when the records are actually above 2,000.
• Methods that have a count parameter will now check the input value to make sure it is not above 1,000. The 1,000 record limitation is imposed by Petfinder. More information can be found in Petfinder's API documentation.
• Methods will now check to make sure that the inputted values for parameters count and pages will not exceed 2,000 records. Petfinder imposes a limit of 2,000 records per search.

PetfindeR 1.0.0

First release implementing primary functionality for interacting with the Petfinder API. The following table of methods can also be found in the project's README.

Method	Petfinder API Method	Description
breed.list()	breed.list	Returns the available breeds for the selected animal.
pet.find()	pet.find	Returns a collection of pet records matching input parameters.
pet.get()	pet.get	Returns a single record for a pet.
pet.getRandom()	pet.getRandom	Returns a randomly selected pet record. The possible result can be filtered with input parameters.
shelter.find()	shelter.find	Returns a collection of shelter records matching input parameters.
shelter.get()	shelter.get	Returns a single shelter record.
shelter.getPets()	shelter.getPets	Returns a collection of pet records for an individual shelter.
shelter.listByBreed()	shelter.listByBreed	Returns a list of shelter IDs listing animals matching the input animal breed.