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