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protego_robots_txt_parsing_and_url_access_check.py

python

Parse a robots.txt file and check if a specific user-agent is allowed to visit a

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protego_robots_txt_parsing_and_url_access_check.py
1from protego import Protego
2
3robots_txt = """
4User-agent: *
5Disallow: /admin/
6Allow: /admin/login/
7
8User-agent: Googlebot
9Disallow: /test/
10"""
11
12rp = Protego.parse(robots_txt)
13
14# Returns True
15print(rp.can_fetch("http://example.com/admin/login/", "Googlebot"))
16
17# Returns False
18print(rp.can_fetch("http://example.com/admin/", "Googlebot"))
19
20# Returns False
21print(rp.can_fetch("http://example.com/test/", "Googlebot"))