Module robotparser

robotparser.py

You can choose between two licenses when using this package: 1) GNU GPLv2 2) PSF license for Python 2.2

The robots.txt Exclusion Protocol is implemented as specified in http://info.webcrawler.com/mak/projects/robots/norobots-rfc.html

Classes

RobotFileParser
This class provides a set of methods to read, parse and answer questions about a single robots.txt file.

RuleLine
A rule line is a single "Allow:" (allowance==True) or "Disallow:" (allowance==False) followed by a path.

Entry
An entry has one or more user-agents and zero or more rulelines

URLopener

Functions

_debug(msg)

_check(a, b)

_test()

Variables

debug = 0

Imports: urlparse, urllib