robot-playernav(1) General Commands Manual robot-playernav(1)NAME
robot-playernav - GUI client to control over localize and planner devices
SYNOPSIS
robot-playernav [options] <host:port> [<host:port>...]
DESCRIPTION
robot-playernav is a GUI client that provides control over localize and planner devices. It allows you to set your robots' localization
hypotheses by dragging and dropping them in the map. You can set global goals the same way, and see the planned paths and the robots'
progress toward the goals. robot-playernav can also display (a subset of) the localization system's current particle set, which may help in
debugging localization. You can think of playernav as an Operator Control Unit (OCU). robot-playernav can also be used just to view a map.
OPTIONS -fps dumprate
dump screenshots rate in Hz (default: 5Hz).
-zoom zoomlevel
initial level of zoom in the display (default: 1).
-aa {0|1}
use anti-aliased canvas for display (0 == false; 1 == true). The anti-aliased canvas looks nicer but may require more processor
cycles (default: 1).
-map map_idx
the index of the map to be requested and displayed (default: 0).
AUTHOR
Player was written by Brian Gerkey <gerkey@users.sourceforge.net> and contributors. This manual page was written by Daniel Hess for the
Debian Project.
SEE ALSO
The HTML documentation in /usr/share/doc/player/html of the robot-player-doc package.
Player May 2009 robot-playernav(1)
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WWW::RobotRules(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation WWW::RobotRules(3)NAME
WWW::RobotsRules - Parse robots.txt files
SYNOPSIS
require WWW::RobotRules;
my $robotsrules = new WWW::RobotRules 'MOMspider/1.0';
use LWP::Simple qw(get);
$url = "http://some.place/robots.txt";
my $robots_txt = get $url;
$robotsrules->parse($url, $robots_txt);
$url = "http://some.other.place/robots.txt";
my $robots_txt = get $url;
$robotsrules->parse($url, $robots_txt);
# Now we are able to check if a URL is valid for those servers that
# we have obtained and parsed "robots.txt" files for.
if($robotsrules->allowed($url)) {
$c = get $url;
...
}
DESCRIPTION
This module parses a /robots.txt file as specified in "A Standard for Robot Exclusion", described in
<http://info.webcrawler.com/mak/projects/robots/norobots.html> Webmasters can use the /robots.txt file to disallow conforming robots access
to parts of their web site.
The parsed file is kept in the WWW::RobotRules object, and this object provides methods to check if access to a given URL is prohibited.
The same WWW::RobotRules object can parse multiple /robots.txt files.
The following methods are provided:
$rules = WWW::RobotRules->new($robot_name)
This is the constructor for WWW::RobotRules objects. The first argument given to new() is the name of the robot.
$rules->parse($robot_txt_url, $content, $fresh_until)
The parse() method takes as arguments the URL that was used to retrieve the /robots.txt file, and the contents of the file.
$rules->allowed($uri)
Returns TRUE if this robot is allowed to retrieve this URL.
$rules->agent([$name])
Get/set the agent name. NOTE: Changing the agent name will clear the robots.txt rules and expire times out of the cache.
ROBOTS.TXT
The format and semantics of the "/robots.txt" file are as follows (this is an edited abstract of
<http://info.webcrawler.com/mak/projects/robots/norobots.html>):
The file consists of one or more records separated by one or more blank lines. Each record contains lines of the form
<field-name>: <value>
The field name is case insensitive. Text after the '#' character on a line is ignored during parsing. This is used for comments. The
following <field-names> can be used:
User-Agent
The value of this field is the name of the robot the record is describing access policy for. If more than one User-Agent field is
present the record describes an identical access policy for more than one robot. At least one field needs to be present per record. If
the value is '*', the record describes the default access policy for any robot that has not not matched any of the other records.
Disallow
The value of this field specifies a partial URL that is not to be visited. This can be a full path, or a partial path; any URL that
starts with this value will not be retrieved
ROBOTS.TXT EXAMPLES
The following example "/robots.txt" file specifies that no robots should visit any URL starting with "/cyberworld/map/" or "/tmp/":
User-agent: *
Disallow: /cyberworld/map/ # This is an infinite virtual URL space
Disallow: /tmp/ # these will soon disappear
This example "/robots.txt" file specifies that no robots should visit any URL starting with "/cyberworld/map/", except the robot called
"cybermapper":
User-agent: *
Disallow: /cyberworld/map/ # This is an infinite virtual URL space
# Cybermapper knows where to go.
User-agent: cybermapper
Disallow:
This example indicates that no robots should visit this site further:
# go away
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
SEE ALSO
LWP::RobotUA, WWW::RobotRules::AnyDBM_File
libwww-perl-5.65 2001-04-20 WWW::RobotRules(3)