m1guelpf / m1guelpf/browser-agent
Respect `robots.txt`
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enhancement
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help wanted
- Dominant language
- Rust
- Stars
- 720
- Forks
- 69
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
Description
ML-based bots need to respect the norms as all the other bots on the web. That means providing an identifiable user agent, loading robots.txt, and avoiding requests to places that robots.txt bans it from.
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No files, tests, or entry points are named in the issue. Locate the browser-agent request flow first, then verify how user-agent identification and robots.txt loading should govern requests; done means blocked paths are not requested and the behavior is covered by suitable tests.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- networking, web-dev
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100