1 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.6.0 (2014-06-??)
3 Split simple robot: separate network operations and
4 URL handling/HTML parsing.
6 Change parse_html to parse strings, not files.
8 Split parse_html/__init__.py into __main__.py.
10 Adapt JSON storage to recent Mozilla export format.
14 Allow parameters in BKMK_* environment variables; for example,
15 BKMK_ROBOT=forking:subproc=urllib or
16 BKMK_STORAGE=json:filename=bookmarks_db.json.
18 Pass subproc parameter to the subprocess to allow different robots.
21 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.5.6 (2014-01-14)
23 Remove absolute directory ~/lib to make it portable.
26 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.5.5 (2013-12-05)
28 Parse <meta charset="...">.
31 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.5.4 (2013-11-23)
33 Published through git/gitweb.
36 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.5.3 (2013-07-26)
38 Minor tweak in Makefile.
43 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.5.2 (2012-09-24)
47 Handle redirects with codes 303 and 307.
49 Fixed a bug in handling place: URIs (do not append '//').
52 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.5.1 (2011-12-28).
54 Read/write mozilla-specific date/time format in json storage.
57 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.5.0 (2011-12-18).
59 Encode international domain names with IDNA encoding.
61 Adapted to different Mozilla 'place' URIs.
64 WHAT'S NEW in 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.
77 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.3.1 (2011-01-03).
79 Get favicon before HTML redirect (refresh).
82 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.3.0 (2011-01-01).
84 Robots no longer have one global temporary file - there are at least two
85 (html and favicon), and in the future there will be more for asynchronous
86 robot(s) that would test many URLs in parallel.
89 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.2.2.
91 Added HTML Parser based on lxml.
94 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.2.1 (2010-08-12).
96 Added HTML Parser based on html5 library.
99 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.2.0 (2010-08-11).
101 New storage: json; it allows to load and store Mozilla (Firefox) backup
105 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.1.2
107 Process http error 307 as a temporary redirect.
110 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.1.1 (2008-03-10)
112 Catch and report all errors.
114 Consider application/xhtml+xml as HTML.
116 Better handling of exceptions while looking up the icon.
118 Recode HTML entities.
120 Always use utf-8 as the default encoding.
123 WHAT'S NEW in 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.
139 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.0.0 (2007-10-20)
141 Extended support for Mozilla: charset and icon in bookmarks.
142 Use the charset to add Accept-Charset header.
143 Retrieve favicon.ico (or whatever <link> points to) and store it.
145 The project celebrates 10th anniversary!
148 WHAT'S NEW in version 3.4.1 (2005-01-29)
150 Updated to Python 2.4. Switched from CVS to Subversion.
153 WHAT'S NEW in version 3.4.0 (2004-09-23)
155 Extended support for Mozilla: keywords in bookmarks.
156 Updated to m_lib version 1.2.
159 WHAT'S NEW in version 3.3.2
161 parse_html.py can now recode unicode entities in titles.
164 WHAT'S NEW in version 3.3.0
168 HTML parser. If the protocol is HTTP, and there is Content-Type header, and
169 content type is text/html, the object is parsed to extract its title; if
170 the Content-Type header has charset, or if the HTML has <META> with
171 charset, the title is converted from the given charset to the default
172 charset. The <HEADER> is also parsed to extract <META> tag with redirect,
176 WHAT'S NEW in version 3.0
178 Complete rewrite from scratch. Created mechanism for pluggable storage
179 managers, writers (DB dumpers/exporters) and robots.