2 Bookmarks Database and Internet Robot
5 There is a set of classes, libraries, programs and plugins I use to
6 manipulate my bookmarks.html. I like Netscape Navigator, but I need more
7 features, so I write and maintain these programs for my needs. I need to
8 extend Navigator's "What's new" feature (Navigator 4 calls it "Update
12 WHAT'S NEW in version 3.3.2
13 parse_html.py can now recode unicode entities in titles.
16 WHAT'S NEW in version 3.3.0
18 HTML parser. If the protocol is HTTP, and there is Content-Type header, and
19 content type is text/html, the object is parsed to extract its title; if the
20 Content-Type header has charset, or if the HTML has <META> with charset, the
21 title is converted from the given charset to the default charset. The object is
22 also parsed to extract <META> tag with redirect.
25 WHAT'S NEW in version 3.0
26 Complete rewrite from scratch. Created mechanism for pluggable storage
27 managers, writers (DB dumpers/exporters) and robots.
31 Master site: http://phd.pp.ru/Software/Python/#bookmarks_db
33 Faster mirrors: http://phd.by.ru/Software/Python/#bookmarks_db
34 http://phd2.chat.ru/Software/Python/#bookmarks_db
38 Oleg Broytmann <phd@phd.pp.ru>
41 Copyright (C) 1997-2002 PhiloSoft Design
47 Storage managers: pickle, FLAD (Flat ASCII Database).
48 Writers: HTML, text, FLAD (full database or only errors).
49 Robots (URL checker): simple, simple+timeoutscoket, forking.
52 Parse downloaded file and get some additional information out of headers
53 and parsed data - title, for example. Or redirects using <META HTTP-Equiv>.
54 (Partially done - now extracting title).
58 Merge "writers" to storage managers.
59 New storage managers: shelve, SQL, ZODB, MetaKit.
60 Robots (URL checkers): threading, asyncore-based.
61 Aliases in bookmarks.html.
63 Configuration file for configuring defaults - global defaults for the system
64 and local defaults for subsystems.
66 Ruleset-based mechanisms to filter out what types of URLs to check: checking
67 based on URL schema, host, port, path, filename, extension, etc.
69 Detailed reports on robot run - what's old, what's new, what was moved,
71 WWW-interface to the report.
73 Bigger database. Multiuser database. Robot should operate on a part of
75 WWW-interface to the database. User will import/export/edit bookmarks,
76 schedule robot run, etc.