1 Version 5.0.0 (2023-??-??)
5 Remove BeautifulSoup.py (use globally installed).
7 Version 4.6.0 (2014-07-06)
9 Split simple robot: separate network operations and
10 URL handling/HTML parsing.
12 Change parse_html to parse strings, not files.
14 Split parse_html/__init__.py into __main__.py.
16 Adapt JSON storage to recent Mozilla export format.
20 Allow parameters in BKMK_* environment variables; for example,
21 BKMK_ROBOT=forking:subproc=urllib or
22 BKMK_STORAGE=json:filename=bookmarks_db.json.
24 Pass subproc parameter to the subprocess to allow different robots.
26 Add a new robot based on urllib2.
28 Version 4.5.6 (2014-01-14)
30 Remove absolute directory ~/lib to make it portable.
32 Version 4.5.5 (2013-12-05)
34 Parse <meta charset="...">.
36 Version 4.5.4 (2013-11-23)
38 Published through git/gitweb.
40 Version 4.5.3 (2013-07-26)
42 Minor tweak in Makefile.
46 Version 4.5.2 (2012-09-24)
50 Handle redirects with codes 303 and 307.
52 Fixed a bug in handling place: URIs (do not append '//').
54 Version 4.5.1 (2011-12-28).
56 Read/write mozilla-specific date/time format in json storage.
58 Version 4.5.0 (2011-12-18).
60 Encode international domain names with IDNA encoding.
62 Adapted to different Mozilla 'place' URIs.
64 Version 4.4.0 (2011-01-07).
66 Moved BeautifulSoup.py and subproc.py from Robots/ to the top-level
69 Moved parse_html.py and its submodules to a separate parse_html package.
71 Added statistics code to parse_html, got a statistics on parser
72 success/failrure rate, reordered parsers.
76 Version 4.3.1 (2011-01-03).
78 Get favicon before HTML redirect (refresh).
80 Version 4.3.0 (2011-01-01).
82 Robots no longer have one global temporary file - there are at least two
83 (html and favicon), and in the future there will be more for asynchronous
84 robot(s) that would test many URLs in parallel.
88 Added HTML Parser based on lxml.
90 Version 4.2.1 (2010-08-12).
92 Added HTML Parser based on html5 library.
94 Version 4.2.0 (2010-08-11).
96 New storage: json; it allows to load and store Mozilla (Firefox) backup
101 Process http error 307 as a temporary redirect.
103 Version 4.1.1 (2008-03-10)
105 Catch and report all errors.
107 Consider application/xhtml+xml as HTML.
109 Better handling of exceptions while looking up the icon.
111 Recode HTML entities.
113 Always use utf-8 as the default encoding.
115 Version 4.1.0 (2008-01-14)
117 Parser for HTML based on BeautifulSoup.
119 Changed User-agent header: I saw a number of sites that forbid
120 "Mozilla compatible" browsers. Added a number of fake headers to pretend
121 this is a real web-browser - there are still stupid sites
122 that are trying to protect themselves from robots by analyzing headers.
124 Handle redirects while looking for the icon.
126 Handle float timeouts in HTML redirects.
128 Minimal required version of Python is 2.5 now.
130 Version 4.0.0 (2007-10-20)
132 Extended support for Mozilla: charset and icon in bookmarks.
133 Use the charset to add Accept-Charset header.
134 Retrieve favicon.ico (or whatever <link> points to) and store it.
136 The project celebrates 10th anniversary!
138 Version 3.4.1 (2005-01-29)
140 Updated to Python 2.4. Switched from CVS to Subversion.
142 Version 3.4.0 (2004-09-23)
144 Extended support for Mozilla: keywords in bookmarks.
145 Updated to m_lib version 1.2.
149 parse_html.py can now recode unicode entities in titles.
155 HTML parser. If the protocol is HTTP, and there is Content-Type header, and
156 content type is text/html, the object is parsed to extract its title; if
157 the Content-Type header has charset, or if the HTML has <META> with
158 charset, the title is converted from the given charset to the default
159 charset. The <HEADER> is also parsed to extract <META> tag with redirect,
164 Complete rewrite from scratch. Created mechanism for pluggable storage
165 managers, writers (DB dumpers/exporters) and robots.