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+""" robotparser.py
+
+ Copyright (C) 2000 Bastian Kleineidam
+
+ You can choose between two licenses when using this package:
+ 1) GNU GPLv2
+ 2) PSF license for Python 2.2
+
+ The robots.txt Exclusion Protocol is implemented as specified in
+ http://info.webcrawler.com/mak/projects/robots/norobots-rfc.html
+"""
+
+import urllib.parse, urllib.request
+
+__all__ = ["RobotFileParser"]
+
+class RobotFileParser:
+ """ This class provides a set of methods to read, parse and answer
+ questions about a single robots.txt file.
+
+ """
+
+ def __init__(self, url=''):
+ self.entries = []
+ self.default_entry = None
+ self.disallow_all = False
+ self.allow_all = False
+ self.set_url(url)
+ self.last_checked = 0
+
+ def mtime(self):
+ """Returns the time the robots.txt file was last fetched.
+
+ This is useful for long-running web spiders that need to
+ check for new robots.txt files periodically.
+
+ """
+ return self.last_checked
+
+ def modified(self):
+ """Sets the time the robots.txt file was last fetched to the
+ current time.
+
+ """
+ import time
+ self.last_checked = time.time()
+
+ def set_url(self, url):
+ """Sets the URL referring to a robots.txt file."""
+ self.url = url
+ self.host, self.path = urllib.parse.urlparse(url)[1:3]
+
+ def read(self):
+ """Reads the robots.txt URL and feeds it to the parser."""
+ try:
+ f = urllib.request.urlopen(self.url)
+ except urllib.error.HTTPError as err:
+ if err.code in (401, 403):
+ self.disallow_all = True
+ elif err.code >= 400:
+ self.allow_all = True
+ else:
+ self.parse(f.read().splitlines())
+
+ def _add_entry(self, entry):
+ if "*" in entry.useragents:
+ # the default entry is considered last
+ self.default_entry = entry
+ else:
+ self.entries.append(entry)
+
+ def parse(self, lines):
+ """Parse the input lines from a robots.txt file.
+
+ We allow that a user-agent: line is not preceded by
+ one or more blank lines.
+ """
+ state = 0
+ entry = Entry()
+
+ for line in lines:
+ if not line:
+ if state == 1:
+ entry = Entry()
+ state = 0
+ elif state == 2:
+ self._add_entry(entry)
+ entry = Entry()
+ state = 0
+ # remove optional comment and strip line
+ i = line.find('#')
+ if i >= 0:
+ line = line[:i]
+ line = line.strip()
+ if not line:
+ continue
+ line = line.split(':', 1)
+ if len(line) == 2:
+ line[0] = line[0].strip().lower()
+ line[1] = urllib.parse.unquote(line[1].strip())
+ if line[0] == "user-agent":
+ if state == 2:
+ self._add_entry(entry)
+ entry = Entry()
+ entry.useragents.append(line[1])
+ state = 1
+ elif line[0] == "disallow":
+ if state != 0:
+ entry.rulelines.append(RuleLine(line[1], False))
+ state = 2
+ elif line[0] == "allow":
+ if state != 0:
+ entry.rulelines.append(RuleLine(line[1], True))
+ if state == 2:
+ self.entries.append(entry)
+
+
+ def can_fetch(self, useragent, url):
+ """using the parsed robots.txt decide if useragent can fetch url"""
+ if self.disallow_all:
+ return False
+ if self.allow_all:
+ return True
+ # search for given user agent matches
+ # the first match counts
+ url = urllib.parse.quote(urllib.parse.urlparse(urllib.parse.unquote(url))[2]) or "/"
+ for entry in self.entries:
+ if entry.applies_to(useragent):
+ return entry.allowance(url)
+ # try the default entry last
+ if self.default_entry:
+ return self.default_entry.allowance(url)
+ # agent not found ==> access granted
+ return True
+
+ def __str__(self):
+ return ''.join([str(entry) + "\n" for entry in self.entries])
+
+
+class RuleLine:
+ """A rule line is a single "Allow:" (allowance==True) or "Disallow:"
+ (allowance==False) followed by a path."""
+ def __init__(self, path, allowance):
+ if path == '' and not allowance:
+ # an empty value means allow all
+ allowance = True
+ self.path = urllib.parse.quote(path)
+ self.allowance = allowance
+
+ def applies_to(self, filename):
+ return self.path == "*" or filename.startswith(self.path)
+
+ def __str__(self):
+ return (self.allowance and "Allow" or "Disallow") + ": " + self.path
+
+
+class Entry:
+ """An entry has one or more user-agents and zero or more rulelines"""
+ def __init__(self):
+ self.useragents = []
+ self.rulelines = []
+
+ def __str__(self):
+ ret = []
+ for agent in self.useragents:
+ ret.extend(["User-agent: ", agent, "\n"])
+ for line in self.rulelines:
+ ret.extend([str(line), "\n"])
+ return ''.join(ret)
+
+ def applies_to(self, useragent):
+ """check if this entry applies to the specified agent"""
+ # split the name token and make it lower case
+ useragent = useragent.split("/")[0].lower()
+ for agent in self.useragents:
+ if agent == '*':
+ # we have the catch-all agent
+ return True
+ agent = agent.lower()
+ if agent in useragent:
+ return True
+ return False
+
+ def allowance(self, filename):
+ """Preconditions:
+ - our agent applies to this entry
+ - filename is URL decoded"""
+ for line in self.rulelines:
+ if line.applies_to(filename):
+ return line.allowance
+ return True