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 3.4.0
13 Updated to m_lib version 1.2. Extended support for Mozilla.
16 WHAT'S NEW in version 3.3.2
17 parse_html.py can now recode unicode entities in titles.
20 WHAT'S NEW in version 3.3.0
22 HTML parser. If the protocol is HTTP, and there is Content-Type header, and
23 content type is text/html, the object is parsed to extract its title; if the
24 Content-Type header has charset, or if the HTML has <META> with charset, the
25 title is converted from the given charset to the default charset. The object is
26 also parsed to extract <META> tag with redirect.
29 WHAT'S NEW in version 3.0
30 Complete rewrite from scratch. Created mechanism for pluggable storage
31 managers, writers (DB dumpers/exporters) and robots.
35 Master site: http://phd.pp.ru/Software/Python/#bookmarks_db
37 Faster mirrors: http://phd.by.ru/Software/Python/#bookmarks_db
38 http://phd2.chat.ru/Software/Python/#bookmarks_db
42 Oleg Broytmann <phd@phd.pp.ru>
45 Copyright (C) 1997-2002 PhiloSoft Design
51 Storage managers: pickle, FLAD (Flat ASCII Database).
52 Writers: HTML, text, FLAD (full database or only errors).
53 Robots (URL checker): simple, simple+timeoutscoket, forking.
56 Parse downloaded file and get some additional information out of headers
57 and parsed data - title, for example. Or redirects using <META HTTP-Equiv>.
58 (Partially done - now extracting title).
62 Merge "writers" to storage managers.
63 New storage managers: shelve, SQL, ZODB, MetaKit.
64 Robots (URL checkers): threading, asyncore-based.
65 Aliases in bookmarks.html.
67 Configuration file for configuring defaults - global defaults for the system
68 and local defaults for subsystems.
70 Ruleset-based mechanisms to filter out what types of URLs to check: checking
71 based on URL schema, host, port, path, filename, extension, etc.
73 Detailed reports on robot run - what's old, what's new, what was moved,
75 WWW-interface to the report.
77 Bigger database. Multiuser database. Robot should operate on a part of
79 WWW-interface to the database. User will import/export/edit bookmarks,
80 schedule robot run, etc.