1 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.6.0 (2014-06-??)
3 Split simple robot: separate network operations and
4 URL handling/HTML parsing.
6 Change parse_html to parse strings, not files.
8 Split parse_html/__init__.py into __main__.py.
10 Adapt JSON storage to recent Mozilla export format.
14 Allow parameters in BKMK_* environment variables; for example,
15 BKMK_ROBOT=forking:subproc=urllib or
16 BKMK_STORAGE=json:filename=bookmarks_db.json.
19 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.5.6 (2014-01-14)
21 Remove absolute directory ~/lib to make it portable.
24 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.5.5 (2013-12-05)
26 Parse <meta charset="...">.
29 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.5.4 (2013-11-23)
31 Published through git/gitweb.
34 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.5.3 (2013-07-26)
36 Minor tweak in Makefile.
41 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.5.2 (2012-09-24)
45 Handle redirects with codes 303 and 307.
47 Fixed a bug in handling place: URIs (do not append '//').
50 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.5.1 (2011-12-28).
52 Read/write mozilla-specific date/time format in json storage.
55 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.5.0 (2011-12-18).
57 Encode international domain names with IDNA encoding.
59 Adapted to different Mozilla 'place' URIs.
62 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.4.0 (2011-01-07).
64 Moved BeautifulSoup.py and subproc.py from Robots/ to the top-level
67 Moved parse_html.py and its submodules to a separate parse_html package.
69 Added statistics code to parse_html, got a statistics on parser
70 success/failrure rate, reordered parsers.
75 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.3.1 (2011-01-03).
77 Get favicon before HTML redirect (refresh).
80 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.3.0 (2011-01-01).
82 Robots no longer have one global temporary file - there are at least two
83 (html and favicon), and in the future there will be more for asynchronous
84 robot(s) that would test many URLs in parallel.
87 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.2.2.
89 Added HTML Parser based on lxml.
92 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.2.1 (2010-08-12).
94 Added HTML Parser based on html5 library.
97 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.2.0 (2010-08-11).
99 New storage: json; it allows to load and store Mozilla (Firefox) backup
103 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.1.2
105 Process http error 307 as a temporary redirect.
108 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.1.1 (2008-03-10)
110 Catch and report all errors.
112 Consider application/xhtml+xml as HTML.
114 Better handling of exceptions while looking up the icon.
116 Recode HTML entities.
118 Always use utf-8 as the default encoding.
121 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.1.0 (2008-01-14)
123 Parser for HTML based on BeautifulSoup.
125 Changed User-agent header: I saw a number of sites that forbid
126 "Mozilla compatible" browsers. Added a number of fake headers to pretend
127 this is a real web-browser - there are still stupid sites
128 that are trying to protect themselves from robots by analyzing headers.
130 Handle redirects while looking for the icon.
132 Handle float timeouts in HTML redirects.
134 Minimal required version of Python is 2.5 now.
137 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.0.0 (2007-10-20)
139 Extended support for Mozilla: charset and icon in bookmarks.
140 Use the charset to add Accept-Charset header.
141 Retrieve favicon.ico (or whatever <link> points to) and store it.
143 The project celebrates 10th anniversary!
146 WHAT'S NEW in version 3.4.1 (2005-01-29)
148 Updated to Python 2.4. Switched from CVS to Subversion.
151 WHAT'S NEW in version 3.4.0 (2004-09-23)
153 Extended support for Mozilla: keywords in bookmarks.
154 Updated to m_lib version 1.2.
157 WHAT'S NEW in version 3.3.2
159 parse_html.py can now recode unicode entities in titles.
162 WHAT'S NEW in version 3.3.0
166 HTML parser. If the protocol is HTTP, and there is Content-Type header, and
167 content type is text/html, the object is parsed to extract its title; if
168 the Content-Type header has charset, or if the HTML has <META> with
169 charset, the title is converted from the given charset to the default
170 charset. The <HEADER> is also parsed to extract <META> tag with redirect,
174 WHAT'S NEW in version 3.0
176 Complete rewrite from scratch. Created mechanism for pluggable storage
177 managers, writers (DB dumpers/exporters) and robots.