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A demonstration of how Google (and other indexing robots) are unable to crawl The American Archivist. The American Archivist is the journal of the Society of American Archivists, and is "freely available to the public, with the exception of full-text articles from the three most recent volumes".
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| >>> import robotparser | |
| >>> rp = robotparser.RobotFileParser('http://archivists.metapress.com/robots.txt') | |
| >>> rp.read() | |
| >>> rp.can_fetch('Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)', '/content/953m4u0116t20624/?p=bf20338aa6ef4bc0a60dac3f2c38a6bd&pi=2') | |
| False |
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