JSON cache structure evolved to now store the linkbacks requests status - fix #2

Author: Lucas-C

.pylintrc

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [MESSAGES CONTROL]
-disable = broad-except, missing-docstring, multiple-imports, too-few-public-methods
+disable = broad-except, missing-docstring, multiple-imports, too-few-public-methods, too-many-arguments, too-many-locals, too-many-positional-arguments
 
 [FORMAT]
 max-line-length = 180

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -7,6 +7,18 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](http://keepachangelog.com/)
 and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 
+## [1.0.6] - Not released yet
+
+### Added
+
+- manual execution mode: `python linkbacks.py $pelican_generated_html_file`
+
+### Changed
+
+- JSON cache structure evolved to now store the linkbacks requests status.
+  This is **not** backward-compatible, and the plugin will ask you to remove any pre-existing `pelican-plugin-linkbacks.json` file.
+  _cf._ [issue #2](https://github.com/pelican-plugins/linkbacks/issues/2)
+
 ## [1.0.5] - 2025-12-22
 
 ### Added

README.md

@@ -78,6 +78,15 @@ where `$CACHE_PATH` is [a Pelican setting](https://docs.getpelican.com/en/latest
   time in seconds allowed for each HTTP linkback request before abandon
 
 
+## Manual execution
+The `linkbacks.py` module can be used as script to test this plugin behavior:
+
+    export SITEURL=...
+    python path/to/pelican/plugins/linkbacks/linkbacks.py $pelican_generated_html_file
+
+Optionally the `colorama` package can be installed to get colored logs in the output.
+
+
 ## Contributing
 
 Contributions are welcome and much appreciated. Every little bit helps. You can contribute by improving the documentation,
@@ -99,7 +108,7 @@ With a valid configuration in `~/.config/pypoetry/`:
 ## Linter & tests
 To execute them:
 
-    pylint *linkbacks.py
+    pylint pelican/plugins/linkbacks/
     pytest
 
 ### Integration tests