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RobotFileParser.read

  • RobotFileParser.read()
Reads the robots.txt URL and feeds it to the parser.
1 Example
>>> import urllib.robotparser
>>> rp = urllib.robotparser.RobotFileParser()
>>> rp.set_url("http://www.pythontest.net/robots.txt")
>>> rp.read()
>>> rrate = rp.request_rate("*")
>>> rrate.requests
1
>>> rrate.seconds
1
>>> rp.crawl_delay("*")
6
>>> rp.can_fetch("*", "http://www.pythontest.net/")
True
>>> rp.can_fetch("*", "http://www.pythontest.net/no-robots-here/")
False
from the Python docs
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