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Fetch robots.txt for a Site

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The Chilkat Spider library is robots.txt compliant. It automatically fetches a site's robots.txt file and adheres to it. It will not download pages denied by robots.txt. Pages excluded by robots.txt will not appear in the Spider's "unspidered" list. This example shows how to explicitly download and review the robots.txt for a given site. PowerBuilder

integer li_rc
oleobject loo_Spider
string ls_RobotsText

loo_Spider = create oleobject
li_rc = loo_Spider.ConnectToNewObject("Chilkat.Spider")
if li_rc < 0 then
    destroy loo_Spider
    MessageBox("Error","Connecting to COM object failed")
    return
end if

loo_Spider.Initialize("www.chilkatsoft.com")

ls_RobotsText = loo_Spider.FetchRobotsText()

Write-Debug ls_RobotsText


destroy loo_Spider