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X-Robots-Tag HTTP header parser

PHP class to parse X-Robots-Tag HTTP headers according to Google X-Robots-Tag HTTP header specifications.

Requirements:

• PHP >=5.6
• PHP mbstring extension

Note: HHVM support is planned once facebook/hhvm#4277 is fixed.

Installation

The library is available via Composer. Add this to your composer.json file:

{
    "require": {
        "vipnytt/robotstagparser": "~0.2"
    }
}

Then run composer update.

Getting Started

Basic example

Get all rules affecting you, this includes the following:

• All generic rules
• Rules specific to your User-Agent (if there is any)

use vipnytt\XRobotsTagParser;

$headers = [
    'X-Robots-Tag: noindex, noodp',
    'X-Robots-Tag: googlebot: noindex, noarchive',
    'X-Robots-Tag: bingbot: noindex, noarchive, noimageindex'
];

$parser = new XRobotsTagParser('myUserAgent', $headers);
$rules = $parser->getRules(); // <-- returns an array of rules

Different approaches:

Get the HTTP headers by requesting an URL

use vipnytt\XRobotsTagParser;

$parser = new XRobotsTagParser\Adapters\Url('http://example.com/', 'myUserAgent');
$rules = $parser->getRules();

Use your existing GuzzleHttp request

use vipnytt\XRobotsTagParser;
use GuzzleHttp\Client;

$client = new GuzzleHttp\Client();
$response = $client->request('GET', 'http://example.com/');

$parser = new XRobotsTagParser\Adapters\GuzzleHttp($response, 'myUserAgent');
$array = $parser->getRules();

Provide HTTP headers as an string

use vipnytt\XRobotsTagParser;

$string = <<<STRING
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 21:42:43 GMT
X-Robots-Tag: noindex
X-Robots-Tag: nofollow
STRING;

$parser = new XRobotsTagParser\Adapters\TextString($string, 'myUserAgent');
$array = $parser->getRules();

Export all rules

Returns an array containing all rules for any User-Agent.

use vipnytt\XRobotsTagParser;

$parser = new XRobotsTagParser('myUserAgent', $headers);
$array = $parser->export();

Directives:

• all - There are no restrictions for indexing or serving.
• none - Equivalent to noindex and nofollow.
• noindex - Do not show this page in search results and do not show a "Cached" link in search results.
• nofollow - Do not follow the links on this page.
• noarchive - Do not show a "Cached" link in search results.
• nosnippet - Do not show a snippet in the search results for this page.
• noodp - Do not use metadata from the Open Directory project for titles or snippets shown for this page.
• notranslate - Do not offer translation of this page in search results.
• noimageindex - Do not index images on this page.
• unavailable_after - Do not show this page in search results after the specified date/time.

Source: https://developers.google.com/webmasters/control-crawl-index/docs/robots_meta_tag