# $Id: RobotRules.pm,v 1.22 2001/04/20 18:38:22 gisle Exp $ package WWW::RobotRules; =head1 NAME WWW::RobotsRules - Parse robots.txt files =head1 SYNOPSIS require WWW::RobotRules; my $robotsrules = new WWW::RobotRules 'MOMspider/1.0'; use LWP::Simple qw(get); $url = "http://some.place/robots.txt"; my $robots_txt = get $url; $robotsrules->parse($url, $robots_txt); $url = "http://some.other.place/robots.txt"; my $robots_txt = get $url; $robotsrules->parse($url, $robots_txt); # Now we are able to check if a URL is valid for those servers that # we have obtained and parsed "robots.txt" files for. if($robotsrules->allowed($url)) { $c = get $url; ... } =head1 DESCRIPTION This module parses a F file as specified in "A Standard for Robot Exclusion", described in Webmasters can use the F file to disallow conforming robots access to parts of their web site. The parsed file is kept in the WWW::RobotRules object, and this object provides methods to check if access to a given URL is prohibited. The same WWW::RobotRules object can parse multiple F files. The following methods are provided: =over 4 =cut $VERSION = sprintf("%d.%02d", q$Revision: 1.22 $ =~ /(\d+)\.(\d+)/); sub Version { $VERSION; } use strict; use URI (); =item $rules = WWW::RobotRules->new($robot_name) This is the constructor for WWW::RobotRules objects. The first argument given to new() is the name of the robot. =cut sub new { my($class, $ua) = @_; # This ugly hack is needed to ensure backwards compatability. # The "WWW::RobotRules" class is now really abstract. $class = "WWW::RobotRules::InCore" if $class eq "WWW::RobotRules"; my $self = bless { }, $class; $self->agent($ua); $self; } =item $rules->parse($robot_txt_url, $content, $fresh_until) The parse() method takes as arguments the URL that was used to retrieve the F file, and the contents of the file. =cut sub parse { my($self, $robot_txt_uri, $txt, $fresh_until) = @_; $robot_txt_uri = URI->new("$robot_txt_uri"); my $netloc = $robot_txt_uri->host . ":" . $robot_txt_uri->port; $self->clear_rules($netloc); $self->fresh_until($netloc, $fresh_until || (time + 365*24*3600)); my $ua; my $is_me = 0; # 1 iff this record is for me my $is_anon = 0; # 1 iff this record is for * my @me_disallowed = (); # rules disallowed for me my @anon_disallowed = (); # rules disallowed for * # blank lines are significant, so turn CRLF into LF to avoid generating # false ones $txt =~ s/\015\012/\012/g; # split at \012 (LF) or \015 (CR) (Mac text files have just CR for EOL) for(split(/[\012\015]/, $txt)) { # Lines containing only a comment are discarded completely, and # therefore do not indicate a record boundary. next if /^\s*\#/; s/\s*\#.*//; # remove comments at end-of-line if (/^\s*$/) { # blank line last if $is_me; # That was our record. No need to read the rest. $is_anon = 0; } elsif (/^User-Agent:\s*(.*)/i) { $ua = $1; $ua =~ s/\s+$//; if ($is_me) { # This record already had a User-agent that # we matched, so just continue. } elsif ($ua eq '*') { $is_anon = 1; } elsif($self->is_me($ua)) { $is_me = 1; } } elsif (/^Disallow:\s*(.*)/i) { unless (defined $ua) { warn "RobotRules: Disallow without preceding User-agent\n"; $is_anon = 1; # assume that User-agent: * was intended } my $disallow = $1; $disallow =~ s/\s+$//; if (length $disallow) { my $ignore; eval { my $u = URI->new_abs($disallow, $robot_txt_uri); $ignore++ if $u->scheme ne $robot_txt_uri->scheme; $ignore++ if lc($u->host) ne lc($robot_txt_uri->host); $ignore++ if $u->port ne $robot_txt_uri->port; $disallow = $u->path_query; $disallow = "/" unless length $disallow; }; next if $@; next if $ignore; } if ($is_me) { push(@me_disallowed, $disallow); } elsif ($is_anon) { push(@anon_disallowed, $disallow); } } else { warn "RobotRules: Unexpected line: $_\n"; } } if ($is_me) { $self->push_rules($netloc, @me_disallowed); } else { $self->push_rules($netloc, @anon_disallowed); } } # is_me() # # Returns TRUE if the given name matches the # name of this robot # sub is_me { my($self, $ua) = @_; my $me = $self->agent; return index(lc($me), lc($ua)) >= 0; } =item $rules->allowed($uri) Returns TRUE if this robot is allowed to retrieve this URL. =cut sub allowed { my($self, $uri) = @_; $uri = URI->new("$uri"); my $netloc = $uri->host . ":" . $uri->port; my $fresh_until = $self->fresh_until($netloc); return -1 if !defined($fresh_until) || $fresh_until < time; my $str = $uri->path_query; my $rule; for $rule ($self->rules($netloc)) { return 1 unless length $rule; return 0 if index($str, $rule) == 0; } return 1; } # The following methods must be provided by the subclass. sub agent; sub visit; sub no_visits; sub last_visits; sub fresh_until; sub push_rules; sub clear_rules; sub rules; sub dump; package WWW::RobotRules::InCore; use vars qw(@ISA); @ISA = qw(WWW::RobotRules); =item $rules->agent([$name]) Get/set the agent name. NOTE: Changing the agent name will clear the robots.txt rules and expire times out of the cache. =cut sub agent { my ($self, $name) = @_; my $old = $self->{'ua'}; if ($name) { delete $self->{'loc'}; # all old info is now stale $name =~ s!/?\s*\d+.\d+\s*$!!; # loose version $self->{'ua'}=$name; } $old; } sub visit { my($self, $netloc, $time) = @_; $time ||= time; $self->{'loc'}{$netloc}{'last'} = $time; my $count = \$self->{'loc'}{$netloc}{'count'}; if (!defined $$count) { $$count = 1; } else { $$count++; } } sub no_visits { my ($self, $netloc) = @_; $self->{'loc'}{$netloc}{'count'}; } sub last_visit { my ($self, $netloc) = @_; $self->{'loc'}{$netloc}{'last'}; } sub fresh_until { my ($self, $netloc, $fresh_until) = @_; my $old = $self->{'loc'}{$netloc}{'fresh'}; if (defined $fresh_until) { $self->{'loc'}{$netloc}{'fresh'} = $fresh_until; } $old; } sub push_rules { my($self, $netloc, @rules) = @_; push (@{$self->{'loc'}{$netloc}{'rules'}}, @rules); } sub clear_rules { my($self, $netloc) = @_; delete $self->{'loc'}{$netloc}{'rules'}; } sub rules { my($self, $netloc) = @_; if (defined $self->{'loc'}{$netloc}{'rules'}) { return @{$self->{'loc'}{$netloc}{'rules'}}; } else { return (); } } sub dump { my $self = shift; for (keys %$self) { next if $_ eq 'loc'; print "$_ = $self->{$_}\n"; } for (keys %{$self->{'loc'}}) { my @rules = $self->rules($_); print "$_: ", join("; ", @rules), "\n"; } } 1; __END__ =back =head1 ROBOTS.TXT The format and semantics of the "/robots.txt" file are as follows (this is an edited abstract of ): The file consists of one or more records separated by one or more blank lines. Each record contains lines of the form : The field name is case insensitive. Text after the '#' character on a line is ignored during parsing. This is used for comments. The following can be used: =over 3 =item User-Agent The value of this field is the name of the robot the record is describing access policy for. If more than one I field is present the record describes an identical access policy for more than one robot. At least one field needs to be present per record. If the value is '*', the record describes the default access policy for any robot that has not not matched any of the other records. =item Disallow The value of this field specifies a partial URL that is not to be visited. This can be a full path, or a partial path; any URL that starts with this value will not be retrieved =back =head1 ROBOTS.TXT EXAMPLES The following example "/robots.txt" file specifies that no robots should visit any URL starting with "/cyberworld/map/" or "/tmp/": User-agent: * Disallow: /cyberworld/map/ # This is an infinite virtual URL space Disallow: /tmp/ # these will soon disappear This example "/robots.txt" file specifies that no robots should visit any URL starting with "/cyberworld/map/", except the robot called "cybermapper": User-agent: * Disallow: /cyberworld/map/ # This is an infinite virtual URL space # Cybermapper knows where to go. User-agent: cybermapper Disallow: This example indicates that no robots should visit this site further: # go away User-agent: * Disallow: / =head1 SEE ALSO L, L =cut