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Parse and Test Robots Exclusion Protocol Files and Rules

v0.2.5 · Feb 11, 2023 · MIT + file LICENSE

Description

The 'Robots Exclusion Protocol' <https://www.robotstxt.org/orig.html> documents a set of standards for allowing or excluding robot/spider crawling of different areas of site content. Tools are provided which wrap The 'rep-cpp' <https://github.com/seomoz/rep-cpp> C++ library for processing these 'robots.txt' files.

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Maintainer: ‘Bob Rudis <bob@rud.is>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
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  Authors@R: c(person(given = "Bob",
                      family = "Rudis",
                      role = c("aut", "cre"),
                      email = "bob@rud.is",
                      comment = "bob@rud.is"),
               person(family = "SEOmoz"),
               person(family = "Inc",
                      role = "aut"))
as necessary.
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Maintainer: ‘Bob Rudis <bob@rud.is>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: c(person(given = "Bob",
                      family = "Rudis",
                      role = c("aut", "cre"),
                      email = "bob@rud.is",
                      comment = "bob@rud.is"),
               person(family = "SEOmoz"),
               person(family = "Inc",
                      role = "aut"))
as necessary.

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NOTE 12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 10, 2026
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CRAN incoming feasibility

Maintainer: ‘Bob Rudis <bob@rud.is>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: c(person(given = "Bob",
                      family = "Rudis",
                      role = c("aut", "cre"),
                      email = "bob@rud.is",
                      comment = "bob@rud.is"),
               person(family = "SEOmoz"),
               person(family = "Inc",
                      role = "aut"))
as necessary.
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

CRAN incoming feasibility

Maintainer: ‘Bob Rudis <bob@rud.is>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: c(person(given = "Bob",
                      family = "Rudis",
                      role = c("aut", "cre"),
                      email = "bob@rud.is",
                      comment = "bob@rud.is"),
               person(family = "SEOmoz"),
               person(family = "Inc",
                      role = "aut"))
as necessary.

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Dependencies Reverse dependencies Rcpp robotstxt spiderbar

Version History

new 0.2.5 Mar 10, 2026
updated 0.2.5 ← 0.2.4 diff Feb 10, 2023
updated 0.2.4 ← 0.2.3 diff May 15, 2021
updated 0.2.3 ← 0.2.2 diff May 29, 2020
updated 0.2.2 ← 0.2.1 diff Aug 18, 2019
updated 0.2.1 ← 0.2.0 diff Nov 16, 2017
new 0.2.0 Sep 24, 2017