Some servers have a robots.txt file in order to stop web crawlers from crawling through their websites. Is there a way to make a web crawler ignore the robots.txt file? I am using Mechanize for python.
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Some servers have a robots.txt file in order to stop web crawlers from crawling through their websites. Is there a way to make a web crawler ignore the robots.txt file? I am using Mechanize for python.
The documentation for mechanize has this sample code:
That does exactly what you want.