-WHAT'S NEW in version 4.6.0 (2014-07-06)
+Version 4.6.0 (2014-07-06)
Split simple robot: separate network operations and
URL handling/HTML parsing.
Add a new robot based on urllib2.
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-WHAT'S NEW in version 4.5.6 (2014-01-14)
+Version 4.5.6 (2014-01-14)
Remove absolute directory ~/lib to make it portable.
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-WHAT'S NEW in version 4.5.5 (2013-12-05)
+Version 4.5.5 (2013-12-05)
Parse <meta charset="...">.
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-WHAT'S NEW in version 4.5.4 (2013-11-23)
+Version 4.5.4 (2013-11-23)
Published through git/gitweb.
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-WHAT'S NEW in version 4.5.3 (2013-07-26)
+Version 4.5.3 (2013-07-26)
Minor tweak in Makefile.
Switched to git.
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-WHAT'S NEW in version 4.5.2 (2012-09-24)
+Version 4.5.2 (2012-09-24)
Removed svn:keywords.
Fixed a bug in handling place: URIs (do not append '//').
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-WHAT'S NEW in version 4.5.1 (2011-12-28).
+Version 4.5.1 (2011-12-28).
Read/write mozilla-specific date/time format in json storage.
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-WHAT'S NEW in version 4.5.0 (2011-12-18).
+Version 4.5.0 (2011-12-18).
Encode international domain names with IDNA encoding.
Adapted to different Mozilla 'place' URIs.
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-WHAT'S NEW in version 4.4.0 (2011-01-07).
+Version 4.4.0 (2011-01-07).
Moved BeautifulSoup.py and subproc.py from Robots/ to the top-level
directory.
Removed old cruft.
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-WHAT'S NEW in version 4.3.1 (2011-01-03).
+Version 4.3.1 (2011-01-03).
Get favicon before HTML redirect (refresh).
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-WHAT'S NEW in version 4.3.0 (2011-01-01).
+Version 4.3.0 (2011-01-01).
Robots no longer have one global temporary file - there are at least two
(html and favicon), and in the future there will be more for asynchronous
robot(s) that would test many URLs in parallel.
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-WHAT'S NEW in version 4.2.2.
+Version 4.2.2.
Added HTML Parser based on lxml.
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-WHAT'S NEW in version 4.2.1 (2010-08-12).
+Version 4.2.1 (2010-08-12).
Added HTML Parser based on html5 library.
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-WHAT'S NEW in version 4.2.0 (2010-08-11).
+Version 4.2.0 (2010-08-11).
New storage: json; it allows to load and store Mozilla (Firefox) backup
files.
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-WHAT'S NEW in version 4.1.2
+Version 4.1.2
Process http error 307 as a temporary redirect.
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-WHAT'S NEW in version 4.1.1 (2008-03-10)
+Version 4.1.1 (2008-03-10)
Catch and report all errors.
Always use utf-8 as the default encoding.
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-WHAT'S NEW in version 4.1.0 (2008-01-14)
+Version 4.1.0 (2008-01-14)
Parser for HTML based on BeautifulSoup.
Minimal required version of Python is 2.5 now.
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-WHAT'S NEW in version 4.0.0 (2007-10-20)
+Version 4.0.0 (2007-10-20)
Extended support for Mozilla: charset and icon in bookmarks.
Use the charset to add Accept-Charset header.
The project celebrates 10th anniversary!
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-WHAT'S NEW in version 3.4.1 (2005-01-29)
+Version 3.4.1 (2005-01-29)
Updated to Python 2.4. Switched from CVS to Subversion.
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-WHAT'S NEW in version 3.4.0 (2004-09-23)
+Version 3.4.0 (2004-09-23)
Extended support for Mozilla: keywords in bookmarks.
Updated to m_lib version 1.2.
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-WHAT'S NEW in version 3.3.2
+Version 3.3.2
parse_html.py can now recode unicode entities in titles.
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-WHAT'S NEW in version 3.3.0
+Version 3.3.0
Required Python 2.2.
charset. The <HEADER> is also parsed to extract <META> tag with redirect,
if any.
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-WHAT'S NEW in version 3.0
+Version 3.0
Complete rewrite from scratch. Created mechanism for pluggable storage
managers, writers (DB dumpers/exporters) and robots.