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middlewares/robots
==================

Middleware to enable/disable the robots of the search engines

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middlewares/robots
==================

[](#middlewaresrobots)

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Middleware to enable/disable the robots of the search engines for non-production environment. Adds automatically the header `X-Robots-Tag` in all responses and returns a default body for `/robots.txt` request.

Requirements
------------

[](#requirements)

- PHP >= 7.2
- A [PSR-7 http library](https://github.com/middlewares/awesome-psr15-middlewares#psr-7-implementations)
- A [PSR-15 middleware dispatcher](https://github.com/middlewares/awesome-psr15-middlewares#dispatcher)

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

This package is installable and autoloadable via Composer as [middlewares/robots](https://packagist.org/packages/middlewares/robots).

```
composer require middlewares/robots
```

Example
-------

[](#example)

```
$dispatcher = new Dispatcher([
    new Middlewares\Robots(false)
]);

$response = $dispatcher->dispatch(new ServerRequest());

echo $response->getHeaderLine('X-Robots-Tag'); //noindex, nofollow, noarchive
```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

The constructor's first argument configure whether block or not search engines.

```
//Disallow search engine robots
$robots = new Middlewares\Robots(false);

//Allow search engine robots
$robots = new Middlewares\Robots(true);
```

Optionally, you can provide a `Psr\Http\Message\ResponseFactoryInterface` as the second argument to create the response of the requests to `/robots.txt`. If it's not defined, [Middleware\\Utils\\Factory](https://github.com/middlewares/utils#factory) will be used to detect it automatically.

```
$responseFactory = new MyOwnResponseFactory();

$robots = new Middlewares\Robots(false, $responseFactory);
```

### sitemap

[](#sitemap)

If your site has a sitemap, use this option to add the url to `robots.txt` responses.

```
$robots = (new Middlewares\Robots(true))->sitemap('/sitemap.xml');
```

---

Please see [CHANGELOG](CHANGELOG.md) for more information about recent changes and [CONTRIBUTING](CONTRIBUTING.md) for contributing details.

The MIT License (MIT). Please see [LICENSE](LICENSE) for more information.

###  Health Score

42

—

FairBetter than 88% of packages

Maintenance42

Moderate activity, may be stable

Popularity25

Limited adoption so far

Community13

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity75

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 94.4% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~308 days

Recently: every ~653 days

Total

11

Last Release

467d ago

Major Versions

v0.6.0 → v1.0.02018-01-25

v1.1.0 → v2.0.02019-12-01

PHP version history (4 changes)v0.1.0PHP ^5.6 || ^7.0

v0.6.0PHP ^7.0

v2.0.0PHP ^7.2

v2.0.1PHP ^7.2 || ^8.0

### Community

Maintainers

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---

Top Contributors

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---

Tags

httpmiddlewarepsr-15robots-txtseohttppsr-7middlewarepsr-15seorobots

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

Static AnalysisPHPStan

Code StylePHP CS Fixer

Type Coverage Yes

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