Robots.txt php parser class

PHP class to parse robots.txt rules according to Google, Yandex, W3C and The Web Robots Pages specifications.

Full list of supported specifications (and what's not supported, yet) are available in our Wiki.

Installation

The library is available for install via Composer package. To install via Composer, please add the requirement to your composer.json file, like this:

{
    "require": {
        "t1gor/robots-txt-parser": "dev-master"
    }
}

and then use composer to load the lib:

<?php
    require 'vendor/autoload.php';
    $parser = new RobotsTxtParser(file_get_contents('http://example.com/robots.txt'));
    ...

You can find out more about Composer here: https://getcomposer.org/

Usage example

<?php
require_once 'source/robotstxtparser.php';

$parser = new RobotsTxtParser(file_get_contents('http://example.com/robots.txt'));
$parser->setUserAgent('MySimpleBot');

if ($parser->isAllowed('/')) {
	// Crawl of the frontpage is Allowed.
}
// or
if ($parser->isDisallowed('/path/to/page.html')) {
	// Crawl of /path/to/page.html is Disallowed
}
?>

Take a look at the Wiki for additional features and how to use them.

Even more code samples could be found in the tests folder.

Algorithm schema:

Conditions:

• (0) ZERO_POINT
• (1) READ_DIRECTIVE
• (2) SKIP_SPACE
• (3) READ_VALUE
• (4) SKIP_LINE

Some useful links and materials:

• Google: Robots.txt Specifications
• Yandex: Using robots.txt
• The Web Robots Pages
• W3C Recommendation
• Some inspirational code, and some more
• Google Webmaster tools Robots.txt testing tool

Contributing

First of all - thank you for your interest and a desire to help! If you found an issue and know how to fix it, please submit a pull request to the dev branch. Please do not forget the following:

• Your fixed issue should be covered with tests (we are using phpUnit)
• Please mind the code climate recommendations. It some-how helps to keep things simpler, or at least seems to :)
• Following the coding standard would also be much appreciated (4 tabs as an indent, camelCase, etc.)

I would really appreciate if you could share the link to your project that is utilizing the lib.

To do:

• Fix open issues
• Raise coverage

License

The MIT License

Copyright (c) 2013 Igor Timoshenkov

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