crawlercommons.robots

Class BaseRobotsParser

java.lang.Object

crawlercommons.robots.BaseRobotsParser

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable

Direct Known Subclasses:

SimpleRobotRulesParser

public abstract class BaseRobotsParser
extends Object
implements Serializable

See Also:

Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
BaseRobotsParser()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
abstract BaseRobotRules	failedFetch(int httpStatusCode) The fetch of robots.txt failed, so return rules appropriate give the HTTP status code.
abstract BaseRobotRules	parseContent(String url, byte[] content, String contentType, String robotNames) Parse the robots.txt file in content, and return rules appropriate for processing paths by userAgent.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

BaseRobotsParser

public BaseRobotsParser()

Method Detail

parseContent

public abstract BaseRobotRules parseContent(String url,
                                            byte[] content,
                                            String contentType,
                                            String robotNames)

Parse the robots.txt file in content, and return rules appropriate for processing paths by userAgent. Note that multiple agent names may be provided as comma-separated values; the order of these shouldn't matter, as the file is parsed in order, and each agent name found in the file will be compared to every agent name found in robotNames. Also note that names are lower-cased before comparison, and that any robot name you pass shouldn't contain commas or spaces; if the name has spaces, it will be split into multiple names, each of which will be compared against agent names in the robots.txt file. An agent name is considered a match if it's a prefix match on the provided robot name. For example, if you pass in "Mozilla Crawlerbot-super 1.0", this would match "crawlerbot" as the agent name, because of splitting on spaces, lower-casing, and the prefix match rule.

Parameters:

url - URL that content was fetched from (for reporting purposes)

content - raw bytes from the site's robots.txt file

contentType - HTTP response header (mime-type)

robotNames - name(s) of crawler, to be used when processing file contents (just the name portion, w/o version or other details)

Returns:

robot rules.

failedFetch

public abstract BaseRobotRules failedFetch(int httpStatusCode)

The fetch of robots.txt failed, so return rules appropriate give the HTTP status code.

Parameters:

httpStatusCode - a failure status code (NOT 2xx)

Returns:

robot rules