1 Version 5.2.2 (2024-03-03)
3 Robots/bkmk_rrequests: Add request headers.
5 Version 5.2.1 (2024-03-02)
7 Speedup second access through proxy.
9 Version 5.2.0 (2024-03-02)
11 For the robot based on requests allow to use a proxy.
13 Version 5.1.0 (2024-03-01)
15 Robot based on requests.
17 Version 5.0.0 (2023-11-22)
21 Report redirects and set URLs.
25 Remove BeautifulSoup.py (use globally installed).
27 Version 4.6.0 (2014-07-06)
29 Split simple robot: separate network operations and
30 URL handling/HTML parsing.
32 Change parse_html to parse strings, not files.
34 Split parse_html/__init__.py into __main__.py.
36 Adapt JSON storage to recent Mozilla export format.
40 Allow parameters in BKMK_* environment variables; for example,
41 BKMK_ROBOT=forking:subproc=urllib or
42 BKMK_STORAGE=json:filename=bookmarks_db.json.
44 Pass subproc parameter to the subprocess to allow different robots.
46 Add a new robot based on urllib2.
48 Version 4.5.6 (2014-01-14)
50 Remove absolute directory ~/lib to make it portable.
52 Version 4.5.5 (2013-12-05)
54 Parse <meta charset="...">.
56 Version 4.5.4 (2013-11-23)
58 Published through git/gitweb.
60 Version 4.5.3 (2013-07-26)
62 Minor tweak in Makefile.
66 Version 4.5.2 (2012-09-24)
70 Handle redirects with codes 303 and 307.
72 Fixed a bug in handling place: URIs (do not append '//').
74 Version 4.5.1 (2011-12-28).
76 Read/write mozilla-specific date/time format in json storage.
78 Version 4.5.0 (2011-12-18).
80 Encode international domain names with IDNA encoding.
82 Adapted to different Mozilla 'place' URIs.
84 Version 4.4.0 (2011-01-07).
86 Moved BeautifulSoup.py and subproc.py from Robots/ to the top-level
89 Moved parse_html.py and its submodules to a separate parse_html package.
91 Added statistics code to parse_html, got a statistics on parser
92 success/failrure rate, reordered parsers.
96 Version 4.3.1 (2011-01-03).
98 Get favicon before HTML redirect (refresh).
100 Version 4.3.0 (2011-01-01).
102 Robots no longer have one global temporary file - there are at least two
103 (html and favicon), and in the future there will be more for asynchronous
104 robot(s) that would test many URLs in parallel.
108 Added HTML Parser based on lxml.
110 Version 4.2.1 (2010-08-12).
112 Added HTML Parser based on html5 library.
114 Version 4.2.0 (2010-08-11).
116 New storage: json; it allows to load and store Mozilla (Firefox) backup
121 Process http error 307 as a temporary redirect.
123 Version 4.1.1 (2008-03-10)
125 Catch and report all errors.
127 Consider application/xhtml+xml as HTML.
129 Better handling of exceptions while looking up the icon.
131 Recode HTML entities.
133 Always use utf-8 as the default encoding.
135 Version 4.1.0 (2008-01-14)
137 Parser for HTML based on BeautifulSoup.
139 Changed User-agent header: I saw a number of sites that forbid
140 "Mozilla compatible" browsers. Added a number of fake headers to pretend
141 this is a real web-browser - there are still stupid sites
142 that are trying to protect themselves from robots by analyzing headers.
144 Handle redirects while looking for the icon.
146 Handle float timeouts in HTML redirects.
148 Minimal required version of Python is 2.5 now.
150 Version 4.0.0 (2007-10-20)
152 Extended support for Mozilla: charset and icon in bookmarks.
153 Use the charset to add Accept-Charset header.
154 Retrieve favicon.ico (or whatever <link> points to) and store it.
156 The project celebrates 10th anniversary!
158 Version 3.4.1 (2005-01-29)
160 Updated to Python 2.4. Switched from CVS to Subversion.
162 Version 3.4.0 (2004-09-23)
164 Extended support for Mozilla: keywords in bookmarks.
165 Updated to m_lib version 1.2.
169 parse_html.py can now recode unicode entities in titles.
175 HTML parser. If the protocol is HTTP, and there is Content-Type header, and
176 content type is text/html, the object is parsed to extract its title; if
177 the Content-Type header has charset, or if the HTML has <META> with
178 charset, the title is converted from the given charset to the default
179 charset. The <HEADER> is also parsed to extract <META> tag with redirect,
184 Complete rewrite from scratch. Created mechanism for pluggable storage
185 managers, writers (DB dumpers/exporters) and robots.