urllib.robotparser.RobotFileParser

class urllib.robotparser.RobotFileParser(url='')

This class provides methods to read, parse and answer questions about the robots.txt file at url.

set_url(url)

Sets the URL referring to a robots.txt file.

read()

Reads the robots.txt URL and feeds it to the parser.

parse(lines)

Parses the lines argument.

can_fetch(useragent, url)

Returns True if the useragent is allowed to fetch the url according to the rules contained in the parsed robots.txt file.

mtime()

Returns the time the robots.txt file was last fetched. This is useful for long-running web spiders that need to check for new robots.txt files periodically.

modified()

Sets the time the robots.txt file was last fetched to the current time.