Fetch robots.txt for a Site

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.

Download Chilkat Spider ActiveX

uses
    Windows, Messages, SysUtils, Variants, Classes, Graphics, Controls, Forms,
    Dialogs, StdCtrls,
    SPIDERXLib_TLB,
    SPIDERXLib_TLB,
    OleCtrls;

...

procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
var
spider: TSpider;
robotsText: String;

begin
//  The Chilkat Spider component/library is free.
spider := TSpider.Create(Self);

spider.Initialize('www.chilkatsoft.com');

robotsText := spider.FetchRobotsText();

Memo1.Lines.Add(robotsText);
end;