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Heritrix 3.3: robots.txt wildcard support? #353

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wroth opened this issue Sep 9, 2020 · 1 comment
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Heritrix 3.3: robots.txt wildcard support? #353

wroth opened this issue Sep 9, 2020 · 1 comment
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wroth commented Sep 9, 2020

Does Heritrix 3.3 support wildcards in robots.txt disallow directives? I urge that either "yes" or "no" answer be added to the documentation.

From my experimentation, it appears that it does not support wildcards. E.g.
Disallow: /*/output/

still crawled URLs like
/docview/5819152/FE3F6F718FE34D90PQ/5819152/5819152/Record/FE3F6F718FE34D90PQ/input/MathML

@ato ato added the question label Feb 15, 2021
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ato commented Feb 15, 2021

Heritrix does not currently support the robots.txt wildcard extension. There is an open feature request for it at #250. I've updated the note to webmasters in the github wiki and the old confluence wiki to note this. Thanks!

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