The 'Robots Exclusion Protocol' <https://www.robotstxt.org/orig.html> documents a set of standards for allowing or excluding robot/spider crawling of different areas of site content. Tools are provided which wrap The 'rep-cpp' <https://github.com/seomoz/rep-cpp> C++ library for processing these 'robots.txt' files.
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