urllib.robotparser — Parser for robots.txt

import urllib.robotparser >>> rp = urllib.robotparser.RobotFileParser() >>> rp.set_url("http://www.musi-cal.com/robots.txt") >>> rp.read() >>> rrate = rp.request_rate("*") >>> rrate.requests 3 >>> rrate.seconds 20 >>> rp.crawl_delay("*") 6 >>> rp.can_fetch("*", "http://www.musi-cal.com/cgi-bin/search?city=San+Francisco") False >>> rp.can_fetch("*", "http://www.musi-cal.com/") True