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Robots.txt is an increasingly important file found on websites that determine whether you permit a website crawler to index your page for search engine optimization. As web-scraping is entirely legal in the US, this is the wild west of scraping and thus I want to keep mu brain and information safe from scraping.
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Fun Fact: Google [open-sourced](https://opensource.googleblog.com/2019/07/googles-robotstxt-parser-is-now-open.html) their [robots.txt parser](https://github.com/google/robotstxt) in 2019 if you want to see an example of reverse engineering the robots.txt file for search indexing.
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*Resources*:
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- [Robots.txt file examples](https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/robots-txt-file)
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- Robots.txt [generator tool](https://www.internetmarketingninjas.com/tools/robots-txt-generator/)
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- another [robots.txt](https://www.cutercounter.com/robots.txt) file sample
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