# FollowRobotProtocol

A Boolean value that specifies whether the connector respects instructions provided by Web sites to Web crawlers. By default, the connector respects the following instructions:

- The file `robots.txt`, if present in the root directory of a Web site.
- NOINDEX and NOCRAWL instructions in the robots meta element of a Web page.

To ignore these instructions, set `FollowRobotProtocol=False`.

Type: | Boolean
Default: | True
Required: | No
Configuration Section: | TaskName or FetchTasks or Default
Example: | `FollowRobotProtocol=False`
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