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