How to Understand a Robots.txt File

A web scraper’s questions answered on the seemingly intimidating but simple text file

John Bica
Level Up Coding
Published in
5 min readApr 27, 2021

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From e-commerce product info to sports league statistics, the web is not only filled with great content but also with valuable data. But as the amount of websites and online resources increases exponentially (along with the data), sifting through it all is not…

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