1 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.6.0 (2014-06-??)
3 Split simple robot: separate network operations and
4 URL handling/HTML parsing.
6 Change parse_html to parse strings, not files.
8 Split parse_html/__init__.py into __main__.py.
10 Adapt JSON storage to recent Mozilla export format.
15 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.5.6 (2014-01-14)
17 Remove absolute directory ~/lib to make it portable.
20 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.5.5 (2013-12-05)
22 Parse <meta charset="...">.
25 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.5.4 (2013-11-23)
27 Published through git/gitweb.
30 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.5.3 (2013-07-26)
32 Minor tweak in Makefile.
37 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.5.2 (2012-09-24)
41 Handle redirects with codes 303 and 307.
43 Fixed a bug in handling place: URIs (do not append '//').
46 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.5.1 (2011-12-28).
48 Read/write mozilla-specific date/time format in json storage.
51 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.5.0 (2011-12-18).
53 Encode international domain names with IDNA encoding.
55 Adapted to different Mozilla 'place' URIs.
58 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.4.0 (2011-01-07).
60 Moved BeautifulSoup.py and subproc.py from Robots/ to the top-level
63 Moved parse_html.py and its submodules to a separate parse_html package.
65 Added statistics code to parse_html, got a statistics on parser
66 success/failrure rate, reordered parsers.
71 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.3.1 (2011-01-03).
73 Get favicon before HTML redirect (refresh).
76 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.3.0 (2011-01-01).
78 Robots no longer have one global temporary file - there are at least two
79 (html and favicon), and in the future there will be more for asynchronous
80 robot(s) that would test many URLs in parallel.
83 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.2.2.
85 Added HTML Parser based on lxml.
88 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.2.1 (2010-08-12).
90 Added HTML Parser based on html5 library.
93 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.2.0 (2010-08-11).
95 New storage: json; it allows to load and store Mozilla (Firefox) backup
99 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.1.2
101 Process http error 307 as a temporary redirect.
104 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.1.1 (2008-03-10)
106 Catch and report all errors.
108 Consider application/xhtml+xml as HTML.
110 Better handling of exceptions while looking up the icon.
112 Recode HTML entities.
114 Always use utf-8 as the default encoding.
117 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.1.0 (2008-01-14)
119 Parser for HTML based on BeautifulSoup.
121 Changed User-agent header: I saw a number of sites that forbid
122 "Mozilla compatible" browsers. Added a number of fake headers to pretend
123 this is a real web-browser - there are still stupid sites
124 that are trying to protect themselves from robots by analyzing headers.
126 Handle redirects while looking for the icon.
128 Handle float timeouts in HTML redirects.
130 Minimal required version of Python is 2.5 now.
133 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.0.0 (2007-10-20)
135 Extended support for Mozilla: charset and icon in bookmarks.
136 Use the charset to add Accept-Charset header.
137 Retrieve favicon.ico (or whatever <link> points to) and store it.
139 The project celebrates 10th anniversary!
142 WHAT'S NEW in version 3.4.1 (2005-01-29)
144 Updated to Python 2.4. Switched from CVS to Subversion.
147 WHAT'S NEW in version 3.4.0 (2004-09-23)
149 Extended support for Mozilla: keywords in bookmarks.
150 Updated to m_lib version 1.2.
153 WHAT'S NEW in version 3.3.2
155 parse_html.py can now recode unicode entities in titles.
158 WHAT'S NEW in version 3.3.0
162 HTML parser. If the protocol is HTTP, and there is Content-Type header, and
163 content type is text/html, the object is parsed to extract its title; if
164 the Content-Type header has charset, or if the HTML has <META> with
165 charset, the title is converted from the given charset to the default
166 charset. The <HEADER> is also parsed to extract <META> tag with redirect,
170 WHAT'S NEW in version 3.0
172 Complete rewrite from scratch. Created mechanism for pluggable storage
173 managers, writers (DB dumpers/exporters) and robots.