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