robotparser-rs

robots.txt parser for Rust.

Installation

Add it to your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
robotparser = "0.11"

Add extern crate robotparser to your crate root and your're good to go!

Examples

use robotparser::http::RobotsTxtClient;
use robotparser::service::RobotsTxtService;
use reqwest::Client;
use url::Url;

fn main() {
    let client = Client::new();
    let robots_txt_url = Url::parse("https://www.python.org/robots.txt").unwrap();
    let robots_txt = client.fetch_robots_txt(robots_txt_url.origin()).unwrap().get_result();
    let fetch_url = Url::parse("https://www.python.org/robots.txt").unwrap();
    assert!(robots_txt.can_fetch("*", &fetch_url));
}

License

This work is released under the MIT license. A copy of the license is provided in the LICENSE file.