croatian-holidays 0.1.3

Python library for Croatian public holidays with computed Easter/Corpus Christi, fixed dates, and optional web scraping.

Croatian Holidays

A lightweight Python utility for Croatian public holidays: compute holidays for any year, check if today is a holiday, list upcoming holidays, and optionally scrape an external reference page.

• Pure Python for computed holidays (Easter, Corpus Christi, + fixed dates)
• Typed exceptions and no print spam (uses logging)
• Optional web parsing with timeouts and structural checks
• Pretty-print and JSON save helpers

Project name on PyPI is croatian-holidays, while the import name is croatianholidays. You can check it out on https://pypi.org/project/croatian-holidays/

Installation

pip install croatian-holidays

or

pip install croatian-holidays==0.1.2 ## For specific versions

Quick start

import datetime as dt
from croatianholidays import CroatianHolidays

ch = CroatianHolidays()

# 1) Is today a holiday?
print("Today is holiday:", ch.isHoliday())

# 2) All holidays for a year
hol_2025 = ch.getHolidays(2025)  # dict: "dd. mm. yyyy." -> "Holiday name"
print(hol_2025["01. 05. 2025."])  # "Praznik rada"

# 3) Include localized day-of-week and pretty output
print(ch.getHolidays(2025, showdays=True, prettyprint=True))

# 4) Upcoming holidays after now (current year)
print(ch.upcomingHolidays(date=dt.datetime.now(), showdays=True, prettyPrint=True))

# 5) Holidays between two dates (inclusive)
print(ch.getHolidaysBetweenDates("01. 05. 2025.", "31. 12. 2025.", showdays=True, prettyPrint=True))

# 6) Persist to JSON
data = ch.getHolidays(2025, showdays=True)
from croatian_holidays import SaveError
try:
    ch.saveToJson(data, "croatia_2025_holidays.json")
except SaveError as e:
    print("Saving failed:", e)

Features

• ✅ Algorithmic dates: Easter (Meeus/Jones/Butcher), Corpus Christi (+60 days)
• ✅ Fixed-date holidays: New Year’s, Statehood Day, All Saints’, etc.
• ✅ Features:
  • getHolidays(year, showdays=False, prettyprint=False)
  • upcomingHolidays(date, showdays=False, prettyPrint=False)
  • getHolidaysBetweenDates(start_date, end_date, showdays=False, prettyPrint=False)
  • isHoliday()
  • getHolidaysFromWeb(base_url=..., prettyPrint=False, timeout=10.0, ...)
  • prettyPrint(dict)
  • saveToJson(dict, filename)
• 🧯 Errors are explicit and do not leak prints, using logger
• 🧰 Logging-friendly: ships with a NullHandler; opt-in to logs in your app.

Module Reference

Date strings use "dd. mm. yyyy." (note the trailing dot).

CroatianHolidays.getHolidays(year, showdays=False, prettyprint=False) -> dict | str

Return holidays for year.

• showdays=True → values become { "name": ..., "day_of_week": ... } (Croatian weekday).
• prettyprint=True → returns pretty JSON str instead of dict.

CroatianHolidays.upcomingHolidays(date, showdays=False, prettyPrint=False) -> dict | str

Return upcoming holidays after the given datetime (current year only).

CroatianHolidays.getHolidaysBetweenDates(start_date, end_date, showdays=False, prettyPrint=False, dateformat="%d. %m. %Y.") -> dict | str

Return holidays within an inclusive range. start_date/end_date can be str, date, or datetime.

CroatianHolidays.isHoliday() -> bool

True if today is a holiday.

CroatianHolidays.getHolidaysFromWeb(base_url=..., prettyPrint=False, timeout=10.0, session=None, user_agent=None) -> dict | str

Try to parse an external web page for holidays

CroatianHolidays.prettyPrint(json_data: dict) -> str

Pretty JSON with UTF-8 (no ASCII escapes).

CroatianHolidays.saveToJson(data: dict, filename: str, encoding="utf-8") -> None

Write a dictionary to a JSON file.

Exceptions

Import from the package root:

from croatian_holidays import (
    CroatianHolidaysError, InvalidYearError, DateFormatError,
    NetworkError, ParseError, SaveError
)

• InvalidYearError: year must be 1583..4099 (Gregorian computus range).
• DateFormatError: invalid date strings / formatting issues.
• NetworkError: timeouts, connection issues, HTTP errors in web fetch.
• ParseError: the web page did not match expected structure.
• SaveError: file write errors.
• CroatianHolidaysError: base class for all package errors.

Logging

By default, the library is quiet. To see warnings or debug messages:

import logging
logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)

Development

git clone https://github.com/mgracanin/croatian-holidays.git
cd croatian-holidays
python -m venv .venv && source .venv/bin/activate  # or use whatever you like
pip install -e .

Recommended tooling (optional):

• ruff for linting
• mypy for typing
• pytest for tests

Versioning & Compatibility

• Python 3.8+
• Semantic-ish versioning; breaking API changes bump the minor/major.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.