1 Version 4.7.0 (2017-??-??)
3 Remove BeautifulSoup.py (use globally installed).
5 Version 4.6.0 (2014-07-06)
7 Split simple robot: separate network operations and
8 URL handling/HTML parsing.
10 Change parse_html to parse strings, not files.
12 Split parse_html/__init__.py into __main__.py.
14 Adapt JSON storage to recent Mozilla export format.
18 Allow parameters in BKMK_* environment variables; for example,
19 BKMK_ROBOT=forking:subproc=urllib or
20 BKMK_STORAGE=json:filename=bookmarks_db.json.
22 Pass subproc parameter to the subprocess to allow different robots.
24 Add a new robot based on urllib2.
26 Version 4.5.6 (2014-01-14)
28 Remove absolute directory ~/lib to make it portable.
30 Version 4.5.5 (2013-12-05)
32 Parse <meta charset="...">.
34 Version 4.5.4 (2013-11-23)
36 Published through git/gitweb.
38 Version 4.5.3 (2013-07-26)
40 Minor tweak in Makefile.
44 Version 4.5.2 (2012-09-24)
48 Handle redirects with codes 303 and 307.
50 Fixed a bug in handling place: URIs (do not append '//').
52 Version 4.5.1 (2011-12-28).
54 Read/write mozilla-specific date/time format in json storage.
56 Version 4.5.0 (2011-12-18).
58 Encode international domain names with IDNA encoding.
60 Adapted to different Mozilla 'place' URIs.
62 Version 4.4.0 (2011-01-07).
64 Moved BeautifulSoup.py and subproc.py from Robots/ to the top-level
67 Moved parse_html.py and its submodules to a separate parse_html package.
69 Added statistics code to parse_html, got a statistics on parser
70 success/failrure rate, reordered parsers.
74 Version 4.3.1 (2011-01-03).
76 Get favicon before HTML redirect (refresh).
78 Version 4.3.0 (2011-01-01).
80 Robots no longer have one global temporary file - there are at least two
81 (html and favicon), and in the future there will be more for asynchronous
82 robot(s) that would test many URLs in parallel.
86 Added HTML Parser based on lxml.
88 Version 4.2.1 (2010-08-12).
90 Added HTML Parser based on html5 library.
92 Version 4.2.0 (2010-08-11).
94 New storage: json; it allows to load and store Mozilla (Firefox) backup
99 Process http error 307 as a temporary redirect.
101 Version 4.1.1 (2008-03-10)
103 Catch and report all errors.
105 Consider application/xhtml+xml as HTML.
107 Better handling of exceptions while looking up the icon.
109 Recode HTML entities.
111 Always use utf-8 as the default encoding.
113 Version 4.1.0 (2008-01-14)
115 Parser for HTML based on BeautifulSoup.
117 Changed User-agent header: I saw a number of sites that forbid
118 "Mozilla compatible" browsers. Added a number of fake headers to pretend
119 this is a real web-browser - there are still stupid sites
120 that are trying to protect themselves from robots by analyzing headers.
122 Handle redirects while looking for the icon.
124 Handle float timeouts in HTML redirects.
126 Minimal required version of Python is 2.5 now.
128 Version 4.0.0 (2007-10-20)
130 Extended support for Mozilla: charset and icon in bookmarks.
131 Use the charset to add Accept-Charset header.
132 Retrieve favicon.ico (or whatever <link> points to) and store it.
134 The project celebrates 10th anniversary!
136 Version 3.4.1 (2005-01-29)
138 Updated to Python 2.4. Switched from CVS to Subversion.
140 Version 3.4.0 (2004-09-23)
142 Extended support for Mozilla: keywords in bookmarks.
143 Updated to m_lib version 1.2.
147 parse_html.py can now recode unicode entities in titles.
153 HTML parser. If the protocol is HTTP, and there is Content-Type header, and
154 content type is text/html, the object is parsed to extract its title; if
155 the Content-Type header has charset, or if the HTML has <META> with
156 charset, the title is converted from the given charset to the default
157 charset. The <HEADER> is also parsed to extract <META> tag with redirect,
162 Complete rewrite from scratch. Created mechanism for pluggable storage
163 managers, writers (DB dumpers/exporters) and robots.