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