1 Version 5.1.0 (2024-03-01)
3 Robot based on requests.
5 Version 5.0.0 (2023-11-22)
9 Report redirects and set URLs.
13 Remove BeautifulSoup.py (use globally installed).
15 Version 4.6.0 (2014-07-06)
17 Split simple robot: separate network operations and
18 URL handling/HTML parsing.
20 Change parse_html to parse strings, not files.
22 Split parse_html/__init__.py into __main__.py.
24 Adapt JSON storage to recent Mozilla export format.
28 Allow parameters in BKMK_* environment variables; for example,
29 BKMK_ROBOT=forking:subproc=urllib or
30 BKMK_STORAGE=json:filename=bookmarks_db.json.
32 Pass subproc parameter to the subprocess to allow different robots.
34 Add a new robot based on urllib2.
36 Version 4.5.6 (2014-01-14)
38 Remove absolute directory ~/lib to make it portable.
40 Version 4.5.5 (2013-12-05)
42 Parse <meta charset="...">.
44 Version 4.5.4 (2013-11-23)
46 Published through git/gitweb.
48 Version 4.5.3 (2013-07-26)
50 Minor tweak in Makefile.
54 Version 4.5.2 (2012-09-24)
58 Handle redirects with codes 303 and 307.
60 Fixed a bug in handling place: URIs (do not append '//').
62 Version 4.5.1 (2011-12-28).
64 Read/write mozilla-specific date/time format in json storage.
66 Version 4.5.0 (2011-12-18).
68 Encode international domain names with IDNA encoding.
70 Adapted to different Mozilla 'place' URIs.
72 Version 4.4.0 (2011-01-07).
74 Moved BeautifulSoup.py and subproc.py from Robots/ to the top-level
77 Moved parse_html.py and its submodules to a separate parse_html package.
79 Added statistics code to parse_html, got a statistics on parser
80 success/failrure rate, reordered parsers.
84 Version 4.3.1 (2011-01-03).
86 Get favicon before HTML redirect (refresh).
88 Version 4.3.0 (2011-01-01).
90 Robots no longer have one global temporary file - there are at least two
91 (html and favicon), and in the future there will be more for asynchronous
92 robot(s) that would test many URLs in parallel.
96 Added HTML Parser based on lxml.
98 Version 4.2.1 (2010-08-12).
100 Added HTML Parser based on html5 library.
102 Version 4.2.0 (2010-08-11).
104 New storage: json; it allows to load and store Mozilla (Firefox) backup
109 Process http error 307 as a temporary redirect.
111 Version 4.1.1 (2008-03-10)
113 Catch and report all errors.
115 Consider application/xhtml+xml as HTML.
117 Better handling of exceptions while looking up the icon.
119 Recode HTML entities.
121 Always use utf-8 as the default encoding.
123 Version 4.1.0 (2008-01-14)
125 Parser for HTML based on BeautifulSoup.
127 Changed User-agent header: I saw a number of sites that forbid
128 "Mozilla compatible" browsers. Added a number of fake headers to pretend
129 this is a real web-browser - there are still stupid sites
130 that are trying to protect themselves from robots by analyzing headers.
132 Handle redirects while looking for the icon.
134 Handle float timeouts in HTML redirects.
136 Minimal required version of Python is 2.5 now.
138 Version 4.0.0 (2007-10-20)
140 Extended support for Mozilla: charset and icon in bookmarks.
141 Use the charset to add Accept-Charset header.
142 Retrieve favicon.ico (or whatever <link> points to) and store it.
144 The project celebrates 10th anniversary!
146 Version 3.4.1 (2005-01-29)
148 Updated to Python 2.4. Switched from CVS to Subversion.
150 Version 3.4.0 (2004-09-23)
152 Extended support for Mozilla: keywords in bookmarks.
153 Updated to m_lib version 1.2.
157 parse_html.py can now recode unicode entities in titles.
163 HTML parser. If the protocol is HTTP, and there is Content-Type header, and
164 content type is text/html, the object is parsed to extract its title; if
165 the Content-Type header has charset, or if the HTML has <META> with
166 charset, the title is converted from the given charset to the default
167 charset. The <HEADER> is also parsed to extract <META> tag with redirect,
172 Complete rewrite from scratch. Created mechanism for pluggable storage
173 managers, writers (DB dumpers/exporters) and robots.