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