Parse robots.txt, robots meta and headers

Determine if a page may be crawled from robots.txt, robots meta tags and robot headers.

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Installation

You can install the package via composer:

composer require spatie/robots-txt

Usage

$robots = SpatieRobotsRobots::create(); $robots->mayIndex('https://www.spatie.be/nl/admin'); $robots->mayFollowOn('https://www.spatie.be/nl/admin');

You can also specify a user agent:

$robots = SpatieRobotsRobots::create('UserAgent007');

By default, Robots will look for a robots.txt file on https://host.com/robots.txt. Another location can be specified like so:

$robots = SpatieRobotsRobots::create() ->withTxt('https://www.spatie.be/robots-custom.txt'); $robots = SpatieRobotsRobots::create() ->withTxt(__DIR__ . '/public/robots.txt');

Testing

composer test

Changelog

Please see CHANGELOG for more information what has changed recently.

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

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License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.