package WWW::RobotRules; # $Id: RobotRules.pm,v 1.33 2005/09/21 19:36:19 gisle Exp $ $VERSION = sprintf("%d.%02d", q$Revision: 1.33 $ =~ /(\d+)\.(\d+)/); sub Version { $VERSION; } use strict; use URI (); sub new { my($class, $ua) = @_; # This ugly hack is needed to ensure backwards compatibility. # The "WWW::RobotRules" class is now really abstract. $class = "WWW::RobotRules::InCore" if $class eq "WWW::RobotRules"; my $self = bless { }, $class; $self->agent($ua); $self; } sub parse { my($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 $seen_disallow = 0; # watch for missing record separators 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; $seen_disallow = 0; } elsif (/^\s*User-Agent\s*:\s*(.*)/i) { $ua = $1; $ua =~ s/\s+$//; if ($seen_disallow) { # treat as start of a new record $seen_disallow = 0; last if $is_me; # That was our record. No need to read the rest. $is_anon = 0; } if ($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 (/^\s*Disallow\s*:\s*(.*)/i) { unless (defined $ua) { warn "RobotRules <$robot_txt_uri>: Disallow without preceding User-agent\n" if $^W; $is_anon = 1; # assume that User-agent: * was intended } my $disallow = $1; $disallow =~ s/\s+$//; $seen_disallow = 1; 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, $disallow); } } else { warn "RobotRules <$robot_txt_uri>: Unexpected line: $_\n" if $^W; } } if ($is_me) { $self->push_rules($netloc, @me_disallowed); } else { $self->push_rules($netloc, @anon_disallowed); } } # # Returns TRUE if the given name matches the # name of this robot # sub is_me { my($self, $ua_line) = @_; my $me = $self->agent; # See whether my short-name is a substring of the # "User-Agent: ..." line that we were passed: if(index(lc($me), lc($ua_line)) >= 0) { LWP::Debug::debug("\"$ua_line\" applies to \"$me\"") if defined &LWP::Debug::debug; return 1; } else { LWP::Debug::debug("\"$ua_line\" does not apply to \"$me\"") if defined &LWP::Debug::debug; return ''; } } sub allowed { my($self, $uri) = @_; $uri = URI->new("$uri"); return 1 unless $uri->scheme eq 'http' or $uri->scheme eq 'https'; # Robots.txt applies to only those schemes. 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, $rule) == 0; } return 1; } # The following methods must be provided by the subclass. sub agent; sub visit; sub no_visits; sub last_visits; sub fresh_until; sub push_rules; sub clear_rules; sub rules; sub dump; package WWW::RobotRules::InCore; use vars qw(@ISA); @ISA = qw(WWW::RobotRules); sub agent { my ($self, $name) = @_; my $old = $self->{'ua'}; if ($name) { # Strip it so that it's just the short name. # I.e., "FooBot" => "FooBot" # "FooBot/1.2" => "FooBot" # "FooBot/1.2 [http://foobot.int; foo@bot.int]" => "FooBot" $name = $1 if $name =~ m/(\S+)/; # get first word $name =~ s!/.*!!; # get rid of version unless ($old && $old eq $name) { delete $self->{'loc'}; # all old info is now stale $self->{'ua'} = $name; } } $old; } sub visit { my($self, $netloc, $time) = @_; return unless $netloc; $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__ # Bender: "Well, I don't have anything else # planned for today. Let's get drunk!" =head1 NAME WWW::RobotRules - database of robots.txt-derived permissions =head1 SYNOPSIS use WWW::RobotRules; my $rules = WWW::RobotRules->new('MOMspider/1.0'); use LWP::Simple qw(get); { my $url = "http://some.place/robots.txt"; my $robots_txt = get $url; $rules->parse($url, $robots_txt) if defined $robots_txt; } { my $url = "http://some.other.place/robots.txt"; my $robots_txt = get $url; $rules->parse($url, $robots_txt) if defined $robots_txt; } # Now we can check if a URL is valid for those servers # whose "robots.txt" files we've gotten and parsed: if($rules->allowed($url)) { $c = get $url; ... } =head1 DESCRIPTION This module parses F files as specified in "A Standard for Robot Exclusion", at Webmasters can use the F file to forbid conforming robots from accessing parts of their web site. The parsed files are kept in a WWW::RobotRules object, and this object provides methods to check if access to a given URL is prohibited. The same WWW::RobotRules object can be used for one or more parsed F files on any number of hosts. The following methods are provided: =over 4 =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. =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. =item $rules->allowed($uri) Returns TRUE if this robot is allowed to retrieve this URL. =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. =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. The I fields must occur before the I fields. If a record contains a I field after a I field, that constitutes a malformed record. This parser will assume that a blank line should have been placed before that I field, and will break the record into two. All the fields before the I field will constitute a record, and the I field will be the first field in a new record. =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: / This is an example of a malformed robots.txt file. # robots.txt for ancientcastle.example.com # I've locked myself away. User-agent: * Disallow: / # The castle is your home now, so you can go anywhere you like. User-agent: Belle Disallow: /west-wing/ # except the west wing! # It's good to be the Prince... User-agent: Beast Disallow: This file is missing the required blank lines between records. However, the intention is clear. =head1 SEE ALSO L, L