A tool for debugging robots.txt. Built on top of node >= 8 and robots-parser.
npm install -g leshniak/robotstxt-debug
Warning: this tool is in alpha stage.
Usage: robotstxt-debug [options] <url>
A tool for debugging robots.txt
Options:
-v, --version output the version number
-u, --user-agent <name> define custom User-agent (like in robots.txt, e.g. googlebot)
-r, --robots-txt <url|file> define custom robots.txt (loading from a file simulates the domain from the destination URL)
-p, --print print robots.txt content
-h, --help output usage information
$ robotstxt-debug http://reddit.com/
Report for page http://reddit.com/
User-agent: *
robots.txt: http://reddit.com/robots.txt
Is allowed: yes
Matching line: Allow: /
Sitemaps: https://www.reddit.com/sitemaps/subreddit-sitemaps.xml, https://www.reddit.com/sitemaps/comment-page-sitemaps.xml
- Initial release.
MIT License
Copyright (c) 2018 Maciej Leśniewski
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