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

Dim fso, outFile
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set outFile = fso.CreateTextFile("output.txt", True)

' The Chilkat Spider component/library is free.
set spider = CreateObject("Chilkat.Spider")

spider.Initialize "www.chilkatsoft.com"

robotsText = spider.FetchRobotsText()

outFile.WriteLine(robotsText)
outFile.Close