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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. B4X

Dim spider As ChilkatSpider
spider.Initialize("spider")

spider.InitializeSpider("www.chilkatsoft.com")

Dim robotsText As String
robotsText = spider.FetchRobotsText

Log(robotsText)