1 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.6.0
3 Split simple robot: separate network operations and
4 URL handling/HTML parsing.
6 Adapt JSON storage to recent Mozilla export format.
9 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.5.7
14 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.5.6 (2014-01-14)
16 Remove absolute directory ~/lib to make it portable.
19 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.5.5 (2013-12-05)
21 Parse <meta charset="...">.
24 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.5.4 (2013-11-23)
26 Published through git/gitweb.
29 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.5.3 (2013-07-26)
31 Minor tweak in Makefile.
36 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.5.2 (2012-09-24)
40 Handle redirects with codes 303 and 307.
42 Fixed a bug in handling place: URIs (do not append '//').
45 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.5.1 (2011-12-28).
47 Read/write mozilla-specific date/time format in json storage.
50 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.5.0 (2011-12-18).
52 Encode international domain names with IDNA encoding.
54 Adapted to different Mozilla 'place' URIs.
57 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.4.0 (2011-01-07).
59 Moved BeautifulSoup.py and subproc.py from Robots/ to the top-level
62 Moved parse_html.py and its submodules to a separate parse_html package.
64 Added statistics code to parse_html, got a statistics on parser
65 success/failrure rate, reordered parsers.
70 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.3.1 (2011-01-03).
72 Get favicon before HTML redirect (refresh).
75 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.3.0 (2011-01-01).
77 Robots no longer have one global temporary file - there are at least two
78 (html and favicon), and in the future there will be more for asynchronous
79 robot(s) that would test many URLs in parallel.
82 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.2.2.
84 Added HTML Parser based on lxml.
87 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.2.1 (2010-08-12).
89 Added HTML Parser based on html5 library.
92 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.2.0 (2010-08-11).
94 New storage: json; it allows to load and store Mozilla (Firefox) backup
98 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.1.2
100 Process http error 307 as a temporary redirect.
103 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.1.1 (2008-03-10)
105 Catch and report all errors.
107 Consider application/xhtml+xml as HTML.
109 Better handling of exceptions while looking up the icon.
111 Recode HTML entities.
113 Always use utf-8 as the default encoding.
116 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.1.0 (2008-01-14)
118 Parser for HTML based on BeautifulSoup.
120 Changed User-agent header: I saw a number of sites that forbid
121 "Mozilla compatible" browsers. Added a number of fake headers to pretend
122 this is a real web-browser - there are still stupid sites
123 that are trying to protect themselves from robots by analyzing headers.
125 Handle redirects while looking for the icon.
127 Handle float timeouts in HTML redirects.
129 Minimal required version of Python is 2.5 now.
132 WHAT'S NEW in 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!
141 WHAT'S NEW in version 3.4.1 (2005-01-29)
143 Updated to Python 2.4. Switched from CVS to Subversion.
146 WHAT'S NEW in version 3.4.0 (2004-09-23)
148 Extended support for Mozilla: keywords in bookmarks.
149 Updated to m_lib version 1.2.
152 WHAT'S NEW in version 3.3.2
154 parse_html.py can now recode unicode entities in titles.
157 WHAT'S NEW in version 3.3.0
161 HTML parser. If the protocol is HTTP, and there is Content-Type header, and
162 content type is text/html, the object is parsed to extract its title; if
163 the Content-Type header has charset, or if the HTML has <META> with
164 charset, the title is converted from the given charset to the default
165 charset. The <HEADER> is also parsed to extract <META> tag with redirect,
169 WHAT'S NEW in version 3.0
171 Complete rewrite from scratch. Created mechanism for pluggable storage
172 managers, writers (DB dumpers/exporters) and robots.