Robots.txt is a line of code that publishers can put into a website that, while not legally binding in any way, is supposed to signal to scraper bots that they cannot take that website’s data.
i do understand that robots.txt is a very minor part of the article, but i think that’s a pretty rough explanation of robots.txt
Websites actually just list broad areas, as listing every file/page would be far too verbose for many websites and impossible for any website that has dynamic/user-generated content.
You can view examples by going to most any websites base-url and then adding /robots.txt to the end of it.
from the article:
i do understand that robots.txt is a very minor part of the article, but i think that’s a pretty rough explanation of robots.txt
Out of curiosity, how would you word it?
List of files/pages that a website owner doesn’t want bots to crawl. Or something like that.
Websites actually just list broad areas, as listing every file/page would be far too verbose for many websites and impossible for any website that has dynamic/user-generated content.
You can view examples by going to most any websites base-url and then adding /robots.txt to the end of it.
For example www.google.com/robots.txt