diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
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+target
+Cargo.lock
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
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+[package]
+name = "robotparser"
+version = "0.1.0"
+authors = ["messense <messense@icloud.com>"]
+
+[dependencies]
+hyper = "*"
+url = "*"
+time = "*"
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
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+//!
+//! robots.txt parser for Rust
+//!
+//! The robots.txt Exclusion Protocol is implemented as specified in
+//! http://www.robotstxt.org/norobots-rfc.txt
+//!
+extern crate url;
+extern crate time;
+extern crate hyper;
+
+use std::io::Read;
+use std::cell::{Cell, RefCell};
+use url::Url;
+use hyper::{Client};
+use hyper::status::StatusCode;
+
+/// A rule line is a single "Allow:" (allowance==True) or "Disallow:"
+/// (allowance==False) followed by a path."""
+#[derive(Debug, Eq, PartialEq, Clone)]
+struct RuleLine {
+    path: String,
+    allowance: bool,
+}
+
+/// An entry has one or more user-agents and zero or more rulelines
+#[derive(Debug, Eq, PartialEq, Clone)]
+struct Entry {
+    useragents: RefCell<Vec<String>>,
+    rulelines: RefCell<Vec<RuleLine>>,
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug, Eq, PartialEq, Clone)]
+pub struct RobotFileParser {
+    entries: RefCell<Vec<Entry>>,
+    default_entry: RefCell<Entry>,
+    disallow_all: Cell<bool>,
+    allow_all: Cell<bool>,
+    url: Url,
+    host: String,
+    path: String,
+    last_checked: Cell<i64>,
+}
+
+
+impl RuleLine {
+    fn new(path: &str, allowance: bool) -> RuleLine {
+        let mut allow = allowance;
+        if path == "" && !allowance {
+            // an empty value means allow all
+            allow = true;
+        }
+        RuleLine {
+            path: path.to_owned(),
+            allowance: allow,
+        }
+    }
+
+    fn applies_to(&self, filename: &str) -> bool {
+        &self.path == "*" || filename.starts_with(&self.path)
+    }
+}
+
+
+impl Entry {
+    fn new() -> Entry {
+        Entry {
+            useragents: RefCell::new(vec![]),
+            rulelines: RefCell::new(vec![]),
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// check if this entry applies to the specified agent
+    fn applies_to(&self, useragent: &str) -> bool {
+        let ua = useragent.split("/").nth(0).unwrap_or("");
+        let useragents = self.useragents.borrow().clone();
+        for agent in &useragents {
+            if agent == "*" {
+                return true;
+            }
+            if ua.contains(agent) {
+                return true;
+            }
+        }
+        false
+    }
+
+    
+    /// Preconditions:
+    /// - our agent applies to this entry
+    /// - filename is URL decoded
+    fn allowance(&self, filename: &str) -> bool {
+        let rulelines = self.rulelines.borrow().clone();
+        for line in &rulelines {
+            if line.applies_to(filename) {
+                return line.allowance
+            }
+        }
+        true
+    }
+
+    fn push_useragent(&self, useragent: &str) {
+        let mut useragents = self.useragents.borrow_mut();
+        useragents.push(useragent.to_owned());
+    }
+
+    fn push_ruleline(&self, ruleline: RuleLine) {
+        let mut rulelines = self.rulelines.borrow_mut();
+        rulelines.push(ruleline);
+    }
+
+    fn has_useragent(&self, useragent: &str) -> bool {
+        let useragents = self.useragents.borrow().clone();
+        useragents.contains(&useragent.to_owned())
+    }
+
+    fn is_empty(&self) -> bool {
+        let useragents = self.useragents.borrow().clone();
+        let rulelines = self.rulelines.borrow().clone();
+        useragents.is_empty() && rulelines.is_empty()
+    }
+}
+
+
+impl RobotFileParser {
+    pub fn new(url: &str) -> RobotFileParser {
+        let parsed_url = Url::parse(url).unwrap();
+        RobotFileParser {
+            entries: RefCell::new(vec![]),
+            default_entry: RefCell::new(Entry::new()),
+            disallow_all: Cell::new(false),
+            allow_all: Cell::new(false),
+            url: parsed_url.clone(),
+            host: parsed_url.domain().unwrap().to_owned(),
+            path: parsed_url.path().unwrap().connect("/"),
+            last_checked: Cell::new(0i64),
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// 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.
+    pub fn mtime(&self) -> i64 {
+        self.last_checked.get()
+    }
+
+    /// Sets the time the robots.txt file was last fetched to the
+    /// current time.
+    pub fn modified(&self) {
+        use time::get_time;
+
+        self.last_checked.set(get_time().sec);
+    }
+
+    /// Sets the URL referring to a robots.txt file.
+    pub fn set_url(&mut self, url: &str) {
+        let parsed_url = Url::parse(url).unwrap();
+        self.url = parsed_url.clone();
+        self.host = parsed_url.domain().unwrap().to_owned();
+        self.path = parsed_url.path().unwrap().connect("/");
+        self.last_checked.set(0i64);
+    }
+
+    /// Reads the robots.txt URL and feeds it to the parser.
+    pub fn read(&self) {
+        let client = Client::new();
+        let mut res = match client.get(self.url.clone()).send() {
+            Ok(res) => res,
+            Err(_) => {
+                return;
+            }
+        };
+        match res.status {
+            StatusCode::Unauthorized | StatusCode::Forbidden => {
+                self.disallow_all.set(true);
+            },
+            status if status >= StatusCode::BadRequest && status < StatusCode::InternalServerError => {
+                self.allow_all.set(true);
+            },
+            StatusCode::Ok => {
+                let mut buf = String::new();
+                res.read_to_string(&mut buf).unwrap();
+                let lines: Vec<&str> = buf.split("\n").collect();
+                self.parse(lines);
+            },
+            _ => {},
+        }
+    }
+
+    fn _add_entry(&self, entry: Entry) {
+        if entry.has_useragent("*") {
+            // the default entry is considered last
+            let mut default_entry = self.default_entry.borrow_mut();
+            if default_entry.is_empty() {
+                // the first default entry wins
+                *default_entry = entry;
+            }
+        } else {
+            let mut entries = self.entries.borrow_mut();
+            entries.push(entry);
+        }
+    }
+
+    ///
+    /// Parse the input lines from a robots.txt file
+    ///
+    /// We allow that a user-agent: line is not preceded by
+    /// one or more blank lines.
+    ///
+    pub fn parse(&self, lines: Vec<&str>) {
+        use url::percent_encoding::percent_decode;
+
+        // states:
+        //   0: start state
+        //   1: saw user-agent line
+        //   2: saw an allow or disallow line
+        let mut state = 0;
+        let mut entry = Entry::new();
+
+        self.modified();
+        for line in &lines {
+            let mut ln = line.clone();
+            if ln.is_empty() {
+                match state {
+                    1 => {
+                        entry = Entry::new();
+                        state = 0;
+                    },
+                    2 => {
+                        self._add_entry(entry);
+                        entry = Entry::new();
+                        state = 0;
+                    },
+                    _ => {},
+                }
+            }
+            // remove optional comment and strip line
+            match ln.find("#") {
+                Some(i) => {
+                    ln = &ln[0..i];
+                },
+                None => {},
+            }
+            ln = ln.trim();
+            if ln.is_empty() {
+                continue;
+            }
+            let parts: Vec<&str> = ln.splitn(2, ":").collect();
+            if parts.len() == 2 {
+                let part0 = parts[0].trim().to_lowercase();
+                let part1 = String::from_utf8(percent_decode(parts[1].trim().as_bytes())).unwrap_or("".to_owned());
+                match part0 {
+                    ref x if x == "user-agent" => {
+                        if state == 2 {
+                            self._add_entry(entry);
+                            entry = Entry::new();
+                        }
+                        entry.push_useragent(&part1);
+                        state = 1;
+                    },
+                    ref x if x == "disallow" => {
+                        if state != 0 {
+                            entry.push_ruleline(RuleLine::new(&part1, false));
+                            state = 2;
+                        }
+                    },
+                    ref x if x == "allow" => {
+                        if state != 0 {
+                            entry.push_ruleline(RuleLine::new(&part1, true));
+                            state = 2;
+                        }
+                    },
+                    _ => {},
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        if state == 2 {
+            self._add_entry(entry);
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// Using the parsed robots.txt decide if useragent can fetch url
+    pub fn can_fetch(&self, useragent: &str, url: &str) -> bool {
+        use url::percent_encoding::percent_decode;
+
+        if self.disallow_all.get() {
+            return false;
+        }
+        if self.allow_all.get() {
+            return true;
+        }
+        // Until the robots.txt file has been read or found not
+        // to exist, we must assume that no url is allowable.
+        // This prevents false positives when a user erronenously
+        // calls can_fetch() before calling read().
+        if self.last_checked.get() == 0 {
+            return false;
+        }
+        // search for given user agent matches
+        // the first match counts
+        let decoded_url = String::from_utf8(percent_decode(url.as_bytes())).unwrap_or("".to_owned());
+        let url_str = match decoded_url {
+            ref u if !u.is_empty() => u.to_owned(),
+            _ => "/".to_owned(),
+        };
+        let entries = self.entries.borrow().clone();
+        for entry in &entries {
+            if entry.applies_to(useragent) {
+                return entry.allowance(&url_str);
+            }
+        }
+        // try the default entry last
+        let default_entry = self.default_entry.borrow().clone();
+        if !default_entry.is_empty() {
+            return default_entry.allowance(&url_str);
+        }
+        // agent not found ==> access granted
+        true
+    }
+}
diff --git a/tests/lib.rs b/tests/lib.rs
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+extern crate robotparser;
+
+use robotparser::RobotFileParser;
+
+const AGENT: &'static str = "test_robotparser";
+
+
+fn robot_test(doc: &str, good_urls: Vec<&str>, bad_urls: Vec<&str>, agent: &str) {
+    let parser = RobotFileParser::new("http://www.baidu.com/robots.txt");
+    let lines: Vec<&str> = doc.split("\n").collect();
+    parser.parse(lines);
+    for url in &good_urls {
+        assert!(parser.can_fetch(agent, url));
+    }
+    for url in &bad_urls {
+        assert!(!parser.can_fetch(agent, url));
+    }
+}
+
+
+fn robot_test_simple(doc: &str, good_urls: Vec<&str>, bad_urls: Vec<&str>) {
+    robot_test(doc, good_urls, bad_urls, AGENT);
+}
+
+
+#[test]
+fn test_robots_txt_1() {
+    let doc = "\n\
+    User-agent: *\n\
+    Disallow: /cyberworld/map/ # This is an infinite virtual URL space\n\
+    Disallow: /tmp/ # these will soon disappear\n\
+    Disallow: /foo.html\n\
+    ";
+    let good = vec!["/","/test.html"];
+    let bad = vec!["/cyberworld/map/index.html","/tmp/xxx","/foo.html"];
+    robot_test_simple(doc, good, bad);
+}
+
+
+#[test]
+fn test_robots_txt_2() {
+    let doc = "\n\
+    # robots.txt for http://www.example.com/\n\
+    \n\
+    User-agent: *\n\
+    Disallow: /cyberworld/map/ # This is an infinite virtual URL space\n\
+    \n\
+    # Cybermapper knows where to go.\n\
+    User-agent: cybermapper\n\
+    Disallow:\n\
+    \n\
+    ";
+    let good = vec!["/","/test.html"];
+    let bad = vec!["/cyberworld/map/index.html"];
+    robot_test_simple(doc, good, bad);
+}