Robots.txt Syntax Highlighting Extension for VS Code

This extension provides syntax highlighting for robots.txt files in Visual Studio Code, making it easier to read and write them.

Read the blog post on Making a robots.txt syntax highlighter for VS Code for more information.

Features

• Syntax highlighting for standard robots.txt directives including User-agent, Disallow, Allow, Sitemap, and Host.
• Highlights comments starting with #.
• Added snippets for common directives.

Supported Directives

This extension supports the following robots.txt directives:

• User-agent: Identifies the robot the rule applies to.
• Disallow: Specifies a URL path that a robot is not allowed to request.
• Allow: Specifies a URL path that a robot is allowed to request.
• Sitemap: Specifies the URL of a sitemap for the website.
• Host: Specifies the preferred domain for the website.

Publishing

Set package version with npm

npm version patch # major 1.0.0 | minor 0.1.0 | patch 0.0.1
vsce package
vsce publish

For details on getting a personal access token check here.