1 Version 5.3.1 (2024-03-??)
3 Renamed check_urls.py to check_urls_db.py
5 Renamed check_url.py to check_urls.py
7 Version 5.3.0 (2024-03-06)
9 Added get_url.py: a script to get one file from an URL.
11 Renamed set-URLs -> set-urls.
13 Version 5.2.5 (2024-03-05)
15 Feat(Robots/bkmk_rrequests): Ignore all problems with certificates.
17 Fix(Robots/bkmk_robot_base): Pass query part.
19 Version 5.2.4 (2024-03-04)
21 Fix(Robots/bkmk_rrequests): No need to re-check error 404 via proxy.
23 Version 5.2.3 (2024-03-03)
25 Feat(Robots/bkmk_rrequests): Report 40x and 50x errors.
27 Fix HTML pasrer based on Bs4: Find "shortcut icon".
29 Version 5.2.2 (2024-03-03)
31 Robots/bkmk_rrequests: Add request headers.
33 Robots/bkmk_robot_base: Process "data:image/" icons.
35 Version 5.2.1 (2024-03-02)
37 Speedup second access through proxy.
39 Version 5.2.0 (2024-03-02)
41 For the robot based on requests allow to use a proxy.
43 Version 5.1.0 (2024-03-01)
45 Robot based on requests.
47 Version 5.0.0 (2023-11-22)
51 Report redirects and set URLs.
55 Remove BeautifulSoup.py (use globally installed).
57 Version 4.6.0 (2014-07-06)
59 Split simple robot: separate network operations and
60 URL handling/HTML parsing.
62 Change parse_html to parse strings, not files.
64 Split parse_html/__init__.py into __main__.py.
66 Adapt JSON storage to recent Mozilla export format.
70 Allow parameters in BKMK_* environment variables; for example,
71 BKMK_ROBOT=forking:subproc=urllib or
72 BKMK_STORAGE=json:filename=bookmarks_db.json.
74 Pass subproc parameter to the subprocess to allow different robots.
76 Add a new robot based on urllib2.
78 Version 4.5.6 (2014-01-14)
80 Remove absolute directory ~/lib to make it portable.
82 Version 4.5.5 (2013-12-05)
84 Parse <meta charset="...">.
86 Version 4.5.4 (2013-11-23)
88 Published through git/gitweb.
90 Version 4.5.3 (2013-07-26)
92 Minor tweak in Makefile.
96 Version 4.5.2 (2012-09-24)
100 Handle redirects with codes 303 and 307.
102 Fixed a bug in handling place: URIs (do not append '//').
104 Version 4.5.1 (2011-12-28).
106 Read/write mozilla-specific date/time format in json storage.
108 Version 4.5.0 (2011-12-18).
110 Encode international domain names with IDNA encoding.
112 Adapted to different Mozilla 'place' URIs.
114 Version 4.4.0 (2011-01-07).
116 Moved BeautifulSoup.py and subproc.py from Robots/ to the top-level
119 Moved parse_html.py and its submodules to a separate parse_html package.
121 Added statistics code to parse_html, got a statistics on parser
122 success/failrure rate, reordered parsers.
126 Version 4.3.1 (2011-01-03).
128 Get favicon before HTML redirect (refresh).
130 Version 4.3.0 (2011-01-01).
132 Robots no longer have one global temporary file - there are at least two
133 (html and favicon), and in the future there will be more for asynchronous
134 robot(s) that would test many URLs in parallel.
138 Added HTML Parser based on lxml.
140 Version 4.2.1 (2010-08-12).
142 Added HTML Parser based on html5 library.
144 Version 4.2.0 (2010-08-11).
146 New storage: json; it allows to load and store Mozilla (Firefox) backup
151 Process http error 307 as a temporary redirect.
153 Version 4.1.1 (2008-03-10)
155 Catch and report all errors.
157 Consider application/xhtml+xml as HTML.
159 Better handling of exceptions while looking up the icon.
161 Recode HTML entities.
163 Always use utf-8 as the default encoding.
165 Version 4.1.0 (2008-01-14)
167 Parser for HTML based on BeautifulSoup.
169 Changed User-agent header: I saw a number of sites that forbid
170 "Mozilla compatible" browsers. Added a number of fake headers to pretend
171 this is a real web-browser - there are still stupid sites
172 that are trying to protect themselves from robots by analyzing headers.
174 Handle redirects while looking for the icon.
176 Handle float timeouts in HTML redirects.
178 Minimal required version of Python is 2.5 now.
180 Version 4.0.0 (2007-10-20)
182 Extended support for Mozilla: charset and icon in bookmarks.
183 Use the charset to add Accept-Charset header.
184 Retrieve favicon.ico (or whatever <link> points to) and store it.
186 The project celebrates 10th anniversary!
188 Version 3.4.1 (2005-01-29)
190 Updated to Python 2.4. Switched from CVS to Subversion.
192 Version 3.4.0 (2004-09-23)
194 Extended support for Mozilla: keywords in bookmarks.
195 Updated to m_lib version 1.2.
199 parse_html.py can now recode unicode entities in titles.
205 HTML parser. If the protocol is HTTP, and there is Content-Type header, and
206 content type is text/html, the object is parsed to extract its title; if
207 the Content-Type header has charset, or if the HTML has <META> with
208 charset, the title is converted from the given charset to the default
209 charset. The <HEADER> is also parsed to extract <META> tag with redirect,
214 Complete rewrite from scratch. Created mechanism for pluggable storage
215 managers, writers (DB dumpers/exporters) and robots.