A robots.txt parser and applicability checker for Rust

Usage

Add it to your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
robots-parser = "0.10"

Examples

Parse and check from URL

use robots::RobotsParser;
use url::Url;

fn main() {
    let parsed = RobotsParser::parse_url(Url::new("https://www.google.com/robots.txt"))?;
    assert!(parsed.can_fetch("*", "https://www.google.com/search/about"));
}

Parse and check from File

use robots::RobotsParser;

fn main() {
    let parsed = RobotsParser::parse_path("~/test-robots.txt"))?;
    assert!(parsed.can_fetch("*", "http://test.com/can_fetch"));
}

Parse and check from &str

use robots::RobotsParser;

fn main() {
    let parsed = RobotsParser::parse_path("Disallow: /test"))?;
    assert!(!parsed.can_fetch("*", "http://test.com/test"));
}

License

This work is released under Apache and MIT license. A copy of the licenses are provided in the LICENSE-APACHE and LICENSE-MIT files.