HTML::RobotsMETA - Parse HTML For Robots Exclusion META Markup

  use HTML::RobotsMETA;
  my $p = HTML::RobotsMETA->new;
  my $r = $p->parse_rules($html);
  if ($r->can_follow) {
    # follow links here!
  } else {
    # can't follow...
  }

HTML::RobotsMETA is a simple HTML::Parser subclass that extracts robots exclusion information from meta tags. There's not much more to it ;)

Currently HTML::RobotsMETA understands the following directives:

ALL

NONE

INDEX

NOINDEX

FOLLOW

NOFOLLOW

ARCHIVE

NOARCHIVE

SERVE

NOSERVE

NOIMAGEINDEX

NOIMAGECLICK

Creates a new HTML::RobotsMETA parser. Takes no arguments

Parses an HTML string for META tags, and returns an instance of HTML::RobotsMETA::Rules object, which you can use in conditionals later

Returns the HTML::Parser instance to use.

Returns callback specs to be used in HTML::Parser constructor.

Tags that specify the crawler name (e.g. <META NAME="Googlebot">) are not handled yet.

There also might be more obscure directives that I'm not aware of.

Copyright (c) 2007 Daisuke Maki <daisuke@endeworks.jp>

HTML::RobotsMETA::Rules HTML::Parser

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html