1 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.6.0
3 Split simple robot: separate network operations and
4 URL handling/HTML parsing.
7 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.5.7
12 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.5.6 (2014-01-14)
14 Remove absolute directory ~/lib to make it portable.
17 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.5.5 (2013-12-05)
19 Parse <meta charset="...">.
22 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.5.4 (2013-11-23)
24 Published through git/gitweb.
27 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.5.3 (2013-07-26)
29 Minor tweak in Makefile.
34 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.5.2 (2012-09-24)
38 Handle redirects with codes 303 and 307.
40 Fixed a bug in handling place: URIs (do not append '//').
43 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.5.1 (2011-12-28).
45 Read/write mozilla-specific date/time format in json storage.
48 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.5.0 (2011-12-18).
50 Encode international domain names with IDNA encoding.
52 Adapted to different Mozilla 'place' URIs.
55 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.4.0 (2011-01-07).
57 Moved BeautifulSoup.py and subproc.py from Robots/ to the top-level
60 Moved parse_html.py and its submodules to a separate parse_html package.
62 Added statistics code to parse_html, got a statistics on parser
63 success/failrure rate, reordered parsers.
68 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.3.1 (2011-01-03).
70 Get favicon before HTML redirect (refresh).
73 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.3.0 (2011-01-01).
75 Robots no longer have one global temporary file - there are at least two
76 (html and favicon), and in the future there will be more for asynchronous
77 robot(s) that would test many URLs in parallel.
80 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.2.2.
82 Added HTML Parser based on lxml.
85 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.2.1 (2010-08-12).
87 Added HTML Parser based on html5 library.
90 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.2.0 (2010-08-11).
92 New storage: json; it allows to load and store Mozilla (Firefox) backup
96 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.1.2
98 Process http error 307 as a temporary redirect.
101 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.1.1 (2008-03-10)
103 Catch and report all errors.
105 Consider application/xhtml+xml as HTML.
107 Better handling of exceptions while looking up the icon.
109 Recode HTML entities.
111 Always use utf-8 as the default encoding.
114 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.1.0 (2008-01-14)
116 Parser for HTML based on BeautifulSoup.
118 Changed User-agent header: I saw a number of sites that forbid
119 "Mozilla compatible" browsers. Added a number of fake headers to pretend
120 this is a real web-browser - there are still stupid sites
121 that are trying to protect themselves from robots by analyzing headers.
123 Handle redirects while looking for the icon.
125 Handle float timeouts in HTML redirects.
127 Minimal required version of Python is 2.5 now.
130 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.0.0 (2007-10-20)
132 Extended support for Mozilla: charset and icon in bookmarks.
133 Use the charset to add Accept-Charset header.
134 Retrieve favicon.ico (or whatever <link> points to) and store it.
136 The project celebrates 10th anniversary!
139 WHAT'S NEW in version 3.4.1 (2005-01-29)
141 Updated to Python 2.4. Switched from CVS to Subversion.
144 WHAT'S NEW in version 3.4.0 (2004-09-23)
146 Extended support for Mozilla: keywords in bookmarks.
147 Updated to m_lib version 1.2.
150 WHAT'S NEW in version 3.3.2
152 parse_html.py can now recode unicode entities in titles.
155 WHAT'S NEW in version 3.3.0
159 HTML parser. If the protocol is HTTP, and there is Content-Type header, and
160 content type is text/html, the object is parsed to extract its title; if
161 the Content-Type header has charset, or if the HTML has <META> with
162 charset, the title is converted from the given charset to the default
163 charset. The <HEADER> is also parsed to extract <META> tag with redirect,
167 WHAT'S NEW in version 3.0
169 Complete rewrite from scratch. Created mechanism for pluggable storage
170 managers, writers (DB dumpers/exporters) and robots.