:mod:`urllib.robotparser` --- Parser for robots.txt

This module provides a single class, :class:`RobotFileParser`, which answers questions about whether or not a particular user agent can fetch a URL on the Web site that published the :file:`robots.txt` file. For more details on the structure of :file:`robots.txt` files, see http://www.robotstxt.org/orig.html.

This class provides a set of methods to read, parse and answer questions about a single :file:`robots.txt` file.

The following example demonstrates basic use of the RobotFileParser class.

>>> import urllib.robotparser
>>> rp = urllib.robotparser.RobotFileParser()
>>> rp.set_url("http://www.musi-cal.com/robots.txt")
>>> rp.read()
>>> rp.can_fetch("*", "http://www.musi-cal.com/cgi-bin/search?city=San+Francisco")
False
>>> rp.can_fetch("*", "http://www.musi-cal.com/")
True