1 Version 5.0.0 (2023-??-??)
5 Report redirects and set URLs.
7 Remove BeautifulSoup.py (use globally installed).
9 Version 4.6.0 (2014-07-06)
11 Split simple robot: separate network operations and
12 URL handling/HTML parsing.
14 Change parse_html to parse strings, not files.
16 Split parse_html/__init__.py into __main__.py.
18 Adapt JSON storage to recent Mozilla export format.
22 Allow parameters in BKMK_* environment variables; for example,
23 BKMK_ROBOT=forking:subproc=urllib or
24 BKMK_STORAGE=json:filename=bookmarks_db.json.
26 Pass subproc parameter to the subprocess to allow different robots.
28 Add a new robot based on urllib2.
30 Version 4.5.6 (2014-01-14)
32 Remove absolute directory ~/lib to make it portable.
34 Version 4.5.5 (2013-12-05)
36 Parse <meta charset="...">.
38 Version 4.5.4 (2013-11-23)
40 Published through git/gitweb.
42 Version 4.5.3 (2013-07-26)
44 Minor tweak in Makefile.
48 Version 4.5.2 (2012-09-24)
52 Handle redirects with codes 303 and 307.
54 Fixed a bug in handling place: URIs (do not append '//').
56 Version 4.5.1 (2011-12-28).
58 Read/write mozilla-specific date/time format in json storage.
60 Version 4.5.0 (2011-12-18).
62 Encode international domain names with IDNA encoding.
64 Adapted to different Mozilla 'place' URIs.
66 Version 4.4.0 (2011-01-07).
68 Moved BeautifulSoup.py and subproc.py from Robots/ to the top-level
71 Moved parse_html.py and its submodules to a separate parse_html package.
73 Added statistics code to parse_html, got a statistics on parser
74 success/failrure rate, reordered parsers.
78 Version 4.3.1 (2011-01-03).
80 Get favicon before HTML redirect (refresh).
82 Version 4.3.0 (2011-01-01).
84 Robots no longer have one global temporary file - there are at least two
85 (html and favicon), and in the future there will be more for asynchronous
86 robot(s) that would test many URLs in parallel.
90 Added HTML Parser based on lxml.
92 Version 4.2.1 (2010-08-12).
94 Added HTML Parser based on html5 library.
96 Version 4.2.0 (2010-08-11).
98 New storage: json; it allows to load and store Mozilla (Firefox) backup
103 Process http error 307 as a temporary redirect.
105 Version 4.1.1 (2008-03-10)
107 Catch and report all errors.
109 Consider application/xhtml+xml as HTML.
111 Better handling of exceptions while looking up the icon.
113 Recode HTML entities.
115 Always use utf-8 as the default encoding.
117 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.
132 Version 4.0.0 (2007-10-20)
134 Extended support for Mozilla: charset and icon in bookmarks.
135 Use the charset to add Accept-Charset header.
136 Retrieve favicon.ico (or whatever <link> points to) and store it.
138 The project celebrates 10th anniversary!
140 Version 3.4.1 (2005-01-29)
142 Updated to Python 2.4. Switched from CVS to Subversion.
144 Version 3.4.0 (2004-09-23)
146 Extended support for Mozilla: keywords in bookmarks.
147 Updated to m_lib version 1.2.
151 parse_html.py can now recode unicode entities in titles.
157 HTML parser. If the protocol is HTTP, and there is Content-Type header, and
158 content type is text/html, the object is parsed to extract its title; if
159 the Content-Type header has charset, or if the HTML has <META> with
160 charset, the title is converted from the given charset to the default
161 charset. The <HEADER> is also parsed to extract <META> tag with redirect,
166 Complete rewrite from scratch. Created mechanism for pluggable storage
167 managers, writers (DB dumpers/exporters) and robots.