1 Version 5.3.0 (2024-03-06)
3 Renamed set-URLs -> set-urls.
5 Version 5.2.5 (2024-03-05)
7 Feat(Robots/bkmk_rrequests): Ignore all problems with certificates.
9 Fix(Robots/bkmk_robot_base): Pass query part.
11 Version 5.2.4 (2024-03-04)
13 Fix(Robots/bkmk_rrequests): No need to re-check error 404 via proxy.
15 Version 5.2.3 (2024-03-03)
17 Feat(Robots/bkmk_rrequests): Report 40x and 50x errors.
19 Fix HTML pasrer based on Bs4: Find "shortcut icon".
21 Version 5.2.2 (2024-03-03)
23 Robots/bkmk_rrequests: Add request headers.
25 Robots/bkmk_robot_base: Process "data:image/" icons.
27 Version 5.2.1 (2024-03-02)
29 Speedup second access through proxy.
31 Version 5.2.0 (2024-03-02)
33 For the robot based on requests allow to use a proxy.
35 Version 5.1.0 (2024-03-01)
37 Robot based on requests.
39 Version 5.0.0 (2023-11-22)
43 Report redirects and set URLs.
47 Remove BeautifulSoup.py (use globally installed).
49 Version 4.6.0 (2014-07-06)
51 Split simple robot: separate network operations and
52 URL handling/HTML parsing.
54 Change parse_html to parse strings, not files.
56 Split parse_html/__init__.py into __main__.py.
58 Adapt JSON storage to recent Mozilla export format.
62 Allow parameters in BKMK_* environment variables; for example,
63 BKMK_ROBOT=forking:subproc=urllib or
64 BKMK_STORAGE=json:filename=bookmarks_db.json.
66 Pass subproc parameter to the subprocess to allow different robots.
68 Add a new robot based on urllib2.
70 Version 4.5.6 (2014-01-14)
72 Remove absolute directory ~/lib to make it portable.
74 Version 4.5.5 (2013-12-05)
76 Parse <meta charset="...">.
78 Version 4.5.4 (2013-11-23)
80 Published through git/gitweb.
82 Version 4.5.3 (2013-07-26)
84 Minor tweak in Makefile.
88 Version 4.5.2 (2012-09-24)
92 Handle redirects with codes 303 and 307.
94 Fixed a bug in handling place: URIs (do not append '//').
96 Version 4.5.1 (2011-12-28).
98 Read/write mozilla-specific date/time format in json storage.
100 Version 4.5.0 (2011-12-18).
102 Encode international domain names with IDNA encoding.
104 Adapted to different Mozilla 'place' URIs.
106 Version 4.4.0 (2011-01-07).
108 Moved BeautifulSoup.py and subproc.py from Robots/ to the top-level
111 Moved parse_html.py and its submodules to a separate parse_html package.
113 Added statistics code to parse_html, got a statistics on parser
114 success/failrure rate, reordered parsers.
118 Version 4.3.1 (2011-01-03).
120 Get favicon before HTML redirect (refresh).
122 Version 4.3.0 (2011-01-01).
124 Robots no longer have one global temporary file - there are at least two
125 (html and favicon), and in the future there will be more for asynchronous
126 robot(s) that would test many URLs in parallel.
130 Added HTML Parser based on lxml.
132 Version 4.2.1 (2010-08-12).
134 Added HTML Parser based on html5 library.
136 Version 4.2.0 (2010-08-11).
138 New storage: json; it allows to load and store Mozilla (Firefox) backup
143 Process http error 307 as a temporary redirect.
145 Version 4.1.1 (2008-03-10)
147 Catch and report all errors.
149 Consider application/xhtml+xml as HTML.
151 Better handling of exceptions while looking up the icon.
153 Recode HTML entities.
155 Always use utf-8 as the default encoding.
157 Version 4.1.0 (2008-01-14)
159 Parser for HTML based on BeautifulSoup.
161 Changed User-agent header: I saw a number of sites that forbid
162 "Mozilla compatible" browsers. Added a number of fake headers to pretend
163 this is a real web-browser - there are still stupid sites
164 that are trying to protect themselves from robots by analyzing headers.
166 Handle redirects while looking for the icon.
168 Handle float timeouts in HTML redirects.
170 Minimal required version of Python is 2.5 now.
172 Version 4.0.0 (2007-10-20)
174 Extended support for Mozilla: charset and icon in bookmarks.
175 Use the charset to add Accept-Charset header.
176 Retrieve favicon.ico (or whatever <link> points to) and store it.
178 The project celebrates 10th anniversary!
180 Version 3.4.1 (2005-01-29)
182 Updated to Python 2.4. Switched from CVS to Subversion.
184 Version 3.4.0 (2004-09-23)
186 Extended support for Mozilla: keywords in bookmarks.
187 Updated to m_lib version 1.2.
191 parse_html.py can now recode unicode entities in titles.
197 HTML parser. If the protocol is HTTP, and there is Content-Type header, and
198 content type is text/html, the object is parsed to extract its title; if
199 the Content-Type header has charset, or if the HTML has <META> with
200 charset, the title is converted from the given charset to the default
201 charset. The <HEADER> is also parsed to extract <META> tag with redirect,
206 Complete rewrite from scratch. Created mechanism for pluggable storage
207 managers, writers (DB dumpers/exporters) and robots.