NAME

WWW::RobotRules::Parser - Just Parse robots.txt

SYNOPSIS

  use WWW::RobotRules::Parser;
  my $p = WWW::RobotRules::Parser->new;
  $p->parse($robots_txt_uri, $text);

  $p->parse_uri($robots_txt_uri);

DESCRIPTION

WWW::RobotRules::Parser allows you to simply parse robots.txt files as described in http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/norobots.html. Unlike WWW::RobotRules (which is very cool), this module does not take into consideration your user agent name when parsing. It just parses the structure and returns a hash containing the whole set of rules. You can then use this to do whatever you like with it.

I mainly wrote this to store away the parsed data structure else where for later use, without having to specify an user agent.

METHODS

new

Creates a new instance of WWW::RobotRules::Parser

parse($uri, $text)

Given the URI of the robots.txt file and its contents, parses the content and returns a data structure that looks like the following:

  {
     '*' => [ '/private', '/also_private' ],
     'Another UserAgent' => [ '/dont_look' ]
  }

Where the key is the user agent name, and the value is an arrayref of all paths that are prohibited by that user agent

parse_uri($uri)

Given the URI of the robots.txt file, retrieves and parses the file.

AUTHOR

LICENSE

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html