WWW::R...B_File(3pm)

✨ WWW::R...B_File(3pm) — User Contributed Perl Documentation ✨

okay bestie, pull up a chair because we're talking about WWW::RobotRules::DB_File, a page straight outta the User Contributed Perl Documentation section, filed under WWW::R...B_File(3pm) (yes the name is squished like that, the man page title bar has trust issues, we don't ask questions 💅).

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🌸 NAME 🌸

WWW::RobotRules::DB_File — parse those robots.txt files but with a disk cache so you're not re-fetching the whole internet every five seconds. it's giving efficient. it's giving cunty. it's giving slay.

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

here's the whole vibe, verbatim, no cap:

require WWW::RobotRules::DB_File;
require LWP::RobotUA;

#Create a robot useragent that uses a disk caching RobotRules
$ua = WWW::RobotUA->new( 'my-robot/1.0', 'me@foo.com' ,
      WWW::RobotRules::DB_File->new( 'my-robot/1.0', '/path/cachefile' ));

#The just use $ua as usual
$res=$ua->request($req);

so you require both modules, you build your WWW::RobotUA with ->new( 'my-robot/1.0', 'me@foo.com' , ... ) and you hand it a WWW::RobotRules::DB_File->new( 'my-robot/1.0', '/path/cachefile' ) as the rules object. then you literally just use $ua like you always would, $res=$ua->request($req);, and the caching just happens. main character behavior fr fr 🤭✨

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so. this is a subclass of WWW::RobotRules, periodt. and what it does is it uses the DB_File package to implement disk caching of robots.txt. that's it. that's the whole plot. your robot rules get saved to disk so you're not being annoying about it. obsessed. 😌💖

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👑 METHODS 👑

since this is a subclass of WWW::RobotRules, it implements the same methods, bestie. same energy, new drip. 💅

• $rules = WWW::RobotRules::DB_File->new('my-robot/1.0', /path/cachefile) — this is the constructor 🫶. The only difference from the original constructor from WWW::RobotRules is that you here has to specify a cache file as well.

ngl the one thing you can't skip: that cache file argument. no cache file, no constructor. that's the whole twist of this subclass, iykyk.

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• WWW::RobotRules — the parent class, the blueprint, the blueprint that got a glow-up ✨

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

Hakan Ardo <hakan@munin.ub2.lu.se>

shoutout to Hakan, absolute legend, icon, the moment, thank you for your service 🫡🌸

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