package LWP::RobotUA; # $Id: RobotUA.pm,v 1.23 2003/10/24 11:13:03 gisle Exp $ require LWP::UserAgent; @ISA = qw(LWP::UserAgent); $VERSION = sprintf("%d.%02d", q$Revision: 1.23 $ =~ /(\d+)\.(\d+)/); require WWW::RobotRules; require HTTP::Request; require HTTP::Response; use Carp (); use LWP::Debug (); use HTTP::Status (); use HTTP::Date qw(time2str); use strict; # # Additional attributes in addition to those found in LWP::UserAgent: # # $self->{'delay'} Required delay between request to the same # server in minutes. # # $self->{'rules'} A WWW::RobotRules object # sub new { my($class,$name,$from,$rules) = @_; Carp::croak('LWP::RobotUA name required') unless $name; Carp::croak('LWP::RobotUA from address required') unless $from and $from =~ m/\@/; my $self = new LWP::UserAgent; $self = bless $self, $class; $self->{'delay'} = 1; # minutes $self->{'agent'} = $name; $self->{'from'} = $from; $self->{'use_sleep'} = 1; if ($rules) { $rules->agent($name); $self->{'rules'} = $rules; } else { $self->{'rules'} = new WWW::RobotRules $name; } $self; } sub delay { shift->_elem('delay', @_); } sub use_sleep { shift->_elem('use_sleep', @_); } sub agent { my $self = shift; my $old = $self->SUPER::agent(@_); if (@_) { # Changing our name means to start fresh $self->{'rules'}->agent($self->{'agent'}); } $old; } sub rules { my $self = shift; my $old = $self->_elem('rules', @_); $self->{'rules'}->agent($self->{'agent'}) if @_; $old; } sub no_visits { my($self, $netloc) = @_; $self->{'rules'}->no_visits($netloc) || 0; } *host_count = \&no_visits; # backwards compatibility with LWP-5.02 sub host_wait { my($self, $netloc) = @_; return undef unless defined $netloc; my $last = $self->{'rules'}->last_visit($netloc); if ($last) { my $wait = int($self->{'delay'} * 60 - (time - $last)); $wait = 0 if $wait < 0; return $wait; } return 0; } sub simple_request { my($self, $request, $arg, $size) = @_; LWP::Debug::trace('()'); # Do we try to access a new server? my $allowed = $self->{'rules'}->allowed($request->url); if ($allowed < 0) { LWP::Debug::debug("Host is not visited before, or robots.txt expired."); # fetch "robots.txt" my $robot_url = $request->url->clone; $robot_url->path("robots.txt"); $robot_url->query(undef); LWP::Debug::debug("Requesting $robot_url"); # make access to robot.txt legal since this will be a recursive call $self->{'rules'}->parse($robot_url, ""); my $robot_req = new HTTP::Request 'GET', $robot_url; my $robot_res = $self->request($robot_req); my $fresh_until = $robot_res->fresh_until; if ($robot_res->is_success) { my $c = $robot_res->content; if ($robot_res->content_type =~ m,^text/, && $c =~ /Disallow/) { LWP::Debug::debug("Parsing robot rules"); $self->{'rules'}->parse($robot_url, $c, $fresh_until); } else { LWP::Debug::debug("Ignoring robots.txt"); $self->{'rules'}->parse($robot_url, "", $fresh_until); } } else { LWP::Debug::debug("No robots.txt file found"); $self->{'rules'}->parse($robot_url, "", $fresh_until); } # recalculate allowed... $allowed = $self->{'rules'}->allowed($request->url); } # Check rules unless ($allowed) { my $res = new HTTP::Response &HTTP::Status::RC_FORBIDDEN, 'Forbidden by robots.txt'; $res->request( $request ); # bind it to that request return $res; } my $netloc = eval { local $SIG{__DIE__}; $request->url->host_port; }; my $wait = $self->host_wait($netloc); if ($wait) { LWP::Debug::debug("Must wait $wait seconds"); if ($self->{'use_sleep'}) { sleep($wait) } else { my $res = new HTTP::Response &HTTP::Status::RC_SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE, 'Please, slow down'; $res->header('Retry-After', time2str(time + $wait)); $res->request( $request ); # bind it to that request return $res; } } # Perform the request my $res = $self->SUPER::simple_request($request, $arg, $size); $self->{'rules'}->visit($netloc); $res; } sub as_string { my $self = shift; my @s; push(@s, "Robot: $self->{'agent'} operated by $self->{'from'} [$self]"); push(@s, " Minimum delay: " . int($self->{'delay'}*60) . "s"); push(@s, " Will sleep if too early") if $self->{'use_sleep'}; push(@s, " Rules = $self->{'rules'}"); join("\n", @s, ''); } 1; __END__ =head1 NAME LWP::RobotUA - a class for well-behaved Web robots =head1 SYNOPSIS use LWP::RobotUA; my $ua = LWP::RobotUA->new('my-robot/0.1', 'me@foo.com'); $ua->delay(10); # be very nice -- max one hit every ten minutes! ... # Then just use it just like a normal LWP::UserAgent: my $response = $ua->get('http://whatever.int/...'); ... =head1 DESCRIPTION This class implements a user agent that is suitable for robot applications. Robots should be nice to the servers they visit. They should consult the F file to ensure that they are welcomed and they should not make requests too frequently. But before you consider writing a robot, take a look at . When you use a I object as your user agent, then you do not really have to think about these things yourself; C files are automatically consulted and obeyed, the server isn't queried too rapidly, and so on. Just send requests as you do when you are using a normal I object (using C<< $ua->get(...) >>, C<< $ua->head(...) >>, C<< $ua->request(...) >>, etc.), and this special agent will make sure you are nice. =head1 METHODS The LWP::RobotUA is a sub-class of LWP::UserAgent and implements the same methods. In addition the following methods are provided: =over 4 =item $ua = LWP::RobotUA->new( $agent_name, $from ) =item $ua = LWP::RobotUA->new( $agent_name, $from, $rules ) Your robot's name and the mail address of the human responsible for the robot (i.e. you) are required by the constructor. Optionally it allows you to specify the I object to use. If you don't provide one, then this user agent will make its own internal database of F rules as needed. =item $ua->delay =item $ua->delay( $minutes ) Get/set the minimum delay between requests to the same server, in I. The default is 1 minute. Note that this number doesn't have to be an integer; for example, this sets the delay to 10 seconds: $ua->delay(10/60); =item $ua->use_sleep =item $ua->use_sleep( $boolean ) Get/set a value indicating whether the UA should sleep() if requests arrive too fast, defined as $ua->delay minutes not passed since last request to the given server. The default is TRUE. If this value is FALSE then an internal SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE response will be generated. It will have an Retry-After header that indicates when it is OK to send another request to this server. =item $ua->rules =item $ua->rules( $rules ) Set/get which I object to use. =item $ua->no_visits( $netloc ) Returns the number of documents fetched from this server host. Yeah I know, this method should probably have been named num_visits() or something like that. :-( =item $ua->host_wait( $netloc ) Returns the number of I (from now) you must wait before you can make a new request to this host. =item $ua->as_string Returns a string that describes the state of the UA. Mainly useful for debugging. =back =head1 SEE ALSO L, L =head1 COPYRIGHT Copyright 1996-2002 Gisle Aas. This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.